| pallidity | (noun) being deficient in color | Synonyms: paleness |
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| pallidness | (noun) unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) | Synonyms: achromasia, lividity, lividness, luridness, paleness, pallor, wanness |
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| pallidum | (noun) the inner pale yellow part of the lenticular nucleus | Synonyms: globus pallidus, paleostriatum |
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| pallium | (noun) cloak or mantle worn by men in ancient Rome | - |
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| (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) vestment consisting of a band encircling the shoulders with two lappets hanging in front and back | - |
| (noun) (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell | Synonyms: mantle |
| (noun) the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum | Synonyms: cerebral cortex, cerebral mantle, cortex |
| pallone | (noun) an Italian game similar to tennis | - |
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| pallor | (noun) unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) | Synonyms: achromasia, lividity, lividness, luridness, paleness, pallidness, wanness |
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| palm | (noun) the inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers | Synonyms: thenar |
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| (noun) an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event | Synonyms: decoration, laurel wreath, medal, medallion, ribbon |
| (noun) any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves | Synonyms: palm tree |
| (noun) a linear unit based on the length or width of the human hand | - |
| palmature | (noun) an abnormality in which the fingers are webbed | - |
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| palmetto | (noun) any of several low-growing palms with fan-shaped leaves | - |
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| palmist | (noun) fortuneteller who predicts your future by the lines on your palms | Synonyms: chiromancer, palmister |
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| palmister | (noun) fortuneteller who predicts your future by the lines on your palms | Synonyms: chiromancer, palmist |
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| palmistry | (noun) telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand | Synonyms: chirology, chiromancy, palm reading |
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| palmitin | (noun) an ester of glycerol and palmitic acid | - |
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| palmyra | (noun) tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar; leaves used for thatching and weaving | Synonyms: Borassus flabellifer, longar palm, lontar, palmyra palm, toddy palm, wine palm |
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| palometa | (noun) smaller than Florida pompano; common in West Indies | Synonyms: California pompano, Palometa simillima |
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| palomino | (noun) a horse of light tan or golden color with cream-colored or white mane and tail | - |
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| palooka | (noun) a second-rate prize fighter | Synonyms: stumblebum |
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| paloverde | (noun) a thorny shrub of the genus Cercidium that grows in dry parts of the southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico; has smooth light green bark and racemes of yellow flowers and small leaves | - |
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| palpability | (noun) the quality of being perceivable by touch | Synonyms: tangibility, tangibleness |
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| palpation | (noun) a method of examination in which the examiner feels the size or shape or firmness or location of something (of body parts when the examiner is a health professional) | Synonyms: tactual exploration |
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| palpebra | (noun) either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye | Synonyms: eyelid, lid |
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| palpebration | (noun) repeated blinking or winking (especially if uncontrolled and persistent) | - |
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| palpitation | (noun) a rapid and irregular heart beat | - |
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| (noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: quiver, quivering, shakiness, shaking, trembling, vibration |
| palsgrave | (noun) (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands | Synonyms: palatine |
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| palsy | (noun) loss of the ability to move a body part | Synonyms: paralysis |
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| (noun) a condition marked by uncontrollable tremor | - |
| paltering | (noun) a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear | Synonyms: fibbing |
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| paltriness | (noun) worthlessness due to insignificance | Synonyms: sorriness |
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| paspalum | (noun) tall tufted perennial tropical American grass naturalized as pasture and forage grass in southern United States | Synonyms: dallis grass, dallisgrass, Paspalum dilatatum |
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| pipal | (noun) fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity; lacks the prop roots of the banyan; regarded as sacred by Buddhists | Synonyms: bo tree, Ficus religiosa, peepul, pipal tree, pipul, sacred fig |
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| principal | (noun) the educator who has executive authority for a school | Synonyms: head, head teacher, school principal |
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| (noun) an actor who plays a principal role | Synonyms: lead, star |
| (noun) the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account | Synonyms: dealer |
| (noun) (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement | - |
| (noun) the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated | - |
| (noun) capital as contrasted with the income derived from it | Synonyms: corpus, principal sum |
| principality | (noun) territory ruled by a prince | Synonyms: princedom |
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| principalship | (noun) the post of principal | - |
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| sepal | (noun) one of the green parts that form the calyx of a flower | - |
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| spall | (noun) a fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge | Synonyms: spawl |
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| spallation | (noun) (physics) a nuclear reaction in which a bombarded nucleus breaks up into many particles | - |
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| tepal | (noun) an undifferentiated part of a perianth that cannot be distinguished as a sepal or a petal (as in lilies and tulips) | - |
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| tripalmitin | (noun) a triglyceride of palmitic acid | Synonyms: glycerol tripalmitate |
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| unpalatability | (noun) the property of being unacceptable to the mouth | Synonyms: unpalatableness |
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| (noun) the property of being unacceptable to the mind | Synonyms: unpalatableness |
| unpalatableness | (noun) the property of being unacceptable to the mouth | Synonyms: unpalatability |
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| (noun) the property of being unacceptable to the mind | Synonyms: unpalatability |
| uvulopalatopharyngoplasty | (noun) surgical resection of unnecessary palatal and oropharyngeal tissue to open the airway; intended to cure extreme cases of snoring (with or without sleep apnea) | Synonyms: palatopharyngoplasty, PPP, UPPP |
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