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Pesthouse
- noun - hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy)
Pilchards
- noun - small fatty fish usually canned
- small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring
Pinch Bar
- noun - a lever with a pointed projection that serves as a fulcrum; used to roll heavy wheels
Pinchbeck
- adjective - an alloy of copper and zinc that is used in cheap jewelry to imitate gold
- serving as an imitation or substitute; "pinchbeck heroism"
Pinchcock
- - A clamp on a flexible pipe to regulate the flow of a fluid through the pipe.
Pinchfist
- - A closefisted person; a miser.
Pinchguts
- noun - a niggardly person who starves himself (and others)
Pinwheels
- noun - a circular firework that spins round and round emitting colored fire
- a toy consisting of vanes of colored paper or plastic that is pinned to a stick and spins when it is pointed into the wind
- a wheel that has numerous pins that are set at right angles to its rim; "he spun the pinwheel and it stopped with the pointer on `Go'"
- perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels
Pitahayas
- noun - cactus of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico having edible juicy fruit
- highly colored edible fruit of pitahaya cactus having bright red juice; often as large as a peach