| prude | (noun) a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum | Synonyms: puritan |
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| prudence | (noun) discretion in practical affairs | - |
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| (noun) knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress | Synonyms: circumspection, discreetness, discretion |
| prudery | (noun) excessive or affected modesty | Synonyms: Grundyism, primness, prudishness |
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| prudishness | (noun) excessive or affected modesty | Synonyms: Grundyism, primness, prudery |
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| prune | (noun) dried plum | - |
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| pruner | (noun) a long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees | Synonyms: lopper, pruning hook |
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| (noun) a worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs | Synonyms: trimmer |
| pruning | (noun) the act of trimming a plant | - |
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| (noun) something that has been pruned off of a plant | - |
| pruno | (noun) a liquor concocted from a mixture of ingredients (such as prunes and raisins and milk and sugar) that can be fermented to produce alcohol; made by prison inmates | - |
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| prurience | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: carnality, lasciviousness, lubricity, pruriency |
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| pruriency | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: carnality, lasciviousness, lubricity, prurience |
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| prurigo | (noun) chronic inflammatory disease of the skin characterized by blister capped papules and intense itching | - |
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| pruritus | (noun) an intense itching sensation that can have various causes (as by allergies or infection or lymphoma or jaundice etc.) | - |
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