Words Containing: P,E,Q

• A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.

• A stake driven into the ground.

• A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.

• A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.

• One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.

• (sometimes figurative) A sentry.

• A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.

• The card game piquet.

• To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.

• To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.

• To tether to, or as if to, a picket.

• To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.

• To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

• not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight

• hard or impossible to understand

• a floor made of parquetry

• seating on the main floor between the orchestra and the parquet circle

• A kind of tobacco with medium-sized leaf, small stem, and tough and gummy fiber, raised in Louisiana and cured in its own juices, so as to be very dark in color. It is marketed in tightly wrapped rolls called carottes.

• To equip again; to provide with new equipment

• not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight

• hard or impossible to understand

• (pathology) a small abnormal patch on or inside the body

• a memorial made of brass

• fermented Mexican drink from juice of various agave plants especially the maguey