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pacify: v. To bring into a peaceful state.
packet: n. A bundle, as of letters.
pact: n. A covenant.
pagan: n. A worshiper of false gods.
pageant: n. A dramatic representation, especially a spectacular one.
palate: n. The roof of the mouth.
palatial: adj. Magnificent.
paleontology: n. The branch of biology that treats of ancient life and fossil organisms.
palette: n. A thin tablet, with a hole for the thumb, upon which artists lay their colors for painting.
palinode: n. A retraction.
pall: v. To make dull by satiety.
palliate: v. To cause to appear less guilty.
pallid: adj. Of a pale or wan appearance.
palpable: n. perceptible by feeling or touch.
palsy: n. Paralysis.
paly: adj. Lacking color or brilliancy.
pamphlet: n. A brief treatise or essay, usually on a subject of current interest.
pamphleteer: v. To compose or issue pamphlets, especially controversial ones.
Pan-American: adj. Including or pertaining to the whole of America, both North and South.
panacea: n. A remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases.
pandemic: adj. Affecting a whole people or all classes, as a disease.
pandemonium: n. A fiendish or riotous uproar.
panegyric: n. A formal and elaborate eulogy, written or spoken, of a person or of an act.
panel: n. A rectangular piece set in or as in a frame.
panic: n. A sudden, unreasonable, overpowering fear.
panoply: n. A full set of armor.
panorama: n. A series of large pictures representing a continuous scene.
pantheism: n. The worship of nature for itself or its beauty.
Pantheon: n. A circular temple at Rome with a fine Corinthian portico and a great domed roof.
pantomime: n. Sign-language.
pantoscope: n. A very wide-angled photographic lens.
papacy: n. The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.
papyrus: n. The writing-paper of the ancient Egyptians, and later of the Romans.
parable: n. A brief narrative founded on real scenes or events usually with a moral.
paradox: n. A statement or doctrine seemingly in contradiction to the received belief.
paragon: n. A model of excellence.
parallel: v. To cause to correspond or lie in the same direction and equidistant in all parts.
parallelism: n. Essential likeness.
paralysis: n. Loss of the power of contractility in the voluntary or involuntary muscles.
paralyze: v. To deprive of the power to act.
paramount: adj. Supreme in authority.
paramour: n. One who is unlawfully and immorally a lover or a mistress.
paraphernalia: n. Miscellaneous articles of equipment or adornment.
paraphrase: v. Translate freely.
pare: v. To cut, shave, or remove (the outside) from anything.
parentage: n. The relation of parent to child, of the producer to the produced, or of cause to effect.
Pariah: n. A member of a degraded class; a social outcast.
parish: n. The ecclesiastical district in charge of a pastor.
Parisian: adj. Of or pertaining to the city of Paris.
parity: n. Equality, as of condition or rank.
parlance: n. Mode of speech.
parley: v. To converse in.
parliament: n. A legislative body.
parlor: n. A room for reception of callers or entertainment of guests.
parody: v. To render ludicrous by imitating the language of.
paronymous: adj. Derived from the same root or primitive word.
paroxysm: n. A sudden outburst of any kind of activity.
parricide: n. The murder of a parent.
parse: v. To describe, as a sentence, by separating it into its elements and describing each word.
parsimonious: adj. Unduly sparing in the use or expenditure of money.
partible: adj. Separable.
participant: n. One having a share or part.
participate: v. To receive or have a part or share of.
partisan: adj. Characterized by or exhibiting undue or unreasoning devotion to a party.
partition: n. That which separates anything into distinct parts.
passible: adj. Capable of feeling of suffering.
passive: adj. Unresponsive.
pastoral: adj. Having the spirit or sentiment of rural life.
paternal: adj. Fatherly.
paternity: n. Fatherhood.
pathos: n. The quality in any form of representation that rouses emotion or sympathy.
patriarch: n. The chief of a tribe or race who rules by paternal right.
patrician: adj. Of senatorial or noble rank.
patrimony: n. An inheritance from an ancestor, especially from one's father.
