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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; 101–200 on this page.

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- [paperback](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/paperback/) — A book with a soft cover made of thick paper, not a hard cover.
- [paperclip](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/paperclip/) — A small piece of bent wire used to hold sheets of paper together.
- [papermaking](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/papermaking/) — Papermaking is the craft or industry of making paper, usually from wood pulp, cotton, rags or recycled paper soaked in water, pressed into…
- [paperwork](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/paperwork/) — Forms, letters, reports and other papers that must be filled in or kept, especially for school, work or the government.
- [papoose](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/papoose/) — A papoose is a baby carried on its mother's back or in a cradle, wrapped tightly in cloth.
- [papua](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/papua/) — Papua is the name of a large area in the western half of the island of New Guinea, now part of Indonesia.
- [papyrus](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/papyrus/) — A tall water plant like a reed that grows by the River Nile. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [par](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/par/) — In golf, par is the number of strokes a good player is expected to need for a hole or a whole course. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [parable](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parable/) — A parable is a short story with a lesson about how to live, especially one told by Jesus in the Bible. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [parachute](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parachute/) — A parachute is a large piece of cloth fixed to a person or thing by strings, which opens in the air and makes them fall slowly and safely.
- [parachutist](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parachutist/) — A person who jumps from an aircraft and floats down using a parachute.
- [parade](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parade/) — A procession of people, bands or floats moving through the streets to celebrate something. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [paradise](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/paradise/) — Paradise is a perfect, happy place, like a beautiful garden. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [paradox](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/paradox/) — A statement or idea that seems to contradict itself or seems impossible, but may still be true.
- [paragraph](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/paragraph/) — A paragraph is a group of sentences about one main idea; it starts on a new line, often indented. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [parakeet](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parakeet/) — A parakeet is a small, often brightly coloured parrot with a long tail.
- [parallax](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parallax/) — The way an object seems to move against a far background when you look at it from two different places, such as with one eye and then the…
- [parallel](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parallel/) — Parallel lines are straight lines that always stay the same distance apart and never meet, like train rails. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [parallelism](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parallelism/) — A likeness or matching between two things, such as two phrases or ideas placed side by side. — Jewish tradition
- [paralympics](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/paralympics/) — A big international sports competition for athletes with disabilities, such as athletes who are blind, use wheelchairs or have lost limbs…
- [paralyse](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/paralyse/) — To paralyse someone is to make them lose the ability to move part or all of their body, through injury or illness.
- [paralysis](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/paralysis/) — Loss of the ability to move some or all of the body, usually because of injury or illness to the nerves.
- [paramecia](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/paramecia/) — Paramecia are tiny one-celled living things that live in fresh water and are shaped like a slipper; they swim using tiny hairs called cilia.
- [paramecium](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/paramecium/) — A paramecium is a tiny living thing made of just one cell, shaped like a slipper, that lives in ponds and fresh water.
- [paramedic](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/paramedic/) — A paramedic is a trained person who gives emergency medical help to sick or hurt people and takes them to hospital in an ambulance.
- [paramilitary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/paramilitary/) — adjective: Organised like an army, but not part of a country's official army.
- [paramount](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/paramount/) — Paramount means more important than anything else.
- [paranoid](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/paranoid/) — Too worried that people are against you, talking about you or trying to trick you, without good reason.
- [parapet](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parapet/) — A parapet is a low wall along the edge of a bridge, roof or tower, to stop people falling off. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [paraphrase](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/paraphrase/) — To paraphrase is to say or write the same thing again in other words.
- [parasite](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parasite/) — A parasite is a living thing that lives on or inside another living thing and takes its food from it, often harming it: fleas, lice, ticks…
- [parasitic](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parasitic/) — Living on or inside another living thing (the host) and taking food from it, often harming it.
- [parasitism](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parasitism/) — A way of living in which one living thing (the parasite) lives on or inside another (the host) and takes food from it, harming it.
- [parasol](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parasol/) — A parasol is a small umbrella held over the head to keep off the sun.
- [parcel](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parcel/) — A thing or things wrapped in paper or put in a box so it can be sent by post or given to someone. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [parched](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parched/) — Very dry because of heat and lack of rain: "parched fields". — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [parchment](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parchment/) — A material for writing on, made long ago from the thin, dried skin of a sheep, goat or calf.
- [pardon](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/pardon/) — A word you say when you did not hear what someone said and want them to repeat it. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [pare](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/pare/) — To cut away the thin outer skin or edge of something, such as fruit or nails, with a knife. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [parent](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parent/) — A parent is a mother or a father. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [parentage](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parentage/) — Your parentage is who your parents are.
- [parental](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parental/) — Parental means of or about parents, or from a parent.
- [parenthesis](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parenthesis/) — A word, phrase or sentence put into another sentence as extra information, marked by brackets, commas or dashes.
- [paring](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/paring/) — A paring is a thin strip peeled or cut off the skin of a fruit or vegetable.
- [parish](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parish/) — A parish is an area that has its own church and priest or vicar, and the people who live there.
- [parishioner](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parishioner/) — A parishioner is a person who lives in a parish or belongs to its church.
- [parisian](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parisian/) — adjective: From or connected with Paris, the capital city of France.
- [parity](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parity/) — Being equal, especially in pay, rank, strength or chances: men and women should have parity of pay.
