| pubertal | (adjective) of or related to puberty | - |
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| puberulent | (adjective) covered with fine soft hairs or down | Synonyms: downy, pubescent, sericeous |
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| pubescent | (adjective) covered with fine soft hairs or down | Synonyms: downy, puberulent, sericeous |
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| (adjective) (of animals especially human beings) having arrived at the onset of puberty (the age at which sex glands become functional) but not yet fully mature | - |
| pubic | (adjective) relating or near the pubis | - |
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| public | (adjective) not private; open to or concerning the people as a whole | - |
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| (adjective) affecting the people or community as a whole | - |
| publicised | (adjective) made known; especially made widely known | Synonyms: publicized |
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| publicized | (adjective) made known; especially made widely known | Synonyms: publicised |
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| publishable | (adjective) suitable for publication | - |
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| published | (adjective) prepared and printed for distribution and sale | - |
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| (adjective) formally made public | Synonyms: promulgated |
| pucka | (adjective) absolutely first class and genuine | Synonyms: pukka |
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| puckish | (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, wicked |
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| puddingheaded | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlebrained, addlepated, muddleheaded |
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| pudendal | (adjective) of or relating to or near the pudendum | - |
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| pudgy | (adjective) short and plump | Synonyms: dumpy, podgy, roly-poly, tubby |
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| puerile | (adjective) of or characteristic of a child | - |
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| (adjective) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, jejune, juvenile |
| puerperal | (adjective) relating to or connected with or occurring at the time of childbirth or shortly following, or to the woman who has just given birth | - |
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| puff | (adjective) gathered for protruding fullness | Synonyms: puffed |
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| puffed | (adjective) gathered for protruding fullness | Synonyms: puff |
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| puffy | (adjective) being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing | Synonyms: bouffant |
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| (adjective) blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts | Synonyms: gusty |
| (adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: bloated, distended, intumescent, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid |
| pugilistic | (adjective) of or relating to pugilism or pugilists | - |
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| pugnacious | (adjective) ready and able to resort to force or violence | Synonyms: rough |
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| (adjective) tough and callous by virtue of experience | Synonyms: hard-bitten, hard-boiled |
| puissant | (adjective) powerful or influential | - |
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| pukka | (adjective) absolutely first class and genuine | Synonyms: pucka |
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| pulchritudinous | (adjective) used of persons only; having great physical beauty | - |
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| pulmonary | (adjective) relating to or affecting the lungs | Synonyms: pneumonic, pulmonic |
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| pulmonic | (adjective) relating to or affecting the lungs | Synonyms: pneumonic, pulmonary |
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| pulpy | (adjective) like a pulp or overripe; not having stiffness | Synonyms: squashy |
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| pulseless | (adjective) appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse | Synonyms: breathless, inanimate |
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| pulverised | (adjective) consisting of fine particles | Synonyms: fine-grained, powdered, powdery, pulverized, small-grained |
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| pulverized | (adjective) consisting of fine particles | Synonyms: fine-grained, powdered, powdery, pulverised, small-grained |
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| pumped | (adjective) tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline | Synonyms: pumped-up, pumped up, wired |
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| punchable | (adjective) deserving of being punched | - |
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| punctilious | (adjective) marked by precise accordance with details | Synonyms: meticulous |
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| punctual | (adjective) acting or arriving or performed exactly at the time appointed | Synonyms: on time |
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| puncturable | (adjective) capable of being punctured | - |
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| punctured | (adjective) having a hole cut through | Synonyms: perforate, perforated, pierced |
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| punctureless | (adjective) being without punctures or incapable of being punctured | - |
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| pungent | (adjective) capable of wounding | Synonyms: barbed, biting, mordacious, nipping |
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| (adjective) strong and sharp | Synonyms: acrid |
| punic | (adjective) tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans | Synonyms: perfidious, treacherous |
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| punishable | (adjective) liable to or deserving punishment | - |
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| (adjective) (of an act or offense) subject to punishment by law | Synonyms: penal |
| punished | (adjective) subjected to a penalty (as pain or shame or restraint or loss) for an offense or fault or in order to coerce some behavior (as a confession or obedience) | - |
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| punishing | (adjective) resulting in punishment | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, toilsome |
| punitive | (adjective) inflicting punishment | Synonyms: punitory |
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| punitory | (adjective) inflicting punishment | Synonyms: punitive |
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| punk | (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, sleazy, tinny |
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| punny | (adjective) provoking laughter by means of word play | - |
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| puny | (adjective) (used especially of persons) of inferior size | Synonyms: runty, shrimpy |
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| (adjective) inferior in strength or significance | - |