patriotism: n. Love and devotion to one's country.
patronize: v. To exercise an arrogant condescension toward.
patronymic: adj. Formed after one's father's name.
patter: v. To mumble something over and over.
paucity: n. Fewness.
pauper: n. One without means of support.
pauperism: n. Dependence on charity.
pavilion: n. An open structure for temporary shelter.
payee: n. A person to whom money has been or is to be paid.
peaceable: adj. Tranquil.
peaceful: adj. Tranquil.
peccable: adj. Capable of sinning.
peccadillo: n. A small breach of propriety or principle.
peccant: adj. Guilty.
pectoral: adj. Pertaining to the breast or thorax.
pecuniary: adj. Consisting of money.
pedagogics: n. The science and art of teaching.
pedagogue: n. A schoolmaster.
pedagogy: n. The science and art of teaching
pedal: n. A lever for the foot usually applied only to musical instruments, cycles, and other machines.
pedant: n. A scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning.
peddle: v. To go about with a small stock of goods to sell.
peddler: n. One who travels from house to house with an assortment of goods for retail.
pedestal: n. A base or support as for a column, statue, or vase.
pedestrian: n. One who journeys on foot.
pediatrics: n. The department of medical science that relates to the treatment of diseases of childhood.
pedigree: n. One's line of ancestors.
peerage: n. The nobility.
peerless: adj. Of unequaled excellence or worth.
peevish: adj. Petulant. (irritable)
pellucid: adj. Translucent.
penalty: n. The consequences that follow the transgression of natural or divine law.
penance: n. Punishment to which one voluntarily submits or subjects himself as an expression of penitence.
penchant: n. A bias in favor of something.
pendant: n. Anything that hangs from something else, either for ornament or for use.
pendulous: adj. Hanging, especially so as to swing by an attached end or part.
pendulum: n. A weight hung on a rod, serving by its oscillation to regulate the rate of a clock.
penetrable: adj. That may be pierced by physical, moral, or intellectual force.
penetrate: v. To enter or force a way into the interior parts of.
penetration: n. Discernment.
peninsular: adj. Pertaining to a piece of land almost surrounded by water.
penitence: n. Sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone.
penitential: adj. Pertaining to sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone.
pennant: n. A small flag.
pension: n. A periodical allowance to an individual on account of past service done by him/her.
pentad: n. The number five.
pentagon: n. A figure, especially, with five angles and five sides.
pentagram: n. A figure having five points or lobes.
pentahedron: n. A solid bounded by five plane faces.
pentameter: n. In prosody, a line of verse containing five units or feet.
pentathlon: n. The contest of five associated exercises in the great games and the same contestants.
pentavalent: adj. Quinqeuvalent.
penultimate: adj. A syllable or member of a series that is last but one.
penurious: adj. Excessively sparing in the use of money.
penury: n. Indigence.
perambulate: v. To walk about.
perceive: v. To have knowledge of, or receive impressions concerning, through the medium of the body senses.
perceptible: adj. Cognizable.
perception: n. Knowledge through the senses of the existence and properties of matter or the external world.
percipience: n. The act of perceiving.
percipient: n. One who or that which perceives.
percolate: v. To filter.
percolator: n. A filter.
percussion: n. The sharp striking of one body against another.
peremptory: adj. Precluding question or appeal.
perennial: adj. Continuing though the year or through many years.
perfectible: adj. Capable of being made perfect.
perfidy: n. Treachery.
perforate: v. To make a hole or holes through.
perform: v. To accomplish.
perfumery: n. The preparation of perfumes.
perfunctory: adj. Half-hearted.
perhaps: adv. Possibly.
perigee: n. The point in the orbit of the moon when it is nearest the earth.
periodicity: n. The habit or characteristic of recurrence at regular intervals.
peripatetic: adj. Walking about.
perjure: v. To swear falsely to.
perjury: n. A solemn assertion of a falsity.
permanence: n. A continuance in the same state, or without any change that destroys the essential form or nature.
permanent: adj. Durable.
