Initial P

• pace: single movement from one foot to the other in walking; slow gait; step
• pack: pact or bundle made up and prepared to be carried; a number of similar things; a full set of playing cards
• packaging: putting something into boxes
• pad: soft or small cushion; a kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting
• painting: drawing; picture or design in paint; action of applying paint to a surface
• pair: two people or things considered as a unit; two items of the same kind; couple
• pale: not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; not bright or brilliant
• palm: inner surface of the hand between bases of fingers and wrist; tropical evergreen trees of the family Palmae
• pamphlet: brochure; leaflet; a small book usually having a paper cover
• pan: criticize harshly; wash in pan; cook in pan
• pane: framed section of window or door that is filled with a sheet of glass or others; panel in a wall or door
• panel: a group of people gathered for a special purpose; small board or pad
• panic: sudden mass fear and anxiety
• panorama: complete view in every direction.
• panoramic: related to unobstructed and comprehensive view; with a wide view
• pant: breathe quickly or in a labored manner; respire with heaving of the breast; sigh
• pantry: apartment or closet in which bread and other provisions are kept
• pants: trousers; underwear; garment extending from waist to knee or ankle
• par: amount or level considered to be average; standard; equality of status, level, or value
• parachute: rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall
• parade: march in a procession; ceremonial procession; visible display
•  paradise: garden of Eden; any place of complete delight and peace
• paragraph: distinct division of written or printed matter that begins on a new, usually indented line
• parallel: make or place something to another’s side; of or relating to multiple operations at same time; not intersecting
• paralyse: make unable to move or act; impair the progress or functioning of
• parameter: characteristic or feature that distinguishes something from others
• parasite: animal or plant living on another
• parliament: discussion; formal conference on public affairs; general council, especially an assembly of representatives of a nation
• partial: incomplete; fragmentary; favoring one person or side over another or others
• participant: people who take part in
• participate: take part in something; share in something
• particle: a tiny piece of anything
• partition: divide into parts, pieces, or sections
• partner: person who is a member of a partnership; associate who works with others toward a common goal
• passion: strong feeling or emotion ; fervor
• passionate: zealous; enthusiastic; filled with or motivated by zeal
• passive: lacking in energy or will; peacefully resistant in response to injustice
• passport: legal document identifying the bearer as citizen of a country and allowing to travel abroad
• pastime: something which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably; sport; amusement
• pasture: field covered with grass; meadow
• patch: a piece of cloth; small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
• patent: open for the public to read; obvious; plain
• path: way; footway; course or track; route; passage
• pathetic: causing sadness, compassion, or pity
• patriot: one who loves and defends his or her country
• patriotic: inspired by love for one’s country
• patriotism: love of country; devotion to welfare of one’s country; virtues and actions of patriot
• patrol: activity of going on an area at regular intervals for security purposes
• patron: benefactor; regular customer
• patronage: sponsorship; support; state of being a sponsor
• pave: coat; cover
• pavement: floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make hard and convenient surface for travel
• pawn: something given as security for loan; pledge or guaranty; article deposited as security
• peach: small tree in Prunus persica widely cultivated at temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit
• peak: summit; apex; maximum; prime
• pebble: small smooth rounded rock
• peck: pick; hit lightly with a picking motion; eat like a bird
• peculiar: special; characteristic; unusual; odd; bizarre
• peculiarity: eccentricity; oddness; an odd or unusual characteristic; private ownership; proprietorship pedal: foot-operated lever used for actuating or controlling a mechanism
• pedestrian: lacking wit or imagination; ordinary
• peel: come off in flakes or thin small pieces; strip the skin off; get undressed
• peer: gaze; stare; look searchingly; company with
• penalty: punishment established by law or authority for a crime or offense; fine
• pending: not yet decided or settled; awaiting conclusion or confirmation
• penetrate: pierce; go through; permeate
• penetration: act or process of penetrating, piercing, or entering
• pension: something paid or given; payment to a person in consideration of past services
• perceive: become aware of through the senses; detect
• percent: out of each hundred; per hundred; one part in a hundred
• perception: understanding; feeling; effect or product of perceiving
• perch: a place high up; an elevated place serving as a seat
• perfect: completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error
• perfection: flawlessness; excellence; state of being without flaw or defect
