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Phorone
- - A yellow crystalline substance, having a geraniumlike odor, regarded as a complex derivative of acetone, and obtained from certain camphor compounds.
Photics
- - The science of light; -- a general term sometimes employed when optics is restricted to light as a producing vision.
Photism
- - A luminous image or appearance of a hallucinatory character.
Photius
- noun - Patriarch of Constantinople and saint of the Greek Orthodox Church; was condemned by the Fourth Council of Constantinople in 869 but was reinstated by a later pope
Photons
- noun - a quantum of electromagnetic radiation; an elementary particle that is its own antiparticle
Piolets
- noun - an ax used by mountain climbers for cutting footholds in ice
Pioneer
- noun - one the first colonists or settlers in a new territory; "they went west as pioneers with only the possessions they could carry with them"
- open up an area or prepare a way; "She pioneered a graduate program for women students"
- open up and explore a new area; "pioneer space"
- someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art
- take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of; "This South African surgeon pioneered heart transplants"
Piously
- adverb - in a devout and pious manner; "she was devoutly Catholic"
Ploceus
- noun - type genus of the Ploceidae
Plodded
- verb - walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone"