center punch
— Noun
– English
～ a tool with a conical point that is used to make indentations in metal (especially to mark points for drilling)
Clianthus puniceus
— Noun
– English
～ evergreen shrub with scarlet to white clawlike or beaklike flowers; New Zealand
corporal punishment
— Noun
– English
～ the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime
capital punishment
— Noun
– English
～ putting a condemned person to death
chicken purloo
— Noun
– English
～ thick stew made of rice and chicken and small game; southern U.S.
crimson-purple
— Adjective
– English
～ purple tinged with crimson
cross-purpose
— Noun
– English
～ a contrary aim; "at cross-purposes"
Cyclamen purpurascens
— Noun
– English
～ Mediterranean plant widely cultivated as a houseplant for its showy dark green leaves splotched with silver and nodding white or pink to reddish flowers with reflexed petals
Claviceps purpurea
— Noun
– English
～ a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid
Carpodacus purpureus
— Noun
– English
～ North American finch having a raspberry-red head and breast and rump
common purslane
— Noun
– English
～ weedy trailing mat-forming herb with bright yellow flowers cultivated for its edible mildly acid leaves eaten raw or cooked especially in Indian and Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine; cosmopolitan
Chinese puzzle
— Noun
– English
～ intricate or ingenious puzzle consisting of boxes within boxes
crossword puzzle
— Noun
– English
～ a puzzle in which words corresponding to numbered clues are to be found and written in to squares in the puzzle
chronic pyelonephritis
— Noun
– English
～ pyelonephritis that develops slowly and can lead to renal failure if untreated; often associated with a kidney stone or with narrowing of the urinary passageways
Circus pygargus
— Noun
– English
～ brownish European harrier