This page gathers the 6,610 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “US” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry. Page 43 of 66: from “part” to “piccolo”.
- part noun A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
- parterre noun An apartment balcony.
- particle board noun a structural material manufactured from wood particles (such as chips and shavings) by pressing, and binding through resin
- party favor noun A small gift given to a guest at a party, as a souvenir.
- pass through noun A framed, window-like aperture in the interior wall of a house, usually between a kitchen and dining room, through which items (especially…
- passenger car noun A railroad car designed to carry passengers.
- passport card noun An optional national identity card and travel document, the size of a credit card, issued by the United States federal government.
- pastor noun The main priest serving a parish.
- patent verb To obtain (over a piece of real property) a specific grant of ownership.
- patent medicine noun Any medicine with a proprietary formula which can be bought without a prescription, irrespective of whether it is protected by a patent.
- patootie noun The buttocks.
- patriot noun A person who was in favor of American Independence from Britain during the American Revolution.
- Patriots noun The New England Patriots, a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston region.
- patroon noun One of the landowning Dutch grandees of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, especially after it became a British possession renamed as New…
- patroonship noun The position or office of a patroon; landownership (originally of a Dutch colony).
- pattern noun The material needed to make a piece of clothing.
- patty noun A flattened portion of ground meat or a vegetarian equivalent, usually round but sometimes square in shape.
- pattypan noun A small variety of squash with a scalloped rim and creamy white flesh; a pattypan squash.
- Paulite noun A supporter of Ron Paul.
- pave verb To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel.
- pavement noun A paved path, for the use of pedestrians, located at the side of a road.
- pavement pizza noun Roadkill.
- pay to play verb To make a campaign contribution or illegal payment to avail oneself of business or other opportunities controlled by politicians or civil…
- pay-to-stay noun A scheme where prison inmates are charged for their accommodation (meals, clothing etc.) while in prison.
- paycheck noun A periodic payment, usually in the form of a paper check, received by an employee from an employer for work performed.
- payola noun A bribe given in exchange for a favor, such as one given in exchange for the promotion of goods or services (originally one given to a disk…
- PC noun Initialism of probable cause.
- pea noun Any of the small numbered balls used in a pea shake game.
- Peabody bird noun white-throated sparrow, an American sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) with a conspicuous white throat.
- Peace Democrat noun Synonym of Copperhead (“a northerner who sympathized with the South or wanted to end hostilities during the American Civil War”).
- peace officer noun A civil law enforcement officer with a duty to maintain law and order, such as a police officer, sheriff and bylaw officer.
- peach noun A native or resident of Georgia in the United States.
- Peacock Alley noun Any hotel foyer or similar area where upper-class women congregate in order to be seen.
- peanut noun Synonym of countneck (“very small hard clam”).
- peanut butter and jelly noun Peanut butter and jelly (or jam) that is spread on bread to make a sandwich.
- pecker noun Clipping of pecker mill, a rice mill.
- peckerhead noun A dickhead: an unpleasant, stupid or mean person.
- peckerwood noun A white person, especially a Southerner, or one who is ignorant, rustic, or bigoted.
- pederasty noun Erotic love, sexually expressed or chaste, between a man and an adolescent boy.
- pediatric adj Of or pertaining to pediatrics, the branch of medicine dealing with the care and treatment of children and adolescents.
- pediatrician noun A physician that specializes in pediatrics; the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.
- pedigree clause noun A clause sometimes inserted in contracts or specifications, requiring that a construction material such as cement must be of a brand that…
- pedo- prefix Relating to children.
- Pedocrat noun A member or a supporter of the Democratic Party, a Democrat.
- pedocriminal noun A person who commits child sexual abuse; a child molester.
- pedophile noun An adult or older adolescent who is sexually attracted to prepubescent children.
- pedophilia noun Sexual attraction by adults and adolescents to children, specifically prepubescent children.
- pedophiliac noun US standard spelling of paedophiliac.
- pedophobe noun A person who dislikes children.
- pedophobia noun An irrational, obsessive fear or dislike of children.
- pedophobic adj Having a fear of children.
- Pedro noun The standard callsign for an aircraft participating in CSAR (“combat search and rescue”), typically a helicopter.
- pee noun An act of urination.
- peel noun The blade of an oar.
