Nouns starting with P

• powder method — Noun – English ～ a process for identifying minerals or crystals; a small rod is coated with a powdered form of the substance and subjected to suitably modified X-rays; the pattern of diffracted rings is used for identification
• powder flask — Noun – English ～ container for carrying gunpowder; made of the hollow horn of an animal
• powder keg — Noun – English ～ a potentially explosive state
• powder monkey — Noun – English ～ someone who carries explosives (as from the magazine to the guns on board a warship)
• powder keg — Noun – English ～ keg (usually made of metal) for gunpowder or blasting powder
• powder metallurgy — Noun – English ～ the metallurgy of powdered metals; how to produce solid metal objects from powdered metal by compaction and sintering
• powdered ginger — Noun – English ～ dried ground gingerroot
• powdered milk — Noun – English ～ dehydrated milk
• powdered mustard — Noun – English ～ a substance such that one to three tablespoons dissolved in a glass of warm water is a homemade emetic
• powderer — Noun – English ～ someone who applies or scatters powder
• powderiness — Noun – English ～ having a very fine texture; "the fineness of the sand on the beach"
• powderpuff — Noun – English ～ a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin
• powdery mildew — Noun – English ～ any of various fungi of the genus Erysiphe producing powdery conidia on the host surface
• Powell — Noun – English ～ English physicist who discovered the pion (the first known meson) which is a subatomic particle involved in holding the nucleus together (1903-1969)
• Powell — Noun – English ～ United States general who was the first African American to serve as chief of staff; later served as Secretary of State under President George W. Bush (born 1937)
• power — Noun – Danish ～ rå kraft, fart el. energi
• power loading — Noun – English ～ the ratio of the weight of an airplane to its engine power
• power — Noun – English ～ possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done; "danger heightened his powers of discrimination"
• power — Noun – English ～ a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself
• power couple — Noun – English ～ a couple both of whom have high-powered careers or are politically influential

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