pecker
— Noun
– English
~ horny projecting mouth of a bird
peckerwood
— Noun
– English
~ bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
pecking order
— Noun
– English
~ the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body
peckish
— Adjective
– English
~ easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
pecopteris
— Noun
– English
~ Carboniferous fossil fern characterized by a regular arrangement of the leaflets resembling a comb
pecos
— Noun
– English
~ a tributary of the Rio Grande that flows southeastward from New Mexico through western Texas
pecs
— Noun
– English
~ either of two large muscles of the chest
Pecten magellanicus
— Noun
– English
~ a large scallop inhabiting deep waters of the Atlantic coast of North America
Pecten irradians
— Noun
– English
~ a small scallop inhabiting shallow waters and mud flats of the Atlantic coast of North America
pectic acid
— Noun
– English
~ a complex acid that occurs in ripe fruit and some vegetables
pectic
— Adjective
– English
~ of or relating to or derived from pectin; "pectic acid"
pectin
— Noun
– English
~ any of various water-soluble colloidal carbohydrates that occur in ripe fruit and vegetables; used in making fruit jellies and jams