- peel out verb To start abruptly from a standing stop, accelerating rapidly, especially so as to produce skid marks.
- peep noun A soft marshmallow confection, shaped into a baby animal for Easter celebration.
- peewee noun A player in a sports league for very young children.
- Pell Grant noun A subsidy provided by the United States federal government to students who need it to pay for college.
- Pelosian adj Of or pertaining to Nancy Pelosi (born 1940), American politician and speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
- penalty envelope noun An envelope whose mailing for an authorized purpose does not requiring postage, while its unauthorized use may be penalized.
- pencil-neck noun An insubstantial person; a weakling.
- pencil-necked adj Insubstantial; weak.
- pendant noun The stem and ring of a watch, by which it is suspended.
- pendent jurisdiction noun The authority of a United States federal court to hear a closely related state law claim against a party already facing a federal claim.
- penitentiary noun A state or federal prison for convicted felons; (loosely) a prison.
- penny stock noun A highly speculative stock selling for less than one dollar or pound per share and quoted in cents or pence.
- penny tray noun A tray or dish found in small stores for convenience in cash transactions, allowing customers to discard unwanted pennies received in their…
- people sniffer noun Any of a series of devices used to detect concealed enemy soldiers by traces of effluents such as sweat and urine.
- pepper noun A fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in a wide range of mild (sweet, nonspicy) to…
- percent adv For every hundred (used with preceding numeral to form a noun phrase expressing a proportion).
- perch noun Kyphosus azureus
- perfecta noun A kind of bet wherein the first- and second-place finishers must be predicted in the correct order.
- perfection salad noun A terrine or jello-style vegetable loaf made with lemon vinaigrette flavored gelatin, filled with a chopped garden salad or green salad…
- perfectionist noun One of the Bible Communists or Free-lovers, a small American sect founded by J. H. Noyes (1811-86), which settled at Oneida in 1848…
- period intj That's final; that's the end of the matter (analogous to a period ending a sentence); end of story.
- permission slip noun A paper form that a school sends home with a student to a parent, onto which the parent provides authorization for the student to attend a…
- perp walk noun The intentional public display before news cameras of a person in police custody, especially someone famous or notorious, for the purpose…
- person of interest noun Someone who police have reason to believe may have a connection to a crime, or to possess important information relating to that crime, but…
- person of ordinary skill in the art noun In United States patent law, the hypothetical individual whose likely knowledge determines whether an improvement on existing technology…
- personalization noun The act of personalizing something, or adapting it for somebody's needs or tastes.
- personalize verb To adapt something to the needs or tastes of an individual.
- Peter Witt noun A kind of streetcar distinguished from other streetcars of the era by its use of the center door as an exit only, with a conductor…
- petty officer first class noun A non-commissioned officer in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking above petty officer second class and below…
- petty officer second class noun A non-commissioned officer in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking above petty officer third class and below petty…
- petty officer third class noun A non-commissioned officer in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking above seaman and below petty officer second…
- pewee noun A woodcock.
- PG noun Initialism of parental guidance, a rating for a film that may be viewed by minors at their parents' discretion.
- pharmic adj Of or relating to pharmacy, especially as a subject of study.
- Philidor Defense noun A common Open Game in chess, characterized by the moves 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6, in which black's second move is queen's pawn to the sixth rank.
- Philippine mahogany noun Any of several species of tree whose wood resemble mahogany (Swietenia spp.) in some ways, such as tanguile (Dipterocarpoideae spp.), red…
- philology noun The humanistic study of texts and their languages, especially ancient or classical languages.
- phonemark verb To apply pressure on a government agency to fund a specific project as part of a more general program.
- phonograph noun A record player.
- phonorecord noun A physical object that contains a permanent record of a sound.
- phosphate noun A carbonated soft drink containing phosphoric acid, often flavored with a fruit-based syrup.
- physical therapy noun Any of various therapeutic exercises and other activities to treat injury or dysfunction, or such exercises and activities collectively.
- piazza noun A veranda; a porch.
- picayune noun A small coin of the value of six-and-a-quarter cents; a Spanish coin with a value of half a real; a fippenny bit.
- piccalilli noun A pickle, typically on a base of chopped green (unripe) tomatoes, but sometimes finely-chopped pickles, and possibly including other…
- piccolo noun A coin-operated gramophone; a jukebox.