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- PALUDOSEGrowing or living in marshy places; marshy.
- PANACHEAn ornamental plume on a helmet.
- PANARITIUMSThe purulent inflammation of a digit.
- PANARYA pantry or storehouse for bread.
- PANDAThe red panda (Ailurus fulgens), a small raccoon-like animal of northeast Asia with reddish fur and a long, ringed tail.
- PANDOUROne of a class of Croatian skirmishers serving in the Austrian army.
- PANDURATEHaving a shape reminiscent of a fiddle; obovate with a pair of sinuous indentations near the base.
- PANGA paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe.
- PANICUMAny of the genus Panicum of tropical grasses.
- PANTRYA small room, closet, or cabinet usually located in or near the kitchen, dedicated to shelf-stable food storage or storing kitchenware, like a larder, but smaller.
- PANZERA tank, especially a German one of World War II.
- PAPACYThe office of a pope.
- PAPALHaving to do with the pope or the papacy.
- PAPILIOAny butterfly of the genus Papilio.
- PAPILLONA small dog of a certain toy spaniel breed having large upright ears with a shape that resembles butterfly wings.
- PAPISTA Roman Catholic, especially one whose loyalties are seen to be with the papacy in Rome.
- PAPULEA small, inflammatory, irritated spot on the skin, similar in appearance to a pimple, but not containing pus.
- PARADEAn organized display of a group of people, particularly Synonym of military parade: A show of troops, an assembly of troops as a show of force, to receive orders, or especially for
- PARADISIACOf or like Paradise; heavenly, delightful.
- PARADOSGenerally a screen or embankment to protect the rear of a position from enemy attack, from bomb splinters from behind, from enemy fire from a commanding height, or fire from flanki
- PARAMENTA type of elaborate robe especially as worn by someone in power or a religious official.
- PARBOILTo boil food briefly so that it is partly cooked.
- PARCELA package wrapped, as for shipment or transport.
- PARDONForgiveness for an offence.
- PARENTA person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
- PARENTALOf or relating to a parent.
- PARENTHETICOf, pertaining to, or as if using parentheses
- PARGEA coat of cement mortar on the face of rough masonry, the earth side of foundation and basement walls.
- PARGETTo coat with gypsum; to plaster, for example walls, or the interior of flues.
- PARIESThe wall of any cavity or organ.
- PARIETALOf or relating to the wall of a body part, organ or cavity.
- PARITYEquality; comparability of strength or intensity.
- PARKAn area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation.
- PARLEParley; talk.
- PARLIAMENTA formal council summoned (especially by a monarch) to discuss important issues.
- PARMESANA hard, full-fat Italian cheese from Parma or its neighboring province Reggio Emilia.
- PARONYCHIAAn infection of the cuticle of a fingernail or toenail.
- PAROUSHaving given birth.
- PARRICIDALRelated to, inclined to, or guilty of, the murder of one's immediate family.
- PARSNIPA biennial plant, Pastinaca sativa, related to the carrot.
- PARSONAn Anglican cleric having full legal control of a parish under ecclesiastical law.
- PARTAKETo take part in an activity; to participate. [with in]
- PARTIALExisting as a part or portion; incomplete.
- PARTIBLEDivisible, able to be divided or partitioned.
- PARTICIPLEA form of a verb that may function as an adjective, noun or adverb. English has two types of participles: the present participle and the past participle. In other languages, there
- PARTICLEA very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.
- PARTITEDivided into parts.
- PARTITIONAn action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
- PARTYA person or group of people constituting one side in a legal proceeding, such as in a legal action or a contract.
- PARVANIMITYThe state or quality of having a little or ignoble mind; pettiness; meanness.
- PARVENUA person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class, especially through acquisition of wealth, privileges, or political authority but has not gained s
- PARVENUEFemale equivalent of parvenu.
- PASQUILA pasquin; a lampoon.
- PASTERNThe part of a horse's leg between the fetlock joint and the hoof.
- PASTORSomeone who tends to a flock of animals: synonym of shepherd.
- PASTORALOf or pertaining to shepherds or herders of other livestock.
- PASTURELand, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
- PATEThe head, particularly the top or crown.
- PATELLAThe sesamoid bone of the knee; the kneecap.
- PATERFather.
- PATERAA broad, shallow dish used for drinking, primarily in ritual contexts such as libations.
- PATERNALOf or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family.
- PATERNITYFatherhood, the state or quality of being a father.
- PATIBULARYPertaining to the gallows or hanging.
- PATRIALDerived from the name of a country, and designating an inhabitant of the country; gentile.
- PATRIARCHALCharacteristic of a patriarch; venerable.
- PATRICIANA member of any of the families constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens, before the development of the plebeian order; later, one who, by right of birth or by s
- PATRICIDEThe murder of one's father.
- PATRIMONYA right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any male ancestor.
- PATROLOGYthe study of the lives and works (especially the writings) of the Church Fathers.
- PATRONOne who protects or supports; a defender or advocate. A guardian or intercessor; synonym of patron saint.
- PATRONALpatron; protecting; favouring
- PATRONIZETo act as a patron of; to defend, protect, or support.
- PATROONOne of the landowning Dutch grandees of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, especially after it became a British possession renamed as New York.
- PATTENAny of various types of footwear with thick soles, often used to elevate the foot, especially wooden clogs.
- PATTERNModel, example. Something from which a copy is made; a model or outline.
- PATULOUSOpen; spread; exposed
- PAUCITYFewness in number; too few.
- PAULOWNIAAny member of the genus Paulownia, comprising deciduous flowering trees native to Asia.
- PAUNCHThe first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant, the rumen.
- PAUPEROne who is extremely poor.
- PAVETo cover something with paving slabs.
- PAVEEDTo cover something with paving slabs.
- PAVEMENTA paved surface; a hard covering on the ground.
- PAVIDfearful, timid
- PAVILIONAn ornate tent.
- PAVISMost usually, a very large shield fitted with a stand, like a small moveable wall, carried in front to protect all or most of the bearer's body that could be positioned independent
- PAVONEA peacock.
- PAVONIANOf or pertaining to the peacock
- PAYNIMA pagan or heathen, especially a Muslim, or a Jew.
- PEARAn edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but typically elongated towards the stem.
- PEARLA shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especial
- PEASANTA member of the lowly social class that toils on the land, constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, farmhands and other laborers on the land where they form the mai
- PEATSoil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel.
- PECTENThe bones in the hand between the wrist and the fingers.
- PECTINALresembling a comb.
- PECTINATEResembling a comb.
- PECTINEALOf or relating to the pecten.
- PECTORALOf or pertaining to the breast, or chest.
- PECULATETo embezzle.