Finnish–English dictionary

publikaani

(Ancient Rome, historical) A tax collector, especially one working in Judea and Galilee during New Testament times (1st century C.E.) who was generally regarded as sinful for extorting more tax than was due, and as a traitor for serving the Roman Empire.

pudistaa

(transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.

pudokas

(agriculture) A fruit which has fallen off a tree, etc., or has been knocked off accidentally, rather than picked.

pudonnut

Having dropped by the force of gravity.

pudota

(intransitive) Of a river, etc.: to fall in the form of a waterfall.

pudota kuin kivi

(rare) To fall or sink like a plummet.

pudota vapaasti

(intransitive) To drop in a state of freefall.

pudota veteen

(intransitive) To fall suddenly into water.

pudotella

(transitive, figuratively) To issue (something) in large quantities.

pudotettu esine

(online gaming, video games) An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.

pudotin

A mechanism for lowering something, such as a machine for lowering heavy weights on to a ship's deck, or a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet, etc.

pudottaa

(intransitive) To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc. [from 18th c.]

pudottaa (painoa)

(transitive) To shed (weight).

pudottaa höyhenensä

(intransitive) To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one.

pudottaa karvansa

(of an animal) To throw off (the skin) as a process of growth; to shed the hair or fur of the coat. [from 15th c.]

pudottaa lentokoneesta

To deliver goods, equipment, or personnel by dropping them from an aircraft in flight.

pudottaminen

(sports) The act of putting one's opponent on the floor; a knockdown.

pudotus

Downward movement, fall.

pudotuspaikka

A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, whether openly (as with a mail drop), or secretly or illegally (as in crime or espionage); a drop-off point.

pudotuspeliennuste

(sports) A prediction of the outcome of games in a tournament, used for betting purposes.

puettava

Able to be worn.

puff

Onomatopoeia indicating a small explosion with a cloud of smoke; as caused by a deflating object, or a magical disappearance.

puffaaja

Someone or something that puffs.

puffata

(transitive, US, slang) To promote, to tout.

Puh

Short for Winnie the Pooh.

puh.

Abbreviation of telephone number.

puhahdus

A forcible stream of gas or liquid from an orifice, for example from a bellows, the tuyeres of a blast furnace, a person's mouth, etc.

puhallettava

Able to be inflated or blown up.

puhallin

Any device that blows; often, especially, a furnace component or a supercharger.

puhallinsoitin

(countable) Any of several musical wind instruments.

puhallus

A forcible stream of gas or liquid from an orifice, for example from a bellows, the tuyeres of a blast furnace, a person's mouth, etc.

puhalluslamppu

A tool which projects a controlled stream of a highly flammable gas over a spark in order to produce a controlled flame.

puhalluspilli

(chemistry) A narrow tube through which a jet of air is directed onto a flame; used in the analysis of minerals etc and in jewelry manufacture.

puhallusputki

A hollow tube through which a dart or similar missile may be blown.

puhaltaa

(transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission. [First attested in the late 15th century.]

puhaltaja

Someone or something that puffs.

puhdas

Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed. [first attested in the mid 1500s]

puhdas aine

A pure substance.

puhdas pulmunen

(figurative) A piously innocent person.

puhdasoppinen

Conforming to the accepted, established, or traditional doctrines of a given faith, religion, or ideology. [from 15th c.]

puhdasoppisuus

Correctness of doctrine and belief in regard to any doctrinal (i.e. philosophical or theological) system.

puhdasrotuinen

Of pure blood; belonging to only one race.

puhdasrotuisuus

(uncountable) Good breeding or ancestry. [from 15th c.]

puhdassointinen

Of music or some other sound: not discordant or harsh; clear and pure-sounding.

puhdistaa

(transitive) To remove dirt from a place or object.

puhdistaa haava nesteellä

(transitive) To clean (a wound) with a fluid.

puhdistaa opaali

(also, figuratively) To clear extraneous material from (an opal).

puhdistaa pöytä

(transitive, telecommunications) To move a customer from one service provider to another without their consent.

puhdistaa sienellä

To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of.

puhdistaja

A person or device that purifies (by removing impurities).

puhdistaminen

(gerund of clean) The process of making something clean.

puhdistautuminen

(religion) A rite of purification, especially washing.

puhdistava

Any cleansing or purifying agent.

puhdistettu

Free of unpleasantness; prim, sanitized or bowdlerized.

puhdistin

A device that cleans, such as the vacuum cleaner.

puhdistuma

(medicine) The removal of harmful substances from the blood; renal clearance.

puhdistuminen

The act or process of purifying; the removal of impurities.

puhdistus

(gerund of clean) The process of making something clean.

puhdistusaine

A substance used to cleanse; a detergent. [First attested in the early 17th century.]

puhdistusjakso

A period between clinical treatments in which any medication delivered as the first treatment is allowed to be eliminated from a person's body before the second treatment begins.

puhdistustanko

A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped nap, and having a handle, or staff.

puhe

(usually, plural only) Expressions in general; speech.

puhe-

Of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty.

puheaika

The chargeable use of a mobile phone, either in minutes or in units dependent on the use or traffic.

puheen ollen

Regarding, concerning, in regard to, on the subject of:

puheenaihe

(preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.

puheenjohtaja

A person presiding over a meeting.

puheenjohtajan nuija

A wooden mallet, used by a courtroom judge, or by a committee chairman, struck against a sounding block to quieten those present, or by an auctioneer to accept the highest bid at auction.

puheenparsi

A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, language family, or group of people.

puheenvuoro

(computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.

puhekielen ilmaus

A colloquial word or phrase; a common spoken expression.

