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| Word | Definition |
| pabouche | a slipper |
| pabulous | of, like or pertaining to nourishment |
| pabulum | food; provender; nourishment |
| pacable | able to be appeased; willing to forgive |
| pace | contrary to the opinion of; in respectful disagreement with |
| pachydermia | elephantiasis |
| pachyglossal | thick-tongued |
| pachymeter | instrument for measuring small thicknesses |
| pachynsis | thickening |
| paciferous | peace-bringing |
| pacificate | to give peace to |
| pactolian | like or having golden-hued sands |
| padella | shallow dish of fat with a wick used in illuminations |
| padrone | innkeeper; employer |
| padronism | system of obtaining labour through employment agents |
| paduasoy | corded silk |
| paean | song of thanksgiving |
| paedarchy | government by children |
| paedobaptism | doctrine of infant baptism |
| paedocracy | government by children; paedarchy |
| paedogenesis | reproduction by an infant or larval organism |
| paedology | study of children |
| paedonymic | name taken from one's child |
| paedophage | eater of children |
| paedophilia | abnormal love or sexual attraction for children |
| paedophobia | fear of children; fear of dolls |
| paedotrophy | art of rearing children |
| paginal | of, like or pertaining to pages or pagination |
| pagophagia | eating trays of ice to help offset iron deficiency |
| paideutic | educational method or theory |
| paidonosology | study of children's diseases; pediatrics |
| paillette | a spangle |
| pais | people from whom a jury is drawn |
| paisley | soft wool fabric with ornamental pattern |
| paizogony | necking; love-play |
| palabra | a word; talk |
| palaceous | spade-shaped |
| palaeoanthropology | study of early humans |
| palaeobiology | study of fossil plants and animals |
| palaeoclimatology | study of ancient climates |
| palaeogaea | the Old World as a biological region |
| palaeogeography | study of ancient geography |
| palaeography | study of ancient writing or inscriptions |
| palaeolimnology | study of ancient fish or lakes |
| palaeopedology | study of early soils |
| palaeophile | antiquarian |
| palaeosophy | ancient learning or thought |
| palaeotypography | early typography |
| palaestra | wrestling school; gymnasium |
| palaetiology | application of principles of causation to past events |
| palafitte | prehistoric lake dwelling |
| palamate | having webbed feet |
| palanquin | light litter for one passenger |
| palatine | having royal authority over a region |
| palative | pleasing to the taste or to the palate |
| palatography | recording position of tongue against hard palate during speech |
| palaver | to talk profusely or idly |
| paleaceous | chaffy; like or resembling chaff |
| paleobotany | study of ancient plants |
| paleo-osteology | study of ancient bones |
| paletot | loose overcoat |
| palette | small plate covering the armpit joint in a suit of armour |
| palewise | (of heraldic charges) oriented vertically |
| palfrenier | groom |
| palfrey | riding horse, especially one for a lady |
| palification | the act of strengthening with stakes |
| paliform | shaped like a stake |
| palilalia | disorder characterized by rapid repetition of words |
| palillogy | repetition of a word or word or phrase |
| palimbacchius | metrical foot of two long and one short syllable |
| palimpsest | manuscript or paper that is erased and then written over |
| palingenesis | new birth; reincarnation; second creation |
| palingman | seller of fish or eels |
| palinode | poem in which earlier thoughts or feelings are retracted |
| palinola | compulsive repetition of an act until it is perfect |
| palinspastic | showing geological formations of an area as they existed in the past |
| palisade | fence of stakes used for defensive purposes |
| pall | covering cloth laid upon Communion chalice |
| palladian | of, like or pertaining to wisdom or learning |
| pallasethesia | sense of vibration |
| pallescent | turning pale |
| palliament | white robe or gown |
| palliasse | straw mattress |
| palliate | to ease with out curing; to extenuate |
| pallid | pale; wan |
| pallium | white woollen band symbolising archbishop's authority |
| pallograph | instrument measuring ship's vibration |
| palmar | of, like or pertaining to the palm |
| palmarian | pre-eminent |
| palmary | principal; meritorious |
| palmate | hand-shaped |
| palmiped | web-footed |
| palpebral | of, like or pertaining to the eyelid |
| palpebration | winking |
| palter | to trifle in talk; to use trickery; to equivocate |
| paltock | short coat or doublet worn under armour |
| paltripolitan | term of scorn applied to city-dwellers or urban life |
| paludal | of, like or pertaining to marshes; marshy; malarial |
| paludicolous | growing in marshes; marsh-dwelling |
| paludism | marsh fever; malaria |
| paludose | marshy; living in marshes |
| palynology | study of pollen |
| palzogony | love-play; foreplay |
| pam | card game in which jack of club has highest value |
| pamphysicism | doctrine that material nature is the source of all things |
| pampiniform | like a tendril |
| panaceist | believer in panaceas |
| panaesthesia | totality of perception; general awareness |
| panaesthetism | theory that consciousness may inhere generally in matter |
| panarchy | universal rule or dominion |
| panary | of, like or pertaining to bread; bread store |
| panatella | long; thin cigar |
| panchion | coarse earthenware pan |
| panchreston | panacea |
| pancosmism | theory that the material universe is all that exists |
| pancratic | excelling all round in athletics or accomplishments |
| pancyclopaedic | encyclopaedic |
| pandation | warping |
| pandect | treatise covering the whole of a subject |
| pandemian | vulgar; sensual |
| pandemic | universal; affecting majority of people in a region |
| pandemonism | worship of spirits dwelling in all forms of nature |
| pandiculation | the act of stretching and yawning |
| pandora | musical instrument like a lute |
| panduriform | fiddle-shaped |
| panegoism | solipsism |
| panegyric | elaborate and poetic compliment; eulogy; laudation |
| panegyricon | collection of sermons for Orthodox church festivals |
| panegyry | grand assembly; religious festival |
| paneity | the state of being bread |
| panentheism | belief that world is part but not all of God's being |
| pangamy | random or unrestricted mating |
| pangeometry | extension of geometry to more than three dimensions |
| Panglossian | overly optimistic |
| pangolin | scaly insectivorous mammal with elongated snout |
| pangram | sentence containing all the letters of the alphabet |
| panharmonicon | mechanical musical instrument operated by a cylinder |
| panhygrous | moist in all parts |
| panification | conversion into bread |
| panivorous | bread-eating |
| panjandrum | imaginary potentate of great power and self-importance |
| panlogism | belief that only that which is rational is truly real |
| panmixia | cessation of the influence of natural selection |
| panmnesia | belief that all mental impressions are stored in memory |
| pannage | food picked up by swine in woods; right to pasture swine |
| panne | heavy lustrous silk or rayon with waxy feel |
| pannicle | thin sheet-like vestment |
| pannier | provision-basket; basket carried over one's back |
| pannikin | small metal cup |
| pannose | like felt |
| pannychis | all-night vigil in preparation for Orthodox church feast |
| panomphaean | all-oracular |
| panophobia | melancholia marked by groundless fears |
| panoply | complete suit of armour |
| panoptic | all-embracing; viewing all aspects |
| panopticon | prison where all inmates can be watched from one point |
| panpharmacon | universal remedy |
| panplain | flat area consisting of several joined floodplains |
| panpsychism | theory that all nature has a psychic side |
| panpygoptosis | shortness of the legs |
| pansexualism | theory that all thought derived from sexual instinct |
| pansophy | universal knowledge |
| panspermatism | belief in origin of life from extraterrestrial germs |
| pantagamy | universal bachelorhood; free love |
| pantagruelian | marked by extravagant and coarse satire |
| pantaleon | large dulcimer |
| pantarchy | government by all the people; world government |
| pantechnicon | receptacle holding many miscellaneous objects |
| pantheism | belief that the universe is God; belief in many gods |
| pantisocracy | government by all equally |
| pantler | officer in a household in charge of bread |
| pantochronometer | combined sundial and compass |
| pantoglot | speaker of all languages |
| pantograph | apparatus connecting streetcar to overhead wires |
| pantograph | instrument for copying drawing to a different scale |
| pantography | complete or general description of something |
| pantology | system of universal knowledge |
| pantomnesia | remembrance of everything ever learned |
| pantomorphic | taking on all shapes |
| pantophagy | omnivorousness |
| pantophobia | fear of everything |
| pantopragmatic | meddling in everybody's business |
| pantoscope | panoramic camera |
| pantosophy | universal knowledge; pansophy |
| panurgic | good at all kinds of tasks |
| panzoism | belief that humans and animals share vital life energy |
| paparchy | government by the pope |
| papaverous | of, like or pertaining to poppies |
| papeterie | packaged fancy stationery; stationery-case |
| papilionaceous | of, like or pertaining to butterflies |
| papilla | nipple-like projection |
| papilliferous | bearing papillae |
| papilliform | nipple-shaped |
| papillose | having nipples or papillae |
| pappus | downy beginnings of a beard |
| papren | stone passing through a wall from face to face |
| papulation | the development of papillae or pimples |
| papule | pimple |
| papuliferous | pimply; bearing or pertaining to pimples |
| papyraceous | like paper; papery |
| papyrocracy | government by newspapers or literature |
| papyrography | process of transferring a drawing on paper to a zinc plate |
| papyrology | study of paper |
| papyrotamia | manufacture of paper flowers |
| parabasis | speech where the chorus advances and addresses audience |
| parabiosis | physical union of two embryos or organisms |
| parablepsis | false vision; oversight |
| parabola | rhetorical use of simile or metaphor |
| parabolanus | layman who tends the sick |
| parabolaster | a parabola of a higher degree |
| paraboliform | shaped like a parabola |
| parabolist | teller of parables |
| paracentral | situated near the centre |
| parachronism | representation of something as being newer than it is |
| paraclete | advocate or intercessor; the Holy Spirit acting in such a role |
| paracme | decline; period following the zenith or acme |
| paracoita | female sexual partner |
| paracoitus | male sexual partner |
| paracrostic | poem whose initial letters reproduce its first verse |
| paracusis | disordered hearing |
| paradiastole | description of an unfavourable quality through a favourable synonym |
| paradigma | rhetorical comparison by resemblance to another thing |
| paradisiacal | suggestive of a place or state of perfect bliss |
| parados | earthworks defending against a rear attack |
| paradoxography | description of phenomena considered fantastic or wondrous |
| paradoxology | holding or maintaining paradoxes |
| paradromic | adjacent; side by side |
| paraenesis | rhetorical expression of advice or warning |
| paraesthesia | tingling sensation on the skin |
| parage | high birth or rank; equality of birth or status |
| paragenesis | formation of minerals as a joined mass |
| paragnosia | misunderstanding |
| paragnosis | skill in matters immune to scientific investigation |
| paragoge | addition of a sound to end of word |
