English words: piece de resistance to piffling

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English words piece de resistance to piffling

piece de resistance noun /piˈɛs də ɹəˈzɪs.tɑ̃s/: A masterpiece; the most memorable accomplishment of one’s career or lifetime.
piece-dye verb: To dye (a finished fabric) after it has been woven or knitted, but before it is cut and sewn into finished products like garments.
piece goods noun: textiles sold by pieces or fixed sizes, such as cloth from clothes-making, calicos, sheetings, etc.
pièce montée noun: A decorative table ornament made from sugar, etc.
piece of art noun: Synonym of work of art.
piece of cake noun /ˈpiːsə(v)ˈkeɪk/: A job, task or other activity that is pleasant or, by extension, easy or simple.
piece of clothing noun: An item of clothing; any item, such as a shirt or a sock, that constitutes clothing.
piece of crumpet noun: A very sexually desirable woman.
piece of eight noun: The peso, a silver coin that was minted in Spain and its colonies from the end of 15th century, equal to eight reales (hence the name).
piece of furniture noun: An item of furniture; any item, such as a table or cupboard, that constitutes furniture.
piece of garbage noun: A bad person or thing; an object of poor quality.
piece of goods noun: A person, especially one with undesirable flaws or other notable characteristics.
piece of homework noun: Synonym of bit of homework (“an attractive woman”).
piece of junk noun: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see piece, of, junk.
piece of luck noun: Alternative form of stroke of luck.
piece of meat noun: The penis.
piece of paper noun: A single sheet or scrap of paper.
piece of poop noun: Someone or something that is disgusting or worthless.
piece of pork noun: The penis.
piece of someone noun: A chance to find out something interesting about someone.
piece of tail noun: Synonym of piece of ass.
piece of the action noun: A portion of the monetary gains or other benefits produced by some venture or activity; a share of participation in a venture or activity.
piece of the pie noun: A personal share of a limited resource.
piece of the puzzle noun: A clue that contributes to the solution of a mystery.
piece of trash noun: A bad person or thing; an object of poor quality.
piece of work noun: A product or manufactured article, especially an item of art or craft.
piece out verb: To increase or complete by adding one or more pieces.
piece picking noun: An order picking method where individual items are picked as the orders are made.
piece rate noun: The monetary amount paid per unit of production in the reward scheme of piece work, contrasting with hourly wage and salary.
piece system noun: Airline baggage allowance that restricts passengers to a specific number of bags, rather than a specific weight.
piece table noun: A data structure consisting of an original document and a series of insertions and deletions referring back to parts of the original or modified document,...
piece to camera noun: A speech given by a presenter or character directly to the viewing audience through the camera.
piece together verb: To physically assemble (or reassemble) from fragments or pieces.
piece up verb: Synonym of patch up.
piece work noun: Work that a worker is paid for according to the number of units produced, rather than the number of hours worked; work done and paid for by the piece or by...
piece worker noun: Alternative form of pieceworker.
pieceable adjective /ˈpiːsəb(ə)l/: Able to be pieced together.
pieced adjective, verb: Assembled or constructed by joining separated pieces together.
piecegoods noun: Alternative form of piece goods.
pieceless adjective: Not made of pieces; whole; entire.
piecemeal adjective, adverb, noun, verb /ˈpiːs.miːl/: Made or done in pieces or one stage at a time.
piecemealing noun, verb: The act or process of dividing something into pieces.
piecemealwise adverb: Synonym of piecemeal.
piecen verb: To join; piece (together); fay.
piecener noun: Someone who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine (a billy) in a wool mill.
piecening noun, verb: A piecing.
piecer noun /ˈpiːsə(ɹ)/: Someone or something that pieces.
piecewise adjective, adverb: In terms or by means of pieces; a piece at a time.
piecewise-defined adjective: Defined by subfunctions and subdomains
piecewise function noun: A function whose domain is partitioned into several intervals on which the function may be defined differently.
piecewise linear adjective: Equal to a sum of finitely many linear functions, each defined on a convex polytope: said of functions between vector spaces
piecewise smooth adjective: Equal to a sum of finitely many parts, each of which is smooth; often said of curves and surfaces
piecewisely adverb: In a piecewise manner
piecewiseness noun: The state of being piecewise
piecework noun: Alternative form of piece work.
pieceworker noun: A worker who is paid according to the number of units of work produced.
