Pillow Pillows are small support for the head, usually used while sleeping in a bed, or for the body as used on a couch or chair. There are also throw pillows, which are pillows that are purely decorative and not designed for support or comfort. There also exist "novelty pillows",, which are designed often as licensed products.
	Pillow fight A pillow fight is a common game mostly played by young children in which they attack each other with pillows. Many times pillow fights occur during children's sleepovers. Since pillows are soft, injury rarely occur. The heft of a pillow can still knock a young person off balance, especially on a soft surface such as a bed, which is a common venue.
	Pillow Talk Pillow Talk is a 1959 romantic comedy film which tells the story of a man and woman who share a telephone line and grow to hate each other, and then, of course, to love each other. It stars Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter and Nick Adams.
	Pilocarpine Pilocarpine is a muscarine alkaloid obtained from the leaves of tropical American shrubs from the genus Pilocarpus. It acts as a muscarinic receptor agonist in the parasympathetic nervous system.
	Pilosella aurantiaca Pilosella aurantiaca is a perennial plant native to alpine regions of Central Europe and southern Europe, where it is protected in several regions. It is a low-growing plant with shallow fibrous roots and a basal rosette of elliptical to lanceolate leaf 520 centimetre long and 13 cm broad.
	Pilot boat A pilot boat is used to transport Pilot between land and the inbound or outbound ships that they are piloting. Pilot boats can be from 20 feet to over 75 feet in length. They are normally painted a highly visible color such as orange, red or yellow. A pilot boat can be identified by the red and white signal flag or (H)otel International maritime signal flags during daytime and showing a white light over a red light at night.
	Pilot whale The Pilot Whale is one of two species of cetacean in the genus Globicephala. The genus is part of the oceanic dolphin family although their behaviour is closer to that of the larger whales. The two species are the Long-finned Pilot Whale and the Short-finned Pilot Whale.
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	Pilsener Pilsener or pilsner is a pale lager, developed in the city of Plzen , Western Bohemia .
	Piltdown Man The so-called Piltdown Man was fragments of a skull and jaw bone collected in the early years of the 20th century from a gravel pit at Piltdown, a village near Uckfield, in the English county of Sussex. The fragments were claimed by experts of the day to be the fossilised remains of a hitherto unknown form of human evolution.
	Pilularia Pilularia is a genus of unusual ferns of family Marsileaceae distributed in North Temperate regions, Australia, New Zealand, Ethiopian mountains and western South America. The genus contains between 3 and 6 species of small plants with thread-like leaves, and creeping rhizomes.
	Pilus A pilus is a hairlike structure on the surface of a cell , especially Gram-negative bacterium, a protein appendage required for bacterial conjugation. Pili connect the bacterium to another of its species and build a bridge between the cytoplasm of either cell.
	Pimento The Pimento or Cherry Pepper is a variety of large, red, heart-shaped chile pepper that measures 3 to 4 inches long and 2 to 3 inches wide. Pimento or pimento are Portuguese language words for "bell pepper", while pimenta refers both to chile peppers and to black pepper.
	Pimlico Pimlico is a district in London and part of the council borough the City of Westminster. The area is roughly delimited by Victoria station to the north and the River Thames to the south, spanned by Vauxhall Bridge, which allows ready access to Vauxhall.
	Pimozide Pimozide is an antipsychotic medication. It has a high potency compared to chlorpromazine. On a weight basis it is even more potent than haloperidol. As it has severe side effects, it is considered a drug of last resort, typically prescribed only after the patient has failed to respond to other medications.
	Pimp A pimp finds and manages clients for a prostitute and engages them in prostitution, often street prostitution, in order to profit from their earnings. Typically, a pimp does not force the women to stay with him but will abuse them in order to keep them in line or maximize profits. A pimp may also offer to protect them from other pimps, prostitutes or abusive clients.
	Pimple A pimple is a type of skin lesion that is caused by inflamed and/or obstructed pores. The most common cause of pimples is acne vulgaris.
	Pin oak The Pin oak is an oak in the List of Quercus species#Section Lobatae section Quercus sect. Lobatae. It is native to eastern North America, mainly in the eastern United States from Connecticut west to eastern Kansas, and south to Georgia across to eastern Oklahoma; it is also native in the extreme south of Ontario, Canada.
