English Words: P

A resident of ancient Picenum in Italy.

A surname.

a region of ancient Italy identified by the Romans.

Of or pertaining to pitch (“a sticky, dark brown substance obtained from distilling turpentine or wood tar, or crude oil or tar”); having a quality like pitch.

The amount that can be bought for a pice.

A surname from Khmer.

A creature from Pakistani/Arabian culture, who's said to be reverse-footed and demonic.

A surname from Italian.

A small armadillo (Zaedyus pichiy), native to Argentina, which is the only armadillo known to hibernate.

A city and commune of Chile.

A Meitei surname from Manipuri

An Atlantic English-lexicon creole language spoken on the island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea; an offshoot of the Krio language of Sierra Leone.

Alternative form of pichey.

A surname from French.

An Indian temple hanging consisting of cotton cloth painted with scenes from the life of the Hindu deity Lord Krishna (always blue), and used as a backdrop for his idol; also used decoratively in homes.

A kind of hand-rolled pasta, like thick spaghetti, from Sienna.

A poitrel, armor protecting a horse's chest.

A surname from Serbo-Croatian.

A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.

An evenly matched game, bout, or event where there is no favorite or underdog.

To find fault with someone.

To commit to an approach to something.

Synonym of zone picking.

Of a robot: having the purpose of picking up objects and placing them somewhere else.

An alternate version of pick and roll where the player moves to an open spot, where they receive a pass and make a jump shot.

An offensive play in which a player stops to block a defender for a teammate handling the ball and then slips behind the defender to accept a pass.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pick, apart.

To touch, grab, handle, or pull tentatively or gingerly, using a utensil or one's fingers.

A diagram used in Six Sigma to arrange ideas by their difficulty and payoff, and thereby rank them as possible, "implement" (should be done), "challenge" (difficult to do), or "kill" (should not be done).

To excuse oneself from a group and urinate or defecate outdoors.

To find weaknesses, errors or imperfections (in).

The best person or item in a group; the best that one has to offer.

To remove by picking.

To bully, harass, or make fun of a victim; to bother or harass.

An admonition of cowardice, usually said to make someone cease harassing or bullying someone else, especially where the bullied party is physically smaller or weaker than the bully.

To involve oneself in disputes only if one is likely to win.

To insert a finger or other object into one's nostril to remove obstructions, especially dried mucus.

To move carefully.

To resume normal activities after a period of being incapacitated by grief or circumstances.

To remove by picking.

To determine by chance, especially by drawing lots.

To take sides; to favour one side or viewpoint in a competition or confrontation.

To seek information from someone knowledgeable; to ask questions of someone.

To lift; to grasp and raise.

To notice, observe, learn, or understand, especially something otherwise overlooked.

To recuperate or recover, such as after an illness or injury.

To join a conversation at the tail end, without knowing much about its content.

To pick up the receiver of a telephone, generally with the intention of making a phone call.

To restore one's life (or a given situation etc.) to a normal state, after a calamity, shock etc.

Alternative form of take up the slack.