permeate: v. To pervade.
permissible: adj. That may be allowed.
permutation: n. Reciprocal change, different ordering of same items.
pernicious: adj. Tending to kill or hurt.
perpendicular: adj. Straight up and down.
perpetrator: n. The doer of a wrong or a criminal act.
perpetuate: v. To preserve from extinction or oblivion.
perquisite: n. Any profit from service beyond the amount fixed as salary or wages.
persecution: n. Harsh or malignant oppression.
perseverance: n. A persistence in purpose and effort.
persevere: v. To continue striving in spite of discouragements.
persiflage: n. Banter.
persist: v. To continue steadfast against opposition.
persistence: n. A fixed adherence to a resolve, course of conduct, or the like.
personage: n. A man or woman as an individual, especially one of rank or high station.
personal: adj. Not general or public.
personality: n. The attributes, taken collectively, that make up the character and nature of an individual.
personnel: n. The force of persons collectively employed in some service.
perspective: n. The relative importance of facts or matters from any special point of view.
perspicacious: adj. Astute.
perspicacity: n. Acuteness or discernment.
perspicuous: adj. Lucid.
perspiration: n. Sweat.
perspire: v. To excrete through the pores of the skin.
persuadable: adj. capable of influencing to action by entreaty, statement, or anything that moves the feelings.
persuade: v. To win the mind of by argument, eloquence, evidence, or reflection.
pertinacious: adj. Persistent or unyielding.
pertinacity: n. Unyielding adherence.
pertinent: adj. Relevant.
perturb: v. To disturb greatly.
perturbation: n. Mental excitement or confusion.
perusal: n. The act of reading carefully or thoughtfully.
pervade: v. To pass or spread through every part.
pervasion: n. The state of spreading through every part.
pervasive: adj. Thoroughly penetrating or permeating.
perverse: adj. Unreasonable.
perversion: n. Diversion from the true meaning or proper purpose.
perversity: n. Wickedness.
pervert: n. One who has forsaken a doctrine regarded as true for one esteemed false.
pervious: adj. Admitting the entrance or passage of another substance.
pestilence: n. A raging epidemic.
pestilent: adj. Having a malign influence or effect.
pestilential: adj. having the nature of or breeding pestilence.
peter: v. To fail or lose power, efficiency, or value.
petrify: v. To convert into a substance of stony hardness and character.
petulance: n. The character or condition of being impatient, capricious or petulant.
petulant: adj. Displaying impatience.
pharmacopoeia: n. A book containing the formulas and methods of preparation of medicines for the use of druggists.
pharmacy: n. The art or business of compounding and dispensing medicines.
phenomenal: adj. Extraordinary or marvelous.
phenomenon: n. Any unusual occurrence.
philander: v. To play at courtship with a woman.
philanthropic: adj. Benevolent.
philanthropist: n. One who endeavors to help his fellow men.
philanthropy: n. Active humanitarianism.
philately: n. The study and collection of stamps.
philharmonic: adj. Fond of music.
philogynist: n. One who is fond of women.
philologist: n. An expert in linguistics.
philology: n. The study of language in connection with history and literature.
philosophize: v. To seek ultimate causes and principles.
philosophy: n. The general principles, laws, or causes that furnish the rational explanation of anything.
phlegmatic: adj. Not easily roused to feeling or action.
phonetic: adj. Representing articulate sounds or speech.
phonic: adj. Pertaining to the nature of sound.
phonogram: n. A graphic character symbolizing an articulate sound.
phonology: n. The science of human vocal sounds.
phosphorescence: n. The property of emitting light.
photoelectric: adj. Pertaining to the combined action of light and electricity.
photometer: n. Any instrument for measuring the intensity of light or comparing the intensity of two lights.
photometry: n. The art of measuring the intensity of light.
physicist: n. A specialist in the science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy.
physics: n. The science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy.
physiocracy: n. The doctrine that land and its products are the only true wealth.
physiognomy: n. The external appearance merely.
physiography: n. Description of nature.
physiology: n. The science of organic functions.
