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Pussy Riot (Пусси Райот)
Pussy Riot (Пусси Райот) is a Russian feminist protest and performance-art collective formed in Moscow in 2011, famous for the 2012 'punk prayer' at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, two-year prison sentences, anti-war actions, and a 2025 extremist designation banning it in Russia.
Pussy willow
Pussy willow (Salix discolor, American pussy willow) is a North American willow shrub of wetlands, known for silky catkins opening before leaves in early spring; dioecious, a major early bee forage, and often confused with Eurasian Salix caprea.
Pussycat (band)
Pussycat was a Dutch country-pop band from Brunssum, South Limburg, fronted by sisters Toni, Betty, and Marianne; their 1975 hit "Mississippi" was the first Dutch number 1 in the UK.
Pussyhat
Pussyhat: handmade pink cat-eared cap, launched November 23, 2016 by Krista Suh and Jayna Zweiman with a Kat Coyle pattern, worn as the craftivist symbol of the 2017 Women's March on Washington.
Pust-i Gau
Pust-i Gau (Pusht-i Gau), archaeological site with fortified citadel in Chakhansur District, Nimroz, Afghanistan, 10 km north of Chakhansur; the name also denotes the Parthian-Sasanian ruined fort Bāghak near Rudbar on the Helmand.
Pustapala
The pustapala (पुस्तपाल) was a record-keeper of Gupta administration who kept registers of land plots and consented to land sales, known chiefly from fifth- and sixth-century copper-plate charters in Bengal, especially the Damodarpur plates.
Pustula
Pustula Thomas, 1914 is an extinct echinoconchid productid brachiopod genus (type species Producta pustulosa Phillips, 1836), Visean in the Treatise, with late Pennsylvanian Midcontinent species; distinct from homonymous Pustula Thines and the gastropod Pusula.
Pustular psoriasis
Pustular psoriasis, including generalized pustular psoriasis (von Zumbusch), palmoplantar pustulosis, and acrodermatitis continua of Hallopeau, is a psoriasis form with sterile neutrophilic pustules, IL36RN/CARD14/AP1S3 genetics, and spesolimab as the only FDA-approved GPP drug.
Pustulosis palmaris et plantaris
Pustulosis palmaris et plantaris (palmoplantar pustulosis, PPP), chronic relapsing sterile pustular dermatosis of palms and soles, female-predominant, smoking-linked, distinct from psoriasis, with pustulotic arthro-osteitis in 10-30%.
Pusyanuga Curna
Pusyanuga Curna (Puṣyānuga Cūrṇa, Pushyanuga Churna) is an official Ayurvedic powder of 25 herbs plus red ochre, used for menorrhagia (Asrigdara), leucorrhoea, and piles; clinical trials report reduced bleeding with no adverse effects.
Puszcza Kampinoska Biosphere Reserve
Puszcza Kampinoska Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site designated in 2000 near Warsaw, Poland, covering 76,228 ha around Kampinos National Park, with dune-and-swamp habitats and reintroduced elk, beaver, and lynx.
Pusztai Állatpark
Pusztai Állatpark (Puszta Rare Breed Park) is a domestic-animal park at Hortobágy, Hungary, founded in 1997 to display old Hungarian breeds such as racka sheep and Hungarian Grey cattle; closed since March 2026 for an operator change.
Put option
A put option, also known as a short put when sold, is a contract giving the holder the right to sell an asset at a fixed strike price before expiration.
Put Your Head on My Shoulder (致我们暖暖的小时光) (TV series)
Put Your Head on My Shoulder (致我们暖暖的小时光) is a 2019 Tencent Video Chinese youth romance web drama directed by Zhu Dongning, adapted from Zhao Qianqian's novel, starring Xing Fei and Lin Yi as accidental cohabitants Situ Mo and Gu Weiyi, sister piece to A Love So Beautiful.