Piech proper noun: A surname.
piechart noun: Alternative spelling of pie chart.
piecing noun, verb: A patch.
piecrust noun: Alternative form of pie crust.
pied adjective, noun, verb /paɪd/: Having two or more colors, especially black and white.
pied-a-terre noun /piˌeɪ.dəˈtɛɹ/: A smaller temporary or secondary lodging; a second home, especially one in the city.
pied avocet noun: Recurvirostra avosetta, a black and white wading bird of temperate Europe and western and central Asia, wintering in Africa and south Asia.
pied barbet noun: A bird of the species Tricholaema leucomelas
pied-bill noun: pied-billed grebe (Podilymbus podiceps)
pied-billed grebe noun: Podilymbus podiceps, a bird with a striped beak, primarily found in ponds throughout the Americas.
pied bushchat noun: Saxicola caprata, an Asian flycatcher
pied crested cuckoo noun: Synonym of Jacobin cuckoo.
pied crow noun: Corvus albus, a crow with black and white feathers.
pied cuckoo noun: Synonym of Jacobin cuckoo.
pied currawong noun: A species of currawong common in eastern Australia, Strepera graculina.
pied kingfisher noun: Ceryle rudis, a species of kingfisher found in Asia and Africa.
pied lapwing noun: Synonym of pied plover.
pied noir noun /ˌpjɛdˈnwɑː/: Someone of European origin living in North Africa, especially Algeria, under French rule, particularly one who was repatriated to mainland France after...
pied piper noun: That which draws many in its wake.
pied-piping noun: A phenomenon of syntax whereby a focused expression takes an entire encompassing phrase with it when it is "moved".
pied plover noun: A bird of species Hoploxypterus cayanus, found in northern South America.
pied starling noun: The African bird Lamprotornis bicolor.
pied wagtail noun: A small passerine bird, Motacilla alba yarrellii.
pied wheatear noun: Oenanthe pleschanka, an Old World flycatcher native to Asia
piedfort noun: An unusually thick coin, often exactly twice the normal weight and thickness of other coins.
piedish noun: A dish in which pies can be baked.
piedly adverb: With pied coloration.
piedmont adjective, noun /ˈpiːdmɒnt/: Any region of foothills of a mountain range.
Piedmont blues noun: A genre of guitar-based blues from the East Coast of the United States.
piedmontal adjective: Relating to a piedmont.
Piedmontese adjective, noun /ˌpiːdmɒnˈtiːz/: Of, from or relating to Piedmont in northwest Italy.
piedmontite noun: piemontite (a manganic variety of epidote)
Piedmontization noun: The modernisation of Italy following unification and the dominance of Piedmont
Piedmontize verb: To subject to Piedmontization.
piedness noun: The state of being pied or particoloured.
piedouche noun: A small pedestal used to support a bust, a vase, etc.
piedra noun: A hair disease caused by a fungus.
piedtail noun: A hummingbird of the genus Phlogophilus, native to Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
pieface verb: In professional wrestling, to push an opponent's face with the hand held flat.
piefaced adjective: Alternative form of pie-faced.
piefight noun: A fight involving pies, especially the comical throwing of custard pies.
piefort noun: Alternative form of piedfort (“unusually thick coin”).
Piegan noun: Alternative form of Peigan.
Piehl proper noun: A surname.
pieing noun, verb: An instance of throwing a pie at someone, often a politician or other powerful or influential person as a means of protest.
Piel proper noun: A surname.
piel de sapo noun: Synonym of Santa Claus melon.
pieless adjective: Without pies, lacking pies.
pielet noun /ˈpaɪ.lət/: A little pie.
pielike adjective: Resembling a pie.
piem noun /ˈpaɪ.əm/: A mnemonic to aid in memorizing the digits of pi.
piemaker noun: A person who makes pies.
piemaking noun: The manufacture of pies.
pieman noun: A man who sells pies.
Piemontese proper noun: Language spoken in Piedmont, region in the Northwest of Italy.
piemontite noun /ˈpiːmɒntaɪt/: A monoclinic sorosilicate mineral of the epidote group, reddish in colour.
piend noun: Alternative form of peen (“end of a hammer”).
piended adjective: Describes something that has one or more piends.