physique: n. The physical structure or organization of a person.
picayune: adj. Of small value.
piccolo: n. A small flute.
piece: n. A loose or separated part, as distinguished from the whole or the mass.
piecemeal: adv. Gradually.
pillage: n. Open robbery, as in war.
pillory: n. A wooden framework in which an offender is fastened to boards and is exposed to public scorn.
pincers: n. An instrument having two lever-handles and two jaws working on a pivot.
pinchers: n. An instrument having two jaws working on a pivot.
pinnacle: n. A high or topmost point, as a mountain-peak.
pioneer: n. One among the first to explore a country.
pious: adj. Religious.
pique: v. To excite a slight degree of anger in.
piteous: adj. Compassionate.
pitiable: adj. Contemptible.
pitiful: adj. Wretched.
pitiless: adj. Hard-hearted.
pittance: n. Any small portion or meager allowance.
placate: v. To bring from a state of angry or hostile feeling to one of patience or friendliness.
placid: adj. Serene.
plagiarism: n. The stealing of passages from the writings of another and publishing them as one's own.
planisphere: n. A polar projection of the heavens on a chart.
plasticity: n. The property of some substances through which the form of the mass can readily be changed.
platitude: n. A written or spoken statement that is flat, dull, or commonplace.
plaudit: n. An expression of applause.
plausible: adj. Seeming likely to be true, though open to doubt.
playful: adj. Frolicsome.
playwright: n. A maker of plays for the stage.
plea: n. An argument to obtain some desired action.
pleasant: adj. Agreeable.
pleasurable: adj. Affording gratification.
plebeian: adj. Common.
pledgee: n. The person to whom anything is pledged.
pledgeor: n. One who gives a pledge.
plenary: adj. Entire.
plenipotentiary: n. A person fully empowered to transact any business.
plenitude: n. Abundance.
plenteous: adj. Abundant.
plumb: n. A weight suspended by a line to test the verticality of something.
plummet: n. A piece of lead for making soundings, adjusting walls to the vertical.
pluperfect: adj. Expressing past time or action prior to some other past time or action.
plural: adj. Containing or consisting of more than one.
plurality: n. A majority.
plutocracy: n. A wealthy class in a political community who control the government by means of their money.
pneumatic: adj. Pertaining to or consisting of air or gas.
poesy: n. Poetry.
poetaster: n. An inferior poet.
poetic: adj. Pertaining to poetry.
poetics: n. The rules and principles of poetry.
poignancy: n. Severity or acuteness, especially of pain or grief.
poignant: adj. Severely painful or acute to the spirit.
poise: n. Equilibrium.
polar: adj. Pertaining to the poles of a sphere, especially of the earth.
polemics: n. The art of controversy or disputation.
pollen: n. The fine dust-like grains or powder formed within the anther of a flowering plant.
pollute: v. To contaminate.
polyarchy: n. Government by several or many persons of what- ever class.
polycracy: n. The rule of many.
polygamy: n. the fact or condition of having more than one wife or husband at once.
polyglot: adj. Speaking several tongues.
polygon: n. A figure having many angles.
polyhedron: n. A solid bounded by plane faces, especially by more than four.
polysyllable: adj. Having several syllables, especially more than three syllables.
polytechnic: adj. Pertaining to, embracing, or practicing many arts.
polytheism: n. The doctrine or belief that there are more gods than one.
pommel: v. To beat with something thick or bulky.
pomposity: n. The quality of being marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner.
pompous: adj. Marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner.
ponder: v. To meditate or reflect upon.
ponderous: adj. Unusually weighty or forcible.
pontiff: n. The Pope.
populace: n. The common people.
populous: adj. Containing many inhabitants, especially in proportion to the territory.
portend: v. To indicate as being about to happen, especially by previous signs.
portent: n. Anything that indicates what is to happen.
portfolio: n. A portable case for holding writing-materials, drawings, etc.
posit: v. To present in an orderly manner.
position: n. The manner in which a thing is placed.
positive: adj. Free from doubt or hesitation.