• perform: carry through; bring to completion; achieve; accomplish; execute
• performance: act of performing; dramatic or musical entertainment; process or manner
• performer: entertainer; who performs or takes part in a play or performance of any kind
• perfume: pleasing, agreeable scent or odor
• peril: danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction
• perimeter: outer boundary length; closed curve bounding a plane area
• period: duration, continuance, term; end of something
• periodic: repeated; recurring at intervals of time
• periodical: publication that appears at fixed intervals
• peripheral: located in outer boundary; unimportant; auxiliary
• perish: be destroyed; pass away; become nothing
• permanent: remaining without essential change
• permission: consent; approval to do something
• permissive: approving; tolerant; granting; not strict in discipline
• permit: consent to; give permission
• perpendicular: vertical; upright; intersecting at or forming right angles; extremely steep
• perpetual: everlasting; continuing without interruption
• perplex: baffle; confuse
• persecute: pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; beset with cruelty or malignity; harass; annoy
• persecution: act or practice of persecuting on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or beliefs that differ from those of the persecutor
• perseverance: endurance; steady persistence in adhering to a course of action
• persevere: endure; be persistent, refuse to stop
• persist: continue; insist; persevere
• persistence: endurance; tenacity; state or quality of being persistent; persistency
• personal: particular to a given individual; concerning or affecting a particular person
• personality: complex of all the attributes of a person; totality of qualities and traits of a person personnel: group of people willing to obey orders
• perspective: appearance of things; view, outlook, or vista
• persuade: advise; counsel; urge the acceptance or practice of; convince
• pertain: belong; have connection with, or dependence on
• pertinent: having precise or logical relevance; pertaining or relating
• perturb: disturb greatly; make uneasy or anxious; throw into great confusion
• peruse: read or examine, typically with great care
• pest: persistently annoying person; organism that injures livestock or crops
• pet: animal kept for amusement or companionship
• petition: plea; formal message requesting something
• petroleum: dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
• petty: trivial; of small importance; very small
• phase: any distinct time period in a sequence of events; stage
• phenomenon: appearance; anything visible, in matter or spirit; extraordinary or very remarkable person, thing, or occurrence
• philosophy: body of highest truth; investigation of nature, causes, or principles of reality, knowledge, or values, based on logical reasoning
• phonetics: branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis
• photograph: picture or likeness obtained by photography
• phrase: brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression
• physical: relating to the body as distinguished from the mind or spirit
• physician: person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duty authorized to treat diseases; doctor of medicine
• piano: stringed instrument that is played by depressing keys
• pick: remove something with the fingers, or with the teeth; separate as choice or desirable
• picnic: eat in the open air; have informal meal eaten outside or on an excursion
• picturesque: scenic; striking or interesting in an unusual way
• pier: landing place; platform built out from shore into water and supported by piles; provides access to ships
• pigment: substance used as coloring; dry coloring matter
• pile: large timber or post; heap; hair; fiber of wool, cotton; head of an arrow or spear
• pilgrim: traveler; one who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some holy place or shrine as a devotee
• pill: a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet; something that is unpleasant or offensive
• pillar: column; post
• pillow: a cushion to support the head of a sleeping person
• pilot: one who guides a course of action for others; one who operates or is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight
• pin: a piece of wood, metal, generally cylindrical, used for fastening separate articles together
• pinch: clutch; squeeze between the thumb and a finger, the jaws of a tool, or other edges
• pine: have desire for something or someone; yearn; grieve or mourn for
• pineapple: large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves
• pioneer: originator; explorer
• pioneering: initial; groundbreaking; originating; serving to pioneer
• pious: devout; religious; exhibiting strict, traditional sense of virtue and morality
• pirate: robber on seas; one who by open violence takes the property of another on seas
• pistol: the smallest firearm used, intended to be fired from one hand
• piston: sliding piece which either is moved by, or moves against
• pit: confront; set into opposition or rivalry
• pitch: action or manner of throwing something
• pitcher: container for liquids, having a handle and a lip or spout for pouring; player who throws the ball from the mound to the batter
• plague: epidemic disease with a high death rate; annoyance
