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Peats
- noun - partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water; can be used as a fuel when dried
Peaty
- adjective - of or pertaining to or of the nature of peat
Pelta
- - A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptic form, or crescent-shaped.
Pelts
- noun - attack and bombard with or as if with missiles; "pelt the speaker with questions"
- body covering of a living animal
- cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile; "They pelted each other with snowballs"
- rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!"
- the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
Pent-
- - Same as penta-; -- used as a combining form before vowels, as in pentoxide.
Perth
- noun - Noun - City in Scotland which sits on the River Tay, Administrative centre for Perth and Kinross Council, Name derived from derives from Pictish word for wood or copse.
- the state capital of Western Australia
Pesto
- noun - a sauce typically served with pasta; contains crushed basil leaves and garlic and pine nuts and Parmesan cheese in olive oil
Pests
- noun - a persistently annoying person
- a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
- any epidemic disease with a high death rate
- any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.; "he sprayed the garden to get rid of pests"; "many pests have developed resistance to the common pesticides"
Petty
- adjective - (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"
- contemptibly narrow in outlook; "petty little comments"; "disgusted with their small-minded pettiness"
- inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary"
- larceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale)
- Most trivial