Distichlis palmeri, a saltgrass native to the Sonoran Desert of Mexico and the United States, Palmer's grass.
The leaves of the nipa palm, when used as a material for thatching, basketry or other uses.
nips
nips
noun
plural of nip
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nip
npsi
pain
pain
noun
(chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
(countable and uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
(countable, from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
(obsolete, cooking) Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.
(uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
(uncountable, dated) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
verb
(intransitive, India) To feel pain; to hurt.
(transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
(transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
(transitive, obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
pani
pein
pian
pian
noun
(medicine) yaws
pien
pina
pina
noun
Alternative form of piña
pind
pind
verb
(transitive, Northern England) To confine within narrow limits, constrain.
(transitive, now rare or chiefly dialectal) To impound (as cattle), to shut up in a pound.
pine
pine
noun
(archaic except Caribbean, Guyana, South Africa) A pineapple.
(archaic) A painful longing.
(countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
(countable, uncountable) Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.
verb
(intransitive) To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.
(intransitive) To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
(transitive) To grieve or mourn for.
(transitive) To inflict pain upon; to torment.
ping
ping
noun
(Wikimedia jargon) A notification.
(networking) A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.
(networking) Latency.
(submarine navigation) A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels.
(text messaging, Internet) An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.
(video games) A means of highlighting a feature on the game map so that allied players can see it.
A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
verb
(by extension) To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.
(colloquial) To flick.
(colloquial) To penalize.
(colloquial, sports) To call out audibly.
(colloquial, sports, intransitive) To bounce.
(colloquial, sports, transitive) To cause something to bounce.
(networking) To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.
(submarine navigation) To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.
To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
pini
pink
pink
adj
(informal) Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.
(informal) Relating to women or girls.
(obsolete) By comparison to red (communist), describing someone who sympathizes with the ideals of communism without actually being a Russian-style communist: a pinko.
(obsolete) Half-shut; winking.
Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
Having conjunctivitis.
Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.
noun
(color) The colour of this flower, between red and white; pale red.
(dated) A perfect example; excellence, perfection; the embodiment of some quality.
(historical) Any of various lake pigments or dyes in yellow, yellowish green, or brown shades made with plant coloring and a metallic oxide base.
(now obsolete) A narrow boat.
(obsolete) A small hole or eyelet punched in a garment for decoration, as with a pinking iron; a scallop.
(obsolete) A small hole or puncture made by a sharp, slender instrument such as a rapier, poniard or dagger, or (by extension) a bullet; a stab.
(regional) A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr.
(regional) The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.
(slang) An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare Babbitt, bourgeoisie.
(slang) The vagina or vulva.
(snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points.
Alternative form of pinko
Any of various flowers in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.
Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.
verb
(intransitive) To become pink in color, to redden.
(obsolete) To wink; to blink.
(transitive) To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.
(transitive) To turn (something) pink.
Of a motor car, to emit a high "pinking" noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition timing for the fuel used (in a spark ignition engine).
Of a musical instrument, to sound a very high-pitched, short note.
To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.
To prick with a sword.
To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.
pino
pins
pins
noun
plural of pin
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pin
(UK, metonymically) A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.
(medicine) 12 fluid ounces
16 US fluid ounces [473 millilitres] for liquids (a US liquid pint) or
approximately 18.62 fluid ounces [551 millilitres] for dry goods (a US dry pint).
pinx
piny
piny
adj
Of, pertaining to, or having many pines
pinz
pion
pion
noun
(physics) Any of three semistable mesons, having positive, negative or neutral charge, composed of up and down quarks/antiquarks.
pirn
pirn
noun
A cone-shaped spool or bobbin on which thread or yarn is wound, used most often for weaving.
The amount of thread wound on a shuttle or reel.
verb
(transitive) To wind (yarn) onto a pirn, usually by means of a pirn winder.
prin
prin
noun
(northern UK, dialectal) Alternative spelling of preen
pyin
pyin
noun
(biochemistry, dated) An albuminoid constituent of pus, related to mucin, possibly a mixture of substances rather than a single body.
snip
snip
noun
(dated) An impertinent or mischievous person.
(definite, the snip, euphemistic) A vasectomy.
(informal) A small or weak person, especially a young one.
(informal) Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
(obsolete) A share or portion; a snack.
(obsolete, slang) A tailor.
(onomatopoeia) An act or sound of snipping, the sound produced by scissors.
A piece cut out by snipping.
A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
A small amount of something; a pinch.
A white marking on a horse's muzzle, between the nostrils.
The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
verb
(Internet) To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
(informal) To circumcise.
To break off; to snatch away.
To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
spin
spin
noun
(UK, prison slang) A search of a prisoner's cell for forbidden articles.
(aviation) A condition of flight where a stalled aircraft is simultaneously pitching, yawing, and rolling in a spinning motion.
(countable, uncountable) A favourable comment or interpretation intended to bias opinion on an otherwise unpleasant situation.
(dated) An unmarried woman; a spinster.
(informal, used among autistic people) Special interest of an autistic person.
(mechanical engineering) An abnormal condition in journal bearings where the bearing seizes to the rotating shaft and rotates inside the journal, destroying both the shaft and the journal.
(nautical) Short for spinnaker.
(physics) A quantum angular momentum associated with subatomic particles, which also creates a magnetic moment.
(sports) Rotation of the ball as it flies through the air; sideways movement of the ball as it bounces.
(uncountable) The use of an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.
A brief trip by vehicle, especially one made for pleasure.
A bundle of spun material; a mass of strands and filaments.
A single play of a record by a radio station.
Rapid circular motion.
verb
(UK, law enforcement, slang, transitive) To search rapidly.
(aviation, of a pilot) To cause one's aircraft to enter or remain in a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).
(aviation, of an aircraft) To enter, or remain in, a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).
(computing, programming, intransitive) To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.
(cooking) To form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar
(cricket, of a ball) To move sideways when bouncing.
(cricket, of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.
(ergative) To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
(figurative) To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance.
(transitive) To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.
(transitive, informal) To play (vinyl records, etc.) as a disc jockey.
To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, etc.) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.
To move swiftly.
To ride a bicycle at a fast cadence.
To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.
To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.
To use an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.