• plain: without elevations or depressions; flat; smooth; not rich; simple; without beauty; not handsome plane: flat or level surface; level of development, existence, or achievement
• planet: celestial bodies that revolve around the sun
• plantation: farm; an area under cultivation; a group of cultivated trees or plants
• plaster: cover conspicuously, as by pasting something on; adhesive tape used in dressing wounds; a hardened surface as on a wall or ceiling
• plastic: capable of being molded; capable of being shaped or formed; easily influenced
• plate: flat piece of metal; thick sheet of metal; small, usually circular, vessel of metal or wood for food table
• plateau: highland; upland; relatively flat highland
• platform: stage; a raised horizontal surface
• playwright: someone who writes plays
• plea: request for help; excuse or pretext
• plead: appeal or request earnestly; enter a plea; offer as an excuse
• pleasure: agreeable sensations or emotions; excitement, relish, or happiness produced by the expectation or the enjoyment of something good, delightful, or satisfying
• pledge: promise solemnly and formally; binding commitment to do something
• plight: condition or state, especially a bad state or condition
• plot: small extent of ground; secret scheme or strategy
• plough: plow
• pluck: pull or draw, especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something plug: something, such as a cork or a wad of cloth, used to fill a hole tightly; stopper
• plumb: checking perpendicularity; exactly vertical
• plumber: craftsman who installs and repairs pipes and fixtures and appliances
• plume: feather, especially a soft, downy feather, or a long, conspicuous, or handsome feather; an ornamental tuft of feathers; token of honor or achievement
• plump: sound of a sudden heavy fall; well-rounded and full in form
• plunder: take goods of by force, or without right; spoil; sack; strip; rob
• plunge: dive; submerge; become suddenly lower; decrease dramatically; throw oneself into a substance or place
• plus: involving advantage or good; on the positive side or higher end of a scale
• ply: bend; lay on closely, or in folds; work upon steadily, or with repeated acts; press upon
• pneumonia: inflammation of the lungs
• poke: push at, as with a finger or an arm; search or look curiously; proceed in slow or lazy manner; thrust forward
• polar: pertaining to one of the poles of the earth; of the poles
• pole: a long rod; one of two divergent or mutually exclusive opinions
• policy: settled method of government to administer; system of public or official administration
• polish: remove flaws from; perfect or complete
• politics: profession devoted to governing and political affairs; study of government of states and other political units
• poll: voting; survey; number of votes cast or recorded
• pollute: make impure; make unfit for or harmful to living things, especially by the addition of waste matter
• pollution: contamination; undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated
• ponder: weigh; weigh in the mind; view with deliberation; examine carefully; consider attentively pony: small horse; small glass of beer; word for word translation of a foreign language text
• popcorn: small kernels of corn exploded by heat
• popular: of common people; suitable to common people; easy to be comprehended; not abstruse; familiar; plain
• popularity: quality of being widely admired or accepted or sought after
• porcelain: ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic
• porch: covered and enclosed entrance to building; covered passage
• pore: gaze intently; stare; scrutinize; read or study carefully and attentively
• port: place on waterway with facilities for loading and unloading ships
• portable: mobile; easily or conveniently transported
• portion: section or quantity within a larger thing; a part of a whole
• portrait: portraiture; picture; likeness of a person, especially one showing the face
• portray: depict; describe; draw
• pose: pretend to be someone you are not; assume a posture as for artistic purposes
• positive: involving advantage or good ; greater than zero; very sure; confident
• possess: occupy in person; hold or actually have in one’s own keeping; have and hold; have the legal title to
• possession: act of having and controlling property; belongings
• post: display announcement in a place of public view; publish on a list
• postage: token that postal fee has been paid; charge for mailing something
• postal: of or relating to the system for delivering mail
• postcard: card for sending messages by post without an envelope
• posterity: descendants; future generations
• postpone: hold back to a later time; delay; defer
• postulate: essential premise; underlying assumption
• pot: metallic or earthen vessel for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, or for plant potent: powerful; having power to influence or convince; having great control or authority potential: existing in possibility; expected to become or be
• potentiality: inherent capacity for coming into being; an aptitude that may be developed
• poultry: domestic fowls reared for eating, or for their eggs or feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and geese
• pound: unit of weight equal to 16 ounces
• pour: flow in a spurt; rain heavily; supply in large amounts