posse: n. A force of men.
possess: v. To own.
possession: n. The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command.
possessive: adj. Pertaining to the having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command.
possessor: n. One who owns, enjoys, or controls anything, as property.
possible: adj. Being not beyond the reach of power natural, moral, or supernatural.
postdate: v. To make the date of any writing later than the real date.
posterior: n. The hinder part.
postgraduate: adj. Pertaining to studies that are pursued after receiving a degree.
postscript: n. Something added to a letter after the writer's signature.
potency: n. Power.
potent: adj. Physically powerful.
potentate: n. One possessed of great power or sway.
potential: n. Anything that may be possible.
potion: n. A dose of liquid medicine.
powerless: adj. Impotent.
practicable: adj. Feasible.
prate: v. To talk about vainly or foolishly.
prattle: v. To utter in simple or childish talk.
preamble: n. A statement introductory to and explanatory of what follows.
precarious: adj. Perilous.
precaution: n. A provision made in advance for some possible emergency or danger.
precede: v. To happen first.
precedence: n. Priority in place, time, or rank.
precedent: n. An instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule.
precedential: adj. Of the nature of an instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule.
precession: n. The act of going forward.
precipice: n. A high and very steep or approximately vertical cliff.
precipitant: adj. Moving onward quickly and heedlessly.
precipitate: v. To force forward prematurely.
precise: adj. Exact.
precision: n. Accuracy of limitation, definition, or adjustment.
preclude: v. To prevent.
precocious: adj. Having the mental faculties prematurely developed.
precursor: n. A forerunner or herald.
predatory: adj. Prone to pillaging.
predecessor: n. An incumbent of a given office previous to another.
predicament: n. A difficult, trying situation or plight.
predicate: v. To state as belonging to something.
predict: v. To foretell.
prediction: n. A prophecy.
predominance: n. Ascendancy or preponderance.
predominant: adj. Superior in power, influence, effectiveness, number, or degree.
predominate: v. To be chief in importance, quantity, or degree.
preeminence: n. Special eminence.
preempt: v. To secure the right of preference in the purchase of public land.
preemption: n. The right or act of purchasing before others.
preengage: v. To preoccupy.
preestablish: v. To settle or arrange beforehand.
preexist: v. To exist at a period or in a state earlier than something else.
preexistence: n. Existence antecedent to something.
preface: n. A brief explanation or address to the reader, at the beginning of a book.
prefatory: adj. Pertaining to a brief explanation to the reader at the beginning of a book.
prefer: v. To hold in higher estimation.
preferable: adj. More desirable than others.
preference: n. An object of favor or choice.
preferential: adj. Possessing, giving, or constituting preference or priority.
preferment: n. Preference.
prefix: v. To attach at the beginning.
prehensible: adj. Capable of being grasped.
prehensile: adj. Adapted for grasping or holding.
prehension: n. The act of laying hold of or grasping.
prejudice: n. A judgment or opinion formed without due examination of the facts.
prelacy: n. A system of church government.
prelate: n. One of a higher order of clergy having direct authority over other clergy.
prelude: n. An introductory or opening performance.
premature: adj. Coming too soon.
premier: adj. First in rank or position.
premise: n. A judgment as a conclusion.
premonition: n. Foreboding.
preoccupation: n. The state of having the mind, attention, or inclination preoccupied.
preoccupy: v. To fill the mind of a person to the exclusion of other subjects.
preordain: v. To foreordain.
preparation: n. An act or proceeding designed to bring about some event.
preparatory: adj. Having to do with what is preliminary.
preponderant: adj. Prevalent.
preponderate: v. To exceed in influence or power.
prepossession: n. A preconceived liking.
preposterous: adj. Utterly ridiculous or absurd.
prerogative: adj. Having superior rank or precedence.
presage: v. To foretell.
prescience: n. Knowledge of events before they take place.
prescient: adj. Foreknowing.
prescript: adj. Prescribed as a rule or model.
prescriptible: adj. Derived from authoritative direction.
