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Piths
- noun - remove the pith from (a plant)
- soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"
Pithy
- adjective - concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen
Piton
- noun - a metal spike with a hole for a rope; mountaineers drive it into ice or rock to use as a hold
Pitot
- noun - French physicist for whom the Pitot tube was named (1695-1771)
- measuring instrument consisting of a right-angled tube with an open end that is directed in opposition to the flow of a fluid and used to measure the velocity of fluid flow
Pitta
- noun - any bird of the genus Pitta; brilliantly colored chiefly terrestrial birds with short wings and tail and stout bills
- Flat bread of middle eastern origin, hollowed inside like a pocket, which can be filled with food
Piute
- noun - a member of either of two Shoshonean peoples (northern Paiute and southern Paiute) related to the Aztecs and living in the southwestern United States
Pivot
- noun - axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns
- the act of turning on (or as if on) a pivot; "the golfer went to the driving range to practice his pivot"
- the person in a rank around whom the others wheel and maneuver
- turn on a pivot
Pixel
- noun - (computer science) the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot); "the greater the number of pixels per inch the greater the resolution"
Pixes
- noun - a chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay
- any receptacle in which wafers for the Eucharist are kept
Pixie
- noun - (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
- creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas