Matching Words
554 ResultsBelow are the words that matched your query.
Piaget
- noun - Swiss psychologist remembered for his studies of cognitive development in children (1896-1980)
Pianet
- - The magpie. [Written also pianate, and pyenate.] (b) The lesser woodpecker.
Piapec
- - A West African pie (Ptilostomus Senegalensis).
Pichey
- - A Brazilian armadillo (Dasypus minutus); the little armadillo.
Picked
- verb - 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 mortgages"; "foot the bill"
- pilfer or rob; "pick pockets"
- provoke; "pick a fight or a quarrel"
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion; "he plucked the strings of his mandolin"
- remove in small bits; "pick meat from a bone"
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits; "Clean the turkey"
- select carefully from a group; "She finally picked her successor"; "He picked his way carefully"
Picker
- noun - a person who chooses or selects out
- someone who gathers crops or fruits etc.
Picket
- noun - a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
- a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
- a vehicle performing sentinel duty
- a wooden strip forming part of a fence
- fasten with a picket; "picket the goat"
- serve as pickets or post pickets; "picket a business to protest the layoffs"
Pieced
- verb - create by putting components or members together; "She pieced a quilt"; "He tacked together some verses"; "They set up a committee"
- eat intermittently; take small bites of; "He pieced at the sandwich all morning"; "She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles"
- join during spinning; "piece the broken pieces of thread, slivers, and rovings"
- repair by adding pieces; "She pieced the china cup"
- to join or unite the pieces of; "patch the skirt"
Piecer
- - One who pieces; a patcher.
Pieces
- noun -
- a distance; "it is down the road a piece"
- a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition; "he was here for a little while"; "I need to rest for a piece"; "a spell of good weather"; "a patch of bad weather"
- a portable gun; "he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster"
- a portion of a natural object; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite"
- a separate part of a whole; "an important piece of the evidence"
- a serving that has been cut from a larger portion; "a piece of pie"; "a slice of bread"
- a share of something; "a slice of the company's revenue"
- a work of art of some artistic value; "this store sells only objets d'art"; "it is not known who created this piece"
- an artistic or literary composition; "he wrote an interesting piece on Iran"; "the children acted out a comic piece to amuse the guests"
- an instance of some kind; "i