The Spelling Champ Consolidated Word List: Words Appearing Infrequently (P-Z) TheSpellingChamp.com Website by Cole Shafer-Ray TheSpellingChamp.com 2004 Scripps National Spelling Bee Consolidated Word List: Words Appearing Infrequently pipetted plank pleat v v plectridial F E transferred, drawn off, measured, cook and serve on a heavy board plenteous or applied with a small piece of usually with an elaborate garnish. apparatus which in simplest form Native Americans of the Northwest plenteously consists of a narrow glass tube into used red cedar boards to plank which liquid is drawn up by suction salmon and other fish. plesiosaur and in which it is retained by closing the upper end. plantable plesiosaurus Dizzy warned her lab students never to use their mouths to apply plantation pliancy suction when they pipetted solutions. plasticate plinth pipkin plastisol ploce pirate platitudinous plod piratical platter plot n v piscifauna F > E E pistol a woman’s low-crowned hat that is plan or contrive. distinctly flat in silhouette. Ogilvie refused to plot against his pithy Atop the model’s head was a sister in spite of her treachery. platter trimmed with a veil and a pitta silk camellia. plugboard pituitary platyopic plumb v pizza play E placket playgoer [has homonym: plum] examine minutely and critically. plaited playlet Heraclitus attempted to plumb the depths of his soul, but never found planar plaza its limit. adj n plumbing L L > Sp [has homonyms: plainer, planer] a public square in a city or town. plumicorn lying in one surface defined by The summer festival was held n three points. under the stars in the plaza. Section 13.4 of Kew’s textbook L explained that a molecule with pleading one of the tufts of lengthened three atoms can be either linear or feathers on the head of various planar. pleasantry owls. Paul’s cat’s hair is so long that it plane pleased looks like she has a plumicorn in adj front of each ear. L > F > E plunge affected with or manifesting pleasure : contented, gratified. plunger Steve’s parents were extremely pleased that he finally made the plural honor roll. Page 104 of 153 TheSpellingChamp.com 2004 Scripps National Spelling Bee Consolidated Word List: Words Appearing Infrequently plutocracy podsnappery polenta n plutogoguery podunk L > It plutomania poetess mush originally made of chestnut meal but now principally of plutonian poetry cornmeal or sometimes of semolina adj or farina. poignance Polenta is cooked very slowly on Gk name top of the stove and can be cut into grim and gloomy : harsh and poikilotherm slices after it cools. unpleasing. Some people would describe van pointedly poler Gogh’s dark backgrounds as “plutonian.” pointless polestar pluvial poitrel polity pneumonectomy n poivrade poach Gk v poker political organization : civil order. n Walter claims that any form of Gmc > F > E polity is more efficient, not morally cook in a liquid kept just below the F? better, than none. boiling point. one of several card games in which The doctor told Betsy that she a player bets that the value of the pollard should boil or poach her morning hand held is greater than the value eggs to keep their calorie count of the hands held by the other pollee down. players. When Billy came home, he was pollex pocket shocked to find his mother and her n friends playing poker instead of pollinate bridge in the living room. Gmc > F > E pollyanna [Note: The definition provided is pokeweed not the one most commonly polo associated with this word.] an polarimetric n English unit for hops equal to 168 adj pounds. Balti Cedric, the town’s brewmaster, was L > ISV + Gk > ISV a game of Asian origin played by panicked to find only 1 pocket of of or relating to the use of an teams of three or four players hops in the storeroom. instrument that determines the mounted on horseback and using amount of polarization of light or mallets with long flexible handles pococurante the proportion of polarized light in to drive a wooden ball down the a partially polarized ray. field and through goalposts. pod Oki told his niece that polarimetric The morning newspaper carried a n observations helped him study the picture of Prince Charles playing interaction of plane-polarized light polo. E and chiral molecules. [Note: The definition provided is polonium not the one most commonly associated with this word. In polska addition, word has near homonym: n pawed.] a number of animals (as seals or whales) closely clustered Pol > Sw together : school. a Swedish folk dance derived from A pod of four or five whales was a Polish peasant dance. about 50 yards starboard. The polska is usually danced to music in a minor key. Page 105 of 153 TheSpellingChamp.com 2004 Scripps National Spelling Bee Consolidated Word List: Words Appearing Infrequently