9-letter words starting with P
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter P. This section showcases how P at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with P, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| president | 12 | the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | - |
| professor | 14 | someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university | - |
| political | 13 | involving or characteristic of politics or parties or politicians | calling a meeting is a political act in itself |
| perfectly | 19 | completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers | a perfectly idiotic idea |
| principal | 15 | the educator who has executive authority for a school | she sent unruly pupils to see the principal |
| potential | 11 | the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts | - |
| policeman | 15 | a member of a police force | - |
| precisely | 16 | indicating exactness or preciseness | he was doing precisely (or exactly) what she had told him to do |
| preparing | 14 | - | - |
| procedure | 14 | a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work | - |
| protected | 14 | guarded from injury or destruction | - |
| promotion | 13 | a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution | - |
| published | 17 | formally made public | published accounts |
| practical | 15 | guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory | completely practical in his approach to business |
| permanent | 13 | a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals | - |
| possessed | 12 | influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion | by love possessed |
| principle | 15 | (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature) | the principles of internal-combustion engines |
| paperwork | 20 | work that involves handling papers: forms or letters or reports etc. | - |
| personnel | 11 | group of people willing to obey orders | - |
| passenger | 12 | a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it | - |
| pregnancy | 17 | the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus | - |
| publicity | 18 | a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution | - |
| programme | 16 | an integrated course of academic studies | - |
| privilege | 15 | bestow a privilege upon | - |
| perimeter | 13 | the size of something as given by the distance around it | - |
| promising | 14 | likely to turn out well in the future | the scandal threatened an abrupt end to a promising political career |
| primitive | 16 | a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization | - |
| pretended | 13 | adopted in order to deceive | a pretended interest |
| pronounce | 13 | speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | She pronounces French words in a funny way |
| preferred | 15 | preferred above all others and treated with partiality | - |
| probation | 13 | a trial period during which an offender has time to redeem himself or herself | - |
| pointless | 11 | not having a point especially a sharp point | my pencils are all pointless |
| producing | 15 | - | - |
| publisher | 16 | a firm in the publishing business | - |
| psychotic | 21 | a person afflicted with psychosis | - |
| poisoning | 12 | the physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance | - |
| poisonous | 11 | having the qualities or effects of a poison | - |
| prettiest | 11 | - | - |
| practiced | 16 | skillful after much practice | - |
| physician | 19 | a licensed medical practitioner | - |
| parachute | 16 | rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall | - |
| paralyzed | 24 | affected with paralysis | - |
| priceless | 13 | having incalculable monetary, intellectual, or spiritual worth | - |
| providing | 16 | - | - |
| preserved | 15 | kept intact or in a particular condition | - |
| penetrate | 11 | enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members | - |
| pollution | 11 | the act of contaminating or polluting; including (either intentionally or accidentally) unwanted substances or factors | - |
| privately | 17 | kept private or confined to those intimately concerned | it was discussed privately between the two men |
| pineapple | 15 | a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics | - |
| punishing | 15 | characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | set a punishing pace |
| processed | 14 | freed from impurities by processing | - |
| pneumonia | 13 | respiratory disease characterized by inflammation of the lung parenchyma (excluding the bronchi) with congestion caused by viruses or bacteria or irritants | - |
