| Term | Definition |
| paladin | heroic champion |
| palindrome | word/phrase reads the same backwords |
| panacea | cure for all ills/difficulties |
| pandemic | prevelent practically throughout the world |
| panoply | complete array of something large |
| paraclete | person called upon to interecede (a dispute) |
| paradigm | model example. standard to hold up example |
| paroxysm | a fit or outburst (emotion) |
| pathetic fallacy | attribution of human emotions to elements of nature |
| pathos | quality that arouses pity (pathetic) |
| patronize | go in regularly |
| penicil | short bristly tufts of hair |
| peremptory | authoritarian/dictarian tone |
| perfidious | disloyal~treacherous nefarious |
| perfunctory | routine, automatic, no emotion |