- [park](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/park/) — A park is a public green place with grass and trees where people play, walk and relax. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [parkland](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parkland/) — Parkland is open land with grass and trees, used as a park.
- [parliament](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parliament/) — A parliament is a group of people elected to make the laws of a country.
- [parliamentary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parliamentary/) — To do with a parliament: parliamentary elections, a parliamentary debate.
- [parlor](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parlor/) — A parlor is an old word for a sitting room in a house where guests were received.
- [parlour](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parlour/) — A sitting room in a house kept for receiving visitors or for the family to relax in.
- [parody](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parody/) — A parody is a funny copy of a song, story, film or style that exaggerates it to make people laugh or to make fun of it.
- [paroxysm](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/paroxysm/) — A sudden, strong burst of a feeling or action that you cannot control: «a paroxysm of laughter», «a paroxysm of rage».
- [parr](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parr/) — A parr is a young salmon or trout in its first year or two of life in a river, before it swims to the sea.
- [parrot](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parrot/) — A parrot is a bird with bright colours and a curved beak.
- [parrotfish](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parrotfish/) — A parrotfish is a brightly coloured fish of coral reefs with teeth joined into a beak like a parrot's.
- [parsec](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parsec/) — A unit for measuring huge distances in space, equal to about 3.26 light years, or about 31 million million kilometres.
- [parsee](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parsee/) — A member of a community of Zoroastrians in India and Pakistan whose families came from Persia (Iran) more than a thousand years ago.
- [parsi](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parsi/) — A member of a community in India whose ancestors came from Persia (Iran) over a thousand years ago and who follow the Zoroastrian religion.
- [parsley](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parsley/) — Parsley is a green herb with curly or flat leaves, used to flavour food and to decorate plates.
- [parsnip](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parsnip/) — A long, pale cream root vegetable, shaped like a carrot, with a sweet taste when cooked.
- [parson](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parson/) — A parson is a priest in charge of a church, especially in a country village.
- [parsonage](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parsonage/) — A parsonage is the house where a parson lives, usually next to the church.
- [part](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/part/) — A part is a piece of something bigger. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [partake](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/partake/) — To eat or drink something, usually offered to you: "partake of the feast". — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [parthenogenesis](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parthenogenesis/) — Parthenogenesis is a way some animals and plants have babies from an egg that has not been fertilised, so no father is needed.
- [partial](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/partial/) — Partial means not complete; only part of something. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [partiality](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/partiality/) — Unfair support for one person or side over another: "The referee showed partiality.".
- [partially](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/partially/) — Partially means partly; not completely.
- [participant](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/participant/) — A person who takes part in an activity, an event, a race, a game, a study or a competition. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [participate](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/participate/) — To take part or join in an activity or event. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [participating](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/participating/) — Taking part or joining in an activity, game, event or lesson.
- [participation](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/participation/) — Participation is taking part in an activity or event.
- [participle](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/participle/) — A participle is a form of a verb used to make tenses or used like an adjective. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [particle](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/particle/) — A particle is a very small piece or bit of something: dust particles. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [particular](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/particular/) — Particular means one certain thing, not any other: on that particular day. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [particularly](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/particularly/) — Especially; more than usual or more than others: I particularly like apples.
- [partisan](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/partisan/) — Strongly supporting one political party or side, often without being fair to the other side.
- [partition](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/partition/) — A thin wall or screen that divides a room into parts.
- [partitive](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/partitive/) — A word or phrase that shows a part of a whole or an amount, such as "some of", "a piece of", "a slice of", "a glass of".
- [partly](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/partly/) — Partly means not completely; to some degree, but not all. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [partner](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/partner/) — A partner is a person who does something together with you, like a work or dance partner. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [partnership](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/partnership/) — Working together with someone as partners to do something: «The school works in partnership with the zoo».
- [partridge](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/partridge/) — A plump brown bird that lives on the ground in fields and is sometimes hunted for food. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [party](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/party/) — A party is a time when people meet to eat, play and have fun, like a birthday party. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [pas](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/pas/) — «Pas» means «not» in French, used with «ne»: «je ne sais pas» is «I don't know»; in casual French people often just say «pas». — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [pass](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/pass/) — To pass something is to give it to the next person. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [passage](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/passage/) — A passage is a narrow way, like a corridor or path, that you go along. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [passed](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/passed/) — went past; moved by something. — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [passenger](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/passenger/) — A passenger is a person who travels in a bus, train, car, ship or plane but does not drive or fly it.
- [passer](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/passer/) — A person who passes by, usually in "passer-by" (plural passers-by): someone walking past a place.
- [passeth](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/passeth/) — «passeth» means «passes», a form of «pass»: To pass something is to give it to the next person.
- [passion](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/passion/) — A very strong feeling, such as love, anger or excitement.
- [passionate](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/passionate/) — Having or showing very strong feelings, such as love, anger or excitement.
- [passionately](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/passionately/) — With very strong feeling or enthusiasm: "She spoke passionately about animals.".
- [passive](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/passive/) — Passive means letting things happen to you without acting, reacting or taking part: «a passive audience». — everyday · Jewish tradition
- [passover](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/passover/) — Passover is a Jewish spring festival that remembers how God freed the Israelites from slavery in Egypt; families share a special meal… — everyday · Jewish tradition