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Prissiest
- adjective - exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
- excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"
Proustian
- adjective - of or relating to or in the manner of Marcel Proust
Proustite
- - A sulphide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful cochineal-red color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also massive; ruby silver.
Prussiate
- - A salt of prussic acid; a cyanide.
Pubescent
- adjective - (of animals especially human beings) having arrived at the onset of puberty (the age at which sex glands become functional) but not yet fully mature; "the budding breasts of a pubescent girl and the downy chin of pubescent boy"
- covered with fine soft hairs or down; "downy milkweed seeds"
Puissance
- noun - High-jump competition for horses
- power to influence or coerce; "the puissance of the labor vote"
Pulassans
- noun - East Indian fruit tree bearing fruit similar to but sweeter than that of the rambutan
- fruit of an East Indian tree similar to the rambutan but sweeter
Punishing
- verb - characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"
- impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on; "The students were penalized for showing up late for class"; "we had to punish the dog for soiling the floor again"
- resulting in punishment; "the king imposed a punishing tax"
Pygostyle
- - The plate of bone which forms the posterior end of the vertebral column in most birds; the plowshare bone; the vomer. It is formed by the union of a number of the last caudal vertebr
Pyroscope
- noun - a pyrometer that uses the color of the light emitted by a hot object