Index of English words, starting with "pi"

(1) - Piquant (a.) Stimulating to the taste; giving zest; tart; sharp; pungent; as, a piquant anecdote.

(1) - Piquantly (adv.) In a piquant manner.

(1) - Pique (v. i.) To cause annoyance or irritation.
(2) - Pique (v. t.) To pride or value; -- used reflexively.
(3) - Pique (v. t.) To excite to action by causing resentment or jealousy; to stimulate; to prick; as, to pique ambition, or curiosity.
(4) - Pique (v. t.) To wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate; to fret; to offend; to excite to anger.
(5) - Pique (n.) In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.
(6) - Pique (n.) Keenly felt desire; a longing.
(7) - Pique (n.) A feeling of hurt, vexation, or resentment, awakened by a social slight or injury; irritation of the feelings, as through wounded pride; stinging vexation.
(8) - Pique (n.) The jigger. See Jigger.
(9) - Pique (n.) A cotton fabric, figured in the loom, -- used as a dress goods for women and children, and for vestings, etc.

(1) - Piquet (n.) A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.
(2) - Piquet (n.) See Picket.

(1) - Piracy (n.)
(2) - Piracy (n.) Robbery on the high seas; the taking of property from others on the open sea by open violence; without lawful authority, and with intent to steal; -- a crime answering to robbery on land.
(3) - Piracy (n.) The act or crime of a pirate.