| pupal | (adjective) of the insects in the chrysalis (cocoon) or post larval stage | - |
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| pupillary | (adjective) of or relating to the pupil of the eye | - |
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| puppyish | (adjective) characteristic of a puppy | Synonyms: puppylike |
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| puppylike | (adjective) characteristic of a puppy | Synonyms: puppyish |
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| purblind | (adjective) having greatly reduced vision | Synonyms: dim-sighted, near-blind, sand-blind, visually challenged, visually impaired |
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| (adjective) lacking in insight or discernment | Synonyms: obtuse |
| purchasable | (adjective) available for purchase | Synonyms: for sale |
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| (adjective) capable of being corrupted | Synonyms: bribable, corruptible, dishonest, venal |
| pure | (adjective) (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless | - |
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| (adjective) free of extraneous elements of any kind | - |
| (adjective) (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black | Synonyms: saturated |
| (adjective) in a state of sexual virginity | Synonyms: vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous |
| (adjective) free from discordant qualities | - |
| (adjective) concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied | - |
| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| pureblood | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree, pedigreed, pureblooded, thoroughbred |
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| pureblooded | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree, pedigreed, pureblood, thoroughbred |
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| purebred | (adjective) bred for many generations from member of a recognized breed or strain | - |
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| purgative | (adjective) strongly laxative | Synonyms: cathartic, evacuant |
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| purgatorial | (adjective) of or resembling purgatory | - |
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| (adjective) serving to purge or rid of sin | Synonyms: purging, purifying |
| purging | (adjective) serving to purge or rid of sin | Synonyms: purgatorial, purifying |
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| purifying | (adjective) freeing from noxious matter | - |
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| (adjective) serving to purge or rid of sin | Synonyms: purgatorial, purging |
| (adjective) acting like an antiseptic | Synonyms: cleansing |
| puritanic | (adjective) morally rigorous and strict | Synonyms: blue, puritanical |
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| puritanical | (adjective) of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism | - |
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| (adjective) morally rigorous and strict | Synonyms: blue, puritanic |
| (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
| purple | (adjective) of a color intermediate between red and blue | Synonyms: purplish, violet |
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| (adjective) belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler | Synonyms: imperial, majestic, regal, royal |
| (adjective) excessively elaborate or showily expressed | Synonyms: empurpled, over-embellished |
| purplish | (adjective) of a color intermediate between red and blue | Synonyms: purple, violet |
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| purposeful | (adjective) serving as or indicating the existence of a purpose or goal | - |
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| (adjective) having meaning through having an aim | - |
| purposeless | (adjective) not evidencing any purpose or goal | - |
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| (adjective) serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being | Synonyms: otiose, pointless, senseless, superfluous, wasted |
| purposive | (adjective) having or showing or acting with a purpose or design | - |
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| (adjective) having a purpose | Synonyms: goal-directed |
| pursuant | (adjective) (followed by `to') in conformance to or agreement with | - |
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| pursued | (adjective) followed with enmity as if to harm | - |
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| pursuing | (adjective) following in order to overtake or capture or as accompaniment to such pursuit | - |
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| pursy | (adjective) breathing laboriously or convulsively | Synonyms: blown, short-winded, winded |
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| purulent | (adjective) containing pus | Synonyms: pussy |
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| pushful | (adjective) marked by aggressive ambition and energy and initiative | Synonyms: pushy |
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| pushy | (adjective) marked by aggressive ambition and energy and initiative | Synonyms: pushful |
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| pusillanimous | (adjective) lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful | Synonyms: poor-spirited, unmanly |
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| pussy | (adjective) containing pus | Synonyms: purulent |
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| pustulate | (adjective) (of complexion) blemished by imperfections of the skin | Synonyms: acned, pimpled, pimply |
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| putative | (adjective) purported; commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds | - |
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| putdownable | (adjective) (of a book) poorly written and not entertaining | - |
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| putrefacient | (adjective) causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction | Synonyms: putrefactive |
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| putrefactive | (adjective) causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction | Synonyms: putrefacient |
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| putrefiable | (adjective) liable to decay or spoil or become putrid | Synonyms: decayable, putrescible, spoilable |
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| putrescent | (adjective) becoming putrid | - |
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| putrescible | (adjective) liable to decay or spoil or become putrid | Synonyms: decayable, putrefiable, spoilable |
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| putrid | (adjective) of or relating to or attended by putrefaction | - |
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| (adjective) morally corrupt or evil | - |
| (adjective) in an advanced state of decomposition and having a foul odor | - |
| puzzled | (adjective) filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at a loss, nonplused, nonplussed |
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| puzzling | (adjective) not clear to the understanding | Synonyms: enigmatic, enigmatical |
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| (adjective) lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity | Synonyms: confusing, perplexing |