puhekieli

(uncountable) Nonstandard spellings which, although they indicate a standard pronunciation, are deliberately substituted in place of the standard spellings, often to indicate that a speaker's regular use of language is nonstandard or dialectal.

puhekielinen

(linguistics) Characteristic of familiar conversation, of common parlance; informal.

puhekielinen ilmaus

A colloquial word or phrase; a common spoken expression.

puhekupla

(engraving) The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.

puhekyvytön

Of, relating to, or exhibiting aphonia; unable to speak.

puhelias

(informal) Of a person, chatting a lot or fond of chatting.

puhelimen käyttö modeemina

(Internet) The connection of a personal computer to a mobile phone so as to obtain wireless Internet access from the computer.

puhelin

(countable, telephony) A telecommunication device (originally mechanical, and now electronic) used for two-way talking with another person (now often shortened to phone).

puhelinkeskus

(telecommunication) A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows the interconnection of a calling party's telephone line with any called party's line.

puhelinkeskustelu

A telephone conversation; a phone call.

puhelinluettelo

(by extension, computing) A large lookup table.

puhelinsoitto

An instance of calling someone on the telephone.

puhelinvaihde

(telecommunication) A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows the interconnection of a calling party's telephone line with any called party's line.

puhelinyhtiö

(informal) A telephone company (historically); a telecommunications company, a telecom.

puhella

To talk more than a few words.

puhelu

A telephone conversation; a phone call.

puhemies

The primary attendant to the groom in a wedding ceremony.

puheohjelma

A program, especially an audio program, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones. [from early 21st c.]

puheohjelman jakso

(loosely, by extension) An individual episode of such a program.

puheoikeudet

(Internet, IRC) A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether or not they can send messages to the channel.

puheoikeus

(Internet, IRC) A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether or not they can send messages to the channel.

puheopas

(US) A book containing passages of text for use in speeches.

puhetaito

The art of public speaking, especially in a formal, expressive, or forceful manner. [from 16th c.]

puhetapa

(Commonwealth, politics) A response given by each of the Houses of Parliament to the sovereign's speech at the opening of Parliament.

puhetilaisuus

A public gathering or mass meeting that is not mainly a protest and is organized to inspire enthusiasm for a cause.

puhetorvi

One who speaks as the voice of another person or a group of people.

puhisija

Someone or something that puffs.

puhista

(idiomatic) To vent; to talk or take action (especially in a ranting or unrestrained way) so as to relieve stress.

puhjennut

(of a tire or other inflated object) Deflated, especially because of a puncture.

puhjeta

(intransitive) To have, or open into, blossoms; to bloom.

puhjeta rakoiksi

(intransitive) To break out in blisters.

puhkaista

(transitive) To cause to break from internal pressure.

puhkeaminen

An outbreak (sudden eruption of disease etc.).

puhki

(US, _, slang) Exhausted.

puhkoa

To fill with holes like a riddle.

puhkua

(transitive) To treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector.

puhtaaksi kirjoitettu teksti

Something which has been transcribed; a writing or composition consisting of the same words as the original; a written copy.

puhtaasti

In a clean way, neatly.

puhtaus

The property of being cleanly, or habitually clean; good hygiene.

puhti

A curve in a rope.

puhtoinen

Having no blemish or stain; absolutely clean and tidy.

puhua

(transitive) To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to.

puhua ääneen

(transitive) To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce

puhua kärkevästi

To speak or write (something) in an argumentative or contentious manner.

puhua omiaan

(transitive, archaic) To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable.

puhua pahaa

(informal, transitive) To criticize or malign, especially unfairly or spitefully.

puhua palturia

(intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.

puhua puolesta

(Scots law, in higher courts) To call a case before itself for decision.

puhua puppua

(intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.

puhua puuta heinää

To talk nonsense; to talk senselessly; to drool.

puhua ympäri

(ambitransitive) To talk persistently in an attempt to persuade somebody to cooperate.

puhuja

Someone who orates or delivers an oration.

puhujakoroke

A raised floor for any purpose, e.g. for workmen during construction, or formerly for military cannon.

puhujalava

(figuratively, often pejorative) A platform or outlet, such as a media platform, that a person uses to express his or her opinions.

puhujapönttö

A stand with a slanted top used to support a Bible from which passages are read during a church service.

puhuri

A strong wind.

puhutella

(transitive) To speak to first; to address; to greet.

puhuttelu

An act of addressing oneself to a person or group; a discourse or speech, or a record of this. [from 17th c.]

puhuttu

Relating to speech

puhuva

Having the ability of speech.

puhuva vaakuna

(countable, heraldry) A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some attribute or function) of the bearer, canting arms.

puhveli

An animal from the subtribe Bubalina, also known as true buffalos, such as the Cape buffalo, Syncerus caffer, or the water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis.

puhvelikarppi

The buffalo fish (Ictiobus spp.).

puida

(transitive) To wave or swing vigorously

puijari

A man who identifies with cowboy culture, including wearing a cowboy hat and being a fan of country and western music.

puijata

To swindle, deceive, or trick.

puikea

(botany, of leaves) With the broadest extremity near the base.

puikko

(cuisine) Finger-shaped pieces of food.

puikkoluu

(zootomy) A bone found on either side of a horse's cannon bone; the second or fourth metacarpal (forelimb) or metatarsal (hindlimb) bone.

puikottaa

(slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with (someone).

puiminen

The removal of the husk from corn (maize).

puinen

Made of wood.

puinti

The removal of the husk from corn (maize).

puiseva

(figuratively) As if made of wood; moving awkwardly, or speaking with dull lack of emotion.

puistattaa

(intransitive) To shake nervously, often from fear or horror.

puistatus

A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.

puistella

(transitive) To cause something to flap.

puistelu

The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion.

puisto

(countable, often, in combination) A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures.