penny-wise
— Tillægsord
– Engelsk
～ thrifty in small matters only
part with
— Udsagnsord
– Engelsk
～ give up what is not strictly needed; "he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey"
pass with flying colors
— Udsagnsord
– Engelsk
～ succeed at easily; "She sailed through her exams"; "You will pass with flying colors"; "She nailed her astrophysics course"
pullulate with
— Udsagnsord
– Engelsk
～ exist in large quantity
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ English writer known for his humorous novels and stories (1881-1975)
P. G. Wodehouse
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ English writer known for his humorous novels and stories (1881-1975)
prairie wolf
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ small wolf native to western North America
point woman
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ a woman who is the forefront of an important enterprise
pernambuco wood
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry
peach-wood
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry
philosopher's wool
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ oxide of zinc; a white powder used as a pigment or in cosmetics or glass or inks and in zinc ointment
philosophers' wool
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ oxide of zinc; a white powder used as a pigment or in cosmetics or glass or inks and in zinc ointment
pull the wool over someone's eyes
— Udsagnsord
– Engelsk
～ conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; "He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well"
portmanteau word
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings; "`smog' is a blend of `smoke' and `fog'"; "`motel' is a portmanteau word made by combining `motor' and `hotel'"; "`brunch' is a well-known portmanteau"
polysemous word
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ a word having more than one meaning
polysyllabic word
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ a word of more than three syllables
polysemantic word
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ a word having more than one meaning
Princeton WordNet
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ a machine-readable lexical database organized by meanings; developed at Princeton University
police work
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ the investigation of criminal activities
piece of work
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing; "it is not regarded as one of his more memorable works"; "the symphony was hailed as an ingenious work"; "he was indebted to the pioneering work of John Dewey"; "the work of an active imagination"; "erosion is the work of wind or water over time"