Words Containing: P,I,C,T

• 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.

• a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on two panels (usually hinged like a book)

• compartment where the pilot sits while flying the aircraft

• a pit for cockfights

• seat where the driver sits while driving a racing car

• of an obscure nature

• having a secret or hidden meaning

• having a puzzling terseness

• of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal

• having the characteristics of pitch or tar

• (of sound) set to a certain pitch or key; usually used as a combining form

• set at a slant

• someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs

• robbery at gunpoint