| patent | (noun) an official document granting a right or privilege | Synonyms: letters patent |
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| (noun) a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention | Synonyms: patent of invention |
| patentee | (noun) the inventor to whom a patent is issued | - |
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| pater | (noun) an informal use of the Latin word for father; sometimes used by British schoolboys or used facetiously | - |
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| paterfamilias | (noun) the male head of family or tribe | Synonyms: patriarch |
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| paternalism | (noun) the attitude (of a person or a government) that subordinates should be controlled in a fatherly way for their own good | - |
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| paternity | (noun) the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing | Synonyms: authorship |
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| (noun) the kinship relation between an offspring and the father | Synonyms: fatherhood |
| (noun) the state of being a father | - |
| paternoster | (noun) a type of lift having a chain of open compartments that move continually in an endless loop so that (agile) passengers can step on or off at each floor | - |
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| patriarchate | (noun) a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line | Synonyms: patriarchy |
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| (noun) the jurisdiction of a patriarch | - |
| patriciate | (noun) members of the patrician class. | - |
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| penultimate | (noun) the next to last syllable in a word | Synonyms: penult, penultima |
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| perchlorate | (noun) a salt of perchloric acid | - |
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| percolate | (noun) the product of percolation | - |
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| peripatetic | (noun) a person who walks from place to place | - |
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| peripateticism | (noun) (philosophy) the philosophy of Aristotle that deals with logic and metaphysics and ethics and poetics and politics and natural science | Synonyms: Aristotelianism |
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| permanganate | (noun) a dark purple salt of permanganic acid; in water solution it is used as a disinfectant and antiseptic | - |
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| philatelist | (noun) a collector and student of postage stamps | Synonyms: stamp collector |
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| philately | (noun) the collection and study of postage stamps | Synonyms: stamp collecting, stamp collection |
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| phosphate | (noun) carbonated drink with fruit syrup and a little phosphoric acid | - |
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| (noun) a salt of phosphoric acid | Synonyms: inorganic phosphate, orthophosphate |
| pirate | (noun) a ship that is manned by pirates | Synonyms: pirate ship |
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| (noun) someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation | Synonyms: buccaneer, sea robber, sea rover |
| (noun) someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own | Synonyms: literary pirate, plagiariser, plagiarist, plagiarizer |
| plate | (noun) dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten | - |
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| (noun) a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) | Synonyms: scale, shell |
| (noun) a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic | - |
| (noun) a shallow receptacle for collection in church | Synonyms: collection plate |
| (noun) (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score | Synonyms: home, home base, home plate |
| (noun) structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage | - |
| (noun) a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper) | - |
| (noun) a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded | Synonyms: photographic plate |
| (noun) the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube | - |
| (noun) a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth | Synonyms: dental plate, denture |
| (noun) any flat platelike body structure or part | - |
| (noun) a main course served on a plate | - |
| (noun) the thin under portion of the forequarter | - |
| (noun) a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly | Synonyms: crustal plate |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a plate | Synonyms: plateful |
| plateau | (noun) a relatively flat highland | Synonyms: tableland |
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| plateful | (noun) the quantity contained in a plate | Synonyms: plate |
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| platelayer | (noun) a workman who lays and repairs railroad tracks | Synonyms: tracklayer |
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| platelet | (noun) tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood; essential for blood clotting | Synonyms: blood platelet, thrombocyte |
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| plateletpheresis | (noun) platelets are separated from whole blood and the rest is returned to the donor | - |
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| platen | (noun) the roller on a typewriter against which the keys strike | - |
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| (noun) the flat plate of a printing press that presses the paper against the type | - |
| (noun) work table of a machine tool | - |
| plater | (noun) a skilled worker who coats articles with a film of metal (usually silver or gold) | - |
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| playmate | (noun) a companion at play | Synonyms: playfellow |
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| polyphosphate | (noun) a salt or ester of polyphosphoric acid | - |
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| pomegranate | (noun) large globular fruit having many seeds with juicy red pulp in a tough brownish-red rind | - |
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| (noun) shrub or small tree native to southwestern Asia having large red many-seeded fruit | Synonyms: pomegranate tree, Punica granatum |
| pontificate | (noun) the government of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: papacy |
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| postgraduate | (noun) a student who continues studies after graduation | Synonyms: grad student, graduate student |
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| postulate | (noun) (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning | Synonyms: posit |
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| potentate | (noun) a ruler who is unconstrained by law | Synonyms: dictator |
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| prate | (noun) idle or foolish and irrelevant talk | Synonyms: blether, chin music, idle talk, prattle |
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| prater | (noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: babbler, chatterbox, chatterer, magpie, spouter |
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| precipitate | (noun) a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering | - |
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| precipitateness | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitousness, suddenness |
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| predicate | (noun) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements | Synonyms: verb phrase |
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| (noun) (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula | - |
| prelate | (noun) a senior clergyman and dignitary | Synonyms: archpriest, hierarch, high priest, primate |
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| primate | (noun) any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet | - |
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| (noun) a senior clergyman and dignitary | Synonyms: archpriest, hierarch, high priest, prelate |
| primateship | (noun) the office of primate | - |
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| private | (noun) an enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines | Synonyms: buck private, common soldier |
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| privateer | (noun) a privately owned warship commissioned to prey on the commercial shipping or warships of an enemy nation | - |
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| (noun) an officer or crew member of a privateer | Synonyms: privateersman |
| privateersman | (noun) an officer or crew member of a privateer | Synonyms: privateer |
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| privateness | (noun) the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others | Synonyms: privacy, seclusion |
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| (noun) the condition of being concealed or hidden | Synonyms: concealment, privacy, secrecy |