| paragram | play on words in which letters are changed |
| paragraphia | writing of different letters and words than intended |
| paragraphy | writing of paragraphs |
| parakinesis | production of movement of objects by a spiritualist |
| paralalia | abnormality of speech sounds |
| paralipomenon | thing left out; added in supplement |
| paralipsis | fixing attention on subject by pretending to neglect it |
| parallax | seeming change of object position due to observer moving |
| parallelepiped | solid figure with each face a parallelogram |
| parallelism | belief that matter and mind don't interact but relate |
| paralogise | to reason falsely |
| paralogism | false reasoning |
| paramatta | worsted and cotton blend |
| paramedian | near the middle line |
| parament | rich decoration, hanging or robe |
| paramnesia | abnormality of memory; inability to remember meaning of word |
| paranatellon | a star that rises at the same time as another star |
| paranomasia | rhetorical art of punning |
| paranym | euphemism; word whose meaning altered to conceal evasion |
| paranymph | one who solicits for another; best man or bridesmaid |
| paraph | flourish under one's signature |
| paraphasia | disorder in which one word substituted for another |
| paraphilia | any abnormal sexual attraction |
| paraphonia | alteration of the voice; as at puberty |
| paraphrast | one who paraphrases |
| paraphraxis | inability to perform purposive movements properly |
| parapraxis | blunder; error; mistake |
| parapsychology | study of unexplained mental phenomena |
| pararthria | incoherence |
| paraselene | mock moon; bright patch on a lunar halo |
| parasigmatism | inability to pronounce the sound 's' |
| parasitaster | a mean or sorry parasite |
| parasiticide | killing of parasites |
| parastatal | indirectly controlled by the state |
| parastatic | of, like or pertaining to protective mimicry of animals |
| parasuicide | harmful act appearing to be an attempt at suicide |
| parasynesis | corruption of forms of words |
| parasynthesis | derivation of words using hyphenated compounds |
| parataxis | organization of clauses without connectives |
| parathesis | apposition; compounding of words without change |
| paratonic | arresting growth |
| paravail | inferior; lowest; of least account |
| paravane | device used to cut underwater cables |
| paravant | in front; first; beforehand |
| paravent | wind screen |
| parbreak | to vomit |
| parbuckle | sling made by wrapping both ends of rope around object |
| parcel | partly |
| parcenary | co-heirship |
| parciloquy | laconic speech |
| parclose | railing in church enclosing altar, chapel or tomb |
| pardie | mild oath; certainly or truly |
| pardine | of, like or pertaining to leopards |
| pardoner | one who raises money for religious works by selling indulgences |
| parecbasis | rhetorical digression or deviation from expected topic |
| paregmenon | repetition of a word or its cognates in a series of words |
| paregoric | soothing; lessening pain |
| parembole | insertion of something related to the subject into a phrase |
| paremptosis | insertion of something related to the subject into a phrase |
| parentalia | feasts or rites in memory of deceased parents |
| parentelic | related by blood |
| parenticide | killing or killer of one's parents |
| parergon | work undertaken in addition to one's employment |
| pareschatology | doctrine dealing with matters after death but before the end of the world |
| paresis | omission of an element from a word |
| pareunia | coitus |
| parfay | by my faith; verily |
| parfleche | dried buffalo skin |
| parget | to plaster over; to cover with ornamental plasterwork |
| parhelion | halo-like light seen in sky opposite the sun |
| pari passu | side by side; equally |
| paribuntal | fine straw used to make hats |
| parietal | of a wall or walls, especially anatomical walls |
| parietals | school rules regarding inter-gender contact |
| parine | of, like or pertaining to titmouses |
| parison | lump of glass before it is moulded into its final shape |
| parison | even balance of elements in a sentence |
| paristhimion | tonsil |
| parisyllabic | having the same number of syllables in all forms |
| parity | condition or fact of having born children |
| parlous | full of danger or risk |
| Parnassian | poetic |
| parnel | mistress or concubine of a priest; harlot |
| parochial | local; confined to one region |
| parodinia | difficult childbirth |
| paroemia | proverb or adage used in argumentation |
| paroemiographer | writer of proverbs |
| paroemiography | writing of proverbs; a treatise of proverbs |
| paroemiology | study of proverbs |
| paromoeon | alliteration |
| paromoion | starting statement with several words starting with the same letter |
| paromologia | partial admission of opponent's argument to strengthen one's final position |
| paromology | concession of opponent's point to strengthen one's own point |
| paronomasia | play on words; punning |
| paronym | word from same root or having same sound as another |
| parorexia | desire to eat strange foods |
| parotic | near or adjacent to the ear |
| parous | bearing or having borne offspring |
| parousia | second coming of Christ |
| parousiamania | obsession with the second coming of Christ |
| paroxysm | fit of passion; laughter; coughing; sudden violent action |
| paroxytone | having an acute accent on the next to last syllable |
| parquet | floor-covering of fitted wooden blocks |
| parr | young salmon |
| parrel | band by which a yard is fastened to a mast |
| parrhesia | asking forgiveness in advance for frank or bold speech |
| parricide | killing of parent or close relative |
| parse | to describe a word fully in terms of classification |
| parsonarchy | government by parsons |
| parterre | pit of a theatre |
| parthenian | of, like or pertaining to virgins |
| parthenogenesis | reproduction by a virgin or by means of an unfertilized egg |
| parthenolatry | worship of the Virgin Mary |
| parthenology | study of virgins |
| parthophobia | fear of virgins |
| partible | that may be divided up or parted |
| particularism | belief that only a few are chosen for salvation |
| partim | in part |
| partitive | indicating a part of a larger whole |
| partocracy | government by a single unopposed political party |
| parturition | the act of giving birth |
| parure | a set of ornaments or jewels |
| parvanimity | smallness of mind |
| parvenu | one suddenly risen to wealth without great social rank |
| parvipotent | having little power |
| parvis | enclosed space at the front of a church |
| parviscient | having little knowledge |
| pascual | growing on land used for grazing; of, like or pertaining to pastures |
| paseo | leisurely stroll; march of bullfighters into arena |
| pasguard | armour for left arm and elbow to protect from lance strike while jousting |
| pashmina | fine goat's wool fabric used for making shawls |
| pasigraphy | a system of universal ideographic writing |
| paso-doble | quick Spanish one-step dance |
| pasquilant | lampooner |
| pasquin | to lampoon |
| pasquinade | to lampoon; a lampoon |
| pasquinian | satirical |
| passacaglia | slow solemn Italian or Spanish dance |
| passade | motion of horse to and fro over ground in dressage |
| passalorynchite | one who takes a religious vow of silence |
| passant | heraldic animal depicted walking |
| passement | decorative trimming of beads or braid |
| passepied | Breton dance resembling a quick minuet |
| passerine | of, like or pertaining to sparrows |
| passible | susceptible to or capable of suffering or of feeling |
| passim | everywhere; dispersedly |
| passimeter | instrument for issuing automatic tickets |
| passiuncle | minor or lesser passion |
| passivate | to coat metal with oxides to protect from corrosion |
| passulate | to dry grapes |
| passus | section of a poem or story |
| pastance | pastime |
| pastern | rope, strap or chain used to tie horse by its leg |
| pastiche | medley, composed from different sources; imitative work |
| pastille | small cone of charcoal burned as incense |
| pastose | painted thickly |
| pastourelle | medieval poem between knight and shepherdess |
| patagium | wing-membrane of flying mammal |
| pataphysics | the science of imaginary solutions |
| patation | act of drinking |
| patavinity | provincialism; dialectal term |
| patefaction | disclosure; opening; manifestation |
| patelliform | shaped like a saucer or kneecap |
| paten | plate; metal disk used to hold Communion bread |
| pateriform | saucer-shaped |
| pathic | passive; a passive subject |
| pathogenesis | causation or production of disease |
| pathognomic | indicative of a specific disease |
| pathography | life history used to trace a disease or disorder |
| pathomania | moral insanity |
| pathophobia | fear of disease |
| pathopoeia | excitation of passion by rhetoric or poetry |
| patible | capable of suffering or being acted on; passible |
| patibulary | of, like or pertaining to the gallows |
| patibulate | to execute by hanging |
| patina | film or surface that forms on surface of metal or wood |
| patination | formation of a film on copper from exposure |
| patrial | of, like or pertaining to one's native land |
| patrimony | inheritance from father or ancestors |
| patriolatry | excessive devotion or worship of one's native country |
| patroclinous | having inherited paternal characteristics |
| patrology | study of early Christianity |
| patronym | name derived from father's name |
| patroon | captain of a ship; coxswain of a longboat |
| patruity | degree of relationship of paternal uncle |
| patte | narrow band keeping a belt or sash in its place |
| patten | wooden shoe; clog; base of a pillar |
| patulous | spreading; wide-spreading; open |
| pauciloquent | of few words; speaking little |
| pauldron | shoulder-plate of suit of armour |
| paulopast | just finished or past |
| paulopost | just after |
| pavage | charge for paving streets |
| pavane | stately English Renaissance court dance |
| pavé | setting of jewellery with stones close together |
| pavid | timid |
| pavior | one who lays down paving stones |
| pavis | shield for the entire body |
| pavonated | peacock-blue |
| pavonian | of, like or pertaining to peacocks |
| pavonine | of, like or pertaining to peacocks |
| pax | tablet decorated with sacred figure and kissed by participants in mass |
| paxillose | resembling a small stake |
| paynimry | heathendom |
| paysage | landscape |
| paysagist | painter of landscapes |
| peatary | region, bog or moor covered with peat |
| peau-de-soie | soft, heavy closely-woven silk |
| peavey | lumberman's spiked and hooked lever |
| peccable | liable to sin |
| peccadillo | a slight offense or sin |
| peccaminous | sinful |
| peccancy | sinfulness; transgression |
| peccary | tropical New World piglike mammal |
| peccavi | admission of sin or guilt |
| peck | unit of dry measure equal to 8 quarts |
| pecorous | full of cows |
| pectinal | of a comb; comb-like |
| pectination | comb-like structure |
| pectineal | of the pubic bone |
| pectiniform | shaped like a comb |
| pectize | to congeal; to cause to set |
| pectoral | armour for the breast of a person or horse |
| pectoriloquy | sound of patient's voice as heard through stethoscope |
| pectuncle | cockle |
| pecudiculture | rearing of cattle |
| peculation | embezzlement |
| peculium | private property; especially when given by father to son |
| pecuniary | of, like or pertaining to money; consisting of money |
| ped | naturally formed mass or aggregate of soil |
| pedagogics | study of teaching |
| pedagoguery | schoolmastering; teaching |
| pedalian | of, like or pertaining to the foot or to metrical feet |
