Words Starting With "P"

1. Pallid – deficient in color; pale; become pale because of illness
2. Palpitate – beat rapidly; heart palpitated rapidly
3. Pandemic – affecting a majority of nation or the world
4. Passion – a strong feeling or emotion, cacoethes, mania, rage, warmth
5. Perdition (N) – punishment that lasts forever after death
6. Peregrination – travelling or wandering around; pilgrimage
7. Perfunctory – routinely done; done with disinterest; cursory; for formality only; ceremonial
8. Perjury (N) - Criminal offense of making false statements under oath
9. Pernicious (A) - having a very harmful effect on somebody or something, especially in a way that is gradual and not easily noticed; invidious or harmful
10. Perspicacity (N) – good judgment; acute understanding; able to understand something quickly and accurately; “a perspicacious remark”; discerning; shrewdness; astuteness
11. Pertinacious (A) – determined to achieve a particular aim despite difficulties; stubbornly unyielding
12. Perturbation (N) – an unhappy and worried mental state
13. Philistine (N) – anti-intellectual; a person deficient in liberal cultural refinement; a person indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement
14. Pilfer (A) – steal something with less value; filch
15. Piquant (A) - having a pleasantly strong or spicy taste
16. Pique (V) – hurt the pride or self-respect of somebody; offend; “he was piqued to discover that he hadn’t been invited”
17. Platitude – a thought or remark which is flat, dull, trite or weak; commonplace; banality
18. Pod (N) – outer cover of beans
19. Poignant – deeply and sometimes painfully moving; pungent; arousing effect
20. Ponder [V] – consider; ponder about/on/over something carefully for a period of time; these days I have started to ponder on new words to find whether their meaning can be inferred
21. Pontiff (N) – the head of Roman Catholic Church
22. Potpourri – a collection containing a variety of sorts of things; medley; miscellanea; pastiche; salmagundi
23. Preponderance – a great amount of something
24. Procure – to come into possession; to gain; to get; to acquire
25. Profligate – reckless; extravagant; wasteful; prodigal; dissolute; debauch
26. Promontory (N) – a natural elevation, especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea; foreland; headland
27. Propensity – bias, bent, tendency
28. Propinquity – nearness in location or time, relationship or character
29. Propinquity (N) – nearness in location or time, or relationship or character; proximity
30. Propitiate – to win the favor of; cause to become favorably inclined; appease
31. Propitious – favorable to; advantageous; auspicious
32. Protrude – to thrust forward; shoot forth; bulge outward; pop out; project; jut out
33. Prudent (A) – cautious; Capable of exercising sound judgment in practical matters; conscientious; judicious
34. Puissance [N] – a competition in showjumping to test a horse’s ability to jump high fences; great power of influence
35. Pungent – stinging; sharp in taste or smell; caustic
36. Purdah – a state of social isolation
37. Quisling – someone who collaborates with enemy; a traitor; treasons; “Never trust a quisling”
38. Quotidian (A) – found in ordinary course of events; commonplace