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# English words: P

[A](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/a/) · [B](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/b/) · [C](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/c/) · [D](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/d/) · [E](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/e/) · [F](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/f/) · [G](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/g/) · [H](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/h/) · [I](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/i/) · [J](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/j/) · [K](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/k/) · [L](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/l/) · [M](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/m/) · [N](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/n/) · [O](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/o/) · **P** · [Q](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/q/) · [R](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/r/) · [S](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/s/) · [T](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/t/) · [U](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/u/) · [V](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/v/) · [W](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/w/) · [X](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/x/) · [Y](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/y/) · [Z](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/z/)

1498 words under P; 1301–1400 on this page.

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- [proposition](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/proposition/) — An idea, plan or offer that is suggested, especially in business: a business proposition.
- [propound](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/propound/) — To put forward an idea, theory or question for people to think about.
- [proprietor](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/proprietor/) — The owner of a business, such as a shop, hotel, restaurant or newspaper.
- [propriety](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/propriety/) — Propriety is behaving in a correct, polite and proper way, following the rules of good manners and morals.
- [propulsion](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/propulsion/) — Propulsion is the force that pushes something forward, such as a car, boat, rocket or animal.
- [prosaic](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/prosaic/) — Ordinary and dull; not imaginative or exciting.
- [proscribe](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/proscribe/) — To proscribe something is to forbid it officially, by a law or a rule.
- [prose](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/prose/) — Prose is ordinary written or spoken language in sentences and paragraphs, not in the lines and rhythm of poetry. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [prosecute](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/prosecute/) — To officially accuse someone of a crime in a court of law and try to prove they are guilty. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [prosecution](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/prosecution/) — Taking someone to court and charging them with a crime.
- [prospect](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/prospect/) — The possibility that something will happen: «There is little prospect of rain.». — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [prospective](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/prospective/) — Likely or expected to be or become something in the future: «prospective parents».
- [prosper](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/prosper/) — To be successful, especially to grow rich or do well over time. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [prosperity](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/prosperity/) — Prosperity is being successful and having plenty of money and good things, especially for a person, a town or a country. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [prosperous](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/prosperous/) — Doing well; having plenty of money, success and good fortune. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [prosperously](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/prosperously/) — In a way that brings money, success and good fortune. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [prostate](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/prostate/) — The prostate is a small gland in men and boys, under the bladder, that helps make fluid used in making babies.
- [prosthetic](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/prosthetic/) — A prosthetic body part is an artificial one, like a leg, arm, hand or eye, made to replace a part that is missing.
- [prostrate](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/prostrate/) — Lying flat on the ground with your face down: «He lay prostrate on the floor.». — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [protagonist](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/protagonist/) — The main character in a story, play, film or game.
- [protect](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/protect/) — To keep someone or something safe from harm, danger or damage. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [protection](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/protection/) — Protection is keeping someone or something safe from harm, danger or damage. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [protective](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/protective/) — Made to keep someone or something safe from harm: "protective gloves", "protective goggles".
- [protector](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/protector/) — A person or animal that keeps someone or something safe from harm.
- [protectorate](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/protectorate/) — A country or area that is controlled and protected by a stronger country, while keeping some of its own rulers: «Brunei was a British…
- [protein](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/protein/) — Protein is a nutrient in food that the body uses to grow, build muscles and repair itself.
- [protest](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/protest/) — A strong public show of disagreement, such as a march or rally: a protest against the new road.
- [protestant](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/protestant/) — A Protestant is a Christian who belongs to one of the churches that broke away from the Roman Catholic Church at the Reformation, or that…
- [protestation](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/protestation/) — A protestation is a strong, often over-eager statement that something is true, or a loud objection to something.
- [protester](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/protester/) — A protester is a person who shows in public that they strongly disagree with something, for example by marching, holding signs or shouting.