| pedaneous | going on foot; pedestrian; of lowly or petty standing |
| pedantocracy | government by pedants or strict rule-bound scholars |
| pedary | of, like or pertaining to walking or feet |
| pedate | footed; having feet; like a foot |
| pederasty | anal intercourse between a man and a boy |
| pedetentous | proceeding slowly |
| pedicel | stalk of an animal organ |
| pedicle | bony protrusion of the skull from which an antler grows |
| pedicular | of, like or pertaining to lice |
| pediculicide | killing of lice |
| pediculophobia | fear of lice |
| pediculous | lousy |
| pediform | shaped like a foot |
| pedigerous | having or bearing feet |
| pediluvium | foot bath |
| pedimanous | having feet shaped like hands |
| pediment | triangular structure crowning front of a Greek building |
| pedipulate | to work or knead with the feet |
| pedography | description of soil types |
| pedological | of, like or pertaining to soils |
| pedology | study of soils |
| pedomancy | divination by examining the soles of the feet |
| pedometer | instrument for measuring distance travelled on foot |
| peduncle | stem or stalk of a flower |
| pegamoid | artificial leather |
| pegomancy | divination by springs or fountains |
| peignoir | woman's dressing-gown |
| peirameter | instrument measuring resistance of road surfaces to wheel movement |
| peirastic | experimental; tentative |
| peise | weight; burden; load |
| pejorate | to worsen; to depreciate |
| pejorism | severe pessimism |
| pekin | fine soft silk |
| pelage | animal's coat of hair or wool |
| pelagic | oceanic; inhabiting or carried out in the deep sea |
| pelargic | of, like or pertaining to storks |
| pelasgic | nomadic |
| pelatast | ancient Greek shield-bearing soldier |
| pelecoid | shaped like a hatchet; a hatchet-shaped geometrical figure |
| pelerine | woman's fur cape |
| pelisse | fur-lined or fur garment |
| pelitic | composed of fine sediment |
| pellate | to divide; to separate |
| pellicle | thin skin or film |
| pellicule | thin diaphanous fabric |
| pellucid | completely clear; transparent |
| pelma | sole of foot |
| pelmatogram | footprint |
| pelmet | fringe or valance for hiding a curtain rod |
| peloid | mud or other semi-solid medium used in baths |
| pelology | study of mud |
| pelotherapy | treatment by mud baths |
| peltastiform | shield-shaped |
| peltiferous | bearing a shield |
| peltry | skins of animals with the fur on them |
| pelurious | furry; hairy |
| pelviform | basin-shaped |
| pelvigraphy | examination of the pelvis |
| pelvimeter | instrument for measuring the pelvis |
| pembroke | small four-legged table with hinged flaps |
| pemphigus | skin condition characterized by watery boils on the body |
| penacute | having an acute accent on the penultimate syllable; paroxytone |
| penanggalan | female vampire of Malay mythology |
| penannular | in the form of an almost complete ring |
| penates | household gods of a Roman family |
| pencilliform | paintbrush-shaped |
| pendeloque | drop pendant |
| pendent | hanging; drooping; dangling |
| pendicle | pendant, dependency or appendage |
| pendular | of, like or pertaining to a pendulum |
| penduline | building a pendulous nest |
| pendulograph | curve representing combination of musical sounds |
| penecontemporaneous | of geological processes occurring immediately after deposition |
| penectomy | surgical removal of the penis |
| penelopize | to create work as an excuse to deter suitors |
| peneplain | land worn down by denudation to almost be a plain |
| penes | in the possession of |
| penetralia | inmost parts of a building or temple; innermost secrets |
| penetrometer | instrument for measuring firmness or consistency of substances |
| penial | of, like or pertaining to the penis |
| penicillate | having small tufts or bristles |
| pennaceous | featherlike |
| pennate | winged; feathered |
| penniferous | bearing feathers |
| penniform | feather-shaped |
| pennyweight | unit of troy weight equal to 24 grains |
| penology | study of crime and punishment |
| pensile | hanging; suspended; overhanging |
| pensum | task; school imposition |
| pentad | set of five things |
| pentagamist | person who has or has had five spouses |
| pentalogy | state of being in five parts |
| pentamerous | having five parts or members |
| pentapolis | alliance of five cities |
| pentarchy | government by five individuals |
| pentateuch | the first five books of the Old Testament |
| pentheraphobia | fear or hatred of one's mother-in-law |
| pentimento | revealing of part of a painting beneath a newer one |
| penury | destitution; poverty |
| peotillomania | abnormal compulsion for pulling on the penis |
| peotomy | surgical removal of the penis |
| per | through; according to; by means or agency of |
| peracute | very sharp or violent; very acute |
| peradventure | perhaps; possibly; by adventure; by chance |
| peragrate | to travel over or through |
| percale | closely woven lightweight cloth |
| percaline | glossy lightweight cotton |
| perceptionalism | belief that humans perceive things as they truly are |
| percheron | dappled cart horse |
| percipient | perceiving; observant; perceptive |
| percoct | well-cooked; overdone |
| percurrent | running through the whole length |
| percutaneous | done or applied through the skin |
| percutient | striking or having the power to strike; percussive |
| perdicine | of, like or pertaining to partridges |
| perdricide | killer of partridges |
| perduellion | treason |
| perdure | to endure over a period of time |
| peregal | fully equal |
| peregrination | journey, especially on foot or to a foreign country |
| peregrinity | foreignness; outlandishness |
| perennate | to live perennially; to survive from season to season |
| perequitate | to ride through on horseback |
| perfectibilian | believer in the perfectibility of mankind |
| perfectibilism | doctrine that humans capable of becoming perfect |
| perfectionism | doctrine that moral perfection constitutes the highest value |
| perfervid | very fervid; ardent; eager |
| perficient | effectual; actually achieving a result |
| perfuse | to pour or diffuse through or over |
| pergameneous | like or resembling parchment |
| pergola | arched framework for climbing plants |
| periaster | point in orbit of a body in which it is nearest to a specified star |
| peribolos | precinct; enclosing wall of a precinct |
| pericentral | surrounding a centre or central body |
| periclinal | sloping downwards in all directions from a point |
| periclitate | to endanger; to jeopardise |
| pericope | an excerpt or passage read during religious services |
| periculous | dangerous |
| periegesis | description in the manner of a tour; journey through |
| periergia | use of elevated style to discuss a trivial matter |
| periodontics | study of gums |
| perioeci | individuals living at same latitude on opposite sides of earth |
| periotic | around the ear |
| peripatetic | wandering about; itinerant |
| peripetia | sudden change of fortune |
| periphrasis | circumlocution; round-about expression |
| periplus | a voyage or trip around something |
| peripteral | having a row of columns on every side |
| periscian | person living inside the polar circle |
| perispomenon | having a circumflex accent on the final syllable |
| perissology | verbiage; pleonasm |
| perissosyllabic | having an additional syllable |
| perissotomist | knife-happy surgeon |
| peristalith | ancient stone circle |
| peristeronic | of, like or pertaining to pigeons |
| peristerophily | pigeon-collecting |
| peristrephic | moving round; revolving; rotatory |
| peristyle | range of columns around a building or courtyard |
| peritectic | in the state between solid and liquid; melting |
| periwinkle | a bluish or azure colour; a plant with bluish flowers |
| perlaceous | pearly |
| perlative | indicating movement through or across |
| perliginous | producing pearls |
| perlocution | effect produced when a particular word is uttered |
| perlustrate | to traverse and inspect carefully |
| permeameter | instrument for measuring permeability |
| pernicious | destructive; ruinous; fatal |
| pernoctate | to pass the night in vigil or prayer |
| pernor | one who takes or receives |
| peroral | through the mouth |
| perorate | to speak grandiosely or grandiloquently |
| peroration | lengthy part of speech; especially a conclusion |
| perpend | to weigh in the mind; to consider carefully |
| perpilocutionist | one who speaks through his hat |
| perron | raised platform or terrace at an entrance door |
| perruquier | wigmaker |
| perscrutation | thorough search |
| perse | dark blue or bluish-grey; cloth of such a colour |
| perseity | independent existence |
| perseverate | to repeat an action continually or habitually |
| persiennes | outside shutters with movable slats |
| persiflage | banter; flippancy; idle chatter |
| personalia | personal details, possessions or stories |
| personalism | doctrine that humans possess spiritual freedom |
| personalty | personal belongings and property |
| perspectography | theory of drawing according to rules of perspective |
| perspicacious | clear-minded; astute; perceptive |
| perspicuous | easily understood; clearly expressed |
| perstringe | to constrain; to touch on; to censure |
| pertinacity | quality of holding unyieldingly to a position |
| pertuse | punched; pierced; slit |
| pertussis | whooping cough |
| peruke | a frilly wig |
| perulate | scaly; having scaled skin |
| pervicacious | very obstinate |
| pervigilium | night vigil |
| pervious | permeable; penetrable |
| pessary | suppository inserted into the vagina |
| pessimal | least favourable |
| pessimum | point at which any condition is least favourable |
| pessomancy | divination using pebbles |
| pestiferous | bringing plague or pestilence |
| pestology | science of pests |
| petaliferous | bearing petals |
| petary | peat-bog |
| petaurist | flying phalanger |
| petcock | valve for draining condensed steam from engine cylinders |
| petrary | contrivance for hurling stones |
| petrean | of, like or pertaining to or made of rock |
| petrel | long-winged seabird with hooked bill |
| petrichor | pleasant smell accompanying the first rain after a dry spell |
| petricolous | living in or near rocks |
| petrissage | massage by longitudinal rubbing and lateral squeezing |
| petrogenesis | formation or development of rocks |
| petroleous | containing or rich in petroleum |
| petroliferous | bearing petroleum |
| petrology | study of rocks |
| petrophilous | living on or thriving in rocky areas |
| petrous | stony |
| pettifogger | a lawyer given to underhanded tactics |
| pettitoes | pigs' feet as food |
| petulcous | butting like a ram |
| petuncle | small scallop |
| pewfellow | one who occupies the same pew as another |
| pexity | roughness of the nap of cloth |
| peytral | armour for a horse's breast |
| phacochoerine | of, like or pertaining to warthogs |
| phacoid | lens-shaped |
| phacometer | instrument for measuring lenses |
| phaeic | dusky |
| phaeism | duskiness |
| phaeton | open four-wheeled carriage |
| phagomania | excessive desire for food or eating |
| phagophobia | fear of eating |
| phakic | (of an eye) having a crystalline lens |
| phalacrosis | baldness |
| phalanstery | dwelling of a communal group or phalanx of individuals |
| phalarope | migratory shorebird with lobed feet |
| phallephoric | carrying the penis |
| phallic | of, pertaining to or resembling a penis |
| phallocracy | government by men |
| phallocrat | one who assumes the naturality of male dominance |
| phaneromania | habit of biting one's nails |
| phanerosis | act or process of becoming visible |
| phanic | visible; obvious |
| phanopoeia | visual imagery in poetry |