| protector | 13 | a person who cares for persons or property | - |
| patriotic | 13 | inspired by love for your country | - |
| prejudice | 21 | a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation | - |
| penthouse | 14 | an apartment located on the top floors of a building | - |
| precision | 13 | the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance | note the meticulous precision of his measurements |
| proposing | 14 | - | - |
| prototype | 16 | a standard or typical example | he is the prototype of good breeding |
| premature | 13 | too soon or too hasty | a premature judgment |
| prominent | 13 | conspicuous in position or importance | a prominent citizen |
| preaching | 17 | an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) | - |
| powerless | 14 | lacking power | - |
| perverted | 15 | having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented | a perverted translation of the poem |
| portfolio | 14 | a large, flat, thin case for carrying loose papers or drawings or maps; usually leather | he remembered her because she was carrying a large portfolio |
| promoting | 14 | - | - |
| peninsula | 11 | a large mass of land projecting into a body of water | - |
| postponed | 14 | - | - |
| performer | 16 | an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience | - |
| phenomena | 16 | - | - |
| paparazzi | 31 | - | - |
| plaintiff | 17 | a person who brings an action in a court of law | - |
| paragraph | 17 | divide into paragraphs, as of text | This story is well paragraphed |
| primarily | 16 | of primary import | this is primarily a question of economics |
| presently | 14 | at this time or period; now | he is presently our ambassador to the United Nations |
| perpetual | 13 | uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing | the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy |
| physicist | 19 | a scientist trained in physics | - |
| prescribe | 15 | issue commands or orders for | - |
| paramount | 13 | having superior power and influence | - |
| partially | 14 | to some extent; in some degree; not wholly | He was partially paralyzed |
| projector | 20 | an optical device for projecting a beam of light | - |
| purgatory | 15 | a temporary condition of torment or suffering | a purgatory of drug abuse |
| prosecute | 13 | carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in | - |
| perceived | 17 | detected by instinct or inference rather than by recognized perceptual cues | a perceived threat |
| porcelain | 13 | ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic | - |
| provoking | 19 | causing or tending to cause anger or resentment | a provoking delay at the airport |
| paralysis | 14 | loss of the ability to move a body part | - |
| psychosis | 19 | any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted | - |
| patiently | 14 | with patience; in a patient manner | he patiently played with the child |
| perfected | 17 | (of plans, ideas, etc.) perfectly formed | a graceful but not yet fully perfected literary style |
| pedophile | 17 | an adult who is sexually attracted to children | - |
| petrified | 15 | - | - |
| plutonium | 13 | a solid silvery grey radioactive transuranic element whose atoms can be split when bombarded with neutrons; found in minute quantities in uranium ores but is usually synthesized in nuclear reactors; 13 isotopes are known with the most important being plutonium 239 | - |
| penniless | 11 | not having enough money to pay for necessities | - |
| packaging | 19 | a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution | the packaging of new ideas |
| purposely | 16 | with intention; in an intentional manner | - |
| placement | 15 | the spatial property of the way in which something is placed | the placement of the chairs |
| polishing | 15 | the work of making something smooth and shiny by rubbing or waxing it | every Sunday he gave his car a good polishing |
| pestering | 12 | causing irritation or annoyance | swarms of pestering gnats |
| painfully | 17 | in or as if in pain | she moved painfully forward |
| priestess | 11 | a woman priest | - |
| proximity | 23 | a Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) objects or events that are near to one another (in space or time) are perceived as belonging together as a unit | - |
| petroleum | 13 | a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons | - |
| planetary | 14 | of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets | planetary motion |
| parenting | 12 | - | - |
| precedent | 14 | (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions | - |
| plastered | 12 | very drunk | - |
