| pas | (noun) (ballet) a step in dancing (especially in classical ballet) | - |
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| pasang | (noun) wild goat of Iran and adjacent regions | Synonyms: bezoar goat, Capra aegagrus |
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| (noun) large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns | Synonyms: oryx |
| pascal | (noun) a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter | Synonyms: Pa |
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| paseo | (noun) a path set aside for walking | Synonyms: walk, walkway |
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| pasha | (noun) a civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt | Synonyms: pacha |
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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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| pasqueflower | (noun) any plant of the genus Pulsatilla; sometimes included in genus Anemone | Synonyms: pasque flower |
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| pasquinade | (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
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| pass | (noun) (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team | Synonyms: flip, toss |
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| (noun) a usually brief attempt | Synonyms: crack, fling, go, offer, whirl |
| (noun) (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate | Synonyms: passing, passing game, passing play |
| (noun) (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls | Synonyms: base on balls, walk |
| (noun) success in satisfying a test or requirement | Synonyms: passing, qualifying |
| (noun) a flight or run by an aircraft over a target | - |
| (noun) a permit to enter or leave a military installation | Synonyms: liberty chit |
| (noun) any authorization to pass or go somewhere | Synonyms: passport |
| (noun) an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent | Synonyms: bye |
| (noun) a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions | Synonyms: laissez passer |
| (noun) a complimentary ticket | - |
| (noun) a difficult juncture | Synonyms: head, straits |
| (noun) one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer) | - |
| (noun) the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks | Synonyms: mountain pass, notch |
| (noun) a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs | Synonyms: strait, straits |
| (noun) (military) a written leave of absence | - |
| passado | (noun) (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward | Synonyms: lunge, straight thrust |
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| passage | (noun) a journey usually by ship | Synonyms: transit |
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| (noun) the passing of a law by a legislative body | Synonyms: enactment |
| (noun) the act of passing something to another person | Synonyms: handing over |
| (noun) the act of passing from one state or place to the next | Synonyms: transition |
| (noun) a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another | Synonyms: passing |
| (noun) a way through or along which someone or something may pass | - |
| (noun) a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass | Synonyms: passageway |
| (noun) a section of text; particularly a section of medium length | - |
| (noun) a short section of a musical composition | Synonyms: musical passage |
| (noun) the motion of one object relative to another | Synonyms: passing |
| passageway | (noun) a passage between rooms or between buildings | - |
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| (noun) a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass | Synonyms: passage |
| passbook | (noun) a record of deposits and withdrawals and interest held by depositors at certain banks | Synonyms: bankbook |
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| passel | (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, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
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| passementerie | (noun) a decoration or adornment typically on the edge of a garment | Synonyms: trim, trimming |
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| passenger | (noun) a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it | Synonyms: rider |
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| passer | (noun) (football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by throwing a forward pass | Synonyms: forward passer |
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| (noun) a person who passes by casually or by chance | Synonyms: passer-by, passerby |
| (noun) a student who passes an examination | - |
| (noun) a person who passes as a member of a different ethnic or racial group | - |
| passerby | (noun) a person who passes by casually or by chance | Synonyms: passer-by, passer |
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| passerine | (noun) perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch; most are songbirds; hatchlings are helpless | Synonyms: passeriform bird |
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| passing | (noun) going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it | Synonyms: overtaking |
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| (noun) success in satisfying a test or requirement | Synonyms: pass, qualifying |
| (noun) (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate | Synonyms: pass, passing game, passing play |
| (noun) a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another | Synonyms: passage |
| (noun) euphemistic expressions for death | Synonyms: departure, exit, expiration, going, loss, release |
| (noun) the motion of one object relative to another | Synonyms: passage |
| (noun) the end of something | - |
| passion | (noun) the trait of being intensely emotional | Synonyms: heat, warmth |
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| (noun) any object of warm affection or devotion | Synonyms: love |
| (noun) a strong feeling or emotion | Synonyms: passionateness |
| (noun) a feeling of strong sexual desire | - |
| (noun) an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action | Synonyms: cacoethes, mania |
| (noun) something that is desired intensely | Synonyms: rage |
| passionateness | (noun) a strong feeling or emotion | Synonyms: passion |
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| passionflower | (noun) any of various chiefly tropical American vines some bearing edible fruit | Synonyms: passionflower vine |
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| passive | (noun) the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb | Synonyms: passive voice |
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| passiveness | (noun) the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative | Synonyms: passivity |