prescription: n. An authoritative direction.
presentient: adj. Perceiving or feeling beforehand.
presentiment: n. Foreboding.
presentment: n. Semblance.
preservation: n. Conservation.
presumption: n. That which may be logically assumed to be true until disproved.
presumptuous: adj. Assuming too much.
pretension: n. A bold or presumptuous assertion.
pretentious: adj. Marked by pretense, conceit, or display.
preternatural: adj. Extraordinary.
pretext: n. A fictitious reason or motive.
prevalence: n. Frequency.
prevalent: adj. Of wide extent or frequent occurrence.
prevaricate: v. To use ambiguous or evasive language for the purpose of deceiving or diverting attention.
prevention: n. Thwarting.
prickle: v. To puncture slightly with fine, sharp points.
priggish: adj. Conceited.
prim: adj. Stiffly proper.
prima: adj. First.
primer: n. An elementary reading-book for children.
primeval: adj. Belonging to the first ages.
primitive: adj. Pertaining to the beginning or early times.
principal: adj. Most important.
principality: n. The territory of a reigning prince.
principle: n. A general truth or proposition.
priory: n. A monastic house.
pristine: adj. Primitive.
privateer: n. A vessel owned and officered by private persons, but carrying on maritime war.
privilege: n. A right or immunity not enjoyed by all, or that may be enjoyed only under special conditions.
privity: n. Knowledge shared with another or others regarding a private matter.
privy: adj. Participating with another or others in the knowledge of a secret transaction.
probate: adj. Relating to making proof, as of a will.
probation: n. Any proceeding designed to ascertain or test character, qualification, or the like.
probe: v. To search through and through.
probity: n. Virtue or integrity tested and confirmed.
procedure: n. A manner or method of acting.
proceed: v. To renew motion or action, as after rest or interruption.
proclamation: n. Any announcement made in a public manner.
procrastinate: v. To put off till tomorrow or till a future time.
procrastination: n. Delay.
proctor: n. An agent acting for another.
prodigal: n. One wasteful or extravagant, especially in the use of money or property.
prodigious: adj. Immense.
prodigy: n. A person or thing of very remarkable gifts or qualities.
productive: adj. Yielding in abundance.
profession: n. Any calling or occupation involving special mental or other special disciplines.
professor: n. A public teacher of the highest grade in a university or college.
proffer: v. To offer to another for acceptance.
proficiency: n. An advanced state of acquirement, as in some knowledge, art, or science.
proficient: adj. Possessing ample and ready knowledge or of skill in any art, science, or industry.
profile: n. An outline or contour.
profiteer: n. One who profits.
profligacy: n. Shameless viciousness.
profligate: adj. Abandoned to vice.
profuse: adj. Produced or displayed in overabundance.
progeny: n. Offspring.
progression: n. A moving forward or proceeding in course.
prohibition: n. A decree or an order forbidding something.
prohibitionist: n. One who favors the prohibition by law of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
prohibitory: adj. Involving or equivalent to prohibition, especially of the sale of alcoholic beverages.
projection: n. A prominence.
proletarian: n. A person of the lowest or poorest class.
prolific: adj. Producing offspring or fruit.
prolix: adj. Verbose.
prologue: n. A prefatory statement or explanation to a poem, discourse, or performance.
prolong: v. To extend in time or duration.
promenade: v. To walk for amusement or exercise.
prominence: n. The quality of being noticeable or distinguished.
prominent: adj. Conspicuous in position, character, or importance.
promiscuous: adj. Brought together without order, distinction, or design (for sex).
promissory: adj. Expressing an engagement to pay.
promontory: n. A high point of land extending outward from the coastline into the sea.
promoter: n. A furtherer, forwarder, or encourager.
promulgate: v. To proclaim.
propaganda: n. Any institution or systematic scheme for propagating a doctrine or system.
propagate: v. To spread abroad or from person to person.
propel: v. To drive or urge forward.
propellant: adj. Propelling.
propeller: n. One who or that which propels.
prophecy: n. Any prediction or foretelling.