| prolonged | 13 | relatively long in duration; tediously protracted | a prolonged and bitter struggle |
| patronize | 20 | be a regular customer or client of | We patronize this store |
| potassium | 13 | a light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group; oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently with water; is abundant in nature in combined forms occurring in sea water and in carnallite and kainite and sylvite | - |
| populated | 14 | furnished with inhabitants | the area is well populated |
| propeller | 13 | a mechanical device that rotates to push against air or water | - |
| paramedic | 16 | a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment | - |
| punctured | 14 | having a hole cut through | a punctured balloon |
| photocopy | 21 | reproduce by xerography | - |
| portrayed | 15 | represented graphically by sketch or design or lines | - |
| paralysed | 15 | - | - |
| pressured | 12 | - | - |
| projected | 21 | extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | massive projected buttresses |
| pepperoni | 15 | a pork and beef sausage (or a thin slice of this sausage) | - |
| pesticide | 14 | a chemical used to kill pests (as rodents or insects) | - |
| plausible | 13 | apparently reasonable and credible, and therefore convincing | a plausible excuse |
| presenter | 11 | person who makes a gift of property | - |
| provision | 14 | supply with provisions | - |
| palanquin | 20 | a closed litter carried on the shoulders of four bearers | - |
| piggyback | 24 | on the back or shoulder or astraddle on the hip | she carried her child piggyback |
| polygraph | 20 | a medical instrument that records several physiological processes simultaneously (e.g., pulse rate and blood pressure and respiration and perspiration) | - |
| plentiful | 14 | producing in abundance | a plentiful year |
| pathology | 18 | any deviation from a healthy or normal condition | - |
| pistachio | 16 | nut of Mediterranean trees having an edible green kernel | - |
| processor | 13 | (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing | - |
| pulmonary | 16 | relating to or affecting the lungs | pulmonary disease |
| publicist | 15 | someone who publicizes | - |
| paintball | 13 | a capsule filled with water-soluble dye used as a projectile in playing the game of paintball | - |
| pantyhose | 17 | a woman's tights consisting of underpants and stockings | - |
| practised | 14 | skillful after much practice | - |
| profiling | 15 | recording a person's behavior and analyzing psychological characteristics in order to predict or assess their ability in a certain sphere or to identify a particular group of people | - |
| paternity | 14 | the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing | - |
| partition | 11 | divide into parts, pieces, or sections | The Arab peninsula was partitioned by the British |
| partridge | 13 | heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds | - |
| persevere | 14 | be persistent, refuse to stop | - |
| prognosis | 12 | a prediction of the course of a disease | - |
| parchment | 18 | skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on | - |
| posterity | 14 | all of the offspring of a given progenitor | we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity |
| pseudonym | 17 | a fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role | - |
| promenade | 14 | a formal ball held for a school class toward the end of the academic year | - |
| precipice | 17 | a very steep cliff | - |
| playhouse | 17 | plaything consisting of a small model of a house that children can play inside of | - |
| preschool | 16 | an educational institution for children too young for elementary school | - |
| perchance | 18 | by chance | - |
| pacemaker | 19 | a horse used to set the pace in racing | - |
| persecute | 13 | cause to suffer | Some religious groups are persecuted in some countries |
| plundered | 13 | wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value | people returned to the plundered village |
| predatory | 15 | characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding | predatory warfare |
| profanity | 17 | vulgar or irreverent speech or action | - |
| pheromone | 16 | a chemical substance secreted externally by some animals (especially insects) that influences the physiology or behavior of other animals of the same species | - |
| pertinent | 11 | being of striking appropriateness and pertinence | - |
| pigheaded | 17 | obstinate and stupid | - |
| picturing | 14 | visual imagery | - |
| porcupine | 15 | relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur | - |
| proactive | 16 | descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on events or stimuli or processes that occur subsequently | proactive inhibition |
| pentagram | 14 | a star with 5 points; formed by 5 straight lines between the vertices of a pentagon and enclosing another pentagon | - |
| pragmatic | 16 | concerned with practical matters | a matter-of-fact (or pragmatic) approach to the problem |
| periscope | 15 | an optical instrument that provides a view of an otherwise obstructed field | - |
| patronage | 12 | a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient | - |
| patriarch | 16 | the male head of family or tribe | - |
| portrayal | 14 | representation by drawing or painting etc | - |
| pipsqueak | 26 | - | - |
| polluting | 12 | - | - |
| plaything | 18 | an artifact designed to be played with | - |
| preserves | 14 | fruit preserved by cooking with sugar | - |
| preceding | 15 | of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office | - |
| puppeteer | 15 | one who operates puppets or marionettes | - |
| parasitic | 13 | of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another | a wealthy class parasitic upon the labor of the masses |
| polyester | 14 | a complex ester used for making fibers or resins or plastics or as a plasticizer | - |
| pessimist | 13 | a person who expects the worst | - |
| pinkerton | 15 | - | - |
| pondering | 13 | deeply or seriously thoughtful | - |
| propelled | 14 | - | - |
| pampering | 16 | the act of indulging or gratifying a desire | - |
| prophetic | 18 | foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention | prophetic writings |
| propriety | 16 | correct or appropriate behavior | - |
| procreate | 13 | have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant | The Bible tells people to procreate |
| pendragon | 13 | the supreme war chief of the ancient Britons | - |
| perplexed | 21 | full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment | perplexed language |
| profusely | 17 | in an abundant manner | he thanked her profusely |
| prostrate | 11 | get into a prostrate position, as in submission | - |
| pirouette | 11 | (ballet) a rapid spin of the body (especially on the toes as in ballet) | - |
| ploughing | 16 | tilling the land with a plow | - |
| prankster | 15 | someone who plays practical jokes on others | - |
| purifying | 18 | acting like an antiseptic | - |
| pensioner | 11 | the beneficiary of a pension fund | - |
| pervasive | 17 | spreading or spread throughout | the pervasive odor of garlic |
| pantomime | 15 | a performance using gestures and body movements without words | - |
| paralegal | 12 | a person with specialized training who assists lawyers | - |
| playfully | 20 | in a playful manner | she loosened the half-hoop of diamonds on her left hand third finger and held it out to him playfully |
| precursor | 13 | something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone | - |
| penalized | 21 | - | - |
| propagate | 14 | become distributed or widespread | - |
| pulsating | 12 | - | - |
| pierrette | 11 | - | - |
| prevalent | 14 | most frequent or common | - |
| palisades | 12 | - | - |
| pituitary | 14 | the master gland of the endocrine system; located at the base of the brain | - |
| panoramic | 15 | as from an altitude or distance | a panoramic view |
| patterned | 12 | having patterns (especially colorful patterns) | - |
| paperback | 21 | a book with paper covers | - |
| pretender | 12 | a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | - |
| psoriasis | 11 | a chronic skin disease characterized by dry red patches covered with scales; occurs especially on the scalp and ears and genitalia and the skin over bony prominences | - |
| patrolman | 13 | a policeman who patrols a given region | - |
| professed | 15 | openly declared as such | her professed love of everything about that country |
| peacetime | 15 | a period of time during which there is no war | - |
| pollyanna | 14 | - | - |
| poppycock | 26 | senseless talk | - |
| personage | 12 | a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events | - |
| parameter | 13 | a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves | - |
| paralytic | 16 | relating to or of the nature of paralysis | paralytic symptoms |
| palatable | 13 | acceptable to the taste or mind | palatable food |
| pitchfork | 23 | lift with a pitchfork | pitchfork hay |
| pneumatic | 15 | of or relating to or using air (or a similar gas) | pneumatic drill |
| posterior | 11 | coming at a subsequent time or stage | the mood posterior to |
| perennial | 11 | recurring again and again | perennial efforts to stipulate the requirements |