• poverty: lack of money; state of being poor; lack of the means of providing material needs or comforts
• practicable: feasible; capable of being effected, done, or put into practice
• practical: based on experience; useful
• practically: virtually; actually; for all practical purpose
• prairie: treeless grassy plain; extensive area of flat or rolling
• preach: advocate; speak, plead; argue in favor of
• precaution: prevention; measure taken beforehand; act of foresight
• precede: come before; antecede
• precedence: fact, state, or right of preceding; priority; previous occurrence, or existence before; preceding act or speech
• precedent: act or instance that may be used as example in subsequent similar cases preceding: ahead; prior to
• precious: of high worth or cost
• precise: exact; clearly expressed; accurate or correct
• precision: exactness; accuracy; number of significant digits to which a value has been reliably measured
• predecessor: former occupant of post; ancestor or forefather
• predict: state, tell about, or make known in advance, especially on the basis of special knowledge
• prediction: something foretold or predicted; prophecy
• predominant: most frequent or common; having superior power and influence
• preface: something spoken as introductory to a discourse, or written as introductory to a book or essay
• preferable: favored; better; more desirable or worthy than another; preferred
• preference: a strong liking; favorite
• pregnancy: condition of being pregnant; fruitfulness; fertility
• pregnant: expecting a baby; carrying within the body or being about to produce new life
• prejudice: opinion formed without due examination; leaning toward one side of a question
• preliminary: prior to or preparing for the main matter; introductory
• prelude: introduction; forerunner; preliminary or preface
• premature: too soon; too early; occurring before a state of readiness
• premium: having or reflecting superior quality or value
• prescribe: dictate; guide; advise the use of; assert a right; claim
• prescribed: set down as a rule or guide; certain; stated
• prescription: written instructions from doctor; written order; act of establishing official rules, laws, or directions
• presence: state of being present; current existence
• present: being in existence; something presented as a gift; period of time that is happening now presentation: show or display; act of presenting something to sight or view
• preservation: conservation; protection
• preserve: uphold; retain; maintain in safety from injury, peril, or harm
• preside: be set, or to sit, in the place of authority; to occupy the place of president, chairman, moderator, director; direct, control, and regulate, as chief officer
• press: machines or devices that apply pressure or print; collecting and publishing of news; journalism in general
• pressure: stress; tension; condition of being pressed
• prestige: impression produced by achievements or reputation; recognized distinction or importance presumably: assumedly; supposedly
• presume: take for granted as true in absence of proof; venture without authority
• pretense: act of giving a false appearance; imaginative intellectual play
• pretentious: intended to attract notice and impress others; making unjustified claims; overly ambitious
• prevail: induce; be greater in strength or influence; triumph; win out
• prevailing: most frequent; widespread; predominant
• prevalent: widespread; widely or commonly occurring, existing, accepted
• previous: existing or occurring before something else
• prey: target of a hunt; animal hunted or caught for food
• prick: penetrate or puncture by a sharp and slender thing
• primary: of first rank or importance or value; essential or basic
• prime: first in excellence, quality, or value; at the best stage; peak; first in degree or rank; chief
• primitive: belonging to an early stage; simple or naive in style; primeval
• principal: highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree
• principle: basic truth or law or assumption; rule or law of nature; rule of personal conduct
• prior: preceding in the order of time; former; previous
• priority: preceding in time, importance, or urgency
• privacy: quality of being secluded from view of others; condition of being hidden
• privilege: special advantage or benefit not enjoyed by all; right reserved exclusively
• probe: explore with tools; investigate; search
• problematic: open to doubt; unsettled; questionable; difficult to solve
• procedure: act or manner of moving forward; act performed; steps taken in an action
• proceed: follow a certain course; move ahead; travel onward
• proceeding: a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked proceeds: profit, money made from selling something; income arising from land or other property
• process: act of proceeding; continued forward movement; a series of actions
• procession: act of proceeding, moving on, advancing, or issuing; regular, orderly, or ceremonious progress; continuous course
• proclaim: declare; announce
• procure: bring into possession; cause to accrue to, or to come into possession of; cause to come; bring
• produce: bring forward; lead forth; offer to view or notice; exhibit; cause to be or to happen productive: having quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; causing to exist productivity: quality or state of being productive; productiveness.
