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Peccadilloes
- noun - a petty misdeed
- Minor indescretion
Pedal Pusher
- noun - snug trousers ending at the calves; worn by women and girls
Pedunculated
- - Having a peduncle; growing on a peduncle; as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.
Pelton Wheel
- - A form of impulse turbine or water wheel, consisting of a row of double cup-shaped buckets arranged round the rim of a wheel and actuated by one or more jets of water playing into the cups at high velocity.
Pelvimetries
- noun - measurement of the dimensions of the bony birth canal (to determine whether vaginal birth is possible)
Pennatulacea
- - A division of alcyonoid corals, including the seapens and related kinds. They are able to move about by means of the hollow muscular peduncle, which also serves to support them upright in the mud. See Pennatula, and Illust. under Alcyonaria.
Pennoncelles
- noun - a small pennant borne on a lance
Pennycresses
- noun - any of several plants of the genus Thlaspi
Pensionaries
- noun - a person who works only for money
- the beneficiary of a pension fund
Pentathletes
- noun - an athlete who competes in a pentathlon