| overpopulation | (noun) too much population | - |
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| pappus | (noun) calyx composed of scales or bristles or featherlike hairs in plants of the Compositae such as thistles and dandelions | - |
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| papule | (noun) a small inflamed elevation of skin that is nonsuppurative (as in chicken pox) | - |
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| papulovesicle | (noun) a papule that changes into a blister | Synonyms: vesicopapule |
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| peepul | (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, pipal, pipal tree, pipul, sacred fig |
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| penpusher | (noun) a clerk who does boring paperwork | Synonyms: pencil pusher |
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| picklepuss | (noun) someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression | Synonyms: gloomy Gus, pouter, sourpuss |
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| pipul | (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, pipal tree, sacred fig |
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| platypus | (noun) small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae | Synonyms: duck-billed platypus, duckbill, duckbilled platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus |
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| polypus | (noun) a small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane | Synonyms: polyp |
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| populace | (noun) people in general considered as a whole | Synonyms: public, world |
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| popularisation | (noun) the act of making something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: popularization, vulgarisation, vulgarization |
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| (noun) an interpretation that easily understandable and acceptable | Synonyms: popularization |
| populariser | (noun) someone who makes something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: popularizer, vulgariser, vulgarizer |
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| popularism | (noun) music adapted to the understanding and taste of the majority | - |
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| popularity | (noun) the quality of being widely admired or accepted or sought after | - |
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| popularization | (noun) the act of making something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: popularisation, vulgarisation, vulgarization |
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| (noun) an interpretation that easily understandable and acceptable | Synonyms: popularisation |
| popularizer | (noun) someone who makes something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: populariser, vulgariser, vulgarizer |
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| population | (noun) the act of populating (causing to live in a place) | - |
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| (noun) (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn | Synonyms: universe |
| (noun) the people who inhabit a territory or state | - |
| (noun) a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area | - |
| (noun) the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.) | - |
| populism | (noun) the political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elite | - |
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| populist | (noun) someone who advocates the rights of the common people over those of the elite | - |
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| powderpuff | (noun) a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin | Synonyms: puff |
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| prepuberty | (noun) a period of two years immediately prior to the onset of puberty when growth and changes leading to sexual maturity occur | - |
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| prepuce | (noun) a fold of skin covering the tip of the penis | Synonyms: foreskin |
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| (noun) a fold of skin covering the tip of the clitoris | Synonyms: foreskin |
| propulsion | (noun) the act of propelling | Synonyms: actuation |
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| (noun) a propelling force | - |
| protohippus | (noun) Pliocene horse approaching donkeys in size | - |
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| pub | (noun) tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals | Synonyms: gin mill, pothouse, public house, saloon, taphouse |
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| puberty | (noun) the time of life when sex glands become functional | Synonyms: pubescence |
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| pubes | (noun) the lower part of the abdomen just above the external genital organs | Synonyms: loins, pubic region |
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| pubescence | (noun) the time of life when sex glands become functional | Synonyms: puberty |
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| pubis | (noun) one of the three sections of the hipbone; together these two bones form the front of the pelvis | Synonyms: os pubis, pubic bone |
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| public | (noun) people in general considered as a whole | Synonyms: populace, world |
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| (noun) a body of people sharing some common interest | - |
| publican | (noun) the keeper of a public house | Synonyms: tavern keeper |
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| publication | (noun) the business of issuing printed matter for sale or distribution | Synonyms: publishing |
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| (noun) the act of issuing printed materials | Synonyms: issue |
| (noun) the communication of something to the public; making information generally known | - |
| (noun) a copy of a printed work offered for distribution | - |
| publiciser | (noun) someone who publicizes | Synonyms: publicist, publicizer |
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| publicist | (noun) someone who publicizes | Synonyms: publiciser, publicizer |
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| publicity | (noun) the quality of being open to public view | - |
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| (noun) a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution | Synonyms: packaging, promo, promotion, promotional material |
| publicizer | (noun) someone who publicizes | Synonyms: publiciser, publicist |
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| publicizing | (noun) the business of drawing public attention to goods and services | Synonyms: advertising, merchandising |