Pieper proper noun: A surname.
pieplant noun: A rhubarb of species Rheum rhaponticum, garden rhubarb.
piepoudre noun: Alternative form of piepowder.
piepowder noun /ˈpaɪpaʊdə/: Chiefly in court of piepowders, etc. (sense 2): a traveller, particularly one on foot; a wayfarer; specifically, a travelling merchant.
pier noun /pɪə/: A raised platform built from the shore out over water, supported on piles; used to secure, or provide access to shipping; a jetty.
pier glass noun: A tall narrow mirror, usually set between two windows, above a pier table.
pier runner noun: Someone who arrives at a cruise ship late
pier table noun: A small table, usually set against the wall between two windows.
pierage noun: wharfage
pierce noun, verb /pɪɹs/: To puncture; to break through.
Pierce's disease noun: A disease of grapes caused by Xylella fastidiosa bacteria.
pierceability noun: The property of being pierceable.
pierceable adjective: Capable of being pierced; penetrable.
pierced adjective, verb /pɪɹst/: Cut through; perforated.
pierced earring noun: An earring that is designed to go through an ear piercing (as opposed to one that clips onto the ear without requiring a piercing).
Pierced Nose noun: Synonym of Nez Perce.
piercee noun: One who receives or has received a piercing.
pierceless adjective: That cannot be pierced.
piercement noun: A structure that has pierced into another.
piercer noun: An instrument that pierces or perforates, such as a stiletto.
Piercey proper noun: A surname.
piercing adjective, noun, verb /ˈpɪɹsɪŋ/: gerund of pierce
piercing gun noun: A device designed to pierce earlobes by driving a pointed starter earring through the lobe.
piercingly adverb: In a piercing manner.
piercingness noun: The quality of being piercing.
Piercy proper noun: A surname.
piered adjective: Furnished with piers.
pierglass noun: A tall narrow mirror, usually set between two windows, above a pier table
pierhead noun: The end of a pier farthest from shore.
pierhead line noun: A line in a navigable waterway established by the Army Corps of Engineers, beyond which a pier cannot project.
Pieria proper noun: A regional unit of the administrative region of Central Macedonia, in north-central Greece.
Pierian adjective /paɪˈɪəɹiən/: Of or relating to Pierides or Muses.
Pierian Spring noun: The source of knowledge, inspiration, or learning.
piericidin noun: Any of a group of microbial hydroxypyridine antibiotics that associate with ubiquinone binding sites
pierid noun: Any member of the butterfly family Pieridae.
Pierides noun: The Muses.
pieridine adjective: Of or relating to the Pieridae, a large family of butterflies.
pierine adjective, noun: A butterfly of the family Pieridae.
pierless adjective: Without a pier.
pierlike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a pier.
piermaster noun: The person in charge of a pier.
Piermont proper noun: A town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, named after Piedmont in Italy (Italian Piemonte).
piernik noun: A Polish sweet-baked good, traditionally made from flour and honey.
pierogen noun: pierogis (type of dumpling)
pierogi noun /pəˈɹoːɡi/: A square- or crescent-shaped dumpling of unleavened dough, stuffed with sauerkraut, cheese, mashed potatoes, cabbage, onion, meat, or any combination of...
pierogi pizza noun: Synonym of pagash.
pierogie noun: Alternative form of pierogi.
pierogy noun: Alternative form of pierogi.
Pieroni proper noun: A surname.
Pierotti proper noun: A surname.
Pierpoint proper noun: A surname.
Pierpont proper noun: A surname from Norman.
Pierre proper noun /piˈɛɹ/: A male given name from French, of occasional usage, equivalent to English Peter.
Pierre Marie-Bamberger syndrome noun: hypertrophic osteoarthropathy
pierre perdu noun: Blocks of stone or concrete heaped loosely in the water to make a foundation (as for a sea wall), a breakwater, etc.
pierre perdue noun: Alternative form of pierre perdu.
Pierre Robin sequence noun: A congenital defect in humans, characterized by micrognathia and resulting glossoptosis and breathing problems.
Pierre Trudeau salute noun: Alternative form of Trudeau salute.
Pierrefonds proper noun: A commune in Oise, Hauts-de-France, France.
Pierrepontian noun: A student or alumnus of Pierrepont School, Frensham, England.
Pierrette proper noun: A female Pierrot character.
