| baldpate | (noun) a widgeon the male of which has a white crown | Synonyms: American widgeon, Anas americana |
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| (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldy, skin, skinhead |
| episcopate | (noun) the office and dignity of a bishop | Synonyms: bishopry |
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| (noun) the collective body of bishops | Synonyms: episcopacy |
| (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of a bishop | Synonyms: bishopric, diocese |
| (noun) the term of office of a bishop | - |
| pate | (noun) liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned | - |
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| (noun) the top of the head | Synonyms: crown, poll |
| patella | (noun) a small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint | Synonyms: kneecap, kneepan |
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| patency | (noun) the openness (lack of obstruction) of a bodily passage or duct | - |
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| (noun) the property of being easy to see and understand | Synonyms: noticeability, noticeableness, obviousness |
| 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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| 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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| spate | (noun) the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow | Synonyms: freshet |
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| (noun) a sudden forceful flow | Synonyms: rush, surge, upsurge |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, stack, tidy sum, wad |