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| publisher | (noun) a firm in the publishing business | Synonyms: publishing company, publishing firm, publishing house |
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| (noun) a person engaged in publishing periodicals or books or music | - |
| (noun) the proprietor of a newspaper | Synonyms: newspaper publisher |
| publishing | (noun) the business of issuing printed matter for sale or distribution | Synonyms: publication |
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| puccoon | (noun) perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant | Synonyms: bloodroot, redroot, Sanguinaria canadensis, tetterwort |
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| (noun) perennial plant of eastern North America having hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment | Synonyms: Lithospermum caroliniense |
| puce | (noun) a color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red | - |
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| puck | (noun) a vulcanized rubber disk 3 inches in diameter that is used instead of a ball in ice hockey | Synonyms: hockey puck |
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| pucker | (noun) an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth) | Synonyms: ruck |
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| puckerbush | (noun) evergreen aromatic shrubby tree of southeastern United States having small hard berries thickly coated with white wax used for candles | Synonyms: bay myrtle, Myrica cerifera |
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| puckishness | (noun) the trait of behaving like an imp | Synonyms: impishness, mischievousness, whimsicality |
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| pud | (noun) (British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally) | Synonyms: pudding |
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| pudding | (noun) any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed | - |
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| (noun) any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes | - |
| (noun) (British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally) | Synonyms: pud |
| puddingwife | (noun) bluish and bronze wrasse; found from Florida keys to Brazil | Synonyms: Halicoeres radiatus, pudding-wife |
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| puddle | (noun) something resembling a pool of liquid | Synonyms: pool |
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| (noun) a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid | Synonyms: pool |
| (noun) a mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry | - |
| puddler | (noun) a worker who turns pig iron into wrought iron by puddling | - |
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| pudendum | (noun) human external genital organs collectively especially of a female | - |
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| pudge | (noun) a short fat person | - |
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| pudginess | (noun) the property of having a plump and round body | Synonyms: chubbiness, rolypoliness, tubbiness |
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| pueblo | (noun) a communal village built by Indians in the southwestern United States | - |
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| puerility | (noun) a property characteristic of a child | Synonyms: childishness |
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| (noun) the state of a child between infancy and adolescence | Synonyms: childhood |
| puerpera | (noun) a woman in childbirth or shortly thereafter | - |
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| puerperium | (noun) time period following childbirth when the mother's uterus shrinks and the other functional and anatomic changes of pregnancy are resolved | - |
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| puff | (noun) a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke) | Synonyms: drag, pull |
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| (noun) forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth | Synonyms: blow |
| (noun) bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together | Synonyms: comfort, comforter, quilt |
| (noun) a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin | Synonyms: powderpuff |
| (noun) thick cushion used as a seat | Synonyms: hassock, ottoman, pouf, pouffe |
| (noun) exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes) | - |
| (noun) a light inflated pastry or puff shell | - |
| (noun) a short light gust of air | Synonyms: puff of air, whiff |
| puffball | (noun) any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature | Synonyms: true puffball |
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| (noun) any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles | Synonyms: earthball, false truffle, hard-skinned puffball |
| puffbird | (noun) brownish tropical American bird having a large head with fluffed out feathers | - |
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| puffer | (noun) any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers | Synonyms: blowfish, globefish, pufferfish |
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| (noun) delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver | Synonyms: blowfish, pufferfish, sea squab |
| pufferfish | (noun) any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers | Synonyms: blowfish, globefish, puffer |
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| (noun) delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver | Synonyms: blowfish, puffer, sea squab |
| puffery | (noun) a flattering commendation (especially when used for promotional purposes) | - |
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| puffin | (noun) any of two genera of northern seabirds having short necks and brightly colored compressed bills | - |
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| puffiness | (noun) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, splashiness |
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| (noun) an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement | Synonyms: lump, swelling |
| puffing | (noun) an act of forcible exhalation | Synonyms: huffing, snorting |
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| (noun) blowing tobacco smoke out into the air | - |
| pug | (noun) small compact smooth-coated breed of Asiatic origin having a tightly curled tail and broad flat wrinkled muzzle | Synonyms: pug-dog |
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| pugilism | (noun) fighting with the fists | Synonyms: boxing, fisticuffs |