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk is a 2025 documentary by Sepideh Farsi built on a year of video calls with Gaza photojournalist Fatma Hassona, killed in an Israeli airstrike on April 16, 2025, a day after the film's Cannes ACID selection was announced.
Put-in-Bay, Ohio
Put-in-Bay is a village on South Bass Island, Lake Erie, Ohio, three miles offshore. Known for the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie, Perry's 352-foot peace memorial, ferries, and tourism-only economy.
Put-to-light
Put-to-light, also called put-by-light, is a warehouse technology in which illuminated displays at order bins guide workers sorting scanned items into correct orders, the inverse of pick-to-light.
Put–call parity
Put–call parity, or the put-call parity theorem, is the no-arbitrage relationship linking the prices of European call and put options with the same strike and expiration.
Putable bond
A putable bond, also called a puttable bond, is a bond whose holder may sell it back to the issuer before maturity at a pre-determined price.
Putamen
Putamen: lateral nucleus of the striatum in the basal ganglia; with the globus pallidus forms the lentiform nucleus. Handles sensorimotor control, learning, reward, and pain; degenerates in Parkinson and Huntington disease.
Putana
Putana (Jorgencal, Machuca) is a 5,884 m Holocene stratovolcano on the Chile-Bolivia border in the Central Andean arc, with vigorous summit fumaroles, sulfur mining, a reported 1810 CE eruption, and 2009 uplift unrest.
Putaohua Oil Field
Putaohua Oil Field (葡萄花油田) is an oil field in the southern Daqing placanticline of the Songliao Basin in northeastern China, producing from the Putaohua reservoir.
Putapakva Visama Jvarantaka Lauha
Putapakva Visama Jvarantaka Lauha (Puṭapakva Viṣamajvarāntaka Lauha), an official Ayurvedic Formulary of India herbo-mineral iron formulation with purified mercury, sulfur, and gold bhasma, traditionally prescribed for irregular fever (vishama jwara).
Putative aga operon transcriptional repressor-like
AgaR (P0ACK2, agaR, b3131) is the DeoR-family putative transcriptional repressor of the aga operon in E. coli K-12, controlling N-acetylgalactosamine and galactosamine transport and catabolism; distinct GntR-family AgaR proteins regulate aga operons in streptococci.
Putative Bcl-2 like protein of testis
Putative Bcl-2 like protein of testis (Bclt), encoded by human C20orf144 at 20q11.22, is a 153-aa uncharacterized protein (UniProt Q9BQM9) with a pfam15318 Bclt domain, testis-enriched expression in spermatids, and unknown function.
Putative carbohydrate metabolism domain
Putative carbohydrate metabolism domain (PCMD, Pfam PF13201, InterPro IPR025112): a conserved bacterial protein domain, mainly in Bacteroidetes, proposed to bind carbohydrates or act as a glycoside hydrolase; first structure BT2081.
Putative marriage
Putative marriage: a legally null marriage treated as valid for a good-faith spouse, also called the putative spouse doctrine. Grants civil effects such as property division, support, and inheritance; rooted in canon law, codified in French and Louisiana civil codes and California Family Code § 2251.
Putative Mediator of RNA polymerase II transcription subunit
Putative Mediator of RNA polymerase II transcription subunit, a database naming convention for Mediator complex components such as MED30 (TRAP25), subunits of the conserved coactivator bridging transcription factors and RNA polymerase II.
Putative pyrophosphorylase ModD
Putative pyrophosphorylase ModD (modD) is the fourth gene of some bacterial modABC molybdate transport operons, a QPRTase-like protein of unclear function, not essential for molybdate transport; in E. coli K-12 its annotation was replaced by ybhA.
Putative pyruvate, phosphate dikinase regulatory protein
Putative pyruvate, phosphate dikinase regulatory protein (PDRP, PPDK-RP) is a bifunctional plant kinase/phosphatase that light- and dark-regulates PPDK via ADP-dependent phosphorylation and Pi-dependent dephosphorylation of an active-site threonine, in both C4 and C3 plants.