| phantasmatography | scientific description of rainbows and other lumnious atmospheric phenomena |
| phaometer | old instrument for measuring light intensity |
| pharisaic | hypocritical |
| pharmacognosy | study of drugs of animal and plant origin |
| pharmacology | study of drugs |
| pharmacomania | abnormal obsession with trying drugs |
| pharmacometer | instrument for measuring drugs |
| pharmacopolist | drug-seller; pharmacist; apothecary |
| pharology | study of lighthouses |
| pharos | lighthouse or beacon |
| pharyngography | description of the pharynx |
| pharyngology | study of the throat |
| pharyngoscope | instrument for inspecting the pharynx |
| phassachate | lead-coloured agate |
| phatic | using speech for social reasons or to communicate feelings |
| phellem | cork |
| phelloid | cork-like |
| phelloplastic | a model in cork |
| phememe | smallest possible linguistic unit |
| phemic | of, like or pertaining to speech |
| phenakistoscope | early cinematograph in which figures are viewed through a slit |
| phenetic | of, like or pertaining to classification by phenotype |
| phengite | bright and beautiful kind of alabaster |
| phengophobia | fear of daylight |
| phenogenesis | origin of racial groups |
| phenology | study of organisms as affected by climate |
| phenomenalism | belief that phenomena are the only realities |
| phenomenology | study of phenomena |
| pheon | the barbed head of a dart or arrow in heraldry |
| pheretrer | keeper of a shrine |
| phialiform | saucer-shaped |
| phialine | resembling a phial |
| philalethist | lover of truth |
| philately | study of postage stamps |
| philematology | the act or study of kissing |
| philematophobe | one who dislikes kissing |
| philhippic | loving or admiring horses |
| philippic | speech or writing full of bitter condemnation |
| philistine | materialistic in outlook; uncultured |
| phillumeny | collecting of matchbox labels |
| philocaly | love of beauty |
| philodemic | fond of commoners or the lower classes |
| philodox | one who loves his own opinions; dogmatic person |
| philogyny | love of women |
| philologaster | petty or contemptible philologist |
| philology | study of ancient texts; historical linguistics |
| philomath | lover of learning |
| philomelian | of, like or pertaining to nightingales |
| philonoist | one who seeks knowledge |
| philopornist | lover of prostitutes |
| philoprogenitive | of, like or pertaining to instinctive love for offspring |
| philosophaster | amateur or superficial philosopher |
| philosophicide | one who kills or wishes to kill philosophers or philosophy |
| philosophocracy | government by philosophers |
| philosophuncule | petty or minor philosopher |
| philotechnical | devoted to the arts |
| philotherianism | love of animals |
| philoxenia | hospitality |
| philter | love-potion or charm; a drug to produce some magical effect |
| phimosis | inability to retract the prepuce of the penis |
| phlebography | description or examination of a vein |
| phlebology | study of the veins and their diseases |
| phlebotomy | blood-letting |
| phlegmatic | of a calm; unexcitable disposition |
| phlogiston | nonexistent principle of flammability inherent in matter |
| phlogogenetic | causing inflamation |
| phocine | of, like or pertaining to seals |
| phocomelia | having limbs like a seal's flippers |
| phoeniceous | bright scarlet-red colour |
| phoenicopter | flamingo |
| pholidosis | arrangement of scales, as in fish and reptiles |
| phon | unit of loudness of sound as heard by listeners |
| phonascus | person who maintains rhythm in church choir |
| phonasthenia | weakness of voice |
| phonation | production of vocal sound |
| phonautograph | instrument for recording sound vibrations |
| phonendoscope | device which amplifies small sounds |
| phonesis | production of speech sounds |
| phoniatrics | study and correction of speech defects |
| phonography | recording of sound by means of a phonograph |
| phonomania | pathological tendency to murder |
| phonometer | instrument for measuring sound levels |
| phonophobia | fear of noise or of speaking aloud |
| phonophorous | transmitting sound waves |
| phonus-bolonus | exaggerated trickery or nonsense |
| phorminx | seven-stringed Greek lyre |
| phorometer | instrument used to correct abnormalities in eye muscles |
| phoropter | device with several lenses used to test eyesight |
| phosphene | light seen when the eyeball is pressed |
| phossy | caused by phosphorus |
| photaesthesia | sense of vision |
| photic | light-giving; sensitive to light; penetrated by light |
| photism | illusory vision of light |
| photobiology | study of effects of light on organisms |
| photodromy | motion towards light |
| photoglyph | photographic engraving |
| photogyric | turning towards light |
| photolysis | disintegration resulting from exposure to radiation |
| photomania | pathological desire for light |
| photometer | instrument for measuring light intensity |
| photon | unit of brightness of light as received at the retina |
| photophile | organism loving or thriving in light |
| photophilous | preferring or thriving in lighted conditions |
| photophobia | fear of light |
| photophygous | avoiding or disliking light |
| photopia | vision in bright light |
| photopolarimeter | instrument for measuring intensity and polarization of reflected light |
| photopsia | appearance of light flashes due to retinal irritation |
| photosphere | region of space lit by the sun |
| phototachometer | instrument for measuring the speed of light |
| phototaxis | growth or movement determined by light |
| phototelegraph | instrument for transmitting drawings telegraphically |
| phototonus | sensitivity to light |
| phraseography | representation of whole phrases with individual signs or symbols |
| phraseology | study of phrases |
| phratry | clan or tribe |
| phreatic | of, like or pertaining to underground water supplying or wells |
| phrenesis | delirium; frenzy |
| phrenic | of or near the midriff |
| phrenography | observation and description of mental phenomena |
| phrenology | study of bumps on the head |
| phrontistery | a thinking-place; place for study |
| phthartic | deadly; destructive |
| phthirophagous | lice-eating |
| phthisiotherapeutics | medical treatment of tuberculosis |
| phthongal | of, pertaining to, or consisting of a sound; vocalized |
| phthongometer | instrument measuring intensity of vowel sounds |
| phugoid | of, like or pertaining to the longitudinal stability of aircraft |
| phycology | study of algae and seaweeds |
| phygogalactic | halting milk production |
| phylactic | defending against disease |
| phylarchy | government by a specific class or tribe |
| phyle | division of the people of a state into local clans |
| phylliform | shaped like a leaf |
| phylline | leaf-like |
| phyllomancy | divination using leaves or tea leaves |
| phyllomania | excessive or abnormal production of leaves |
| phyllophagous | leaf-eating |
| phyllophorous | leafy; bearing or having leaves |
| phylogenesis | origin and history of a species' evolution |
| physagogue | substance causing flatulence |
| physicalism | belief that all phenomena reducible to verifiable assertions |
| physiocracy | government according to natural laws or principles |
| physiognomancy | divination by studying the face |
| physiognomy | general appearance of anything, especially the face |
| physiography | description of landforms or natural features of the environment |
| physiolatry | nature-worship |
| physiologus | work containing descriptions of animals; a bestiary |
| physiophilosophy | system of knowledge concerning principles of natural history |
| physiosophy | assumption of knowledge of nature |
| physitheism | attribution of physical form and attributes to deities |
| physiurgic | due to natural causes |
| phytivorous | feeding on plants |
| phytogenesis | origin and development of plants |
| phytogenic | derived from plants |
| phytography | description or treatise on plants |
| phytoid | plant-like |
| phytology | study of plants; botany |
| phytomania | obsession with collecting plants |
| phytopathology | study of diseases of plants |
| phytophilous | fond of plants |
| phytosophy | knowledge of plants |
| piacular | expiatory; atrociously bad |
| pianette | small upright piano |
| pibcorn | old Welsh instrument like a hornpipe |
| pibroch | piece of music for bagpipe |
| pica | craving to eat dust |
| picamar | bitter oily liquid obtained from tar |
| picaresque | of, like or pertaining or pertaining to rogues or roguish behaviour |
| picaroon | person who lives by his or her wits; rogue or scoundrel |
| picayune | five-cent-piece or other coin of little value |
| piceous | like pitch; inflammable; reddish black |
| pichi | small dark Argentinian armadillo |
| pichiciego | small South American armadillo |
| piciform | of the form or shape of a woodpecker |
| piciform | of the nature of or resembling pitch |
| picine | of, like or pertaining to woodpeckers |
| pickelhaube | spiked helmet |
| pickery | petty theft under Scottish law |
| picksome | particular; picky |
| pickthank | sycophant; flatterer |
| picot | loop in an ornamental edging; raised knot in embroidery |
| pictography | representation of ideas by means of pictures |
| piddle | nonsense |
| piebald | of an animal, consisting of two or more colours |
| pied | variegated; of various colours |
| piedroit | square pillar attached to wall, lacking both base and capital |
| piend | a salient angle |
| pierage | fee paid for use of a pier |
| pieta | representation of Virgin Mary with dead Christ across her knees |
| pietism | unquestioning or dogmatic religious devotion |
| piezometer | instrument for measuring pressure or compressibility |
| piggin | small pail or bowl made of staves and hoops |
| pight | to pitch |
| pigmentocracy | government by those of one skin colour |
| pignorate | to give or take in pledge or pawn |
| pigsconce | blockhead |
| pigwash | rubbish; nonsense |
| pika | rabbit-like mountain-dwelling mammal with rounded ears |
| pilaster | square column partially embedded in a wall |
| pilch | fur or wool outergarment; rug laid over saddle |
| pilcrow | paragraph-mark |
| pile | upside-down wedge at an acute angle on a coat of arms |
| pileated | cap-shaped; crested; capped |
| pileiform | shaped like an umbrella |
| pileum | top of a bird's head |
| pileus | umbrella-shaped portion of a mushroom |
| pilgarlick | poor wretch; self-pitying person |
| piliferous | bearing or growing hair |
| piliform | shaped like hair |
| pillion | light pillow or saddle for a woman rider |
| pilliwinks | torture instrument for crushing fingers |
| pillory | wooden frame with holes for head and hands used as punishment |
| pilose | having scattered soft or moderately stiff hairs |
| pilule | little pill |
| piment | spiced sweetened wine |
| pinacotheca | picture-gallery |
| pinafore | loose protective garment worn over a dress |
| pinchbeck | cheap copper and zinc alloy; spurious or trashy |
| pinder | one who impounds cattle |
| pineal | shaped like a pine-cone |
| pinetum | collection or plantation of pine trees |
| pingo | cone-shaped mound with ice core |
| pinguefy | to become or make fat or greasy; to make rich |
| pinguid | fat |
| pinion | small wheel with teeth |
| pinion | wing; last joint of a wing; outermost flight feather |
| pinnace | small vessel with oars and sails |
| pinnate | shaped like a feather |
| pinniped | seals, walruses, and other such sea mammals |
| pintle | bolt or pin on which something turns, as a hinge |
| piolet | ice-axe |
| pipa | Chinese lute |
| pipe | unit of liquid capacity equal to two hogsheads |
| pipistrelle | small reddish-brown bat |
| pipkin | small pot |
| piqué | stiff durable corded fabric of cotton, rayon or silk |