polyanthus pomology porcelainize n polydactylous porch L + Gk polydentate the science of the cultivation of pores adj fruits. John became familiar with fungi porkpie Gk + L such as American brown rot, apple n attached to the central atom in a rust, and banana freckle in his coordination complex by two or course in pomology. L > F > E + E more bonds. a hat with a low telescoped crown, Shara used a tripolyphosphate ponder flat top, and brim turned up all atom as an example in her efforts v around or up in back and down in to explain the difference between front. polydentate ligands and other L > F > E While dancing in his movies, Fred ligands. weigh in the mind. Astaire often wore a porkpie. The setback forced Orson to polyethylene ponder his position. position n polygenous pone L polyhedron pongee any of the postures of the feet and n arms on which all steps and polymorphic movements of classical ballet are adj Chin based. a thin soft clothing and curtain Mademoiselle Lebrun instructed Gk + Gk fabric of Chinese origin woven the students to assume the first having or occurring in several from uneven threads of raw silk position. distinct forms. and possessing a characteristic ecru The polymorphic wild foxes of or tan color. positive Canada are of the red, smoky, and Sap’s grandmother, who lives in silver types. China, sent her some curtains made positivity of pongee. polymythy postdoctoral pontiff adj polyphony n L + L polypody L > F [Note: Speller might confuse a high priest or chief religious doctoral with doctorial.] relating to, polyptoton figure. awarded for, or engaged in n Pope John Paul I was the Catholic advanced academic or professional pontiff for only one month. work after the attainment of a Gk doctor’s degree. the rhetorical repetition of a word ponytail It seems that Skye will always be a in a different case, inflection, or student, for now he is immersed in voice in the same sentence. poplin postdoctoral studies. Tennyson’s “my own heart’s heart, and ownest own” well illustrates popover postmark polyptoton in English. n E + E a quick bread made from a thin batter of eggs, milk, and flour and subjected in the first stage of baking to such heat that steam expands it into a hollow shell. While a popover is delicious plain, it can also be served with various sweet or savory fillings. Page 106 of 153 TheSpellingChamp.com 2004 Scripps National Spelling Bee Consolidated Word List: Words Appearing Infrequently posttest powerhouse preexist n v praseodymium L + L > F > E L an examination given to students pratincolous have actual or real being before after the completion of an (something). instructional program to measure praxis The monuments on Easter Island their achievement and the preexist written history. effectiveness of the program. prayer The teacher was mortified when n pregnant half of her students failed the adj posttest. L > F > E [Note: Could be confused with L postulation preyer.] a solemn and humble containing unborn young within the approach to a god or gods in word body. potamic or thought, usually involving The zoo director called a press beseeching, petition, confession, conference to announce that both potent praise, or thanksgiving. female pandas are pregnant. Calvin shut his eyes and said a potion silent prayer before beginning the prehensible n exam. prehensile L preach a liquid mixture or dose of a v prejudice medicine or drug. The princess declared haughtily L > F > E prepare that she had no need for a love proclaim the gospel : discourse potion. publicly on a religious subject or preponderating from a text of Scripture. potoo Dr. Mason is wont to preach the preprint same sermon every Easter Sunday. potshot presbytery preacher pottery preschooler precipitous pottle preshrink n precrural pression E preemergent a liquid or dry measure equal to ½ adj pressure gallon. The recipe in Ryan’s colonial L + L presbytery cookbook calls for a pottle of used or occurring before seedlings boiled milk. come forth or rise into view pretend aboveground. pouch Dramatic success in weed control preternatural has been achieved with poulterer preemergent herbicides. pretext pound preempt pretty n adj preengagement E n E a unit of mass and weight equal to pleasing by delicacy or grace.The 16 avoirdupois ounces or 7,000 L + F + Ecf pretty little garden on Prospect grains or 0.45359237 kilogram. a prior obligation. Street was tended by Mrs. Walter’s Donna’s first job was selling candy Valerie’s preengagement is a granddaughter. by the pound at a bulk food store. commitment to baby-sit her younger siblings. prewrap Page 107 of 153 TheSpellingChamp.com 2004 Scripps National Spelling Bee Consolidated Word List: Words Appearing Infrequently prideful productive pronto adv pridian proficiency adj n L > Sp quickly, promptly.