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pa ~ (n) dad, dada, daddy, papa, pappa, pop; protactinium, protoactinium, atomic number 91; pascal; Pennsylvania, Keystone State; public address system, P.A. system, PA system, P.A.
~ (v) embroider, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise; slog, footslog, plod, trudge, tramp; fill out; bolster
painted ~ (a) painted; painted; painted; motley, calico, multicolor, multi-color, multicolour, multi-colour, multicolored, multi-colored, multicoloured, multi-coloured,
particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured
~ (n) brace; couple, twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad; pair; pair
~ (v) chatter, piffle, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble; wheedle, cajole, blarney, coax, sweet-talk, inveigle; palaver
~ liberation organization (n) PLO
~ (v) dull; daunt, dash, scare off, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scare; pall; cloy; pall; die, become flat; pall; tire, weary, fatigue, jade
pane ~ (n) pane of glass, window glass; paneling, panelling; acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, superman, window pane, Zen
pansy ~ (n) Viola tricolor hortensis; sissy, pantywaist, milksop, Milquetoast; fagot, faggot, fag, fairy, nance, queen, queer, poof, poove, pouf
~ aminobenzoic acid (n) PABA
~ out (v) distribute, administer, mete out, deal, lot, dispense, shell out, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out
parentage ~ (n) parenthood; birth; lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, stemma, stock
parody ~ (n) lampoon, spoof, sendup, mockery, takeoff, burlesque, travesty, charade, pasquinade, put-on; mockery, takeoff
~ (v) block, deflect; hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep
~ (v) separate, split; separate, split up, split, break, break up; depart, start, start out, set forth, set off, set out, take off; separate, divide; separate, disunite, divide
~ (n) portion, component part, component, constituent; portion; piece; part; region; function, office, role; character, role, theatrical role, persona; share, portion, percentage; section, division; parting; voice; contribution, share
particolored ~ (a) motley, calico, multicolor, multi-color, multicolour, multi-colour, multicolored, multi-colored, multicoloured, multi-coloured,
painted, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured
particoloured ~ (a) motley, calico, multicolor, multi-color, multicolour, multi-colour, multicolored, multi-colored, multicoloured, multi-coloured,
painted, particolored, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured
~ (n) base on balls, walk; pass; passing play, passing game, passing; mountain pass, notch; passport; laissez passer; pass; strait, straits; head, straits; pass; bye; liberty chit; pass; crack, fling, go, whirl, offer; toss, flip; passing, qualifying
~ (v) go through, go across; travel by, pass by, surpass, go past, go by; legislate; elapse, lapse, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along; hand, reach, pass on, turn over, give; run, go, lead, extend; overtake, overhaul; happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, fall out, come about, take place; clear; spend; guide, run, draw; communicate, pass on, pass along, put across; evanesce, fade, blow over, pass off, fleet; make it; exceed, transcend, overstep, go past, top; pass; pass; pass; sink, lapse; pass; fall, return, devolve; make pass; authorize, authorise, clear; die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost,
drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it; excrete, egest, eliminate
~ around (v) circulate, pass on, distribute; circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse
~ away (v) die, decease, perish, go, exit, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost,
drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it; pass away
~ off (v) pass off; pass off; pass off; evanesce, fade, blow over, fleet, pass; happen, hap, go on, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place; emit, breathe
~ on (v) pass, hand, reach, turn over, give; impart, leave, give; advance, progress, move on, march on, go on; pass on; relegate, submit; circulate, pass around, distribute; communicate, pass, pass along, put across
~ over (v) jump, skip, skip over; transit, pass through, move through, pass across; traverse, track, cover, cross, get over, get across, cut through, cut across; overfly; wipe
~ water (v) make, urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee,
wee-wee
passel ~ (n) batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, peck, pile, plenty,
pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
patronise ~ (v) patronize, shop, shop at, buy at, frequent, sponsor; sponsor, patronize; patronize, condescend; patronize, patronage, support, keep going
patronize ~ (v) sponsor, patronise; patronise, shop, shop at, buy at, frequent, sponsor; patronise, condescend; patronise, patronage, support, keep going
~ adrien maurice dirac (n) Dirac
peach ~ (n) peach tree, Prunus persica; smasher, stunner, knockout, beauty, ravisher, sweetheart, lulu, looker, mantrap, dish; peach; yellowish pink, apricot, salmon pink
peachy ~ (a) bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad(p), slap-up, swell, smashing; peachy-colored, peachy-coloured
~ (n) extremum; flower, prime, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush; acme, height, elevation, pinnacle, summit, superlative, meridian, tiptop, top; crown, crest, top, tip, summit; point, tip; vertex, apex, acme; bill, eyeshade, visor, vizor
peck ~ (n) batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, pile, plenty,
pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad; peck; peck
pecker ~ (n) cock, prick, dick, shaft, peter, tool, putz; woodpecker, peckerwood; beak, bill, neb, nib
peckish ~ (a) peckish; cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy, techy
~ (n) lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock; pedigree; bloodline
~ (v) make, urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate, piss, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee,
pass water
~-pee (v) make, urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate, piss, pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee,
pass water
peevish ~ (a) cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy, techy
peevishness ~ (n) irritability, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, petulance, choler; temper, biliousness, irritability, pettishness, snappishness, surliness
pelf ~ (n) boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, scratch, shekels, simoleons,
sugar, wampum
~ along (v) rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, race, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along, step on it
~ inflammatory disease (n) PID
penetrate ~ (v) perforate; fathom, bottom; click, get through, dawn, come home, get across, sink in, fall into place; infiltrate; penetrate; penetrate; permeate, pervade, interpenetrate, diffuse, imbue, riddle
pentad ~ (n) five, 5, V, cinque, quint, quintet, fivesome, quintuplet, fin, Phoebe, Little Phoebe
~ against gangsterism and drugs (n) PAGAD
~ (a) perfect; arrant(a), complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a), everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a), sodding(a), stark(a),
staring(a), thoroughgoing(a), utter(a), unadulterated; perfect
perfluorocarbon ~ (n) PFC
perish ~ (v) die, decease, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost,
drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it
peritonsillar ~ abscess (n) quinsy
perpetual ~ (a) ageless, aeonian, eonian, eternal, everlasting, unending, unceasing; ceaseless, constant, incessant, never-ending, unceasing, unremitting
perplex ~ (v) vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound; complicate
~ (v) corrupt, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect; twist, twist around, convolute, sophisticate; misuse, abuse
pesky ~ (a) annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexing
pestering ~ (a) annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestiferous, plaguy, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexing
pestiferous ~ (a) dirty; pestilent, pestilential, plaguey; corruptive, perversive; annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, plaguy, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexing
peter ~ (n) Simon Peter, Saint Peter, St. Peter, Saint Peter the Apostle, St. Peter the Apostle; cock, prick, dick, shaft, pecker, tool, putz
pettish ~ (a) cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy, techy
petty ~ (a) junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, petty(a), secondary, subaltern; fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, picayune, trivial; small-minded
petulant ~ (a) cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, pettish, scratchy, testy, tetchy, techy
phenylketonuria ~ (n) PKU
phenyl ~ salicylate (n) salol
phoebe ~ (n) five, 5, V, cinque, quint, quintet, fivesome, quintuplet, pentad, fin, Little Phoebe; phoebe; phoebe bird, Sayornis phoebe
~ buffer solution (n) PBS
~ body (n) human body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
physique ~ (n) build, body-build, habitus; human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
pic ~ (n) movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, flick; photograph, photo, exposure, picture
~ up (v) lift up, gather up; pick up; pick up; collect, gather up, call for; learn, hear, get word, get wind, find out, get a line, discover, see; pick up; collar, nail, apprehend, arrest, nab, cop; pick up; receive; pick up; pick up; elate, lift up, uplift, intoxicate; turn around; catch; peck; perk up, perk, percolate, gain vigor
~ (n) image, icon, ikon; painting; mental picture, impression; scene; pictorial matter; movie, film, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick; video; word picture, word-painting, delineation, depiction, characterization, characterisation; picture; photograph, photo, exposure, pic
~ (v) wanton, wanton away, piddle away, trifle; make, urinate, puddle, micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee,
pass water
~-eyed (a) besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed,
soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet
piebald ~ (a) motley, calico, multicolor, multi-color, multicolour, multi-colour, multicolored, multi-colored, multicoloured, multi-coloured,
painted, particolored, particoloured, pied, varicolored, varicoloured
~ of ass (n) fuck, fucking, screw, screwing, ass, nooky, nookie, piece of tail, roll in the hay, shag, shtup
~ of tail (n) fuck, fucking, screw, screwing, ass, nooky, nookie, piece of ass, roll in the hay, shag, shtup
pied ~ (a) motley, calico, multicolor, multi-color, multicolour, multi-colour, multicolored, multi-colored, multicoloured, multi-coloured,
painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, varicolored, varicoloured
piercing ~ (a) acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, sharp; cutting, keen, knifelike, stabbing, lancinate, lancinating
~ (v) chatter, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble; piffle
~ out (v) gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge,
satiate, scarf out