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| pugilist | (noun) someone who fights with his fists for sport | Synonyms: boxer |
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| pugnacity | (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: aggressiveness, belligerence |
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| puissance | (noun) power to influence or coerce | - |
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| puka | (noun) small roundheaded New Zealand tree having large resinous leaves and panicles of green-white flowers | Synonyms: Meryta sinclairii |
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| (noun) South American shrub or small tree having long shining evergreen leaves and panicles of green or yellow flowers | Synonyms: Griselinia lucida |
| puke | (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot |
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| (noun) the matter ejected in vomiting | Synonyms: barf, vomit, vomitus |
| puking | (noun) the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: disgorgement, emesis, regurgitation, vomit, vomiting |
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| puku | (noun) an African antelope closely related to the waterbuck | Synonyms: Adenota vardoni |
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| pul | (noun) 100 puls equal 1 afghani in Afghanistan | - |
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| pula | (noun) the basic unit of money in Botswana | - |
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| pulasan | (noun) fruit of an East Indian tree similar to the rambutan but sweeter | Synonyms: pulassan |
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| (noun) East Indian fruit tree bearing fruit similar to but sweeter than that of the rambutan | Synonyms: Nephelium mutabile, pulasan tree, pulassan |
| pulassan | (noun) fruit of an East Indian tree similar to the rambutan but sweeter | Synonyms: pulasan |
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| (noun) East Indian fruit tree bearing fruit similar to but sweeter than that of the rambutan | Synonyms: Nephelium mutabile, pulasan, pulasan tree |
| pulchritude | (noun) physical beauty (especially of a woman) | - |
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| pull | (noun) the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you | Synonyms: pulling |
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| (noun) a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke) | Synonyms: drag, puff |
| (noun) a sustained effort | - |
| (noun) a device used for pulling something | - |
| (noun) special advantage or influence | Synonyms: clout |
| (noun) the force used in pulling | - |
| (noun) a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments | Synonyms: twist, wrench |
| pullback | (noun) (military) the act of pulling back (especially an orderly withdrawal of troops) | - |
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| (noun) a device (as a decorative loop of cord or fabric) for holding or drawing something back | Synonyms: tieback |
| puller | (noun) someone who pulls or tugs or drags in an effort to move something | Synonyms: dragger, tugger |
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| (noun) someone who applies force so as to cause motion toward herself or himself | - |
| pullet | (noun) young hen usually less than a year old | - |
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| (noun) flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying | Synonyms: frier, fryer |
| pulley | (noun) a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope | Synonyms: block, pulley-block, pulley block |
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| pulling | (noun) the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you | Synonyms: pull |
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| pullout | (noun) to break off a military action with an enemy | Synonyms: disengagement, fallback |
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| pullover | (noun) a sweater that is put on by pulling it over the head | Synonyms: slipover |
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| pullulation | (noun) a rapid and abundant increase | - |
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| (noun) asexual reproduction in which a local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individual | Synonyms: gemmation |
| pulp | (noun) the soft inner part of a tooth | - |
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| (noun) an inexpensive magazine printed on poor quality paper | Synonyms: pulp magazine |
| (noun) any soft or soggy mass | Synonyms: mush |
| (noun) a soft moist part of a fruit | Synonyms: flesh |
| (noun) a mixture of cellulose fibers | - |
| pulpiness | (noun) a mushy pulpy softness | Synonyms: mushiness |
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| pulpit | (noun) a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it | Synonyms: ambo, dais, podium, rostrum, soapbox, stump |
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| pulpwood | (noun) softwood used to make paper | - |
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| pulque | (noun) fermented Mexican drink from juice of various agave plants especially the maguey | - |
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| pulsar | (noun) a degenerate neutron star; small and extremely dense; rotates very fast and emits regular pulses of polarized radiation | - |
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| pulsation | (noun) (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients) | Synonyms: impulse, pulse, pulsing |
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| (noun) the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart | Synonyms: beat, heartbeat, pulse |
| (noun) a periodically recurring phenomenon that alternately increases and decreases some quantity | - |
| pulse | (noun) the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart | Synonyms: beat, heartbeat, pulsation |
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| (noun) (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients) | Synonyms: impulse, pulsation, pulsing |
| (noun) edible seeds of various pod-bearing plants (peas or beans or lentils etc.) | - |
| (noun) the rate at which the heart beats; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health | Synonyms: heart rate, pulse rate |
| pulsing | (noun) (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients) | Synonyms: impulse, pulsation, pulse |
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| pulverisation | (noun) the act of grinding to a powder or dust | Synonyms: grind, mill, pulverization |
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| (noun) annihilation by pulverizing something | Synonyms: pulverization |
| (noun) a solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized | Synonyms: powder, pulverization |