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  • phycoerythrin — a red protein pigment occurring in red algae.
  • physiotherapy — physical therapy.
  • phytoestrogen — an estrogen-like compound occurring naturally in plants of the legume family and in grains, vegetables, and fruits.
  • phytonutrient — phytochemical.
  • phytoplankter — a minute organism which constitutes part of phytoplankton
  • piano teacher — tutor of piano-playing
  • picture phone — a mobile phone that can take, send, and receive photographs
  • pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
  • pitcher plant — any of various insectivorous New World bog plants of the genera Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, and Heliamphora, having tubular or trumpet-shaped leaves containing a liquid in which insects are trapped.
  • plant hormone — an organic chemical, as auxin, produced by plant cells and functioning at various sites to regulate growth, turning, metabolic processes, etc.
  • platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
  • plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
  • pneumatograph — pneumograph.
  • pneumatophore — Botany. a specialized structure developed from the root in certain plants growing in swamps and marshes, serving as a respiratory organ.
  • pocket gopher — any of numerous burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae, of western and southern North America and Central America, having large, external, fur-lined cheek pouches.
  • porkpie (hat) — a man's soft hat with a round, flat crown
  • porte-cochere — a covered carriage entrance leading into a courtyard.
  • posix threads — (programming)   (Pthreads) A POSIX standard API that defines a set of C programming language types, functions and constants for creating and manipulating pre-emptive threads. The standard's full name is "POSIX.1c, Threads extensions (IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995)". Implementations are available on many Unix-like POSIX-conformant operating systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris as well as DR-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Pthreads was designed and implemented in the PART Project (POSIX / Ada-Runtime Project).
  • potato-masher — a kitchen implement used to crush or mash potatoes
  • poulard wheat — a Mediterranean wheat, Triticum turgidum, grown as a forage crop in the U.S.
  • powder method — a method of x-ray determination of crystal structure using a powdered sample.
  • pre christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
  • pre-adulthood — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
  • pre-christian — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the Christian Era.
  • pre-christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
  • pre-establish — to establish, set up, set out, arrange or make secure in advance or previously
  • preanesthetic — a substance that produces a preliminary or light anesthesia.
  • preattachment — an act of attaching or the state of being attached.
  • preceptorship — an instructor; teacher; tutor.
  • premonishment — a forewarning
  • presidentship — presidency.
  • press attaché — the official in an embassy who has the job of liaising with the media
  • presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
  • pretendership — the standing of a pretender
  • primrose path — a way of life devoted to irresponsible hedonism, often of a sensual nature: The evangelist exhorted us to avoid the primrose path and stick to the straight and narrow.
  • private hotel — a residential hotel or boarding house in which the proprietor has the right to refuse to accept a person as a guest, esp a person arriving by chance
  • prize fighter — A prize fighter is a boxer who fights to win money.
  • prohibitively — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
  • prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
  • prosectorship — the position or responsibility of a prosector
  • protectorship — a person or thing that protects; defender; guardian.
  • protest march — public demonstration
  • protochordate — any of the nonvertebrate chordates, as the tunicates, cephalochordates, and hemichordates.
  • psychometrics — the measurement of mental traits, abilities, and processes.
  • psychotherapy — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
  • psychrometric — relating to psychrometry
  • pterylography — the description of the feather arrangement on birds
  • pull together — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
  • pupil teacher — a young person who plans to be a teacher and who spends part of his or her time in preliminary education undertaking teaching duties under the supervision of the head-teacher
  • puritan ethic — work ethic.
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