Pierro proper noun: A surname.
pierrot noun: Alternative form of Pierrot.
pierrotage noun: A mixture of clay and small stones used in French Vernacular architecture of the Southern United States to infill between half-timbering with diagonal braces.
pierrotic adjective: Of or relating to pierrots.
pierrotite noun: An orthorhombic-pyramidal grayish black mineral containing antimony, arsenic, sulfur, and thallium.
Piersall proper noun: A surname.
Pierse proper noun: A surname transferred from the given name.
pierside adjective: Alongside a pier.
Pierson proper noun /ˈpɪə.sən/: A patronymic surname transferred from the given name.
pierwise adverb: In the manner of a pier.
pieshop noun: A shop that sells pies
piesmatid noun: Any member of the family Piesmatidae, the ash-gray leaf bugs.
Piesse proper noun: A surname.
piet noun /ˈpʌɪət/: The magpie.
piet-my-vrou noun /ˈpɪtmeɪfɹəʊ/: A red-chested cuckoo, of species Cuculus solitarus.
pieta noun: A sculpture or painting of the Virgin Mary holding and mourning the dead body of Jesus.
Pietermaritzburg proper noun /ˌpiːtə(ɹ)ˈmæɹətsˌbɜː(ɹ)ɡ/: A city, the capital of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Pieters proper noun: A surname from Dutch.
Pietersburg proper noun: Former name of Polokwane, Limpopo province, South Africa, officially renamed in 2005.
pietersite noun: a rare dark-gray or reddish breccia aggregate (rock made up of fragments embedded in a matrix), comprised mostly of hawk's eye and tiger's eye
pietism noun /ˈpʌɪətɪz(ə)m/: A movement in the Lutheran church in the late 17th and 18th centuries, calling for practical and devout Christianity.
pietist noun: A supporter of pietism.
pietistic adjective /pʌɪ.ɪˈtɪs.tɪk/: pertaining to pietism (Lutheran spiritual movement)
pietistical adjective: pietistic
pietistically adverb: In a pietistic or pietistical manner.
pietra dura noun: A decorative art, the inlay technique of using cut and fitted, highly polished colored stones to create images.
pietra fungaia noun: The sclerotium of Polyporus tuberaster.
Pietri proper noun: A surname from Italian.
Pietro proper noun: A surname from Italian.
Pietsch proper noun: A surname.
Piette proper noun: A surname.
piety noun /ˈpaɪ̯ɪti/: Reverence and devotion to God.
piewipe noun: A bird, the lapwing or peewit.
piewoman noun: A woman who sells pies.
piezo adjective, prefix /ˌpiː.zəʊ-/: Forms terms related to piezoelectricity or other effects of mechanical stress or pressure.
piezoaccelerometer noun: A piezoelectric accelerometer
piezoactive adjective: Producing an effect or transformation in response to pressure.
piezoactivity noun: The quality of being piezoactive.
piezoactuated adjective: Actuated by mechanical pressure.
piezoactuation noun: actuation by mechanical pressure
piezoactuator noun: An actuator activated by mechanical pressure
piezocantilever noun: A piezoelectric cantilever.
piezocapacitive adjective: Whose electrical capacitance varies according to applied pressure
piezoceramic noun: Any ceramic material suitable for use with piezoelectricity.
piezochemical adjective: Pertaining to piezochemistry.
piezochemistry noun: The chemistry of materials at high pressure
piezochromic adjective: Whose colour depends upon the applied pressure
piezochromism noun: The relationship between the colour of a material and the applied pressure
piezocoefficient noun: A piezoelectric coefficient that quantifies the relationship between change in volume and strength of electric field
piezocomposite adjective: Relating to a piezoelectric composite
piezoconductive adjective: Relating to piezoconduction.
piezocone noun: A conical tip to a penetrometer
piezocrystal noun: A piezoelectric crystal.
piezoelastic adjective: Responding to mechanical stress by behaving like a capacitor in the electrical domain and like a simple spring-mass system in the mechanical domain.
piezoelastically adverb: In a piezoelastic manner.
piezoelasticity noun: The quality of being piezoelastic.
piezoelectric adjective, noun: of or relating to piezoelectricity
piezoelectric effect noun: The production of electrical potential in a substance as the pressure on it changes.
piezoelectric oscillator noun: An oscillator that employs a piezoelectric resonator (crystal)
piezoelectrical adjective: piezoelectric
piezoelectrically adverb: By use of piezoelectricity.