| pillaging | 13 | the act of stealing valuable things from a place | - |
| potpourri | 13 | a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | - |
| premiered | 14 | - | - |
| publicize | 24 | call attention to | - |
| petticoat | 13 | undergarment worn under a skirt | - |
| parochial | 16 | narrowly restricted in outlook or scope | little sympathy with parochial mentality |
| posturing | 12 | adopting a vain conceited posture | - |
| prompting | 16 | persuasion formulated as a suggestion | - |
| pulverize | 23 | destroy completely | - |
| persimmon | 15 | any of several tropical trees of the genus Diospyros | - |
| perturbed | 14 | thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term) | - |
| pessimism | 15 | a general disposition to look on the dark side and to expect the worst in all things | - |
| paranoiac | 13 | a person afflicted with paranoia | - |
| poorhouse | 14 | an establishment maintained at public expense in order to provide housing for the poor and homeless | - |
| pompadour | 16 | French noblewoman who was the lover of Louis XV, whose policies she influenced (1721-1764) | - |
| pediatric | 14 | of or relating to the medical care of children | pediatric dentist |
| preserver | 14 | rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning | - |
| precincts | 15 | - | - |
| panchayat | 19 | a village council in India or southern Pakistan | - |
| plaintive | 14 | expressing sorrow | - |
| porphyria | 19 | a genetic abnormality of metabolism causing abdominal pains and mental confusion | - |
| procuring | 14 | - | - |
| provident | 15 | careful in regard to your own interests | wild squirrels are provident |
| patronise | 11 | be a regular customer or client of | - |
| passively | 17 | in a passive manner | he listened passively |
| pocketful | 20 | the quantity a pocket will hold | - |
| proboscis | 15 | a long flexible snout as of an elephant | - |
| perdition | 12 | (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment | Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell |
| periphery | 19 | the outside boundary or surface of something | - |
| penitence | 13 | remorse for your past conduct | - |
| petechial | 16 | - | - |
| paparazzo | 31 | a freelance photographer who pursues celebrities trying to take candid photographs of them to sell to newspapers or magazines | - |
| patricide | 14 | a person who murders their father | - |
| patrolled | 12 | - | - |
| plastique | 20 | an explosive material that is easily molded around the object it is intended to destroy | - |
| politburo | 13 | the chief executive and political committee of the Communist Party | - |
| presuming | 14 | - | - |
| pubescent | 15 | covered with fine soft hairs or down | - |
| permeated | 14 | - | - |
| phosphate | 19 | a salt of phosphoric acid | - |
| pageantry | 15 | an elaborate representation of scenes from history etc; usually involves a parade with rich costumes | - |
| polarized | 21 | - | - |
| proponent | 13 | a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea | - |
| protester | 11 | a person who dissents from some established policy | - |
| pettiness | 11 | the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous | - |
| palladium | 14 | a silver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum; occurs in some copper and nickel ores; does not tarnish at ordinary temperatures and is used (alloyed with gold) in jewelry | - |
| patchwork | 23 | a quilt made by sewing patches of different materials together | - |
| patchouli | 16 | a heavy perfume made from the patchouli plant | - |
| pictorial | 13 | evoking lifelike images within the mind | pictorial poetry and prose |
| pocketing | 18 | - | - |
| ponderosa | 12 | common and widely distributed tall timber pine of western North America having dark green needles in bunches of 2 to 5 and thick bark with dark brown plates when mature | - |
| proofread | 15 | read for errors | I should proofread my manuscripts |
| perishing | 15 | - | - |
| pestilent | 11 | likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | a pestilential malignancy in the air |
| patroness | 11 | a woman who is a patron or the wife of a patron | - |
| pitifully | 17 | to a pitiful degree | wages were pitifully low, particularly the wages of women |
| polythene | 17 | a lightweight thermoplastic; used especially in packaging and insulation | - |
| prelaunch | 16 | - | - |
| predicate | 14 | involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic | solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well |
| profiteer | 14 | make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods | - |
