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Phizs
- noun - English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882)
- the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)
Phons
- noun - a unit of subjective loudness
Phots
- noun - a unit of illumination equal to 1 lumen per square centimeter; 10,000 phots equal 1 lux
Picks
- noun - a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body; "he was called for setting an illegal pick"
- a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends; "they used picks and sledges to break the rocks"
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material; "he used a pick to clean the dirt out of the cracks"
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example; "Pick open the ice"
- eat intermittently; take small bites of; "He pieced at the sandwich all morning"; "She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles"
- harass with constant criticism; "Don't always pick on your little brother"
- hit lightly with a picking motion
- look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers"
- pay for something; "pick up the tab"; "pick up the burden of high-interest mortga
Picts
- - A race of people of uncertain origin, who inhabited Scotland in early times.
Picus
- noun - type genus of Picidae
Piers
- noun - (architecture) a vertical supporting structure (as a portion of wall between two doors or windows)
- a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats
- a support for two adjacent bridge spans
Pikas
- noun - small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America
Pikes
- noun - a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
- a sharp point (as on the end of a spear)
- any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere
- highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh
- medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet
Piles
- noun - (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
- a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed stacks of newspapers"
- a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); "she made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks into their new house"
- a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
- arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves"
- battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised