pasta sauce
— Noun
– English
～ any of numerous sauces for spaghetti or other kinds of pasta
pepper sauce
— Noun
– English
～ for venison: brown sauce with sauteed vegetables and trimmings and marinade and plenty of pepper
peach sauce
— Noun
– English
～ for Chinese dishes: peach preserves and chutney
paprika sauce
— Noun
– English
～ veloute sauce with sauteed chopped onion and paprika and cream
pork sausage
— Noun
– English
～ sausage containing pork
passbook savings account
— Noun
– English
～ a savings account in which deposits and withdrawals are recorded in the depositor's passbook
Prince Eugene of Savoy
— Noun
– English
～ Austrian general in the service of the Holy Roman Empire during the War of the Spanish Succession (1663-1736)
pruning saw
— Noun
– English
～ a handsaw used for pruning trees
power saw
— Noun
– English
～ a power tool for cutting wood
portable circular saw
— Noun
– English
～ a circular saw that is portable and is operated with a hand grip
portable saw
— Noun
– English
～ a circular saw that is portable and is operated with a hand grip
pine sawyer
— Noun
– English
～ large beetle whose larvae bore holes in pine trees
purple saxifrage
— Noun
– English
～ plants forming dense cushions with bright reddish-lavender flowers; rocky areas of Europe and Asia and western North America
potato scab bacteria
— Noun
– English
～ cause of a potato disease characterized by brownish corky tissue
pH scale
— Noun
– English
～ (from potential of Hydrogen) the logarithm of the reciprocal of hydrogen-ion concentration in gram atoms per liter; provides a measure on a scale from 0 to 14 of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution (where 7 is neutral and greater than 7 is more basic and less than 7 is more acidic)
pentatonic scale
— Noun
– English
～ a gapped scale with five notes; usually the fourth and seventh notes of the diatonic scale are omitted
PET scanner
— Noun
– English
～ a tomograph that produces cross-sectional X-rays of metabolic processes in the body
pyramid scheme
— Noun
– English
～ a fraudulent scheme in which people are recruited to make payments to the person who recruited them while expecting to receive payments from the persons they recruit; when the number of new recruits fails to sustain the hierarchical payment structure the scheme collapses with most of the participants losing the money they put in
pump-and-dump scheme
— Noun
– English
～ an illegal scheme for making money by manipulating stock prices; the schemer persuades other people to buy the stock and then sells it himself as soon as the price of the stock rises