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- PROVIDETo make a living; earn money for necessities.
- PROVIDENCEPreparation for the future; good governance; foresight.
- PROVIDENTPossessing, exercising, or demonstrating great care and consideration for the future.
- PROVIDENTIALPertaining to divine providence.
- PROVINCEA region of the earth or of a continent; a district or country.
- PROVINCIALOf or pertaining to a province.
- PROVINETo lay a stock or branch of a vine in the ground for propagation.
- PROVISIONAn item of goods or supplies, especially food, obtained for future use.
- PROVISIONALTemporary, but with the intention of eventually becoming permanent or being replaced by a permanent equivalent.
- PROVISOA conditional provision to an agreement.
- PROVOCANTOne who or that which provokes.
- PROVOKETo cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
- PROVOSTOne placed in charge: a head, a chief, particularly: A dean: the head of a cathedral chapter. The head of various other ecclesiastical bodies, even muezzins. The minister of the ch
- PROXIMALCloser to the point of attachment or observation.
- PROXIMATEClose or closest; adjacent.
- PROXIMITYCloseness; the state of being near in space, time, or relationship.
- PROXIMOOf next month.
- PROXYUsed as a proxy or acting as a proxy.
- PRUDEA person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who is easily offended by matters of a sexual nature.
- PRUDENTSagacious in adapting means to ends; circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct.
- PRUDENTIALCharacterised by the use of prudence; arising from careful thought or deliberation.
- PRUINOSEHaving a very fine whitish powder (bloom) on a surface.
- PRUNUSA type of traditional decoration on porcelain that depicts the leaves and branches of the Chinese plum, Prunus mume.
- PRUSSICderived from Prussian blue
- PSORICOf or pertaining to psora.
- PUBERTYA developmental phase brought about by the action of hormones as part of the maturing process. For humans, there are three in total. The process of sexual development that produces
- PUBERULENTCovered in soft, downy hairs.
- PUBESplural of pubis (“pubic bones”)
- PUBESCENTAt or just after the age of puberty.
- PUBISThe pubic bone; the part of the hipbone forming the front arch of the pelvis.
- PUBISESThe pubic bone; the part of the hipbone forming the front arch of the pelvis.
- PUBLICATIONThe act of publishing printed or other matter.
- PUBLICITYAdvertising or other activity designed to rouse public interest in something.
- PUBLISHTo issue (something, such as printed work) for distribution and/or sale.
- PUCEA brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.
- PUDENCYModesty.
- PUDIBUNDShy, bashful; prudish.
- PUDICEasily ashamed, having a strong sense of shame; modest, chaste.
- PUDICITYModesty; chastity.
- PUDORAn appropriate sense of modesty or shame.
- PUEBLOA community in Spain or Spanish America, especially one of Pueblo Indians living in a stone or adobe multi-storey building.
- PUERILEChildish; trifling; silly.
- PUERILITYThe state, quality, or condition of being childish or puerile.
- PUGILAs much as is taken up between the thumb and two first fingers; a pinch.
- PUGNACIOUSNaturally aggressive or hostile; combative; belligerent; bellicose.
- PUGNACITYThe act or characteristic of being aggressive or combative.
- PULCHRITUDEPhysical beauty.
- PULLETA young hen, especially one less than a year old.
- PULMONATEHaving lungs or similar organs.
- PULMONICOf, pertaining to, or produced by the lungs.
- PULPA soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. A mixture of wood, cellulose and/or rags and water ground up to make paper. A mass of chemically processed wood fibres (cellulose). A suspe
- PULPITA raised platform in a church, sometimes enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands when giving the sermon; also, the lectern on such a platform.
- PULPITUMA massive, often decorative screen of stone or timber that divides the choir from the nave and ambulatory in medieval cathedrals and monastic churches.
- PULSATETo expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat, exhibit a pulse.
- PULSATIONThe regular throbbing of the heart, an artery etc. in a living body; the pulse.
- PULSATIVECharacterised by pulsing or beating; throbbing.
- PULSATORAny pulsating astronomical object
- PULSIONThe act of driving forward; propulsion.
- PULTACEOUSMacerated; softened; nearly fluid; gloopy
- PULVERPowder.
- PULVERINEashes of barilla
- PULVERISETo render into dust or powder.
- PULVEROUSResembling or consisting of dust or powder.
- PULVINARA prominence on the posterior part of the thalamus of the human brain.
- PULVINATECurved convexly or swelled.
- PULVINUSA joint on a plant leaf or petiole that may swell and cause movement of the leaf or leaflet.
- PUMICEA light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock, formed during explosive volcanic eruptions when liquid lava is ejected into water or air as a froth containing masses of gas bubbl
- PUMICEOUSOf or pertaining to pumice; resembling pumice.
- PUMPIONPumpkin.
- PUNCHA hit or strike with one's fist.
- PUNCTATEMarked by spots, dots, points, or punctures.
- PUNCTATIONA preliminary treaty or contract.
- PUNCTILIOA fine point in exactness of conduct, ceremony, etiquette or procedure.
- PUNCTOA point of form or ceremony.
- PUNCTUALPrompt; on time. Of an event, happening at the appointed time. Of a person, acting at the appointed time.
- PUNCTUATETo add punctuation to.
- PUNCTUATIONA set of symbols and marks which are used to clarify meaning in text by separating strings of words into clauses, phrases and sentences; examples include commas, hyphens, and stops
- PUNCTUMA sharp tip of any part of the anatomy; a point or other small area.
- PUNCTUREThe act or an instance of puncturing.
- PUNISHTo cause (a child, student, or someone else being looked after, or a suspect or criminal) to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action, typically by an auth
- PUNITIVEInflicting punishment; punishing.
- PUNTA narrow shallow boat, square at both ends, traditionally propelled by a pole.
- PUNTOA hit or point.
- PUNTYA metal rod used in the glassblowing process. After a glass vessel has been blown to approximate size and the bottom of the piece has been finalized, the rod, which is tipped with
- PUPAUsed as a specific epithet; resembling an insect in its pupal stage of development.
- PUPARIUMAn enclosing case of a pupa that is formed from the exoskeleton of an insect's final stage before pupation.
- PUPILLARITYThe period before puberty, or from birth to fourteen in males, and twelve in females
- PUPILLARYOf or pertaining to person below a certain legal age, or to a ward.
- PURCHASEThe acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
- PURFLEAn ornamental border on clothing, furniture or a violin; beading, stringing.
- PURGATIONThe process or act of purging, such as by the use of a purgative.
- PURGETo clean thoroughly; to rid of impurities; to cleanse; to clear of (something unwanted).
- PURIFYTo cleanse, or rid of impurities.
- PURITYThe state or degree of being pure.
- PURLIEUThe ground on the edges of a forest, especially when partly subject to the same forest laws concerning game hunting etc.
- PURSLANEAny of the family Portulacaceae (order Caryophyllales) of succulent plants. common purslane or summer purslane (Portulaca oleracea), a widely-grown edible plant moss-rose purslane,
- PURSUETo follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase.
- PURULENTConsisting of pus.
- PURVEYTo prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision.
- PURVIEWThe enacting part of a statute.