~ (n) heap, mound, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus; batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, plenty,
pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad; bundle, big bucks, megabucks, big money; down; voltaic pile, galvanic pile; spile, piling, stilt; nap; atomic pile, atomic reactor, chain reactor
~ up (v) accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, gather, amass; heap up, stack up; roll up, collect, accumulate, amass, compile, hoard
piles ~ (n) hemorrhoid, haemorrhoid; tons, dozens, heaps, lots, scores, stacks, loads, rafts, slews, wads, oodles, gobs, scads, lashings
pilfer ~ (v) cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift
pinch ~ (n) pinch; pinch; touch, hint, tinge, mite, jot, speck, soupcon; emergency, exigency; nip; tweak; apprehension, arrest, catch, collar, taking into custody
~ (v) squeeze, twinge, tweet, nip, twitch; crimp; pilfer, cabbage, purloin, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift; top; vellicate
pinched ~ (a) adenoidal, nasal; bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, skeletal, wasted; hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances(p), penniless, penurious; pinched
~ (v) make, urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee,
pass water
pissed ~ (a) annoyed, irritated, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed, stung; besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed,
soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet
pitch ~ (v) flip, toss, sky; lurch, shift; pitch; pitch; peddle, monger, huckster, hawk, vend; slope, incline; cant, cant over, tilt, slant; set up; deliver; pitch; pitch; gear
~ (n) pith; kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, sum, nitty-gritty
pitiful ~ (a) pathetic, pitiable; deplorable, distressing, lamentable, sad, sorry; hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, poor, wretched
pixilated ~ (a) arch, impish, implike, mischievous, prankish, puckish, wicked; besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed,
soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet
place ~ (v) put, set, pose, position, lay; place; rate, rank, range, order, grade; locate, site; place; come in, come out; target, aim, direct, point; identify; place; set, localize, localise; put, set; localize, localise; invest, put, commit; station, post, send; place; place
~ (n) topographic point, spot; property; place; place; stead, position, lieu; shoes; home; position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, situation; position; station; seat; place; place; plaza, piazza; position; space, blank space
plaguey ~ (a) pestilent, pestilential, pestiferous; annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing
plaguy ~ (a) annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexing
planck's ~ constant (n) h
plastered ~ (a) slicked; sealed; besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, slopped, sloshed, smashed,
soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet
plasterer's ~ float (n) float
~ (v) play; play; play; act, represent; play; spiel; play; act, act as; play; play; recreate; play; play; play; play; toy; play; run; toy, fiddle, diddle; play; dally, trifle; play; dally, toy, flirt; play; act, roleplay, playact; play; bring, work, wreak, make for; play; play; bet, wager; play; play; play; meet, encounter, take on; play
~ (n) plentifulness, plenteousness, plenitude, plentitude; batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile,
pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
pleuropneumonialike ~ organism (n) PPLO
~ (v) tweak, pull off, pick off; hustle, roll; overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, rob, hook; plunk, pick; pull, tear, deplume, deplumate, displume; pick, cull
plug ~ (n) stopper, stopple; chew, chaw, cud, quid, wad; ballyhoo, hoopla, hype; spark plug, sparking plug; male plug; fireplug, fire hydrant; hack, jade, nag
~ (v) overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, pluck, rob, hook; pride, congratulate; plume; preen; plume; preen, primp, dress
~ (v) plummet; plank, flump, plonk, plop, plunk, plump down, plunk down; fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump out, fatten out, fatten up; go
~ (v) loot; sack; despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray; rape, spoil, despoil, violate
~ (v) clop, clump, clunk; plank, flump, plonk, plop, plump down, plunk down, plump; dive, plunge; pluck, pick
point ~ (v) indicate, designate, show; orient; charge, level; steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, direct, head, guide, channelize, channelise; bespeak, betoken, indicate, signal; luff; point; point; point; point; target, aim, place, direct; point; sharpen, taper; repoint
poke ~ (n) pigeon berry, garget, scoke, Phytolacca americana; dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, trailer; sack, paper bag, carrier bag; jab, jabbing, poking, thrust, thrusting; punch, clout, lick, biff, slug
~ off (v) get through, wrap up, finish off, mop up, clear up, finish up; murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, remove; eat up, finish
~ action committee (n) PAC
polycystic ~ kidney disease (n) PKD
polytetrafluoroethylene ~ (n) Teflon
polyvinyl ~ acetate (n) PVA
ponder ~ (v) chew over, think over, meditate, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculate
poop ~ (n) crap, dirt, shit, shite, turd; nincompoop, ninny; dope, the skinny, low-down; stern, after part, quarter, tail
~ boy (n) bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich,
torpedo, wedge, zep
~ (v) start, protrude, pop out, bulge, bulge out, bug out, come out; pop; pop; pop; pop; crop up, pop up; pop; pop; pop; toss off, bolt down, belt down, pour down, down, drink down, kill; pop; pop; pop