• profession: occupation requiring special education
• professional: engaged in, or suitable for a profession
• proficiency: skillfulness in command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity; expertise proficient: skilled; expert; having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
• profile: outline; biographical sketch
• profit: advantageous gain or return; income received from investments or property
• profound: deep; not superficial; far-reaching
• progress: moving or going forward; proceeding onward; advance
• progressive: forward-looking; advancing; incremental
• prohibit: ban; taboo; forbid
• prohibitive: tending to discourage; prohibiting; forbidding
• project: any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; program; plan; scheme
• projection: plan for anticipated course of action; thing that extends outward beyond a prevailing line or surface
• projector: optical device for projecting a beam of light
• proletarian: member of working class; blue collar person
• prolong: make longer; draw out; lengthen
• prominence: relative importance; property of being prominent; a standing out from the surface of something
• prominent: conspicuous; immediately noticeable; sticking out; widely known
• promise: declaration assuring that one will or will not do something; indication of something favorable to come
• promising: likely to develop in a desirable manner; affording hope
• promote: help to flourish; advance in rank; publicize
• prompt: move to act; incite; give rise to; assist with a reminder
• prone: inclined; lying face downward; having a tendency
• proof: evidence; demonstration; statement or argument used in such a validation
• propaganda: organization or plan for spreading a particular doctrine or a system of principles
• propagate: cause something to multiply or breed; cause to extend to broader area or larger number
• propel: drive forward; cause to move forward or onward; push
• propeller: machine for propelling an aircraft or boat; one who propels
• proper: belonging to one; one’s own; individual; belonging to natural or essential constitution; peculiar; not common; particular
• property: any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone
• prophet: one who speaks by divine inspiration or as the interpreter through whom the will of a god is expressed
• proportion: percentage; quotient obtained when a part is divided by the whole; part considered in relation to the whole
• proposal: something proposed; act of making a proposal; an offer of marriage
• propose: make a proposal, declare a plan for something
• proposition: plan suggested for acceptance; a matter to be dealt with; subject for discussion or analysis
• proprietor: one who has legal title to something; owner
• proprietorship: an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits
• prose: essay; ordinary speech or writing; commonplace expression or quality
• prosecute: seek to obtain or enforce by legal action; carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in
• prosecutor: one who carries out legal action, especially criminal proceedings; one who prosecutes any purpose, plan, or business
• prospect: possibility of future success; belief about future
• prosperity: good fortune; financial success; physical well-being
• prosperous: successful; thriving; having or characterized by financial success or good fortune
• protein: any of a large group of nitrogenous organic compounds that are essential constituents of living cells
• protest: expression of disagreement and disapproval; complain against
• protocol: code of correct conduct ; rules governing socially acceptable behavior; record of transaction
• prototype: original work used as a model; original type
• provincial: relating to a province; limited in outlook; unsophisticated
• provision: stipulated condition; act of supplying or fitting out; something provided
• provisional: temporary; provided for present need only
• provocation: unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment; aggravation
• provoke: stir to anger; give rise to; stir to action or feeling
• prudence: quality or state of being prudent; wisdom in the way of caution and provision; good judgment
• prudent: cautious; careful in regard to one’s own interests
• psychology: science that deals with mental processes and behavior
• publication: act or process of publishing printed matter; communication of information to public
• publicity: state of being public; information to attract public notice
• publish: make public; make known to mankind, or to people in general
• pull: steer or move into a certain direction; take away; remove from a fixed position; extract
• pulse: beat; rhythm; rate at which heart beats;
• pump: draw fluid or gas by pressure or suction; supply in great quantities
• pumpkin: usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family
• punch: blow; drive forcibly; pierce; hit with a sharp blow of the fist
• punctual: consisting in a point; limited to a point; unexpended; precise
• pupil: a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution
• puppy: young dog; pup; doll; puppet
• purchase: act or an instance of buying; something bought
• purify: refine; make pure or free from sin or guilt; become clean
• purity: condition of being pure; freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; cleanness
• purple: chromatic color between red and blue; belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler
• purse: gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; contract one’s lips into a rounded shape
• pursue: follow in; go in search of or hunt for
• pursuit: follow after; follow with a view to obtain; endeavor to attain
• puzzle: difficult question or problem
• pyramid: a massive memorial with a square base and four triangular sides; built as royal tombs in ancient Egypt