| piscary | the right of fishing; a fishing pond |
| piscatology | study of fishes |
| piscatorial | of, like or pertaining to fishing or fishers |
| piscicapturist | fisherman |
| piscicide | substance that kills fish |
| piscifauna | fish life of an area |
| pisciform | shaped like a fish |
| piscina | basin set in wall of church to drain away ceremonial water |
| piscine | of, like or pertaining to fish |
| piscivorous | fish-eating |
| pisiform | shaped like a pea |
| pismire | an ant; something or someone insignificant |
| pismirism | hoarding of small or insignificant things |
| pisteology | science or study of faith |
| pistiology | doctrine concerning faith |
| pistolography | instantaneous photography |
| pistology | branch of theology concerned with faith |
| pitchometer | instrument for measuring angles of ship's propeller blades |
| piteous | arousing or deserving pity |
| pityroid | bran-like |
| pixilated | bemused; bewildered; intoxicated |
| pizzle | bull's penis used as instrument of punishment by flogging |
| placage | covering of walls with thin marble slabs or with plaster |
| placard | thick metal reinforced plate of armour for back or breast |
| placee | investor who is sold shares by private placement |
| placentiform | cake-shaped |
| placentigerous | bearing a placenta |
| placentography | examination or imagery of the placenta |
| placentophagy | eating of the placenta |
| placet | vote of assent in a governing body |
| placitum | decision of a court or an assembly |
| placket | opening in a skirt or shirt for a pocket |
| placoid | plate-like; having plate-like scales |
| plafond | decorated ceiling |
| plagate | marked with a streak or streaks |
| plage | fashionable beach |
| plagiary | one who plagiarises |
| plagium | the crime of kidnapping |
| plainstones | flagstone side-pavement of a street |
| planation | making level |
| planchet | blank metal disc to be stamped as a coin |
| planchette | board or similar tool used in interpreting spirit messages |
| planetesimal | of, like or pertaining to asteroids or similar tiny celestial bodies |
| planetic | erring; erratic |
| planetogeny | theory of the origin of planets |
| planetography | description or treatise on the planets |
| planetolatry | worship of the planets |
| planetology | study of planets |
| plangency | resonance; noisiness |
| plangent | deep or loud sounding |
| plangorous | mournful |
| planigraph | instrument for copying drawings at a different scale |
| planigraphy | drawing of ground plans |
| planiloquent | speaking plainly |
| planimeter | instrument for measuring area of plane figures |
| planipennate | having flat; broad wings |
| planish | to polish; to flatten |
| planisphere | sphere projected onto a plane; map of the heavens |
| planity | the quality of being plane |
| plankwise | in the manner or direction of a plank |
| planography | cartography |
| planomania | abnormal desire to wander and disobey social norms |
| planster | petty or poor planner |
| plantar | of, like or pertaining to the sole of the foot |
| plantigrade | walking fully on the soles of the feet |
| plantivorous | plant-eating |
| plantocracy | government by plantation owners |
| plapper | to make sounds with the lips |
| plash | dash of water |
| plashy | full of pools or puddles; marshy or boggy |
| plasmophagous | consuming plasma |
| plastography | art of forging handwriting |
| plastron | fencer's padded breast-shield; steel breastplate worn under hauberk |
| plataleiform | spoonbilled; of the shape of a spoonbill |
| platband | flat molding that exceeds its projection; fillet between column's flutings |
| plateasm | broad speech; talking with the mouth open too wide |
| platilla | fine white linen |
| platiniferous | bearing platinum |
| platitude | commonplace or trite remark made as if it were important |
| platitudinarian | one who utters platitudes |
| platometer | instrument for measuring area; planimeter |
| platten | to flatten into a plate or sheet |
| platurous | flat-tailed |
| platypodia | flat-footedness |
| platypussary | building or pen where platypuses are kept |
| platysma | broad sheet of muscle in the neck |
| plauditory | issuing enthusiastic approval or applause |
| plaustral | of, like or pertaining to a wagon |
| playa | basin which becomes a shallow lake after heavy rainfall |
| pleach | to intertwine the branches of |
| pleasance | pleasure; enjoyment; complaisance |
| plebania | mother-church having authority over several local churches |
| plebeian | of the common people or vulgar classes |
| plebification | making something vulgar or plebeian |
| plebiscitarism | principle or practice of using plebiscites |
| plectile | woven or plaited |
| plectrum | pick for stringed instruments |
| pledget | wad of cotton or lint used to dress a wound |
| plegometer | instrument for measuring the strength of a blow |
| pleiomery | condition of having more than the normal number |
| pleiomorphy | occurrence of several distinct stages in the life cycle of an organism |
| plemyrameter | instrument for measuring variations in water level |
| plenary | full; entire; complete; absolute; unqualified |
| plenicorn | having solid horns (as a deer) |
| pleniloquence | excessive talking; fullness of speech |
| plenilunar | of, like or pertaining to the full moon |
| plenilune | full moon |
| plenipotence | absolute power |
| plenitude | fullness; completeness; abundance; sufficiency |
| plenum | space completely filled with matter |
| pleochroic | displaying different colours when seen from different directions |
| pleonasm | redundancy; use of more words than necessary |
| pleonectic | greedy; covetous |
| pleonexia | greed; avarice |
| pleroma | fullness; abundance |
| plerophory | full conviction |
| plethysmograph | instrument for measuring change in body part size due to blood flow |
| plethysmography | measurement of variation in blood pressure |
| pleurotropous | laterally flattened |
| plexiform | shaped like a network |
| plexure | network; web; interweaving |
| plexus | network |
| plicated | folded fanwise; pleated |
| plication | the act of folding |
| plimsoll | rubber-soled canvas shoe |
| plinth | rectangular base of column or pedestal |
| pliofilm | thin waterproof transparent sheet used for packaging |
| pliothermic | of, like or pertaining to periods of above-average temperatures |
| plissé | fabric with puckered finish |
| ploce | repetition of word in more expressive sense for emphasis |
| plodge | to trudge through anything in which the feet sink |
| plosion | release of breath after consonant |
| plousiocracy | government by the wealthy; plutocracy |
| plumassier | worker in feathers; feather-seller |
| plumbago | graphite |
| plumbeous | leaden; lead-coloured |
| plumbiferous | bearing or yielding lead |
| plumbism | lead poisoning |
| plumbless | incapable of being sounded |
| plumeopicean | of tar and feathers |
| plumigerous | plumaged |
| plumiped | having feathered feet |
| plumulate | downy |
| pluralism | belief that reality consists of several kinds or entities |
| plurennial | lasting or surviving many years |
| pluriarc | West African stringed instrument like a zither |
| pluriliteral | of more than three letters |
| plurinominal | having more than one name |
| pluriparous | giving birth to multiple young in a single birth |
| pluripresence | presence in multiple places at one time |
| pluriserial | in several rows |
| plutarchy | government by the wealthy; plutocracy |
| plutocracy | government by the wealthy |
| plutography | description of the lives of the wealthy |
| plutolatry | worship of wealth |
| plutology | political economy; study of wealth |
| plutomania | mania for money |
| pluton | mass of rock solidified under earth's surface |
| plutonic | of volcanic or deep origin |
| plutonomy | economics |
| pluvial | floor-length open-fronted ecclesiastical garment |
| pluviograph | self-registering rain gauge |
| pluviometer | rain-meter |
| pluviose | rainy |
| pneometer | instrument that measures respiration |
| pneumatics | study of mechanics of gases |
| pneumatographer | one who receives and writes spirit messages |
| pneumatography | description or treatise about spiritual beings |
| pneumatolith | stone in the lung |
| pneumatology | science of spiritual phenomena or beings |
| pneumatomachy | denial of the divinity of the Holy Ghost |
| pneumatometer | instrument for measuring quantity of air breathed |
| pneumatomorphic | like a spirit |
| pneumatophany | appearance of a spirit; especially the Holy Ghost |
| pneumatophilosophy | philosophy of spirits or the spirit world |
| pneumatophony | sound caused by a ghost or spirit |
| pneumatosis | presence of gas in the body |
| pneumograph | instrument for measuring and recording respiration |
| pneumography | description of the lungs |
| pnyx | ancient Athenian place of assembly |
| poaceous | of, like or pertaining or pertaining to grass |
| pochette | pocket notecase or wallet |
| pochoir | manual colour stencilling onto a printed illustration |
| pocillator | cup-bearer |
| pococurante | uninterested; indifferent; nonchalant; apathetic |
| poculation | drinking of alcoholic beverages |
| poculent | fit for drinking |
| poculiform | cup-shaped |
| podagra | gout |
| podagrous | gouty |
| podalic | of, like or pertaining to feet |
| podex | rump; anal region |
| podiatry | study and treatment of disorders of the foot; chiropody |
| podiform | shaped like a pod |
| podobromhydrosis | smelly feet |
| podocarp | stalk that bears the fruit of a plant |
| podology | study of the feet |
| podoscaph | pedalled boat; canoe-shaped float attached to feet for walking on water |
| podzol | acidic soil with ash-like subsurface layer |
| poecilomere | part of an animal's body where colour variations first appear |
| poecilonym | synonym; one of a variety of names for a thing |
| poêlée | broth or stock |
| poephagous | eating grass or herbs; herbivorous |
| poetaster | petty poet; writer of contemptible verses |
| poetolatry | worship of poets |
| poetomachia | contest or quarrel among poets |
| pogamoggan | wooden club with iron or stone piece on end, used by Indians |
| pogoniasis | excessive growth of beard |
| pogonip | dense fog of suspended ice particles |
| pogonology | book or treatise on beards |
| pogonophile | one who loves beards |
| pogonophobia | fear of beards |
| pogonotomy | shaving |
| pogonotrophy | growing of a beard |
| pogrom | organized massacre |
| poiesis | creation |
| poikilitic | mottled |
| poikilothermic | cold-blooded |
| poimenic | pastoral |
| pointel | sharp instrument |
| pointillism | use of separate dots of pure colour rather than blends |
| poise | unit of viscosity of liquids |
| poitrel | armour for a horse's breast |
| poivrade | pepper sauce |
| pokerish | causing terror; uncanny |
| polacca | stately Polish dance; polonaise |
| polarchy | government by many people; polyarchy |
| polarimeter | instrument for measuring polarised light |
| polariscope | instrument for detecting polarized light |
| polder | piece of low-lying reclaimed land |
| poldermitton | curved reinforced armour for the right arm |
| pole | unit of area equal to a square rod |
| polemarch | ancient Greek military and civil officer |
| polemic | controversial discussion or attack |
| polemology | study of war |
| polemomania | mania for war |
| polemoscope | telescope with angled mirrors for seeing over walls or around corners |
| poleyn | piece of armour for the knee |
| policeocracy | government by police |
| policlinic | outpatient department of hospital |
| poliorcectic | of, like or pertaining to siegecraft or besiegement |
| poliosis | premature graying of the hair |
| politicaster | petty politician |
