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 Word Meaning with Alphabet "P"
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- Pacifist - Noun - A person who believes in pacifism or is opposed to war or to violence of any kind.
- Pale - Adjective - Lacking intensity of color; colorless or whitish: a pale complexion.
- Pariah - Noun - Any person or animal that is generally despised or avoided.
- Parsimonious - Adjective - Characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
- Partiality - Noun - A special fondness, preference, or liking (usually followed by to or for ): a partiality for country living.
- Partisan - Noun - An adherent or supporter of a person, group, party, or cause, especially a person who shows a biased, emotional allegiance.
- Patronize - Verb - To give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- Pauper - Noun - A person without any means of support, especially a destitute person who depends on aid from public welfare funds or charity.
- Peccadillo - Noun - A very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault.
- Pedant - Noun - A person who makes an excessive or inappropriate display of learning.
- Pedantry - Noun - The character, qualities, practices, etc., of a pedant, especially undue display of learning.
- Peevish - Adjective - Cross, querulous, or fretful, as from vexation or discontent: a peevish youngster.
- Pejorative - Adjective - Having a disparaging, derogatory, or belittling effect or force: the pejorative affix -ling in princeling.
- Penurious - Adjective - Extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly.
- Penury - Noun - Extreme poverty; destitution.
- Perceptive - Adjective - Having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition: a perceptive analysis of the problems involved.
- Peripatetic - Noun - A person who walks or travels about.
- Perplex - Verb - To cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood or certain; confuse mentally: Her strange response perplexed me.
- Perspicacious - Adjective - Having keen mental perception and understanding; discerning: to exhibit perspicacious judgment.
- Perverse - Adjective - Willfully determined or disposed to go counter to what is expected or desired; contrary.
- Pestilence - Noun - A deadly or virulent epidemic disease.
- Petulant - Adjective - Moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation, especially over some trifling annoyance: a petulant toss of the head.
- Pillory - Noun - A wooden framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used to expose an offender to public derision.
- Pithy - Adjective - Brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning; terse; forcible: a pithy observation.
- Plenitude - Noun - Fullness or adequacy in quantity, measure, or degree; abundance: a plenitude of food, air, and sunlight.
- Politic - Adjective - Shrewd or prudent in practical matters; tactful; diplomatic.
- Pompous - Adjective - Characterized by an ostentatious display of dignity or importance: a pompous minor official.
- Ponderous - Adjective - Of great weight; heavy; massive.
- Pontifical - Adjective - Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
- Poor - Adjective - Having little or no money, goods, or other means of support: a poor family living on welfare.
- Portend - Verb - To indicate in advance; to foreshadow or presage, as an omen does: The street incident may portend a general uprising.
- Portly - Adjective - Rather heavy or fat; stout; corpulent.
- Preamble - Noun - The introductory part of a statute, deed, or the like, stating the reasons and intent of what follows.
- Predilection - Noun - A tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference: a predilection for Bach.
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- Prefatory - Adjective - Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preface: prefatory explanations.
- Prefigure - Verb - Used with object to show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.
- Prelude - Noun - A preliminary to an action, event, condition, or work of broader scope and higher importance.
- Premonition - Noun - A feeling of anticipation of or anxiety over a future event; presentiment: He had a vague premonition of danger.
- Premonitory - Adjective - Giving premonition; serving to warn beforehand.
- Presage - Noun - Something that portends or foreshadows a future event; an omen, prognostic, or warning indication.
- Prescience - Noun - Knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight.
- Presentiment - Noun - A feeling or impression that something is about to happen, especially something evil; foreboding.
- Preserved - Verb - To keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
- Presumptuous - Adjective - Full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought.
- Pretend - Verb - To cause or attempt to cause (what is not so) to seem so: to pretend illness; to pretend that nothing is wrong.
- Prevarication - Noun - The act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
- Privation - Noun - Lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life: His life of privation began to affect his health.
- Probity - Noun - Integrity and uprightness; honesty.
- Prodigal - Adjective - Wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.
- Prodigious - Adjective - Extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
- Proficiency - Noun - The state of being proficient; skill; expertness: proficiency in music.
- Profligate - Adjective - Utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
- Profound - Adjective - Penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
- Prognosticate - Verb - To forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
- Prologue - Noun - A preliminary discourse; a preface or introductory part of a discourse, poem, or novel.
- Prone - Adjective - Having a natural inclination or tendency to something; disposed; liable: to be prone to anger.
- Propensity - Noun - A natural inclination or tendency: a propensity to drink too much.
- Prophetic - Adjective - Of or pertaining to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- Propitiate - Verb - To make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate.
- Proponent - Noun - A person who puts forward a proposition or proposal.
- Proscribe - Verb - To denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
- Provenance - Noun - Place or source of origin: The provenance of the ancient manuscript has never been determined.
- Provender - Noun - Dry food, as hay or oats, for livestock or other domestic animals; fodder.
- Prudence - Noun - Caution with regard to practical matters; discretion.
- Prudent - Adjective - Wise or judicious in practical affairs; sagacious; discreet or circumspect; sober.
- Prurience - Adjective - Having, inclined to have, or characterized by lascivious or lustful thoughts, desires, etc.
- Punctiliousness - Adjective - Extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
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Astute - adjective - of keen penetration or discernment; sagacious: an astute analysis.
Burlesque - Noun - An artistic composition, especially literary or dramatic, that, for the sake of laughter, vulgarizes lofty
material or treats ordinary material with mock dignity.
Cloying - Adjective - Overly ingratiating or sentimental.
Demure - Adjective - characterized by shyness and modesty; reserved.
Expurgate - Verb - to purge or cleanse of moral offensiveness.
Fawning - Noun - a young deer, especially an unweaned one.
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