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Peckerwood
- noun - bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
Pendentive
- - The portion of a vault by means of which the square space in the middle of a building is brought to an octagon or circle to receive a cupola. (b) The part of a groined vault which is supported by, and springs from, one pier or corbel.
Pentecosty
- - A troop of fifty soldiers in the Spartan army; -- called also pentecostys.
Pentelican
- - Of or pertaining to Mount Pentelicus, near Athens, famous for its fine white marble quarries; obtained from Mount Pentelicus; as, the Pentelic marble of which the Parthenon is built.
Pepper Box
- noun - A buttress on the left-hand wall of a fives court as the game is played at Eton College, England.
- a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling ground pepper
Pepper Pot
- noun - a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling ground pepper
- a soup made with vegetables and tripe and seasoned with peppercorns; often contains dumplings
Peppercorn
- noun - pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground
- Trifling, minimal such as as peppercorn rental etc
Pepperidge
- noun - columnar tree of eastern North America having horizontal limbs and small leaves that emerge late in spring and have brilliant color in early fall
Peppermill
- unknown - a small handmill in which peppercorns are ground
Peppermint
- noun - a candy flavored with peppermint oil
- herb with downy leaves and small purple or white flowers that yields a pungent oil used as a flavoring
- red gum tree of Tasmania