	Piņa Colada Pia Colada is a sweet, rum-based cocktail. It contains light rum, coconut cream and pineapple juice blended with crushed ice. Two typical garnishes are a pineapple wedge and a maraschino cherry. Like most popular mixed drinks, the Pia Colada has variations that deviate somewhat from the basic recipe.
	Pinaceae The family Pinaceae, is in the order Pinales and includes many of the well-known conifers of commercial importance such as cedars, firs, Tsugas, larches, pines and spruces. It is the largest conifer family in species diversity, with between 220-250 species in 11 genera, and the second-largest in geographical range, found in most the Northern Hemisphere with the majority of the species in temperate climates but ranging from subarctic to tropical.
	Piņata The piata is a bright container generally suspended on a rope from a tree branch or ceiling that is filled with candy and toys and is used during celebrations. A succession of blindfolded, stick-wielding children and some fun loving adults will try to break the piata in order to collect the candy inside of it.
	Pinball Pinball is a type of coin-operated arcade game where a player attempts to score points by manipulating one or more metal balls on a playfield inside a glass case. The primary objective of the game is to score as many points as possible. Secondary objectives are to maximize the time spent playing and to earn free games .
	Pince-nez Pince-nez are a style of spectacles, popular in the 19th century, which are supported without earpieces, by pinching the bridge of the nose. The name comes from the French language for "pinch nose." Pince-nez first made their appearance in the 1840s, reaching their peak popularity around 1880 to 1900.
	Pinchas Zukerman Pinchas Zukerman is a noted Israel violinist, viola, and conductor who was appointed Music Director of Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra in April 1998. Zukerman was born in Tel Aviv. He left for the United States and studied at the Juilliard School.
	Pine Pines are Pinophyta trees of the genus Pinus, in the family Pinaceae. There are about 115 species of pine, although different authors accept anything from 105 to 125 species.
	Pine Grosbeak The Pine Grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, is a large finch. Adults have a long forked black tail, black wings with white wing bars and a large bill. Adult males have a rose red head, back and rump. Adult females are olive-yellow on the head and rump and grey on the back and underparts.
	Pine Marten The Pine Marten is an animal in the weasel family, native to Europe. Note, the American Marten is also called a pine marten in North America. The Pine Marten is around the size of a domestic cat. Its body is up to 53 cm in length, its bushy tail can be 25 cm. Males are slightly larger than females; on average a marten weighs around one and a half kilograms.
	Pine nut Pine nuts are the edible seeds of pine trees. About 20 species of pine produce seeds large enough to be worth harvesting; in other pines the seeds are also edible, but are too small to be of value as a human food. In Europe, pine nuts come from the Stone Pine, which has been cultivated for the nuts for over 6,000 years, and harvested from wild trees for far longer.
	Pine Siskin The Pine Siskin, Carduelis pinus, is a small finch. Adults are brown on the upperparts and pale on the underparts, with heavy streaking throughout. They have a short forked tail. They have yellow patches in their wings and tail, not always visible; otherwise, it appears to be a very small streaked American sparrow.
	Pineal gland The pineal gland is a small endocrine system gland in the brain. It is located near the center of the brain, between the two cerebral hemispheres, tucked in a groove where the two rounded thalamus join. A recent review of the pineal and its secreted hormone, melatonin, is .
	Pineapple The pineapple is a tropical soil and fruit , native to Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, and Paraguay. The tree is a Mulberry Tree , a short, herbaceous perennial with 30 or more trough-shaped and pointed leaves 30–100 cm long, surrounding a thick Plant stem.
	Pineapple weed The pineapple weed is an annual plant native to North America and NE Asia but which has become a cosmopolitan weed. It is in the family Asteraceae. The inflorescence is cone-shaped, composed of dense-packed yellowish-green corollas, and lacking ray-florets.
	Ping ping is a computer network tool used to test whether a particular node is reachable across an Internet protocol suite network. Ping works by sending Internet Control Message Protocol ICMP Echo Request packets to the target host and listening for ICMP ICMP Echo Reply replies Using interval timing and response rate, ping estimates the round-trip time and packet loss rate between hosts.
	Ping River The Ping River is the main contributary of Chao Phraya River. It originates at Doi Chiang Dao in Amphoe Chiang Dao, Chiang Mai Province. After passing Chiang Mai, it flows though the provinces Lamphun Province, Tak Province, and Kamphaeng Phet Province.
	Pinguicula The butterworts are a group of carnivorous plant comprising the genus Pinguicula. Members of this genus use sticky, glandular leaves to lure, trap, and digest insects in order to supplement the poor mineral nutrition they obtain from the environments.
	Pink Pink is a color often made by mixing red and white. This is sometimes described as being a light red, but it is more accurately a bright undersaturated red. Pink can also be used to describe other colors, including some that are actually shades of magenta rather than red, such as Fuchsia, Fuchsia and Pink#Shocking Pink.
	Pinnacle A pinnacle is an architecture ornament originally forming the cap or crown of a buttress or small turret, but afterwards used on parapets at the corners of towers and in many other situations. Some have stated that there were no pinnacles in the Romanesque style, but conical caps to circular buttresses, with finial terminations, are not uncommon in France at very early periods.
	Pinnate Pinnate is a term used to describe feather-like or multi-divided features arising from both sides of a common axis in plant or animal structures, and comes from the Latin word pinna for "feather". A similar term is pectinate, which refers to a comb-like arrangement of parts.
	Pinniped Pinnipeds are large marine mammals belonging to the former biological suborder Pinnipedia of the order Carnivora. The pinnipeds now fall within the suborder Caniformia and comprise the families Odobenidae , Otariidae , and Phocidae . Recent molecular analysis reveals that the closest living relatives of the pinnipeds are the bears, which was already suspected for some time.hor=John J.
	Pinot Noir Pinot noir is a variety of Vitis vinifera, the red grape used commonly in winemaking, and may also refer to wines produced predominantly from pinot noir grapes. Pinot noir grapes are grown in diverse locations around the world, but the grape is chiefly associated with the Burgundy region of France.
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	Pinsk Pinsk, a town in Belarus, in the Polesia region, travesed by the river Pripyat River, at the confluence of the Strumen and Pina rivers. The region is known as the Pinsk Marshes. It is a fertile agricultural center. It lies south-west of Minsk. Population 128,300.
	Pintados Pintados is a defunct fantasy series in the Philippines. Datu, Diwata, Tatto, Mayumi and Kidlat makes up Pintados. It was aired 1999 and is the first of its kind on Philippine Television. Membership: Datu, Diwata, Tatto, Mayumi, Kidlat, Rajah Purpose: To battle crime and injustice Affiliations: Guro
	Pinwheel * Pinwheel * Pinwheel is used in the Tamatebako. * One type of Aerogami is the toy Wind turbine. * Pinwheel was used in cryptography. * The Wartenberg wheel, a neurological medical device also used in BDSM sex play is often called a pinwheel. * Pinwheel, a band created by Ben Gibbard.
	Pinworm The pinworm is a parasitic roundworm of the phylum Nematoda.
	Pion In particle physics, pion is the collective name for three subatomic particles: π0, π+ and π−. Pions are the lightest mesons and play an important role in explaining low-energy properties of the strong nuclear force.
	Pipa The pipa is a plucked China string instrument. Sometimes called the Chinese lute, the instrument has a pear-shaped wooden body. It has been played for nearly two thousand years of history in China, and belongs to the plucked category of instruments. Several related instruments in East Asia and Southeast Asia are derived from the pipa; these include the Japanese biwa, the Vietnamese dn t? b, and the Korean bipa.
	Pipe Pipe may refer to:
	Pipe bomb A pipe bomb is a simple type of improvised explosive device, a tightly sealed section of pipe filled with an explosive material. The containment provided by the pipe means that simple Low_explosives#Low_Explosives can be used to produce a relatively large explosion, and the fragmentation of the pipe itself creates lethal shrapnel.
	Pipe clamp A pipe clamp is a clamp with a long grip which generally uses an ordinary steel pipe to achieve its length. By using a longer pipe, the clamp can be made arbitrarily large. A pipe clamp should not be confused with a hose clamp which is a belt-like clamp which wraps around a hose or pipe.
	Pipe cleaner Pipe cleaners are a type of brush originally intended for cleaning smoking pipes, but they are useful for cleaning many other things besides pipes. A typical pipe cleaner is made of two or three lengths of wire about 6 to 12 inches long, twisted together with bristles of some absorbent material, usually cotton.
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	Pipe organ A pipe organ is a keyboard instrument that produces its sound by admitting Earth's atmosphere under pressure through whistles and/or reeds called Organ pipe. Pipe organs range in size from portable instruments having only a few dozen pipes to very large organs with tens of thousands of pipes, the latter earning the instrument the epithet King of Instruments.