| privates | (noun) external sex organ | Synonyms: crotch, genital organ, genitalia, genitals, private parts |
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| probate | (noun) the act of proving that an instrument purporting to be a will was signed and executed in accord with legal requirements | - |
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| (noun) a judicial certificate saying that a will is genuine and conferring on the executors the power to administer the estate | Synonyms: probate will |
| proconsulate | (noun) the position of proconsul | Synonyms: proconsulship |
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| profligate | (noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: blood, rake, rakehell, rip, roue |
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| (noun) a recklessly extravagant consumer | Synonyms: prodigal, squanderer |
| propenoate | (noun) a salt or ester of propenoic acid | Synonyms: acrylate |
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| proportionateness | (noun) the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount | Synonyms: commensurateness, correspondence |
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| prostate | (noun) a firm partly muscular chestnut sized gland in males at the neck of the urethra; produces a viscid secretion that is the fluid part of semen | Synonyms: prostate gland |
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| prostatectomy | (noun) surgical removal of part or all of the prostate gland | - |
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| protectorate | (noun) a state or territory partly controlled by (but not a possession of) a stronger state but autonomous in internal affairs; protectorates are established by treaty | Synonyms: associated state |
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| provocateur | (noun) a secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts | Synonyms: agent provocateur |
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| pyrophosphate | (noun) a salt or ester of pyrophosphoric acid | - |
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| quadrate | (noun) a square-shaped object | - |
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| (noun) a cubelike object | - |
| quadrilateral | (noun) a four-sided polygon | Synonyms: quadrangle, tetragon |
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| quadrumvirate | (noun) a group of four men | - |
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| quadruplicate | (noun) any four copies; any of four things that correspond to one another exactly | - |
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| quatercentenary | (noun) the 400th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: quatercentennial |
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| quatercentennial | (noun) the 400th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: quatercentenary |
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| quatern | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
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| quaternary | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
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| quaternion | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternity, tetrad |
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| quaternity | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, tetrad |
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| rabbinate | (noun) the office or function of a rabbi | - |
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| (noun) rabbis collectively | - |
| rainwater | (noun) drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds | Synonyms: rain |
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| rate | (noun) the relative speed of progress or change | Synonyms: pace |
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| (noun) amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis | Synonyms: charge per unit |
| (noun) a quantity or amount or measure considered as a proportion of another quantity or amount or measure | - |
| (noun) a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit | - |
| rateability | (noun) the state of being liable to assessment or taxation | Synonyms: ratability |
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| rateables | (noun) property that provides tax income for local governments | Synonyms: ratables |
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| ratel | (noun) nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia | Synonyms: honey badger, Mellivora capensis |
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| ratepayer | (noun) a person who pays local rates (especially a householder) | - |
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| rates | (noun) a local tax on property | - |
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| rebate | (noun) a rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together | Synonyms: rabbet |
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| (noun) a refund of some fraction of the amount paid | Synonyms: discount |
| rectorate | (noun) the office or station of a rector | Synonyms: rectorship |
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| reinstatement | (noun) the act of restoring someone to a previous position | - |
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| (noun) the condition of being reinstated | - |
| relatedness | (noun) a particular manner of connectedness | - |
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| repatriate | (noun) a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored | - |
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| repeater | (noun) a firearm that can fire several rounds without reloading | Synonyms: repeating firearm |
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| (noun) (electronics) electronic device that amplifies a signal before transmitting it again | - |
| (noun) a person who repeats | - |
| (noun) someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior) | Synonyms: habitual criminal, recidivist |
| reprobate | (noun) a person without moral scruples | Synonyms: miscreant |
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| restatement | (noun) a revised statement | - |
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| restaurateur | (noun) the proprietor of a restaurant | Synonyms: restauranter |
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| retreated | (noun) people who have retreated | - |
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| roommate | (noun) an associate who shares a room with you | Synonyms: roomie, roomy |
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| salicylate | (noun) a salt of salicylic acid (included in several commonly used drugs) | - |
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| saltwater | (noun) water containing salts | Synonyms: brine, seawater |
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| sateen | (noun) a cotton fabric with a satiny finish | - |
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| satellite | (noun) man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon | Synonyms: artificial satellite, orbiter |
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| (noun) any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star | - |
| (noun) a person who follows or serves another | Synonyms: planet |
| sauerbraten | (noun) pot roast marinated several days in seasoned vinegar before cooking; usually served with potato dumplings | - |
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| schoolmate | (noun) an acquaintance that you go to school with | Synonyms: class fellow, classmate, schoolfellow |
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| seawater | (noun) water containing salts | Synonyms: brine, saltwater |
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| secateurs | (noun) small pruning shears with a spring that holds the handles open and a single blade that closes against a flat surface | - |
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| secretariate | (noun) an administrative unit responsible for maintaining records and other secretarial duties; especially for international organizations | Synonyms: secretariat |
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| sedateness | (noun) a trait of dignified seriousness | Synonyms: solemness, solemnity, staidness |
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| segregate | (noun) someone who is or has been segregated | - |
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| senate | (noun) assembly possessing high legislative powers | - |
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| separate | (noun) a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments | - |
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| (noun) a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication | Synonyms: offprint, reprint |
| separateness | (noun) the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known | Synonyms: distinctness, otherness |
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| (noun) political independence | - |
| (noun) the state of being several and distinct | Synonyms: discreteness, distinctness, severalty |