| politicide | killing of people because of their political beliefs |
| politicomania | mania for politics |
| polkamania | craze for polka dancing |
| pollarchy | government by the multitude or a mob; ochlocracy |
| pollard | tree having the whole crown cut off |
| pollent | strong |
| pollex | the thumb |
| pollicitation | promise; especially one not yet accepted |
| polliniferous | bearing pollen |
| pollinigerous | pollen-bearing |
| pollyanna | one who is naively optimistic |
| polonaise | stately Polish dance of moderate tempo |
| poltophagy | prolonged chewing of food |
| poltroon | craven; cowardly |
| polverine | glass-makers' potash |
| polyacoustic | amplifying sounds |
| polyaemia | plethora |
| polyarchy | government by many people |
| polychotomy | division into many parts |
| polychrest | thing or medicine useful in many ways |
| polycracy | government by many rulers; polyarchy |
| polydemic | native to several countries |
| polydipsia | abnormal thirst |
| polyergic | having many functions |
| polyethnic | consisting of or derived from many races or ethnicities |
| polygenesis | theory that humans derived from many separate origins |
| polygenous | of multiple origin or composition |
| polygoneutic | having several broods in each season |
| polygraphy | copious or productive writing |
| polyhidrosis | excessive perspiration |
| polyhistor | person of exceptionally broad knowledge |
| polylemma | argument forcing choice between contradictory statements |
| polylith | prehistoric monument consisting of many stones |
| polyloquent | speaking much; loquacious |
| polymania | mania affecting several different mental faculties |
| polymath | person possessing knowledge of many subjects |
| polymicrian | compressed into a very small space |
| polymythy | use of multiple plots in a single story |
| polynesic | in multiple separate locations |
| polynia | open water amid sea ice |
| polyommatous | having many eyes |
| polyonym | name consisting of several words |
| polyopia | multiple vision |
| polyphagous | eating many types of food |
| polypharmacy | treatment with many medicines |
| polyphiloprogenitive | very fertile; very imaginative |
| polyphloisbic | loud-roaring |
| polyphloisboisterous | noisy |
| polyphone | many-stringed instrument like a lute |
| polyphyletic | descending from more than one original type |
| polypnea | rapid breathing |
| polypod | many-legged animal |
| polypragmatist | busybody |
| polypsychic | having several souls |
| polypsychism | belief that one person may have multiple souls |
| polyptoton | repetition of word in same sentence with multiple inflectional endings |
| polysarcous | obese |
| polysemant | word with many meanings |
| polystachious | having many spikes |
| polystichous | arranged in many rows |
| polystomatous | having many mouths |
| polystyle | building having many columns |
| polysyllabilingual | relating to polysyllabic languages |
| polysyllogism | series of syllogisms where each is basis for next |
| polysyndeton | rhetorical device of repeating conjunction for emphasis |
| polythalamous | having many chambers |
| polytheism | belief in multiple deities |
| polytocous | producing many or several at a birth |
| pomace | crushed apples for cider-making |
| pomaceous | of, like or pertaining to or consisting of apples |
| pomade | ointment for the hair |
| pomander | ball of perfumes |
| pomiculture | growing of fruit |
| pomiferous | bearing apples |
| pomiform | shaped like an apple |
| pomoerium | open space around a town within the walls |
| pomology | study of fruit-growing |
| ponceau | poppy red |
| ponderation | weighing or weighing up |
| pone | card player on dealer's right responsible for cutting cards |
| ponent | western |
| ponerology | theological doctrine of wickedness or evil |
| pongee | thin soft fabric woven from raw silk |
| poniard | small dagger |
| pontage | toll paid on bridges; tax for repairing bridges |
| pontifice | bridge-work; a bridge |
| pontist | bridge builder |
| pontlevis | drawbridge |
| poodle | coarsely looped or nubby fabric |
| poop | enclosed structure at stern of ship above main deck |
| poophyte | meadow plant |
| popinjay | conceited person |
| popjoy | to amuse oneself |
| poplin | corded woven silk and worsted |
| popliteal | of, like or pertaining to the back of the knee |
| popocracy | government by populists |
| popple | to flow tumblingly; to heave choppily |
| poppycock | humbug; nonsense |
| poppyhead | raised ornament on top of upright end of seats in churches |
| populicide | killing of the population of an area or nation |
| poral | of, like or pertaining to pores |
| porbeagle | shark with a pointed snout |
| porcellanous | resembling porcelain |
| porcine | of, like or pertaining to pigs; swinish |
| porculation | fattening or feeding of swine |
| porge | to make meat kosher by removing veins and sinews from hindquarters |
| poriferous | having pores |
| poriform | having the form of a pore |
| poriomania | abnormal compulsion to wander |
| porism | geometrical expression of possibility of multiple solutions |
| porlocking | irksome intrusion or interruption |
| pornbroker | one who deals in pornography |
| pornerastic | lecherous; bawdy; lewd |
| pornocracy | government by harlots |
| pornogenarian | dirty old man |
| pornolagnia | desire for prostitutes |
| pornomania | obsession with pornography |
| pornotopia | perfect setting for the antics of pornography |
| porogamy | fertilization of seed plants |
| poromeric | permeable to water vapour |
| porometer | instrument for measuring degree of porosity |
| poroplastic | both porous and plastic |
| poroscope | instrument for investigating porosity |
| porosis | knitting together of broken bones |
| porphyrogenitic | of royal birth |
| porphyrogeniture | accession of 1st son born after father's accession |
| porphyrous | purple |
| porphyry | beautiful and valuable purplish stone |
| porraceous | leek-green |
| porrect | to stretch forth; to present |
| porriginous | suffering from a scalp disease that causes baldness |
| porringer | small dish for soup or porridge |
| portatile | portable |
| portesse | portable breviary |
| portfire | prepared paper cylinder used to fire rockets and fireworks |
| portière | curtain hung over door of a room |
| portiuncle | small piece of something, especially of land |
| portmanteau | word formed by blending two existing words |
| portreeve | mayor |
| posaune | archaic trombone |
| posh | nonsense |
| posigrade | auxiliary rocket on a spacecraft |
| positivism | doctrine that that which is not observable is not knowable |
| posnet | small cooking pot with feet and handle |
| posology | science of quantity or dosage |
| possessive | indicating possession; genitive case |
| posset | milk curdled with alcohol used as remedy |
| post | after |
| postament | frame; pedestal |
| postcenal | after dinner |
| postcibal | after a meal |
| postconnubial | after marriage |
| postdiluvian | after the great Flood |
| postern | back door or gate; small private door |
| postexilic | after exile |
| postface | concluding note added to end of written work |
| postiche | excessively and inappropriately added to a finished work |
| posticous | posterior; outward; extrorse |
| postil | marginal note; commentary |
| postilion | someone who guides posthorses |
| postjacent | posterior; behind |
| postliminary | subsequent |
| postliminy | right of returned exiles to resume former status |
| postlude | closing piece of music at end of church service |
| postmundane | after the end of the world |
| postprandial | after dinner |
| postreme | lastly |
| postscenium | part of stage behind the scenery |
| poststructuralism | belief that there is no objective meaning to a text |
| postulant | candidate for a religious order |
| postulator | official who presents case for canonization or beatification |
| potable | fit to drink; drinkable |
| potager | garden laid out in a decorative way |
| potamic | of, like or pertaining to rivers |
| potamography | study of geography of rivers; a description of rivers |
| potamology | study of rivers |
| potation | the activity of drinking |
| potatory | related to excessive drinking |
| potentiate | to use drugs in combination to increase their power |
| potentiometer | instrument for measuring electromotive forces |
| pother | choking smoke or dust; fuss; commotion |
| potichomania | craze for imitating Oriental porcelain |
| potomania | abnormal desire to drink alcohol |
| potometer | instrument measuring rate at which plants absorb water |
| potshop | small public house |
| potter | to busy oneself with trifling tasks |
| pottle | small conical fruit basket |
| pottle | unit of liquid measurement of two quarts, or one-half gallon |
| potto | small nocturnal West African monkey |
| poudrin | small ice crystals |
| poulard | fattened or spayed hen |
| poulp | octopus |
| poult | young fowl |
| pounce | fine powder spread on writing paper to keep ink from running |
| poundage | charge for keeping stray cattle |
| poundal | unit of force that accelerates 1 pound to 1 foot / second / second |
| pourboire | tip; gratuity |
| pourparler | discussion prior to negotiation |
| pourpointerie | quilted armour with studs |
| poussin | chicken raised for eating at around six weeks old |
| powellisation | means of preserving timber |
| practive | practical; concerned with practice |
| praedial | of, like or pertaining to or connected with the land or farming |
| praepostor | prefect of a school |
| pragmatica | royal edict that has the force of law |
| pragmatism | doctrine emphasizing practical value of philosophy |
| prairillon | small prairie |
| pralltriller | rapid musical trill |
| prandial | of, like or pertaining to dinner |
| prasinous | leek-green colour |
| pratal | growing in meadows |
| prate | to talk foolishly or sententiously; to tattle |
| pratincole | fork-tailed, long-winged Australian bird |
| pratincolous | inhabiting meadows or fields |
| pravity | wickedness; depravity |
| praxeology | study of practical or efficient activity; science of efficient action |
| praxinoscope | early cinematograph using series of moving drawings |
| praxis | customary practice or conduct |
| preadamic | before Adam |
| preagonal | immediately preceding death throes |
| preallable | previous; preliminary; preceding |
| preaudience | right to be heard before another |
| prebend | stipend or salary paid to clergyman |
| prebendal | of, like or pertaining to stipends issued by a church |
| precantation | prophecy; foretelling |
| precative | supplicating; expressing entreaty |
| precatory | of the nature of or expressing a wish or recommendation |
| precentor | leader of the singing of a church choir |
| preceptive | concerning rules of conduct, laws or precepts |
| preciation | evaluation of the value or price of a thing |
| précieuse | woman affecting a fastidious over-refinement |
| precipitinogenic | causing precipitation |
| precisian | overly precise person; formalist |
| precissive | separating; defining; exact |
| precognosce | to take a precognition of |
| preconcert | to settle beforehand |
| preconize | to proclaim; to summon publicly |
| predacean | predatory animal |
| predacious | living by prey; predatory |
| predella | platform for altar; portable altar or decoration upon it |
| predestinarianism | belief that what ever is to happen is already fixed |
| predevote | foreordained |
| predicant | preaching; predicating |
| predicative | indicating the predicate |
| prefatorial | serving as preface or opening remarks |
| prefigure | to imagine beforehand; to foreshadow |
| prefulgent | extremely bright |
| pregustation | foretaste |
| prehensor | something that grasps or seizes |
| prelacy | episcopal church government |
