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pile: heap, stack; pillar; battery; tails; pile
pile ou face: heads or tails ("tails or heads")
pile-poil: smack-dab, smack bang
piler: to crush; to slam on the brakes of a vehicle, making it come to a sudden stop
pileux: hair
pilier: pillar; prop
pilier de bar: barfly
pilier de comptoir: barfly
pilifère: piliferous
piligère: piligerous
piline: pilin
pillage: pillage
pillard: pillager, looter
piller: to plunder; to pillage
pilleur: a plunderer
pilleur: plundering; plunderous
pilleur de tombe: graverobber
pilo-sébacé: alternative spelling of pilosébacé
pilocarpe: pilocarp
pilocarpine: pilocarpine
piloche: gnasher, tooth
pilon: pestle; wooden leg; thigh (the thigh bone of poultry meat)
pilonnage: shelling, bombardment; pounding, crushing
pilonner: to bombard, to shell; to grind, to pound
pilori: pillory; stocks
pilorier: to pillory
piloselle: mouse-ear hawkweed (Pilosella officinarum)
pilosité: pilosity, hairiness; hair
pilotage: pilotage (all senses); piloting
pilote: pilot (controller of aircraft); pilot (controller of vessel); driver (controller of a racecar); driver (computing); pilot (miniature prototype)
pilote automatique: autopilot (mechanical, electrical, or hydraulic system used to guide a vehicle without assistance from a human being); autopilot (state of mind where one no longer thinks about doing one's actions, but acts mechanically)
pilote de brousse: bush pilot
pilote de chasse: fighter pilot
piloter: to pilot (control an aircraft); to pilot (control a vessel); to drive (control a vehicle)
pilotis: piloti
pilulaire: pilular
pilule: pill (small object to be swallowed); the contraceptive pill; an unpleasant situation or piece of news
pilule du lendemain: morning-after pill (contraceptive in the form of a pill taken shortly after sexual intercourse)
pilulier: pillbox, pill organizer
pilum: pilum
pimarique: pimaric
pimbêche: minx (impertinent woman)
piment: chili, chili pepper; spice (vigour)
piment d'Espelette: Espelette pepper (cultivar of Capsicum annuum)
piment de Cayenne: cayenne pepper (Capsicum frutescens)
piment enragé: cayenne pepper
piment jolokia: ghost chili (“bhut jolokia”);
pimenter: to spice, to season with spices; to spice up, to make more extravagant or exotic
pimpant: spruce, dapper, dashing
pimper: to pimp out/pimp up, to beautify, to fancify, to make stylish, to make gaudy
pimper: to dress well
pimprelocher: to style hair in a ridiculous manner
pimprenelle: burnet (Sanguisorba minor)
pin: pine, pine tree (Pinus)
pin d'Alep: Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis)
pin de Briançon: European larch (Larix decidua)
pin de Calabre: Calabrian pine (Pinus brutia)
pin de Jérusalem: synonym of pin d'Alep (“Jerusalem pine”) (Pinus halepensis)
pin's: a pin or badge, as attached to clothing as an accessory
pin-up: pin-up (woman in a photograph); babe (sexually attractive woman)