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| (noun) submission to others or to outside influences | Synonyms: passivity |
| passivism | (noun) the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable | Synonyms: pacificism, pacifism |
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| passivity | (noun) the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative | Synonyms: passiveness |
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| (noun) submission to others or to outside influences | Synonyms: passiveness |
| passkey | (noun) key that secures entrance everywhere | Synonyms: master, master key, passe-partout |
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| passport | (noun) any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission | Synonyms: recommendation |
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| (noun) a document issued by a country to a citizen allowing that person to travel abroad and re-enter the home country | - |
| (noun) any authorization to pass or go somewhere | Synonyms: pass |
| password | (noun) a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group | Synonyms: countersign, parole, watchword, word |
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| past | (noun) a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past | Synonyms: past tense |
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| (noun) the time that has elapsed | Synonyms: past times, yesteryear |
| (noun) a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret) | - |
| pasta | (noun) shaped and dried dough made from flour and water and sometimes egg | Synonyms: alimentary paste |
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| (noun) a dish that contains pasta as its main ingredient | - |
| paste | (noun) a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes | Synonyms: spread |
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| (noun) an adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard | Synonyms: library paste |
| (noun) any mixture of a soft and malleable consistency | - |
| (noun) a hard, brilliant lead glass that is used in making artificial jewelry | - |
| pasteboard | (noun) stiff cardboard made by pasting together layers of paper | - |
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| pastel | (noun) any of various pale or light colors | - |
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| paster | (noun) an adhesive label | Synonyms: gummed label, sticker |
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| (noun) a workman who pastes | - |
| pastern | (noun) the part between the fetlock and the hoof | Synonyms: fetter bone |
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| pasteurellosis | (noun) an acute infectious disease characterized by pneumonia and blood infection | Synonyms: hemorrhagic septicemia |
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| pasteurisation | (noun) partial sterilization of foods at a temperature that destroys harmful microorganisms without major changes in the chemistry of the food | Synonyms: pasteurization |
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| pasteuriser | (noun) an apparatus for pasteurizing substances (especially milk). | Synonyms: pasteurizer |
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| pasteurization | (noun) partial sterilization of foods at a temperature that destroys harmful microorganisms without major changes in the chemistry of the food | Synonyms: pasteurisation |
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| pasteurizer | (noun) an apparatus for pasteurizing substances (especially milk). | Synonyms: pasteuriser |
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| pastiche | (noun) a work of art that imitates the style of some previous work | - |
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| (noun) a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources | Synonyms: medley, potpourri |
| pastil | (noun) a medicated lozenge used to soothe the throat | Synonyms: cough drop, pastille, troche |
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| pastille | (noun) a medicated lozenge used to soothe the throat | Synonyms: cough drop, pastil, troche |
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| pastime | (noun) a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly) | Synonyms: interest, pursuit |
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| pastis | (noun) similar to absinthe but containing no wormwood | - |
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| pastness | (noun) the quality of being past | - |
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| pastor | (noun) a person authorized to conduct religious worship | Synonyms: curate, minister, minister of religion, parson, rector |
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| pastoral | (noun) a musical composition that evokes rural life | Synonyms: idyl, idyll, pastorale |
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| (noun) a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds) | - |
| (noun) a letter from a pastor to the congregation | - |
| pastorale | (noun) a musical composition that evokes rural life | Synonyms: idyl, idyll, pastoral |
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| pastorate | (noun) the position of pastor | Synonyms: pastorship |
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| (noun) pastors collectively | - |
| pastorship | (noun) the position of pastor | Synonyms: pastorate |
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| pastrami | (noun) highly seasoned cut of smoked beef | - |
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| pastry | (noun) any of various baked foods made of dough or batter | - |
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| (noun) a dough of flour and water and shortening | Synonyms: pastry dough |
| pasturage | (noun) bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle | Synonyms: eatage, forage, grass, pasture |
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| (noun) succulent herbaceous vegetation of pastureland | Synonyms: herbage |
| pasture | (noun) bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle | Synonyms: eatage, forage, grass, pasturage |
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| (noun) a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock | Synonyms: grazing land, lea, ley, pasture land, pastureland |
| pastureland | (noun) a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock | Synonyms: grazing land, lea, ley, pasture, pasture land |
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| pasty | (noun) small meat pie or turnover | - |
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| (noun) (usually used in the plural) one of a pair of adhesive patches worn to cover the nipples of exotic dancers and striptease performers | - |