| prelapsarian | belonging to the time before man's original sin |
| prelate | bishop or abbot of superior rank |
| prelation | preferment; promotion; eminence |
| prelect | to lecture |
| prelibation | foretaste; offering of first fruits |
| preliography | description or treatise about a battle |
| prelusive | of the nature of a prelude; introductory |
| premiate | to give a prize or premium for |
| premonish | to warn beforehand |
| premorse | ending abruptly as if bitten off |
| premotion | divine impulse determining the will |
| premove | to incite or prompt to action |
| premundane | period before the creation of the earth |
| prenarial | of, like or pertaining to or in front of the nostrils |
| prenticecide | killer of an apprentice |
| prepense | premeditated; intentional |
| prepollence | predominance |
| prepone | to reschedule for an earlier time |
| prepossess | to bias or prejudice favourably; to impress |
| prepotent | potent in a very high degree |
| preputial | of, like or pertaining to the foreskin |
| prerupt | broken off; steep; abrupt |
| presbycousis | hardness of hearing during old age |
| presbyophrenia | female senility marked by loss of memory |
| presbyte | old man |
| presbytery | part of church reserved for officiating clergy |
| prescind | to cut off; cut short; separate |
| prescious | prescient |
| prescriptivism | belief that moral edicts are merely orders with no truth value |
| preseminal | before the onset of puberty; before fertility |
| presenium | period of life preceding old age |
| presentationism | theory that the mind has direct access to perceived objects |
| presentient | prescient; having a premonition |
| presentoir | ornamental shallow tray or cup |
| presidial | of, like or pertaining to a garrison |
| presidial | presidential |
| pressible | able to be pressed |
| prest | to loan |
| prestigiator | conjurer |
| prestriction | blindness; blindfolding |
| preterist | lover of the past |
| preterite | signifying past time or a completed action |
| preterition | passing over or omission; drawing attention to a thing by claiming to omit it |
| pretermit | to pass by; to omit; to leave undone |
| preterpluparenthetical | tending to use excessive parenthesis; pedantic |
| prevenancy | courteous anticipation of others' wishes |
| prevenient | antecedent; preceding; anticipatory |
| prevernal | blossoming or foliating early |
| prevision | foresight; foreknowledge |
| prevoyant | having foresight |
| Priapean | of, like or pertaining to male reproductive power; phallic |
| priapism | constant erection; licentiousness; lewdness |
| pricket | spike or antler used as a candlestick |
| pridian | of, like or pertaining to yesterday |
| prie-dieu | prayer stool or kneeling bench in a church |
| prill | nodule of metal obtained after assaying |
| primage | fee paid to loaders for loading ship |
| primatology | study of primates |
| prime | prayer service held at 6 a.m. |
| primigenial | first or earliest formed or produced |
| primiparous | having borne only one child |
| primitiae | first fruits |
| primitial | of, like or pertaining to first fruits; primeval |
| primitivism | doctrine that a simple and natural life is morally best |
| primo | in the first place |
| primogenous | of, like or pertaining to the earliest or first developmental stage |
| primrose | pale yellow |
| princeps | first; especially first edition of a book |
| prion | small Antarctic petrel |
| priscan | ancient; of early times |
| prisoptometer | instrument for measuring degree of astigmatism |
| prithee | expression of wish or request |
| privatism | attitude of avoiding involvement in outside interests |
| privative | indicating absence, deprivation or negation |
| privity | privacy; secrecy; secret or confidential conversation |
| pro | in favour of; for |
| pro rata | proportionally |
| pro tanto | to that extent; accordingly |
| proairesis | the act of choosing |
| probabiliorism | belief that when in doubt one must choose most likely answer |
| probabilism | belief that knowledge is always probable but never absolute |
| proband | one with a certain feature by which descendants analyzed |
| probang | flexible rod put down throat to clear obstacle |
| probit | unit of measurement of statistical probability |
| proboscidate | having a proboscis or long snout |
| probosciform | shaped like a long nose |
| probouleutic | for preliminary deliberation |
| procacity | petulance; insolence |
| procatalectic | lacking the unaccented part of first foot of a line of verse |
| procatalepsis | anticipating and answering an opponent's objections |
| procathedral | parish church serving as a cathedral |
| proceleusmatic | inciting; encouraging; exhorting |
| procellous | stormy |
| procephalic | of, like or pertaining to the front of the head |
| procerity | tallness |
| prochronism | assigning a date to an event earlier than actual |
| procidence | prolapse; falling forward or downward |
| procinct | preparedness |
| proclisis | pronunciation of word dependent on following word |
| proclivitous | steep |
| procoelous | cupped in front |
| procrustean | seeking to enforce uniformity |
| procrypsis | protective coloration |
| proctal | of, like or pertaining to the anus or rectum |
| proctology | study of rectum |
| proctor | disciplinary officer at a college or university |
| proctoscope | instrument for examining the rectum |
| procumbent | lying or leaning forward; prone |
| procuratory | authorization to act for another |
| procursive | running forward |
| procyonine | of, like or pertaining to raccoons |
| proditor | traitor |
| prodrome | initial symptom of a disease; introductory treatise |
| proeguminal | predisposing; preceding |
| proem | preface |
| proemial | introductory; prefatory |
| proemptosis | addition of extra day to lunar calendar every 300 years |
| proethnic | of, like or pertaining to primitive races |
| profectitious | derived from a parent or ancestor |
| profligate | debauched; rashly extravagant |
| profluent | exuberant; abundant |
| profulgent | shining out; radiant |
| progeria | second childhood; disease of premature aging |
| prognathic | having a jaw that projects forward |
| projacient | jutting forward |
| projectionism | theory that some apparent qualities of reality are projections of the mind |
| projicient | communicating between an organism and its environment |
| prolate | having flattened sides due to lengthwise elongation |
| prolation | utterance |
| prolative | indicating motion alongside or means of motion |
| prolegomenon | introductory study or treatise |
| prolepsis | anticipation; device where objections are anticipated |
| proleptical | prehistoric |
| proleptics | prognosis |
| prolicide | killing of offspring; killing of the human race |
| proligerous | bearing offspring |
| prolix | long-winded; garrulous; dwelling too long on particulars |
| prolocutor | spokesman; speaker of the House of Lords |
| prolusion | preliminary performance, activity or display |
| promachos | champion or defender; tutelary god |
| promptuary | repository; reference book of facts |
| promulgate | make known; disseminate |
| pronaos | vestibule in front of a temple |
| pronasale | tip of the nose |
| pronation | turning hand and forearm so that palm faces downward |
| pronograde | walking with body parallel to ground |
| pronomination | description of a thing by its qualities rather than its proper name |
| prooemium | preface |
| propadeuctic | a preliminary study; preliminary |
| proper | elements of Christian mass that are variable |
| prophetocracy | government by a prophet |
| propine | to pledge in drinking; to present or offer |
| propinquity | closeness |
| propitiate | to render favourable; to appease |
| proplasm | preliminary model or mould |
| propolis | resin of tree buds collected by bees |
| proprioception | sense of muscular position |
| propugnation | defence |
| prore | prow; ship |
| proreption | creeping attack or secretive advance of troops |
| prorogue | to discontinue meetings of a group without dissolving it |
| prorrhesis | preface |
| prosateur | one who writes prose for a living |
| proscenium | part of the stage in front of the curtain |
| prosector | one who dissects bodies in anatomical lectures |
| proseuche | place of prayer; oratory |
| prosilient | outstanding; conspicuous; jumping forth |
| prosit | toast to good health |
| prosodemic | contagious; infectious |
| prosodic | of, like or pertaining to versification |
| prosody | study of versification |
| prosopic | of, like or pertaining to the face |
| prosopography | biographical sketch; description of person |
| prosopography | description of an individual's life, character, or physical form |
| prosopopoeia | personification; representation of absent person as speaking |
| prospice | look forward |
| prostyle | building having columns only in the front |
| prosy | prosaic; tedious |
| prosyllogism | syllogism whose conclusion forms premise of another |
| protactic | prefatory; preliminarily explanatory |
| protanopia | colour-blindness with respect to red |
| protasis | first clause in a conditional expression; introductory part of a play |
| protean | variable; versatile; assuming different forms |
| protension | duration |
| protensive | extensive in time or length |
| protervity | peevishness; petulance; perversity; wantonness |
| protestation | avowal or solemn declaration |
| prothalamion | song or poem celebrating a coming marriage |
| prothonotary | chief registrar of a court; keeper of canonisation records |
| prothysteron | putting last what normally comes first in an expression or argument |
| protistology | study of protists |
| protocolist | registrar or clerk |
| protogenic | formed at the beginning |
| protogenist | inventor |
| protolithic | from the earliest Stone Age |
| protomorphic | primordial; primitive |
| protopathy | first or direct experience |
| protoplast | original ancestor; first-formed person or thing |
| prototrophic | feeding directly on uncombined elements |
| protozeugma | zeugma in which word referring to two clauses is placed before both of them |
| protreptic | exhorting; encouraging; didactic; doctrinal |
| provand | allowance of food; provisions |
| provection | transfer of last letter of one word to first of next |
| proveditor | purveyor of supplies or goods |
| provenance | source; origin |
| provenient | issuing forth |
| providore | steward; quartermaster |
| provine | to propagate by layering |
| proxemics | study of man's need for personal space |
| proxenete | procurer; marriage broker |
| proximo | of next month |
| proxysm | close or near relationship |
| pruinose | having a frosted look; bearing whitish dust |
| prunella | strong and heavy silk or wool |
| pruniferous | bearing plums |
| prunt | moulded glass ornament attached to a larger glass object |
| prurient | stemming from the indulgence of lewd ideas; lascivious |
| prurigo | irritating skin disease causing itching |
| pruritus | itching of the skin |
| psalligraphy | the art of paper-cutting to make pictures |
| psalmodist | singer of psalms |
| psalmody | act of singing psalms in church services |
| psalmography | art of composing psalms |
| psaltery | ancient stringed musical instrument |
| psammite | fine-grained rock |
| psammophile | sand-loving plant |
| psammous | sandy |
| psellism | defect in articulation or pronunciation |
| psephitic | of, like or pertaining to pebbles |
| psephocracy | government resulting from election by ballot |
| psephology | study of election results and voting trends |
| psephomancy | divination by drawing lots or markers at random |
| pseudacusis | mistaken or false hearing |
| pseudaesthesia | imaginary feeling or sensation |
