picket
A stake driven into the ground.
A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
A sentry.
A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
The card game piquet.

picketed
simple past and past participle of picket

pickethouse
Alternative form of picket-house.

pickethouses
plural of pickethouse

pickets
plural of picket

picketted
simple past and past participle of picket

pickfork
A pitchfork.

picknick
Archaic form of picnic.

picnic
An informal social gathering, usually in a natural outdoor setting, to which the participants bring their own food and drink.
The meal eaten at such a gathering.
An easy or pleasant task.
An entertainment at which each person contributed some dish to a common table.
A cut of pork from the shoulder area (above the front leg) of a pig.

picnicked
simple past and past participle of picnic

picnickery
Picnicking.

picnicking
present participle and gerund of picnic

picnickings
plural of picnicking

picnics
plural of picnic

pigeonhouse
dovecote

pigeonhouses
plural of pigeonhouse

pigsat
simple past and past participle of pigsit

pigsit
To babysit (take care of) a guinea pig.
To babysit (take care of) a pig.

pigsits
third-person singular simple present indicative of pigsit

pigsitting
present participle and gerund of pigsit

pile
A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
A mass formed in layers.
A funeral pile; a pyre.
A large amount of money.
A large building, or mass of buildings.
A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground, usually as one of a group that constitutes a foundation.
An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
A list or league

piled
simple past and past participle of pile

piles
plural of pile

piling
A structural support comprising a length of wood, steel, or other construction material.
The act of heaping up.
The process of building up, heating, and working fagots or piles to form bars, etc.

pilings
plural of piling

pilothouse
A wheelhouse.
A yacht or other small vessel which has a wheelhouse.

pilothouses
plural of pilothouse

pipeline
A conduit made of pipes used to convey water, gas or petroleum, etc.
A channel (either physical or logical) by which information is transmitted sequentially (that is, the first information in is the first information out).
A system or process through which something is conducted.
A widely observed pattern of development in personal interests, circumstances, or opinions.
A continuous, contributing source of benefits, talent, or innovation.
The inside of a wave that a surfer is riding, when the wave has started closing over it.

pipelined
simple past and past participle of pipeline

pipelines
plural of pipeline

pipelining
present participle and gerund of pipeline

pippali
long pepper

piramid
Misspelling of pyramid.

piscaries
plural of piscary

pisstakes
plural of pisstake

pisstaking
present participle and gerund of pisstake

pitchfork
An agricultural tool comprising a fork with sparse, light tines, attached to a long handle, used for pitching hay (especially loose hay) high up onto a stack (as on a wagon or haystack, or into a haymow).
A similar fork with slightly more and heavier tines, used for mucking stalls and pitching soiled bedding into a wagon or manure spreader.
Any fork used for farm labor, even a digging fork (but such usage is often considered ignorant by experienced farmers).
A tuning fork.

pitchforked
simple past and past participle of pitchfork

pitchforking
The act of pricking with a pitchfork.

pitchforkings
plural of pitchforking

pitchforks
plural of pitchfork

pithouse
A primitive building partially dug into the ground and roofed over.

pithouses
plural of pithouse

planespot
To take part in planespotting.

planespots
third-person singular simple present indicative of planespot

planespotted
simple past and past participle of planespot

planespotting
The observation and logging of the registration numbers (tailnumbers) of aircraft as a hobby.

plank
A long, broad and thick piece of timber, as opposed to a board which is less thick.
A political issue that is of concern to a faction or a party of the people and the political position that is taken on that issue.
Physical exercise in which one holds a pushup position for a measured length of time.
A stupid person, idiot.
That which supports or upholds.

planked
simple past and past participle of plank

planking
A series of planks; a group of planks.
The practice of lying face down with arms to the sides, in unusual public spaces, and taking photographs to record the act.

plankings
plural of planking

planks
plural of plank

plantsit
Alternative form of plant-sit.

playhouse
A venue for performing plays.
Alternative form of play house (“child's toy domestic dwelling”).

playhouses
plural of playhouse

plenilunes
plural of plenilune

plunder
To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
To take (goods) by pillage.
To take by force or wrongfully; to commit robbery or looting, to raid.
To make extensive (over)use of, as if by plundering; to use or use up wrongfully.
To take unexpectedly.

plundered
simple past and past participle of plunder

plundering
The act of one who plunders; pillaging or looting; plunder.

plunderings
plural of plundering

plunders
third-person singular simple present indicative of plunder

pneumonectomize
To carry out a pneumonectomy

pneumonectomized
simple past and past participle of pneumonectomize

poind
A seizure of property etc in lieu of a debt; the animal or property so seized

poinded
simple past and past participle of poind

poinding
present participle and gerund of poind

poindings
plural of poinding

poinds
plural of poind

politzerize
To carry out politzerization on.

politzerized
simple past and past participle of politzerize

politzerizes
third-person singular simple present indicative of politzerize

politzerizing
present participle and gerund of politzerize

polyfoto
One of a series of 48 photographs (similar to photo booth photos) taken using a Polyfoto camera, which used a single glass plate negative, the operator turning a handle on the side to take each exposure and also move the plate.

polyfotoed
simple past and past participle of polyfoto

polyfotoing
present participle and gerund of polyfoto

polyfotos
plural of polyfoto

polyphagists
plural of polyphagist

polyptotes
plural of polyptote

portage
An act of carrying, especially the carrying of a boat overland between two waterways.
The route used for such carrying.
A charge made for carrying something.
Carrying capacity; tonnage.
The wages paid to a sailor when in port, or for a voyage.
A porthole.

portaged
simple past and past participle of portage

portages
plural of portage

portaging
present participle and gerund of portage

porter
A person who carries luggage and related objects.
An ant having the specialized role of carrying.
One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform).

portered
simple past and past participle of porter

portering
present participle and gerund of porter

porters
plural of porter