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pug (dog)
Puget Sound (body of water, Washington)
Puget, Pierre (French painter & sculptor)
Puglia (Europe)
Pugwash Conferences (U.S. History)
puja (Religion)
Pukaskwa National Park (national park, Canada)
Pulitzer Prize (award, United States)
Pulitzer, Joseph (Publisher)
pulley (machine)
Pullman Strike (historical event, United States)
Pullman, George M(ortimer) (American industrialist)
pulsar (in astronomy)
pulse (in anatomy)
pumice (material)
pump (mechanical device)
pumpkin (vegetable, plant)
Punch (Literature)
Punch (quarrelsome hook-nosed husband of Judy)
punctuation (in linguistics)
Pune (city, India)
Punic Wars (war, Carthage/ancient Rome)
Punjab (region, state, province, India/Pakistan)
Punjabi language (language)
Punt (ancient region, ancient Egypt)
pupa (insect)
Purac National Park (Latin America)
Purana (class of Sanskrit encyclopedic texts)
Purcell, Henry (English composer & musician)
Pure Land Buddhism (Buddhism, China/Japan)
purgatory (in Catholicism)
purge trials (Modern Europe)
Purim (festival)
purine (in chemistry)
Puritanism (church, Protestantism, England/United States)
Purkinje, Jan Evangelista (Czech anatomist)
Purus River (Latin America)
Pusan (city, South Korea)
Pushkin, Aleksandr (Sergeyevich) (Russian poet & writer)