Index of English words, starting with "pi"

(1) - Pipestone (n.) A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite.

(1) - Pipette (n.) A small glass tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, -- used for transferring or delivering measured quantities.

(1) - Piping (n.) A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting; also, propagation by cuttings.
(2) - Piping (n.) The act of playing on a pipe; the shrill noted of birds, etc.
(3) - Piping (n.) Pipes, collectively; as, the piping of a house.
(4) - Piping (n.) A small cord covered with cloth, -- used as trimming for women's dresses.
(5) - Piping (v.) Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound of boiling fluids.
(6) - Piping (v.) Emitting a high, shrill sound.
(7) - Piping (v.) Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of the pipe rather than of the drum and fife.
(8) - Piping (v.) Playing on a musical pipe.
(9) - Piping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pipe

(1) - Pipit (n.) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to Anthus and allied genera, of the family Motacillidae. They strongly resemble the true larks in habits, colors, and the great length of the hind claw. They are, therefore, often called titlarks, and pipit larks.

(1) - Pipkin (n.) A small earthen boiler.