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Pestos
- noun - a sauce typically served with pasta; contains crushed basil leaves and garlic and pine nuts and Parmesan cheese in olive oil
Petals
- noun - part of the perianth that is usually brightly colored
Peters
- noun - disciple of Jesus and leader of the Apostles; regarded by Catholics as the vicar of Christ on earth and first Pope
- obscene terms for penis
- peter out
to diminish gradually and stop; dwindle to nothing:
The hot water always peters out in the middle of my shower.
to tire; exhaust
Pewees
- noun - small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America
Pewits
- noun - large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs
- small black-headed European gull
- small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America
Phages
- noun - a virus that is parasitic (reproduces itself) in bacteria; "phage uses the bacterium's machinery and energy to produce more phage until the bacterium is destroyed and phage is released to invade surrounding bacteria"
Phaius
- noun - an orchid of the genus Phaius having large plicate leaves and racemes of showy flowers
Pharos
- noun - a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships
Phases
- noun - (astronomy) the particular appearance of a body's state of illumination (especially one of the recurring shapes of the part of Earth's moon that is illuminated by the sun); "the full phase of the moon"
- (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary; "the reaction occurs in the liquid phase of the system"
- a particular point in the time of a cycle; measured from some arbitrary zero and expressed as an angle
- adjust so as to be in a synchronized condition; "he phased the intake with the output of the machine"
- any distinct time period in a sequence of events; "we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected"
- arrange in phases or stages; "phase a withdrawal"