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puissance de calcul: computational power, computing power
puissance de feu: firepower (capacity of a weapon); might, influence
puissance mondiale: world power
puissance nucléaire: nuclear-weapons state, NWS
puissance protectrice: protecting power
puissant: powerful; mighty
puits: well, shaft
puits artésien: artesian well
puits de pétrole: oil well
puits de science: a fount of knowledge (a very knowledgeable person)
puits perdu: a hole dug for rain or waste water; a dry well
puits sans fond: money pit
pukeko: pukeko
pull: pullover
pull à capuche: hoodie
pull-over: pullover (sweater)
pullman: luxury coach or wagon (of a train); luxury coach (the bus-like transport)
pullorose: pullorum
pullulation: pullulation
pulluler: to teem; to swarm
pulmonaire: lungwort
pulmonaire: pulmonary
pulmonation: the function of the lungs (outside of respiration)
pulmonique: a pulmonic (a person affected with poor health of the lung)
pulmonique: pulmonic; (of a speech sound): pulmonic (produced by pushing air from or into the lungs)
pulmoné: a pulmonate; Pulmonata
pulmoné: pulmonate, pulmonated
pulpaire: pulpal
pulpe: pulp (various meanings)
pulpeux: sexually attractive, gorgeous, ravishing; pulpy
pulpite: pulpitis
pulque: pulque
pulsar: pulsar
pulsatif: pulsative
pulsatile: pulsatile (that pulses)
pulsatille: pasqueflower
pulsation: pulsation
pulser: to pulse (heart and/or arteries); to pulse, to throb (organs, a sensation of pain, or a strong emotion); to pulse or pulsate (lighting); to pulse (hot air) by ventilation
pulsion: drive, urge
pulsion de mort: death wish
pulsionnel: impulsive
pulsoréacteur: pulsoreactor
pultacé: pultaceous
pultrusion: pultrusion
pulvérisable: pulverizable
pulvérisateur: pulverizing
pulvérisateur: pulveriser; spray, sprayer, atomizer
pulvérisation: pulverization; spraying
pulvériser: to pulverise (to grind into powder); to pulverise (defeat thoroughly); to spray (to project as liquid droplets)
pulvériseur: pulverizer
pulvérisé: pulverized / pulverised
pulvérulence: pulverulence
pulvérulent: pulverulent
puma: puma (mammal)
puna: puna
punais: malodorous
punaise: bug, stinkbug; true bug (a member of order Heteroptera); bedbug; tack, thumbtack, drawing pin; a worthless woman (a term of abuse)
punaise de lit: bedbug (Cimex lectularius)
punaise de sacristie: a Holy Mary, a zealot, a God botherer, a Jesus freak, a Bible thumper (an excessively pious woman, a woman who spends a lot of a time in the church)
punaiser: to pin up (attach with pins)