| paisley | (noun) a soft wool fabric with a colorful swirled pattern of curved shapes | - |
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| palfrey | (noun) especially a light saddle horse for a woman | - |
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| parley | (noun) a negotiation between enemies | - |
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| (verb) discuss, as between enemies | - |
| parsley | (noun) aromatic herb with flat or crinkly leaves that are cut finely and used to garnish food | - |
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| (noun) annual or perennial herb with aromatic leaves | Synonyms: Petroselinum crispum |
| passkey | (noun) key that secures entrance everywhere | Synonyms: master, master key, passe-partout |
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| peavey | (noun) a stout lever with a sharp spike; used for handling logs | Synonyms: cant dog, dog hook, peavy |
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| phoney | (adjective) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance | Synonyms: bastard, bogus, fake, phony |
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| (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phony, pretender |
| plaguey | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| (adjective) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | Synonyms: pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential |
| (adverb) in a pernicious or annoying manner | Synonyms: plaguily, plaguy |
| pogey | (noun) money received from the state | Synonyms: dole, pogy |
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| pokey | (adjective) small and remote and insignificant | Synonyms: jerkwater, one-horse, poky |
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| (adjective) wasting time | Synonyms: dilatory, laggard, poky |
| (noun) a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) | Synonyms: clink, gaol, jail, jailhouse, poky, slammer |
| prey | (noun) animal hunted or caught for food | Synonyms: quarry |
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| (noun) a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence | Synonyms: fair game, quarry, target |
| (verb) profit from in an exploitatory manner | Synonyms: feed |
| (verb) prey on or hunt for | Synonyms: predate, raven |
| pricey | (adjective) having a high price | Synonyms: costly, dear, high-priced, pricy |
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| 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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| punkey | (noun) minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects | Synonyms: biting midge, no-see-um, punkie, punky |
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| purvey | (verb) supply with provisions | Synonyms: provision |
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| pussley | (noun) weedy trailing mat-forming herb with bright yellow flowers cultivated for its edible mildly acid leaves eaten raw or cooked especially in Indian and Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine; cosmopolitan | Synonyms: common purslane, Portulaca oleracea, pussly, verdolagas |
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| resurvey | (noun) a new survey or study | - |
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| rickey | (noun) a mixed drink made of sweetened lime juice and soda water usually with liquor | - |
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| ridley | (noun) a marine turtle | - |
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| ropey | (adjective) of or resembling rope (or ropes) in being long and strong | Synonyms: ropy |
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| (adjective) (British informal) very poor in quality | Synonyms: ropy |
| (adjective) forming viscous or glutinous threads | Synonyms: ropy, stringy, thready |
| scaley | (adjective) having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles | Synonyms: scaled, scaly |
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| shinney | (noun) a simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck | Synonyms: shinny |
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| slatey | (adjective) of the color of slate or granite | Synonyms: slate-gray, slate-grey, slaty-gray, slaty-grey, slaty, stone-gray, stone-grey |
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| slavey | (noun) a female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work | Synonyms: skivvy |
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| smiley | (noun) an emoticon of a smiling face | - |
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| spacey | (adjective) stupefied by (or as if by) some narcotic drug | Synonyms: spaced-out, spacy |
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| spinney | (noun) a copse that shelters game | - |
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| stagey | (adjective) having characteristics of the stage especially an artificial and mannered quality | Synonyms: stagy |
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| storey | (noun) a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale | Synonyms: floor, level, story |
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| surrey | (noun) a light four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; has two or four seats | - |
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| survey | (noun) the act of looking or seeing or observing | Synonyms: sight, view |
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| (noun) a detailed critical inspection | Synonyms: study |
| (noun) short descriptive summary (of events) | Synonyms: resume, sketch |
| (verb) consider in a comprehensive way | Synonyms: appraise |
| (verb) plot a map of (land) | - |
| (verb) make a survey of; for statistical purposes | - |
| (verb) hold a review (of troops) | Synonyms: go over, review |
| (verb) look over carefully or inspect | - |
| (verb) keep under surveillance | Synonyms: follow, surveil |
| tomalley | (noun) edible greenish substance in boiled lobster | - |
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| tourney | (noun) a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner | Synonyms: tournament |
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| (verb) engage in a tourney | - |
| trey | (noun) one of four playing cards in a deck having three pips | Synonyms: three |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
| trolley | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity | Synonyms: streetcar, tram, tramcar, trolley car |
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| turkey | (noun) large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food | Synonyms: Meleagris gallopavo |
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| (noun) an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual | Synonyms: bomb, dud |
| (noun) flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted | - |
| (noun) a person who does something thoughtless or annoying | Synonyms: joker |
| turnkey | (noun) someone who guards prisoners | Synonyms: gaoler, jailer, jailor, prison guard, screw |
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| valley | (noun) a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river | Synonyms: vale |
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| volley | (noun) rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms | Synonyms: burst, fusillade, salvo |
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| (noun) a tennis return made by hitting the ball before it bounces | - |
| (verb) utter rapidly | - |
| (verb) make a volley | - |
| (verb) discharge in, or as if in, a volley | - |
| (verb) hit before it touches the ground | - |
| (verb) be dispersed in a volley | - |
| whey | (noun) watery part of milk produced when raw milk sours and coagulates | - |
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| (noun) the serum or watery part of milk that is separated from the curd in making cheese | Synonyms: milk whey |
| whimsey | (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: arbitrariness, capriciousness, flightiness, whimsicality, whimsy |
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| (noun) an odd or fanciful or capricious idea | Synonyms: notion, whim, whimsy |
| whiney | (adjective) habitually complaining | Synonyms: fretful, querulous, whiny |
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| whiskey | (noun) a liquor made from fermented mash of grain | Synonyms: whisky |
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| whitey | (noun) (slang) offensive names for a White man | Synonyms: honkey, honkie, honky |
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| wincey | (noun) a plain or twilled fabric of wool and cotton used especially for warm shirts or skirts and pajamas | - |
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| winey | (adjective) having the taste of wine | Synonyms: winy |
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