| phalanges | 15 | - | - |
| pacifying | 20 | - | - |
| panhandle | 15 | a relatively narrow strip of land projecting from some larger area | Wheeling is located in the northern panhandle of West Virginia |
| parabolic | 15 | having the form of a parabola | - |
| peaceable | 15 | inclined or disposed to peace | they met in a peaceable spirit |
| polonaise | 11 | a woman's dress with a tight bodice and an overskirt drawn back to reveal a colorful underskirt | - |
| playmaker | 20 | a player in a team sport who leads attacks or maneuvers in such a way that a teammate can score | - |
| pleasured | 12 | - | - |
| possessor | 11 | a person who owns something | - |
| predictor | 14 | someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) | - |
| profusion | 14 | the property of being extremely abundant | the profusion of detail |
| probative | 16 | tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade you of the truth of an allegation | evidence should only be excluded if its probative value was outweighed by its prejudicial effect |
| privatize | 23 | change from governmental to private control or ownership | The oil industry was privatized |
| provolone | 14 | - | - |
| pushchair | 19 | a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around | - |
| pachyderm | 22 | any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin: elephant; rhinoceros; hippopotamus | - |
| paintwork | 18 | - | - |
| panelling | 12 | a panel or section of panels in a wall or door | - |
| patrimony | 16 | an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) | - |
| patrician | 13 | a member of the aristocracy | - |
| partaking | 16 | - | - |
| pollinate | 11 | fertilize by transfering pollen | - |
| ploughman | 17 | a man who plows | - |
| popularly | 16 | among the people | this topic was popularly discussed |
| prescient | 13 | perceiving the significance of events before they occur | extraordinarily prescient memoranda on the probable course of postwar relations |
| primavera | 16 | - | - |
| prevision | 14 | the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) | - |
| privateer | 14 | an officer or crew member of a privateer | - |
| privatise | 14 | change from governmental to private control or ownership | - |
| purchaser | 16 | a person who buys | - |
| peregrine | 12 | a widely distributed falcon formerly used in falconry | - |
| pedometer | 14 | measuring instrument for recording the number of steps taken in walking | - |
| pedigreed | 14 | having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | - |
| paymaster | 16 | a person in charge of paying wages | - |
| peasantry | 14 | the class of peasants | - |
| parsonage | 12 | an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector | - |
| placating | 14 | intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | placating (or placative) gestures |
| plasterer | 11 | a worker skilled in applying plaster | - |
| pinstripe | 13 | a fabric with very thin stripes | - |
| pointedly | 15 | in such a manner as to make something clearly evident | he pointedly ignored the question |
| pleadings | 13 | - | - |
| preventer | 14 | - | - |
| principia | 15 | - | - |
| publicise | 15 | call attention to | - |
| philology | 18 | the humanistic study of language and literature | - |
| panettone | 11 | - | - |
| palmistry | 16 | telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand | - |
| paratroop | 13 | - | - |
| parentage | 12 | the state of being a parent | - |
| parcheesi | 16 | a modern board game based on pachisi | - |
| plainness | 11 | an appearance that is not attractive or beautiful | - |
| piecework | 20 | work paid for according to the quantity produced | - |
| plurality | 14 | (in an election with more than 2 options) the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number (but less that half of the votes) | - |
| presidium | 14 | a permanent executive committee in socialist countries that has all the powers of some larger legislative body and that acts for it when it is not in session | - |
| purgative | 15 | strongly laxative | - |
| punctuate | 13 | to stress, single out as important | - |
| psychical | 21 | affecting or influenced by the human mind | - |
| prudently | 15 | in a prudent manner | I had allotted my own bedroom for necking, prudently removing both the bed and the key, and taken both myself and my typewriter into my son's bedroom. |
| putrefied | 15 | - | - |
| personify | 17 | represent, as of a character on stage | - |
| permeable | 15 | allowing fluids or gases to pass or diffuse through | permeable membranes |