~ off (v) pop off; die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up
the ghost, drop dead, choke, croak, snuff it
~ front for the liberation of palestine (n) PFLP
~ front for the liberation of palestine-general command (n) PFLP-GC
portend ~ (v) bode, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict
~ (n) part, component part, component, constituent; part; parcel, share; share, part, percentage; fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances; dowry, dowery, dower; helping, serving
~ (v) present; model, sit, posture; impersonate, personate; posture; put, set, place, position, lay; perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound
~ (n) place; military position; view, perspective; posture, attitude; status; post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation; spatial relation; position; position; placement, location, locating, positioning, emplacement; situation; stance, posture; side; place; stead, place, lieu; position
~ emission tomography (n) PET
post ~ (n) station; military post; position, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation; post; Wiley Post; Emily Post, Emily Price Post; C. W. Post, Charles William Post; mail; stake; mail, mail service, postal service; post
posterior ~ (n) buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, prat, rear, rear end, rump,
stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass; back tooth
~ stress disorder (n) PTSD
~ (n) pot; toilet, can, commode, crapper, potty, stool, throne; potful; flowerpot; batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile,
plenty, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad; jackpot, kitty; potbelly, bay window, corporation, tummy; potentiometer; grass, green goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane
pouf ~ (n) fagot, faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queen, queer, poof, poove; ottoman, pouffe, puff, hassock
pounds ~ per square inch (n) psi
~ (n) powerfulness; power; ability; office; force; exponent, index; might, mightiness; world power, major power, great power, superpower; baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, top executive, tycoon
prat ~ (n) buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, rear, rear end,
rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass
~ (v) chatter, piffle, palaver, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble
~ (v) chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble
predict ~ (v) foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise; bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast
prefigure ~ (v) prefigure; bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, forecast, predict
~ ventricular contraction (n) PVC
prepare ~ (v) fix, set up, ready, gear up, set; cook, fix, ready, make; prepare; organize, organise, devise, get up, machinate; groom, train; train, develop, educate; prepare; train
~ (v) bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict
~ (v) press; urge, urge on, exhort; weigh; press; compress, constrict, squeeze, compact, contract; press; press; press; crusade, fight, campaign, push, agitate; press out; push; iron, iron out; weight-lift, weightlift; bid, beseech, entreat, adjure, conjure
pressurized ~ water reactor (n) PWR
pretender ~ (n) pretender; imposter, impostor, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player; hypocrite, dissembler, dissimulator, phony, phoney
~ (n) preventive, prophylactic; hindrance, hinderance, hitch, preventive, encumbrance, incumbrance, interference; contraceptive, preventive, contraceptive device, prophylactic device, birth control device
preventive ~ (n) preventative, prophylactic; hindrance, hinderance, hitch, preventative, encumbrance, incumbrance, interference; contraceptive, preventative, contraceptive device, prophylactic device, birth control device
prick ~ (n) asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, shit, mother fucker, motherfucker, whoreson, son of a bitch, SOB; incision, scratch, slit, dent; cock, dick, shaft, pecker, peter, tool, putz; pricking
prickly ~ (a) bristly, splenetic, waspish; barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny
prideful ~ (a) disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering; exultant, exulting, jubilant, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant
priggish ~ (a) prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian
prim ~ (a) dainty, mincing, niminy-piminy, twee; priggish, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced,
victorian
~-plume (n) prince's-feather, princess feather, kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate, Polygonum orientale; desert plume, Stanleya pinnata, Cleome pinnata; prince's-feather, gentleman's-cane, red amaranth, purple amaranth, Amaranthus cruentus, Amaranthus hybridus hypochondriacus,
Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys
prink ~ (v) prink; overdress, dress up, fig out, fig up, deck up, gussy up, fancy up, trick up, deck out, trick out, attire, get up, rig out,
tog up, tog out
prissy ~ (a) priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced,
victorian; dainty, nice, overnice, squeamish
profane ~ (v) corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, vitiate, deprave, misdirect; desecrate, outrage, violate
professorship ~ (n) chair
prognosticate ~ (v) predict, foretell, call, forebode, anticipate, promise; bode, portend, auspicate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict
progress ~ (v) come on, come along, advance, get on, get along, shape up; advance, pass on, move on, march on, go on; build up, work up, build