- [protoceratops](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/protoceratops/) — A small plant-eating dinosaur from Mongolia and China, about the size of a sheep, with a parrot-like beak and a bony frill at the back of…
- [protocol](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/protocol/) — The official rules of correct behaviour on formal occasions, for example when meeting a king or a president: «royal protocol».
- [proton](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/proton/) — A tiny particle with a positive electric charge, found in the nucleus (centre) of every atom.
- [protracted](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/protracted/) — Lasting a long time, often longer than expected or wanted.
- [protrude](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/protrude/) — To stick out from a surface or edge.
- [protruding](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/protruding/) — Sticking out from a surface or edge: «a nail protruding from the wall», «protruding teeth».
- [proud](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/proud/) — Feeling pleased and happy about something good that you or someone close to you has done or has (proud of my drawing, proud of you). — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [proudly](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/proudly/) — In a way that shows you are pleased and happy about something you or someone close to you did or has. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [prove](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/prove/) — To show with facts or reasons that something is true. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [proven](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/proven/) — Shown to be true by facts or evidence.
- [provenance](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/provenance/) — Where something comes from; its origin.
- [provender](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/provender/) — Food, especially dry food for horses and farm animals, such as hay and oats. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [proverb](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/proverb/) — A proverb is a short, well-known saying that gives advice or states a truth about life, like "Look before you leap". — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [proverbial](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/proverbial/) — Proverbial means well known, the sort of thing people always mention, as if it were a saying or proverb.
- [provide](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/provide/) — To give someone something they need or want. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [providence](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/providence/) — Providence is the care or guidance of God, or the good luck that seems to come from fate; in tales it can mean a kind protecting power. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [provider](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/provider/) — A provider is a person or company that supplies something people need, such as electricity, internet or health care.
- [province](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/province/) — A large part of a country with its own local government, like Ontario in Canada. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [provincial](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/provincial/) — Provincial means belonging to a province or a region outside the capital city.
- [provision](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/provision/) — Giving or supplying something people need: the provision of food or school places. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [provisional](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/provisional/) — Provisional means for now, not final, and likely to change later.
- [provisions](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/provisions/) — Provisions are supplies of food and drink, especially taken on a journey. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [provocation](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/provocation/) — Provocation is something done or said on purpose to make someone angry or to make them react. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [provoke](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/provoke/) — To provoke someone is to annoy them on purpose to make them angry or react. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [provoked](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/provoked/) — Provoked is the past form of provoke: made someone angry on purpose, or caused a reaction. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [prow](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/prow/) — The prow is the front end of a boat or ship, the part that points forward through the water.
- [prowess](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/prowess/) — Prowess is great skill or bravery, especially in fighting or in sport.
- [prowl](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/prowl/) — To prowl is to move about quietly and secretly, often looking for food or for something to attack.
- [proximity](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/proximity/) — Being near in space; closeness: The house is in close proximity to the school.
- [prudence](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/prudence/) — Prudence is being careful and sensible, thinking ahead so you avoid risks and mistakes. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [prudent](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/prudent/) — Prudent means careful and sensible, thinking ahead so you avoid danger or waste. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [prudently](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/prudently/) — In a careful, sensible way that avoids risk.
- [prune](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/prune/) — A prune is a dried plum, dark and wrinkly, eaten as a snack or cooked. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [pry](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/pry/) — To pry is to force something open or up with a tool, or to ask questions about things that are none of your business. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [prying](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/prying/) — Prying means too curious about other people's business, and always wanting to find out secrets.
- [ps](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ps/) — Short for «postscript»: an extra note added at the end of a letter or email after the signature.
- [psalm](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/psalm/) — A psalm is a holy song or poem in the Book of Psalms in the Bible, used by Jews and Christians to praise, thank, or call out to God. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [psalter](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/psalter/) — A book containing the Psalms from the Bible, used for worship.