	Pipe wrench The pipe wrench, or Stillson® wrench is an adjustable wrench used for turning soft iron pipe and fittings with a rounded surface. The design of the adjustable jaw allows it to rock in the frame, such that any forward pressure on the handle tends to pull the jaws tighter together.
	Pipefish Pipefish are small fish, which with the Seahorses form a distinct family. Pipefish look like straight-bodied seahorses with tiny mouths. The name is derived from the peculiar form of their snout, which is like long tube, ending in narrow and small mouth which opens upwards and is toothless.
	Piperaceae Piperaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognised by most taxonomists: it is sometimes known as the "pepper family". The best known species is Piper nigrum, which yields the stuff in salt and pepper shakers.
	Piperacillin Piperacillin is an Beta-lactam antibiotic antibiotic of the ureidopenicillin class. It is normally used together with the beta-lactamase inhibitor tazobactam to form Tazocin® or Zosyn®. The combination has activity against many Gram-positive and Gram-negative pathogens and Anaerobic organism, including Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
	Piperales Piperales is a botanical name for an order of flowering plants. It necessarily includes the family Piperaceae but otherwise has been treated variously over time. In the APG II system, of 2003, this order is placed in the clade magnoliids and is circumscribed as follows:
	Piperazine Piperazine is an organic compound that consists of a six-membered ring containing two opposing nitrogen atoms. Piperazine exists as small alkaline deliquescent crystals with a salt taste. The piperazines are a broad class of chemical compounds, many with important pharmacological properties, which contain a core piperazine functional group.
	Piperine Piperine is the alkaloid responsible for the taste and smell of black pepper. It has also been used in some forms of traditional medicine and as an insecticide. Piperine has been found to inhibit human P-glycoprotein and CYP3A4, enzymes important for the Metabolism#Drug metabolism and transport of xenobiotics and metabolites.
	Pipestem Clematis The Pipestem Clematis is found on the Pacific coast of North America, from the San Francisco Bay Area southwards into Baja California. It extends as far east as the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, but does not grow in the Central Valley, nor at heights greater than about 2000 metres.
	Pipette A pipette is a laboratory instrument used to transport a measured volume of liquid. Pipettes are commonly used in chemistry and molecular biology research as well as medical tests. Pipettes come in several designs for various purposes with differing levels of accuracy and precision, from single piece flexible plastic transfer pipettes to more complex adjustable or electronic pipettes.
	Pipidae The Pipidae are a family of primitive, tongueless frogs. The thirty species in the family Pipidae are found in tropical South America and sub-Saharan Africa. These frogs are exclusively aquatic and have numerous morphological modifications befitting their habitat. For example, the feet are completely webbed and a lateral line system is present.
	Piping Within industry, piping is a system of pipe used to convey fluids, from one location to another. The engineering discipline of piping design studies the best and most efficient manner of transporting fluid to where it is most needed. Industrial process piping can be manufactured from wood, glass, steel, aluminum, plastic and concrete.
	Piping Plover The Piping Plover is a small plover. The Piping Plover is a sand-coloured, sparrow-sized shorebird that nests and feeds along coastal sand and gravel beaches. The adult has yellow- orange legs, a black band across the forehead from eye to eye, and a black ring around the neck. It runs in short starts and stops.
	Pipistrellus The genus Pipistrellus contains the bats referred to as pipistrelles or pipistrelle bats. They belong to the family Vespertilionidae or vesper bats within the order Chiroptera. There are within the group seven subgenera with a currently accepted total of seventy-seven species, making them one of the larger groupings within the order.
	Pipit Pipits are small passerine birds with medium to long tails. All but one of the 40 species belong to the genus Anthus. Along with the wagtails and longclaws, the pipits make up the family Motacillidae. They are slender, often drab, ground feeding insectivores of open country.
	Pips In playing cards, pips are small symbols on the frontside of the cards that determine the Suit of the card. A standard 52-card poker deck consists of four suits of thirteen cards each: spades, hearts, clubs, and diamonds. Each suit contains three face cards - the jack, queen, and king.
	Pique Pique refers to a weaving style, as in "pique cotton", which is characterized by raised parallel cords or fine ribbing. Twilled cotton or corded cotton would be close relatives. External link
	Piquet Piquet is a card game for two players. It is considered by many to be one of the best two player card games. Pronounced "pee-kay" in France, it is usually pronounced "picket" in English speaking countries.