~ (v) project; stick out, protrude, jut out, jut; project; project; project; project; plan, contrive, design; propose; visualize, visualise, envision, fancy, see, figure, picture, image; cast, contrive, throw; send off; externalize, externalise
prominence ~ (n) prominence; prominence; bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence
prosperous ~ (a) comfortable, easy, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-situated, well-to-do; booming, flourishing, palmy, prospering, roaring, thriving; golden, halcyon; golden, favorable, favourable, lucky
~ specific antigen (n) PSA
~ (n) cocotte, whore, harlot, bawd, tart, cyprian, fancy woman, working girl, sporting lady, lady of pleasure, woman of the street
protrude ~ (v) stick out, jut out, jut, project; start, pop, pop out, bulge, bulge out, bug out, come out; bulge, pouch
protrusion ~ (n) bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, extrusion, excrescence; projection, jut, jutting
protuberance ~ (n) bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence; protuberance
prove ~ (v) turn out, turn up; demonstrate, establish, show, shew; testify, bear witness, evidence, show; prove; test, try, try out, examine, essay; rise; raise, leaven; prove; prove
provoke ~ (v) arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise; evoke, call forth, kick up; stimulate; harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest
prudish ~ (a) priggish, prim, prissy, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian
~ (v) puddle; puddle; puddle; puddle; puddle; muddle; puddle; addle, muddle; make, urinate, piddle, micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee,
pass water
puke ~ (v) vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate,
throw up
~ (n) rotter, dirty dog, rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git; vomit, vomitus, barf
~ (v) draw, force; attract, pull in, draw, draw in; pull; pull; perpetrate, commit; draw, pull out, get out, take out; pull; overstretch; draw; pull; pull; rend, rip, rive; pull; pluck, tear, deplume, deplumate, displume; extract, pull out, pull up, take out, draw out; root for; pull
~ back (v) withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede, retire, move back; retract, draw back; pull back; draw; retreat, back out, back away, crawfish, crawfish out, pull in one's horns, withdraw
~ in (v) attract, pull, draw, draw in; gain, take in, clear, make, earn, realize, realise, bring in; get in, move in, draw in; collect
~ out (v) get out; draw, pull, get out, take out; extract, pull, pull up, take out, draw out; chicken out, back off, back down, bow out
pure ~ (a) pure; arrant(a), complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a), everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a), sodding(a), stark(a),
staring(a), thoroughgoing(a), utter(a), unadulterated; saturated; pure; pure; pure; vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous
~ (v) purge; purge; purify, sanctify; purge; flush, scour; vomit, vomit up, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate,
throw up; purge
puritanical ~ (a) puritanical; priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian; blue(a), puritanic
purloin ~ (v) pilfer, cabbage, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift
pusher ~ (n) thruster; drug peddler, peddler, drug dealer, drug trafficker; shover; zori; baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, perambulator, pram, stroller, go-cart, pushchair
~ (v) set, place, pose, position, lay; put; frame, redact, cast, couch; assign; invest, commit, place; place, set; put; put; arrange, set up, order
~ away (v) lock in, lock away, lock, shut up, shut away, lock up; discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away, chuck out, cast aside, dispose, throw out, cast out, throw away, cast away; imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, remand; put aside; put to sleep; tuck in, tuck away; put aside
~ down (v) set down, place down; lay, repose; land, bring down; take down, degrade, disgrace, demean; drop, drop off, set down, unload, discharge; destroy; write down, set down, get down; record, enter
~ forward (v) submit, state, posit; assert; raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, call forth; nominate, put up
~ in (v) insert, enclose, inclose, stick in, introduce; store, hive away, lay in, salt away, stack away, stash away; chime in, cut in, butt in, chisel in, barge in, break in; install, instal, set up; submit; interject, come in, interpose, throw in, inject
~ off (v) postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit; turn off; dishearten; confuse, flurry, disconcert; hedge, fudge, evade, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep
~ on (v) wear, get into, don, assume; put on; put on; turn in; put on; mount; apply; gull, dupe, slang, befool, cod, fool, take in, put one over, put one across; gain
~-on (n) parody, lampoon, spoof, sendup, mockery, takeoff, burlesque, travesty, charade, pasquinade; fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug; antic, joke, prank, trick, caper
~ out (v) trouble, inconvenience, disoblige, discommode, incommode, bother; put out; smother; exsert, stretch out, extend, hold out, stretch forth; douse; put out; retire; put out; publish, bring out, issue, release; anesthetize, anaesthetize, anesthetise, anaesthetise, put under
~ up (v) post; provide, offer; raise, erect, rear, set up; digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer; put up; can, tin; house, domiciliate; contribute; nominate, put forward
~ (v) perplex, vex, stick, get, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound; puzzle
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