piezoelectricity noun /pʌɪˌiːzəʊ.ɪlɛkˈtɹɪsɪti/: A voltage generated by certain crystals in response to an applied mechanical stress.
piezoelectrics noun: The study of piezoelectricity
piezoelectronic adjective: Describing an electronic component that is activated by pressure
piezoelement noun: A piezoelectric element.
piezoglypt noun: A regmaglypt.
piezoimmunosensor noun: A piezoelectric immunosensor
piezoluminescence noun: luminescence produced by the action of pressure on certain solids
piezoluminescent adjective: Exhibiting or relating to piezoluminescence.
piezolyte noun: Any of various compounds that stabilize proteins against high hydrostatic pressure
piezomagnetic adjective: Exhibiting piezomagnetism.
piezomagnetically adverb: By means of piezomagnetism.
piezomagnetism noun: Magnetism induced by applied mechanical stress.
piezomagnetoelastic adjective: Both piezomagnetic and piezoelastic
piezomechanical adjective: Describing any mechanical effect of stress
piezometer noun: An instrument used to measure pressure.
piezometric adjective: Of or pertaining to a piezometer or to piezometry
piezometrical adjective: Alternative form of piezometric.
piezometrically adverb: In a piezometric manner.
piezometry noun: The measuring of the compressibility of a liquid.
piezomicromanipulator noun: A piezomechanical micromanipulator
piezonuclear adjective: Describing supposed nuclear reactions as a result of mechanical stress (such as cavitation)
piezooptic adjective: Of or relating to a change in refractive index caused by pressure.
piezooptical adjective: Synonym of piezooptic.
piezophile noun: a barophile
piezophilic adjective: barophilic
piezophonon noun: A phonon produced by mechanical stress
piezopolymer noun: A piezoelectric polymer (that can reversibly convert pressure to electricity)
piezopsychrophilic adjective: Capable of surviving at great pressures, and at relatively low temperature; used especially of certain benthic bacteria.
piezoremanent adjective: Relating to piezoremanence.
piezoresistance noun: Electrical resistance induced by applied mechanical stress.
piezoresistant adjective: resistant to applied pressure
piezoresistive adjective: Exhibiting piezoresistance.
piezoresistive effect noun: The change of electrical resistance in a substance as the pressure on it changes.
piezoresistivity noun: piezoresistance
piezoresistor noun: A device whose electrical resistance depends upon the strength of an applied pressure
piezoresponse noun: The change in dimension of a ferromagnetic material in the presence of an electric field; the piezoelectric effect
piezoscanner noun: A piezoelectric scanner
piezosensitive adjective: sensitive to applied pressure
piezosphere noun: The deep-sea environment inhabited by piezophiles
piezostack noun: A stack of piezoactive materials stuck together in layers.
piezosurgery noun: The use of piezoelectric vibrations in the surgical cutting of bone tissue.
piezosurgical adjective: Relating to piezosurgery.
piezotolerant adjective, noun: That can tolerate great pressure (as in the deep sea)
piezotransducer noun: A piezoelectric transducer
piezotranslation noun: The conversion of pressure into movement by a piezotranslator.
piezotranslator noun: Any device that converts / translates pressure into movement
piezotransmitter noun: Any device that uses piezoelectricity to transmit a signal.
piezotronic adjective: Of or relating to piezotronics.
piezotronics noun: The science and technology of piezoelectric effects and devices
piezotropy noun: The state of a fluid in which there is a thermodynamic relationship between pressure and density
piezoviscosity noun: The condition of being piezoviscous.
piezoviscous adjective: Of a fluid, whose viscosity increases with pressure.
PIF noun: Initialism of public information film, a type of public service announcement.
PIFA noun: Acronym of planar inverted-F antenna
pifarnine noun: An antiulcer drug.
PIFC noun: Initialism of pattern-induced flicker color.
Pifer proper noun: A surname.
piff adjective, interjection, noun, verb: An exclamation of annoyance or contempt; pish; pshaw.
Piffer noun: A member of the Frontier Force Regiment, an infantry regiment of the army of Pakistan.
pifferaro noun: A musician who plays the piffero, a kind of oboe.
piffero noun: A form of oboe.
piffle noun, verb /ˈpɪf.əl/: Nonsense, foolish talk.
piffler noun: A blathering fool.
piffling adjective, verb: petty; unimportant

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under P: 63,631 words, in 213 parts.