| pseudandry | assumption of man's proper name by a woman |
| pseudaposematic | imitating the coloration of a dangerous animal |
| pseudepigrapha | apocrypha; non-canonical books of the Bible |
| pseudepigraphy | assignment of false authors to books |
| pseudepigraphy | false attribution of authorship |
| pseudepiscopy | existence or rule of a spurious bishop |
| pseudoautochiria | murder disguised as suicide |
| pseudoblepsis | imaginary or false vision; hallucination |
| pseudochromaesthesia | mental association of sounds with colours |
| pseudochronism | error in dating |
| pseudocide | pretended attempt at suicide |
| pseudodox | false doctrine or opinion |
| pseudography | unsatisfactory spelling |
| pseudography | false, incorrect, or spurious spelling |
| pseudogyny | adoption of woman's name by a man |
| pseudohermaphroditism | condition in which sex chromosomes and genitals are of different sexes |
| pseudolalia | incoherence of speech |
| pseudolatry | false worship |
| pseudologia | lying in speech or writing |
| pseudologue | pathological liar |
| pseudology | art or science of lying |
| pseudomania | irrational predilection for lying |
| pseudomorph | false or abnormal physical form |
| pseudonymuncle | lesser or minor writer who uses a pseudonym |
| pseudophonia | suicide disguised as murder |
| pseudopsia | optical illusion |
| pseudoptics | study of optical illusions |
| pseudosmia | false perception of odours |
| pseudosopher | one who pretends to hold knowledge or wisdom |
| pseudosophy | pretension to wisdom |
| psilanthropism | denial of Christ's divinity |
| psilosis | loss of hair |
| psilosophy | shallow philosophy; limited knowledge |
| psilothrum | substance causing loss of hair |
| psithurism | whispering noise; sound of leaves moving in the wind |
| psittacine | of, like or pertaining to macaws, parakeets or parrots |
| psittacism | parrot-like repetition of speech |
| psittacistically | mechanically; in a parrotlike fashion |
| psoas | loin muscle |
| psomophagy | swallowing food without thorough chewing |
| psophometer | instrument measuring audible interference of electrical current |
| psychaesthesia | sensation in relation to feeling or thought |
| psychagogic | attractive; encouraging |
| psychagogue | conductor of souls to the underworld |
| psychalgia | mental pain or distress |
| psychiasis | healing of the soul or psyche |
| psychism | belief in universal soul |
| psychobiology | study of biology of the mind |
| psychodynamic | concerning psychological motives and causation |
| psychofugal | proceeding outward from a mental state |
| psychogenesis | origin and development of the mind |
| psychogenetics | study of internal or mental states |
| psychognosy | study of mentality, personality or character |
| psychogony | development of the mind or soul |
| psychogram | writing supposedly produced under influence of spirits |
| psychograph | instrument that supposedly records spirit messages |
| psychography | production of writing purportedly by a spiritual entity |
| psychologism | theory that mathematical or metaphysical laws can be derived from psychology |
| psychomachy | conflict between the body and the soul |
| psychomancy | divination by means of spirits |
| psychometry | measurement of intelligence and psychological attributes |
| psychomorphism | doctrine that inanimate objects have human mentality |
| psychoneuroendocrinology | study of relationship between the mind, the nervous system, and the endocrine |
| psychopannychism | belief souls sleep from death to resurrection |
| psychopathology | study of mental illness |
| psychophysics | study of link between mental and physical processes |
| psychorrhagy | separation of the soul from the body |
| psychosomatic | of a physical disorder, having a psychological cause |
| psychosophy | doctrine or theory of the soul |
| psychotaxis | alteration of mental outlook to satisfy the personality |
| psychotheism | doctrine that God is a purely spiritual entity |
| psychroaesthesia | sensation of cold in part of body that is actually warm |
| psychrolusia | bathing in cold water |
| psychrometer | instrument for measuring air moisture or temperature |
| psychrophilic | thriving in cold temperatures |
| psychrophobia | fear of the cold |
| psychurgy | mental function, operation or energy |
| ptarmic | substance that causes sneezing |
| pteric | of, like or pertaining to the wing or the shoulder |
| pteridology | study of ferns |
| pteridomania | passion for ferns |
| pterography | treatise or description of feathers |
| pteronophobia | fear of being tickled by feathers |
| pteropine | of, like or pertaining to flying foxes |
| pterospermous | having winged seeds |
| pterygium | abnormal mass of tissue obstructing vision in the eye |
| pterygoid | like a wing |
| pteryla | patch or clump of feathers on a bird |
| pterylography | treatise on the feathers of birds |
| pterylology | study of distribution of feathers on birds |
| ptilosis | plumage or mode of feathering; plumage |
| ptochocracy | government by beggars or paupers; wholesale pauperization |
| ptochogony | production of beggars; pauperization |
| ptosis | drooping of the upper eyelid |
| ptyalagogue | substance that promotes salivation |
| ptyalism | excessive flow of saliva |
| pubarche | first appearance of pubic hair |
| puberulent | feebly or minutely pubescent; covered with minute down |
| pubigerous | hairy; bearing or growing hair |
| puccoon | blood-root; dark red colour |
| puce | brownish-purple; purplish-pink |
| pucelage | virginity |
| pucelle | maid; virgin |
| puckery | astringent; tending to wrinkle |
| pudendum | external female reproductive organs |
| pudibund | shamefaced; prudish |
| pudicity | modesty |
| pudor | sense of shame |
| pudu | small Chilean deer |
| puericulture | child-rearing |
| puerperal | of, like or pertaining to childbirth |
| pug | ground clay mixed with water |
| pugil | small handful; pinch |
| pugioniform | dagger-shaped |
| puisne | inferior in rank; later; junior |
| puissant | powerful; mighty |
| puku | red Central African antelope |
| pulchritude | beauty |
| pule | to pipe; to whimper or whine |
| pulicide | flea-killer |
| pulicine | of, like or pertaining to fleas |
| pulicoid | like a flea |
| pullastrine | of, like or pertaining to pigeons |
| pullet | young hen |
| pulley-piece | armour for the knee |
| pullulate | to swarm; to teem; to breed freely; to sprout |
| pulmonic | of, like or pertaining to the lungs |
| pulpitum | gigantic stone screen separating cathedral choir from the nave |
| pulsimeter | instrument for measuring the pulse |
| pultaceous | macerated and softened; like porridge; pulpy |
| pulverous | dusty or powder |
| pulverulent | dusty-looking; readily crumbling; powdery |
| pulvil | perfumed powder |
| pulvillar | cushion-like |
| pulvilli | pads between claws of an insect's foot |
| pulvilliform | shaped like a cushion |
| pulvinated | cushion-like; bulging; pillowy |
| punalua | marriage of brothers of one family to sisters of another |
| puncheon | tool for punching or stamping |
| punctal | like a point |
| punctate | dotted; pitted |
| punctatim | point for point |
| punctiform | shaped like a point |
| punctilio | minor detail or point of conduct |
| punctilious | scrupulous and exact |
| punctiuncle | insignificant or trifling point of an argument |
| punctulate | bearing small spots or dots |
| punctule | minute dot, pit or aperture |
| punctus | point used in medieval manuscripts to indicate a short pause |
| pundigrion | play on words; pun |
| punditocracy | government by political pundits |
| pundonor | point of honour |
| puniceous | bright or purplish red |
| punk | dry decayed wood used for tinder |
| punnet | small shallow fruit basket |
| pupate | to pass through a chrysalis stage |
| pupigerous | bearing a puparium |
| pupillarity | the state of being a pupil |
| pupillography | examination and description of the pupil of the eye |
| purblind | nearly blind |
| purfle | to ornament the edge of with embroidery |
| purificator | cloth used to wipe Eucharist chalice |
| puriform | like pus |
| purlicue | curl or flourish in writing; summary of speeches |
| purlieu | a person's usual haunts; neighbourhood |
| purline | supporting timber stretching across rafters |
| purloin | to steal; to filch |
| purpresture | encroachment on public property |
| purpure | heraldic colour purple |
| purpureal | purple |
| purser | ship's officer in charge of finances and passengers |
| pursuivant | follower or attendant |
| purulence | the quality of being filled with pus |
| pushful | energetically or aggressively enterprising |
| pusillanimous | lacking firmness; cowardly; having a weak character |
| pustule | pimple containing pus; lump or wart |
| putanism | lewdness in women; prostitution |
| putative | supposed; reputed |
| putcher | wire trap for catching salmon |
| puteal | wall round the top of a well |
| putid | decayed; fetid |
| putlock | cross-piece in a scaffolding |
| putois | brush for painting pottery |
| putrefaction | rotting |
| putrilage | products or remnants of decay |
| putto | plump naked winged boy in artwork |
| puture | foresters' claim of subsistence within bounds of forest |
| puy | small volcanic cone |
| pycnometer | instrument for measuring specific gravity or density |
| pycnomorphous | compact; dense |
| pycnosis | thickening |
| pycnostyle | having closely spaced columns |
| pyelography | examination of the kidney and ureter |
| pygal | belonging to the rump end; pertaining to the rump |
| pygia | pain in the rump |
| pygmachy | boxing; fighting with clubs |
| pyknic | characterized by short squat stature |
| pyknometer | instrument for measuring specific gravities |
| pyogenic | pus-forming |
| pyoid | purulent; pus-like |
| pyramidography | treatise on the Egyptian pyramids |
| pyranometer | instrument measuring solar radiation from the sky's whole hemisphere |
| pyrene | fruit-stone |
| pyretic | of, pertaining to or for the cure of fevers |
| pyretology | study of fevers |
| pyrexia | fever |
| pyrexical | feverish |
| pyrgeometer | instrument for measuring radiation from earth |
| pyrgoidal | tower-shaped |
| pyrgology | study of towers |
| pyrheliometer | instrument for measuring heating effect of sun |
| pyriform | shaped like a pear |
| pyritiferous | bearing pyrite |
| pyroballogy | study of artillery |
| pyroclastics | ash and other material released by volcano |
| pyrogenation | subjection to heat |
| pyrogenous | produced by or producing heat or fever |
| pyrognomic | easily made incandescent |
| pyrography | study of woodburning; writing using hot instrument |
| pyrokinesis | ability to start fires using mind alone |
| pyrolatry | fire-worship |
| pyromachy | use of fire in combat |
| pyromancy | divination using fire |
| pyrometer | instrument for measuring very high temperatures |
| pyrophanous | becoming transparent when heated |
| pyrophobia | fear of fire |
| pyrophorus | substance that spontaneously combusts |
| pyroscope | instrument for measuring intensity of radiant heat |
| pyrosis | heartburn |
| pyrosophy | knowledge of the properties of fire |
| pyrrhic | of, like or pertaining to the dance or to the foot |
| pyrrhonism | total or radical skepticism |
| pyrrhotism | state of being red-haired |
| pyrrhous | reddish; ruddy |
| pyrrhuline | of, like or pertaining to bullfinches |
| pysmatic | questioning; interrogatory |
| pythogenic | produced by filth; causing dirt or decay |
| pythonic | like an oracle or a python |
| pythonism | possession by an oracular spirit |
| pyx | box or vessel in which coins or consecrated Eucharist are kept |
| pyxis | little box or casket for jewels or toiletries |
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