9-letter words starting with pi
- piggyback — on the back or shoulders: The little girl rode piggyback on her father.
- pigheaded — stupidly obstinate; stubborn: pigheaded resistance.
- pigmental — of or relating to a pigment or pigments, or the natural colouring of a person or thing
- pigmented — a dry insoluble substance, usually pulverized, which when suspended in a liquid vehicle becomes a paint, ink, etc.
- pignorate — to pledge or pawn
- pike pole — (in lumbering) a long pole with a metal point and a fixed hook, for catching and guiding logs.
- pikeperch — any of several pikelike fishes of the perch family, especially the walleye, Stizostedion vitreum.
- pikestaff — the shaft of an infantry pike.
- pilcomayo — a river in S central South America, flowing SE from S Bolivia along the boundary between Paraguay and Argentina to the Paraguay River at Asunción. 1000 miles (1610 km) long.
- pile arms — to prop a number of rifles together, muzzles together and upwards, butts forming the base
- pile into — crowd inside: a vehicle
- pile shoe — an iron casting shaped to a point and fitted to a lower end of a wooden or concrete pile
- pilferage — the act or practice of pilfering; petty theft.
- pilfering — stealing, petty theft
- pilgarlic — a person regarded with mild or pretended contempt or pity.
- pilgrimer — a pilgrim
- pillaging — the act of robbing a town, village, etc of booty or spoils, esp during a war
- pillarbox — a technique for displaying a video recorded in portrait orientation on a wider screen by reducing its size but retaining the aspect ratio, with black bands filling the screen to the right and left of the picture (often used attributively): pillarbox format. Compare letterbox (def 2).
- pillarist — in the Byzantine era, a Christian ascetic who stayed on top of a high pillar as a form of religious self-denial
- pillicock — a penis
- pilloried — a wooden framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used to expose an offender to public derision.
- pillorize — to pillory (someone or something)
- pillsbury — Charles Alfred, 1842–99, U.S. businessman.
- pilomotor — causing movement of hairs
- pilonidal — noting or pertaining to a growth of hair in a dermoid cyst or in the deeper layers of the skin.
- pilotfish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
- pilotless — lacking a pilot or needing no pilot: pilotless aircraft.
- pilotweed — the compass plant, Silphium laciniatum.
- pilsudski — Józef [yoo-zef] /ˈyu zɛf/ (Show IPA), 1867–1935, Polish marshal and statesman: president 1918–22; premier 1926–28, 1930.
- pimpernel — a plant belonging to the genus Anagallis, of the primrose family, especially A. arvensis (scarlet pimpernel) having scarlet or white flowers that close at the approach of bad weather.
- pin grass — common storksbill, a weed with fernlike leaves
- pin joint — a mechanical joint that will transmit axial load but will not transmit torque
- pin money — any small sum set aside for nonessential minor expenditures.
- pin plate — a bearing plate having a projection for fixing into masonry.
- pinaceous — belonging to the plant family Pinaceae.
- pinballer — a person who plays pinball machines, especially regularly or habitually.
- pince-nez — a pair of glasses held on the face by a spring that grips the nose.
- pinch bar — a kind of crowbar or lever with a projection that serves as a fulcrum.
- pinch bug — a stag beetle
- pinch-hit — Baseball. to serve as a pinch hitter.
- pinchback — Pinckney Benton Stewart, 1837–1921, U.S. politician.
- pinchbeck — an alloy of copper and zinc, used in imitation of gold.
- pinchcock — a clamp for compressing a flexible pipe, as a rubber tube, in order to regulate or stop the flow of a fluid.
- pinchfist — a miser
- pine cone — the cone or strobile of a pine tree.
- pine-like — similar to or resembling pine
- pineapple — the edible, juicy, collective fruit of a tropical, bromeliaceous plant, Ananas comosus, that develops from a spike or head of flowers and is surmounted by a crown of leaves.
- pinedrops — a slender, leafless, parasitic North American plant, Pterospora andromedea, having nodding white to red flowers, found growing under pines.
- pinelands — the, an extensive coastal region in S and SE New Jersey, composed chiefly of pine stands, sandy soils, and swampy streams. About 2000 sq. mi. (5180 sq. km).
- pineville — a town in central Louisiana.