| pariah | (noun) a person who is rejected (from society or home) | Synonyms: castaway, Ishmael, outcast |
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| paries | (noun) (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure | Synonyms: wall |
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| parimutuel | (noun) betting where winners share the total amount wagered | - |
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| paring | (noun) (usually plural) a part of a fruit or vegetable that is pared or cut off; especially the skin or peel | - |
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| (noun) a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something | Synonyms: shaving, sliver |
| parish | (noun) a local church community | - |
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| (noun) the local subdivision of a diocese committed to one pastor | - |
| parishioner | (noun) a member of a parish | - |
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| parisology | (noun) the use of ambiguous words | - |
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| parity | (noun) functional equality | - |
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| (noun) (physics) parity is conserved in a universe in which the laws of physics are the same in a right-handed system of coordinates as in a left-handed system | Synonyms: conservation of parity, mirror symmetry, space-reflection symmetry |
| (noun) (computer science) a bit that is used in an error detection procedure in which a 0 or 1 is added to each group of bits so that it will have either an odd number of 1's or an even number of 1's; e.g., if the parity is odd then any group of bits that arrives with an even number of 1's must contain an error | Synonyms: check bit, parity bit |
| (noun) (mathematics) a relation between a pair of integers: if both integers are odd or both are even they have the same parity; if one is odd and the other is even they have different parity | - |
| (noun) (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered | Synonyms: para |