| pencilled | 14 | drawn or written with a pencil | - |
| pendulous | 12 | having branches or flower heads that bend downward | the pendulous branches of a weeping willow |
| petechiae | 16 | - | - |
| petulance | 13 | an irritable petulant feeling | - |
| persuader | 12 | someone who tries to persuade or induce or lead on | - |
| passivity | 17 | the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative | - |
| pimpernel | 15 | European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads | - |
| pluralism | 13 | a social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated | - |
| potentate | 11 | a ruler who is unconstrained by law | - |
| ponderous | 12 | slow and laborious because of weight | ponderous prehistoric beasts |
| preoccupy | 20 | engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively | - |
| preflight | 18 | - | - |
| prismatic | 15 | exhibiting spectral colors formed by refraction of light through a prism | prismatic light |
| privation | 14 | a state of extreme poverty | - |
| puffiness | 17 | an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement | - |
| ptarmigan | 14 | large Arctic and subarctic grouse with feathered feet and usually white winter plumage | - |
| proximate | 20 | closest in degree or order (space or time) especially in a chain of causes and effects | news of his proximate arrival |
| pussyfoot | 17 | to go stealthily or furtively | - |
| perfumery | 19 | an establishment where perfumes are made | - |
| photocell | 16 | a transducer used to detect and measure light and other radiations | - |
| petersham | 16 | - | - |
| pervading | 16 | - | - |
| pharaonic | 16 | of or relating to the ancient Egyptian kings | - |
| painterly | 14 | having qualities unique to the art of painting | - |
| panegyric | 17 | formally expressing praise | - |
| palpation | 13 | a method of examination in which the examiner feels the size or shape or firmness or location of something (of body parts when the examiner is a health professional) | - |
| pecuniary | 16 | relating to or involving money | he received thanks but no pecuniary compensation for his services |
| peaceably | 18 | in a peaceable manner | the tenant paying the rent hereby reserved and performing the several covenants herein on his part contained shall peaceably hold and enjoy the demised premises |
| platitude | 12 | a trite or obvious remark | - |
| pilferage | 15 | the act of stealing small amounts or small articles | - |
| pilloried | 12 | - | - |
| piecemeal | 15 | a little bit at a time | the research structure has developed piecemeal |
| plenitude | 12 | a full supply | - |
| potboiler | 13 | a literary composition of poor quality that was written quickly to make money (to boil the pot) | - |
| postulate | 11 | maintain or assert | - |
| posthaste | 14 | - | - |
| pomposity | 18 | lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | - |
| preseason | 11 | a period prior to the beginning of the regular season which is devoted to training and preparation | - |
| predation | 12 | an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding | - |
| procuress | 13 | a woman pimp | - |
| proconsul | 13 | an anthropoid ape of the genus Proconsul | - |
| pupillary | 16 | of or relating to the pupil of the eye | - |
| prothesis | 14 | - | - |
| proudness | 12 | - | - |
| percolate | 13 | permeate or penetrate gradually | - |
| perforate | 14 | having a hole cut through | a perforated eardrum |
| penalised | 12 | - | - |
| phenotype | 19 | what an organism looks like as a consequence of the interaction of its genotype and the environment | - |
| pedagogue | 14 | someone who educates young people | - |
| pederasty | 15 | sexual relations between a man and a boy (usually anal intercourse with the boy as a passive partner) | - |
| pizzicato | 31 | a note or passage that is played pizzicato | - |
| piteously | 14 | in a piteous manner | - |
| pikestaff | 21 | the staff of a pike | - |
| poignancy | 17 | a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow | a moment of extraordinary poignancy |
| pollutant | 11 | waste matter that contaminates the water or air or soil | - |
| pluralize | 20 | mark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural | How do speakers pluralize nouns in Japanese? |
| pneumonic | 15 | relating to or affecting the lungs | - |
| postnatal | 11 | occurring immediately after birth | postnatal development |
| precooked | 18 | cooked partially or completely beforehand | frozen precooked meals from the supermarket |
| propylene | 16 | a flammable gas obtained by cracking petroleum; used in organic synthesis | - |
