Words in english starting with P

• poinsettia — Noun – English ～ tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers
• point — Noun – English ～ the gun muzzle's direction; "he held me up at the point of a gun"
• point — Noun – English ～ an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole; "several of the details are similar"; "a point of information"
• point lace — Noun – English ～ lace worked with a needle in a buttonhole stitch on a paper pattern
• point — Noun – English ～ an instant of time; "at that point I had to leave"
• point — Noun – English ～ any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass; "he checked the point on his compass"
• point man — Noun – English ～ someone who is the forefront of an important enterprise; "he is the president's point man on economic issues"
• point mutation — Noun – English ～ (genetics) a mutation due to an intramolecular reorganization of a gene
• point — Noun – English ～ a distinguishing or individuating characteristic; "he knows my bad points as well as my good points"
• point of accumulation — Noun – English ～ the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity
• point of periapsis — Noun – English ～ (astronomy) the point in an orbit closest to the body being orbited
• point — Noun – English ～ the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip
• point — Noun – English ～ the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest; "he scored 20 points in the first half"; "a touchdown counts 6 points"
• point — Noun – English ～ sharp end; "he stuck the point of the knife into a tree"; "he broke the point of his pencil"
• point after — Noun – English ～ in American football a point awarded for a successful place kick following a touchdown
• point — Noun – English ～ a promontory extending out into a large body of water; "they sailed south around the point"
• point — Noun – English ～ the dot at the left of a decimal fraction
• point duty — Noun – English ～ the control of traffic by a policeman stationed at an intersection
• point — Noun – English ～ a wall socket
• point — Noun – English ～ a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs

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