- [psaltery](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/psaltery/) — An old stringed musical instrument like a harp, played to accompany songs. — Jewish tradition
- [pseudo](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/pseudo/) — «pseudo-» means false or pretend, looking like something it is not: pseudoscience, pseudonym. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [psoriasis](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/psoriasis/) — Psoriasis is a long-lasting skin condition that causes red, itchy, scaly patches, often on the elbows, knees and scalp.
- [psyche](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/psyche/) — Your psyche is your mind and soul — your thoughts, feelings and the deep part of who you are.
- [psychiatric](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/psychiatric/) — About psychiatry — the medical care of illnesses of the mind, such as serious depression or anxiety, by doctors called psychiatrists.
- [psychic](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/psychic/) — A psychic is a person who says they can know the future, read minds or talk to the dead.
- [psycho](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/psycho/) — A person who is thought to be dangerously crazy or violent.
- [psychologist](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/psychologist/) — A psychologist is a person who studies the mind and how people think, feel and behave.
- [psychology](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/psychology/) — Psychology is the science that studies the mind, feelings and how people (and animals) think and behave.
- [ptarmigan](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ptarmigan/) — A ptarmigan is a plump bird of the grouse family that lives in cold mountains and the Arctic; its feathers turn white in winter for…
- [pterodactyl](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/pterodactyl/) — A pterodactyl is a flying reptile that lived at the time of the dinosaurs, with wings made of skin stretched from a long finger.
- [pterosaur](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/pterosaur/) — A pterosaur was a flying reptile that lived at the time of the dinosaurs, with wings of skin stretched from a very long finger.
- [ptolemaic](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ptolemaic/) — Having to do with Ptolemy, the ancient Greek scientist, or with the Ptolemies, the Greek kings of Egypt. — Jewish tradition
- [ptolemy](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ptolemy/) — Ptolemy was a Greek scientist who lived in Alexandria in Egypt about 1,900 years ago (around 100–170 AD); he wrote that the Earth was at… — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [pub](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/pub/) — A pub (short for «public house») is a place in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand where adults buy and drink beer and other…
- [pubertal](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/pubertal/) — To do with puberty, the time, usually between about 8 and 16, when a child's body slowly changes into an adult's body: «pubertal changes»…
- [puberty](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/puberty/) — Puberty is the time, usually between about 9 and 16, when a child's body slowly changes into an adult's body.
- [public](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/public/) — Public means for everyone to use or see, not private: a public park, a public toilet. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [publican](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/publican/) — A publican is a person who owns or runs a pub, where people go to drink and talk.
- [publication](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/publication/) — The act of printing and making a book, magazine or article available to people.
- [publicise](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/publicise/) — To make information about something known to many people, especially by advertising or reporting it.
- [publicity](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/publicity/) — Attention from newspapers, TV, the internet and the public: «The rescue got a lot of publicity.».
- [publicly](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/publicly/) — Publicly means in front of other people, openly, not in private.
- [publish](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/publish/) — To publish means to print a book, magazine or newspaper and make it available for people to buy or read. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [published](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/published/) — Published is the past form of publish: it was printed or put out for people to read. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [publisher](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/publisher/) — A company or person that prepares books, magazines, newspapers, music or games and makes them available for people to buy or read. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [puck](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/puck/) — A puck is a hard, flat, round rubber disc used in ice hockey instead of a ball.
- [pucker](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/pucker/) — To pucker is to wrinkle or gather up into small folds, especially the lips, the face or the brow.
- [pudding](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/pudding/) — In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, pudding (or «pud») can mean any sweet dish eaten after the main meal (dessert).
- [puddle](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/puddle/) — A puddle is a small pool of water (or other liquid) on the ground, often after rain.
- [pudgy](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/pudgy/) — Pudgy means short, round and a little fat, usually used of small children or their hands and cheeks.
- [pueblo](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/pueblo/) — A village of flat-roofed houses made of adobe (mud brick) or stone, built by Native American peoples in the south-west of the USA.