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Pierre Curie
- noun - French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906)
Pierre-Perdu
- - Blocks of stone or concrete heaped loosely in the water to make a foundation (as for a sea wall), a breakwater, a mole, etc.
Piezo Effect
- noun - electricity produced by mechanical pressure on certain crystals (notably quartz or Rochelle salt); alternatively, electrostatic stress produces a change in the linear dimensions of the crystal
Pig-Headedly
- adverb - in a stubborn unregenerate manner; "she remained stubbornly in the same position"
Pig-Sticking
- - Boar hunting; -- so called by Anglo-Indians.
Pigeon Berry
- noun - tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous
Pigeonholing
- verb - a system for classifying things into groups
- place into a small compartment
- treat or classify according to a mental stereotype; "I was stereotyped as a lazy Southern European"
Piggybacking
- verb - bring into alignment with; "an amendment to piggyback the current law"
- haul by railroad car
- haul truck trailers loaded with commodities on railroad cars
- ride on someone's shoulders or back
- support on the back and shoulders; "He piggybacked her child so she could see the show"
Pigmentation
- noun - coloration of living tissues by pigment
- the deposition of pigment in animals or plants or human beings
Pigstickings
- noun - the sport of hunting wild boar with spears