| pulsation | 11 | the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart | - |
| pummeling | 16 | - | - |
| prostatic | 13 | relating to the prostate gland | - |
| pyromania | 16 | an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things | - |
| personate | 11 | attribute human qualities to something | The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous |
| phlebitis | 16 | inflammation of a vein (usually in the legs) | - |
| phonetics | 16 | the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis | - |
| phoniness | 14 | - | - |
| pertussis | 11 | a disease of the respiratory mucous membrane | - |
| philander | 15 | talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | - |
| patroller | 11 | someone on patrol duty; an individual or a member of a group that patrols an area | - |
| passional | 11 | - | - |
| parsimony | 16 | extreme stinginess | - |
| partygoer | 15 | someone who is attending a party | the hall was crowded with an overflow of partygoers |
| pixilated | 19 | very drunk | - |
| plainsong | 12 | (Roman Catholic Church) a liturgical chant consisting of a single, unaccompanied melodic line | - |
| placental | 13 | mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials | - |
| plausibly | 16 | easy to believe on the basis of available evidence | he talked plausibly before the committee |
| planetoid | 12 | any of numerous small celestial bodies that move around the sun | - |
| pilgarlic | 14 | - | - |
| piratical | 13 | characteristic of pirates | piratical attackers |
| polemical | 15 | of or involving dispute or controversy | - |
| polymorph | 21 | an organism that can assume more than one adult form as in the castes of ants or termites | - |
| postdated | 13 | - | - |
| practicum | 17 | - | - |
| polyvinyl | 20 | - | - |
| preassure | 11 | - | - |
| programed | 15 | - | - |
| prolactin | 13 | gonadotropic hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary; in females it stimulates growth of the mammary glands and lactation after parturition | - |
| profaning | 15 | - | - |
| prickling | 18 | a somatic sensation as from many tiny stings | - |
| primipara | 15 | (obstetrics) woman who has been delivered of a child for the first time | - |
| printable | 13 | fit for publication because free of material that is morally or legally objectionable | printable language |
| princesse | 13 | - | - |
| puerility | 14 | a property characteristic of a child | - |
| protruded | 13 | - | - |
| pseudopod | 15 | temporary outgrowth used by some microorganisms as an organ of feeding or locomotion | - |
| provender | 15 | food for domestic livestock | - |
| perfusing | 15 | - | - |
| permutate | 13 | - | - |
| perspired | 14 | - | - |
| penholder | 15 | - | - |
| photoplay | 19 | - | - |
| phonology | 18 | the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes | - |
| picaninny | 16 | (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child | - |
| pabouches | 18 | - | - |
| pacations | 13 | - | - |
| pachadoms | 19 | - | - |
| pachalics | 18 | - | - |
| pachinkos | 20 | - | - |
| pachoulis | 16 | - | - |
| packeting | 18 | - | - |
| packfongs | 21 | - | - |
| packframe | 22 | - | - |
| packhorse | 20 | a workhorse used as a pack animal | - |
| packsacks | 23 | - | - |
| packsheet | 20 | - | - |
| packstaff | 23 | - | - |
| packwaxes | 27 | - | - |
| packboard | 20 | - | - |
| pachytene | 19 | the third stage of the prophase of meiosis | - |
| pacifical | 18 | - | - |
| pacifiers | 16 | - | - |
| pacifisms | 18 | - | - |
| pacifists | 16 | - | - |
| packagers | 18 | - | - |
| pactional | 13 | - | - |
| pantofles | 14 | - | - |
| papalisms | 15 | - | - |
| papalists | 13 | - | - |
| papalized | 23 | - | - |
| papalizes | 22 | - | - |
| paperbark | 19 | - | - |
| papalises | 13 | - | - |
| papalised | 14 | - | - |
| pantoufle | 14 | - | - |
| pantropic | 15 | distributed throughout the tropics | - |
| pantryman | 16 | a manservant (usually the head servant of a household) who has charge of wines and the table | - |
| pantrymen | 16 | - | - |
| pantsuits | 11 | - | - |
| panzootic | 22 | - | - |
| paperboys | 18 | - | - |
| paperclip | 17 | a wire or plastic clip for holding sheets of paper together | - |
| papergirl | 14 | - | - |
| papillose | 13 | of or relating to or resembling papilla | - |
| papillote | 13 | - | - |
| papillous | 13 | - | - |
| papillule | 13 | - | - |
| papishers | 16 | - | - |
| pappadams | 18 | - | - |
| pappadoms | 18 | - | - |
| pappooses | 15 | - | - |
| papillons | 13 | - | - |
| papilloma | 15 | a benign epithelial tumor forming a rounded mass | - |
| paperiest | 13 | - | - |
| paperings | 14 | - | - |
| paperless | 13 | - | - |