prophesy: v. To predict or foretell, especially under divine inspiration and guidance.
propitious: adj. Kindly disposed.
proportionate: adj. Being in proportion.
propriety: n. Accordance with recognized usage, custom, or principles.
propulsion: n. A driving onward or forward.
prosaic: adj. Unimaginative.
proscenium: n. That part of the stage between the curtain and the orchestra.
proscribe: v. To reject, as a teaching or a practice, with condemnation or denunciation.
proscription: n. Any act of condemnation and rejection from favor and privilege.
proselyte: n. One who has been won over from one religious belief to another.
prosody: n. The science of poetical forms.
prospector: n. One who makes exploration, search, or examination, especially for minerals.
prospectus: n. A paper or pamphlet containing information of a proposed undertaking.
prostrate: adj. Lying prone, or with the head to the ground.
protagonist: n. A leader in any enterprise or contest.
protection: n. Preservation from harm, danger, annoyance, or any other evil.
protective: adj. Sheltering.
protector: n. A defender.
protege: n. One specially cared for and favored by another usually older person.
Protestant: n. A Christian who denies the authority of the Pope and holds the right of special judgment.
protocol: n. A declaration or memorandum of agreement less solemn and formal than a treaty.
protomartyr: n. The earliest victim in any cause.
protoplasm: n. The substance that forms the principal portion of an animal or vegetable cell.
prototype: n. A work, original in character, afterward imitated in form or spirit.
protract: v. To prolong.
protrude: v. To push out or thrust forth.
protrusion: n. The act of protruding.
protuberance: n. Something that swells out from a surrounding surface.
protuberant: adj. Bulging.
protuberate: v. To swell or bulge beyond the surrounding surface.
proverb: n. A brief, pithy saying, condensing in witty or striking form the wisdom of experience.
provident: adj. Anticipating and making ready for future wants or emergencies.
providential: adj. Effected by divine guidance.
provincial: adj. Uncultured in thought and manner.
proviso: n. A clause in a contract, will, etc., by which its operation is rendered conditional.
provocation: n. An action or mode of conduct that excites resentment.
prowess: n. Strength, skill, and intrepidity in battle.
proximately: adv. Immediately.
proxy: n. A person who is empowered by another to represent him or her in a given matter.
prudence: n. Caution.
prudential: adj. Proceeding or marked by caution.
prudery: n. An undue display of modesty or delicacy.
prurient: adj. Inclined to lascivious thoughts and desires.
pseudapostle: n. A pretended or false apostle.
pseudonym: n. A fictitious name, especially when assumed by a writer.
pseudonymity: n. The state or character of using a fictitious name.
psychiatry: n. The branch of medicine that relates to mental disease.
psychic: adj. Pertaining to the mind or soul.
psychopathic: adj. Morally irresponsible.
psychotherapy: n. The treatment of mental disease.
pudgy: adj. Small and fat.
puerile: adj. Childish.
pugnacious: adj. Quarrelsome.
puissant: adj. Possessing strength.
pulmonary: adj. Pertaining to the lungs.
punctilious: adj. Strictly observant of the rules or forms prescribed by law or custom.
punctual: adj. Observant and exact in points of time.
pungency: n. The quality of affecting the sense of smell.
pungent: adj. Affecting the sense of smell.
punitive: adj. Pertaining to punishment.
pupilage: n. The state or period of being a student.
purgatory: n. An intermediate state where souls are made fit for paradise or heaven by expiatory suffering.
purl: v. To cause to whirl, as in an eddy.
purloin: v. To steal.
purport: n. Intent.
purveyor: n. one who supplies
pusillanimous: adj. Without spirit or bravery.
putrescent: adj. Undergoing decomposition of animal or vegetable matter accompanied by fetid odors.
pyre: n. A heap of combustibles arranged for burning a dead body.
pyromania: n. An insane propensity to set things on fire.
pyrotechnic: adj. Pertaining to fireworks or their manufacture.
pyx: n. A vessel or casket, usually of precious metal, in which the host is preserved.