| olfactory | (adjective) of or relating to olfaction | Synonyms: olfactive |
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| ophiolatry | (noun) the worship of snakes | Synonyms: serpent-worship |
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| optometry | (noun) the practice of an optometrist | - |
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| orangery | (noun) a place where oranges are grown; a plantation of orange trees in warm climes or a greenhouse in cooler areas | - |
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| oratory | (noun) addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous) | - |
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| ordinary | (adjective) not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree | - |
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| (adjective) lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered | Synonyms: average |
| (noun) (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields | - |
| (noun) an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel | Synonyms: ordinary bicycle |
| (noun) a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death | - |
| (noun) a judge of a probate court | - |
| (noun) the expected or commonplace condition or situation | - |
| ornery | (adjective) having a difficult and contrary disposition | Synonyms: cantankerous, crotchety |
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| orrery | (noun) planetarium consisting of an apparatus that illustrates the relative positions and motions of bodies in the solar system by rotation and revolution of balls moved by wheelwork; sometimes incorporated in a clock | - |
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| oscillatory | (adjective) having periodic vibrations | Synonyms: oscillating |
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| ossuary | (noun) any receptacle for the burial of human bones | - |
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| ostiary | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorkeeper, doorman, gatekeeper, hall porter, porter |
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| (noun) the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: doorkeeper, ostiarius |
| outcry | (noun) a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition | Synonyms: call, cry, shout, vociferation, yell |
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| (verb) utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy | Synonyms: call out, cry, cry out, exclaim, shout |
| (verb) shout louder than | Synonyms: outshout |
| outlawry | (noun) illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the law | Synonyms: lawlessness |
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| ovary | (noun) (vertebrates) one of usually two organs that produce ova and secrete estrogen and progesterone | - |
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| (noun) the organ that bears the ovules of a flower | - |
| overweary | (verb) tire excessively | Synonyms: overfatigue, overtire |
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| pageantry | (noun) an elaborate representation of scenes from history etc; usually involves a parade with rich costumes | Synonyms: pageant |
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| (noun) a rich and spectacular ceremony | Synonyms: pageant |
| palmistry | (noun) telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand | Synonyms: chirology, chiromancy, palm reading |
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| palpatory | (adjective) relating to or involving palpation | - |
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| paltry | (adjective) contemptibly small in amount | Synonyms: measly, miserable |
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| (adjective) not worth considering | Synonyms: negligible, trifling |
| pantry | (noun) a small storeroom for storing foods or wines | Synonyms: buttery, larder |
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| papery | (adjective) of or like paper | Synonyms: chartaceous, paperlike |
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| (adjective) thin and paperlike | - |
| papillary | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling papilla | Synonyms: papillose |
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| paramilitary | (adjective) of or relating to a group of civilians organized to function like or to assist a military unit | - |
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| (noun) a group of civilians organized in a military fashion (especially to operate in place of or to assist regular army troops) | Synonyms: paramilitary force, paramilitary organisation, paramilitary organization, paramilitary unit |
| pargetry | (noun) ornamental plasterwork | Synonyms: pargeting, pargetting |
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| parliamentary | (adjective) relating to or having the nature of a parliament | - |
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| (adjective) having the supreme legislative power resting with a body of cabinet ministers chosen from and responsible to the legislature or parliament | - |
| (adjective) in accord with rules and customs of a legislative or deliberative assembly | - |
| parquetry | (noun) a patterned wood inlay used to cover a floor | Synonyms: parqueterie |
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| parry | (noun) a return punch (especially by a boxer) | Synonyms: counter, counterpunch |
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| (noun) (fencing) blocking a lunge or deflecting it with a circular motion of the sword | - |
| (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, put off, sidestep, skirt |
| (verb) impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball) | Synonyms: block, deflect |
| participatory | (adjective) affording the opportunity for individual participation | - |
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| partridgeberry | (noun) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries | Synonyms: boxberry, Mitchella repens, twinberry |
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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 |
| peasantry | (noun) the class of peasants | - |
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| peccary | (noun) nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America | Synonyms: musk hog |
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| pecuniary | (adjective) relating to or involving money | Synonyms: monetary |
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| pedantry | (noun) an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning | - |
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| pellitory | (noun) a small Mediterranean plant containing a volatile oil once used to relieve toothache | Synonyms: Anacyclus pyrethrum, pellitory-of-Spain |
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| (noun) herb that grows in crevices having long narrow leaves and small pink apetalous flowers | Synonyms: Parietaria difusa, pellitory-of-the-wall, wall pellitory |
| pelvimetry | (noun) measurement of the dimensions of the bony birth canal (to determine whether vaginal birth is possible) | - |
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| penitentiary | (adjective) showing or constituting penance | Synonyms: penitential |
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| (adjective) used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers | - |
| (noun) a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes | Synonyms: pen |
| pensionary | (noun) a person who works only for money | Synonyms: hireling |
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| (noun) the beneficiary of a pension fund | Synonyms: pensioner |
| penury | (noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution | Synonyms: indigence, need, pauperism, pauperization |
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| peppery | (adjective) having the piquant burning taste of peppers | - |
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| peremptory | (adjective) putting an end to all debate or action | - |
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| (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial |
| (adjective) not allowing contradiction or refusal | - |
| perfumery | (noun) the art of making perfumes | - |
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| (noun) an establishment where perfumes are made | - |
| (noun) store where perfumes are sold | - |
| (noun) perfumes in general | - |
| perfunctory | (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: casual, cursory, passing, superficial |
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| (adjective) done or produced as a formality only | Synonyms: pro forma |
| periphery | (noun) the outside boundary or surface of something | Synonyms: fringe, outer boundary |
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| perjury | (noun) criminal offense of making false statements under oath | Synonyms: bearing false witness, lying under oath |
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| perry | (noun) a fermented and often effervescent beverage made from juice of pears; similar in taste to hard cider | - |
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| pessary | (noun) a contraceptive device consisting of a flexible dome-shaped cup made of rubber or plastic; it is filled with spermicide and fitted over the uterine cervix | Synonyms: contraceptive diaphragm, diaphragm |
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| petchary | (noun) a kingbird that breeds in the southeastern United States and winters in tropical America; similar to but larger than the eastern kingbird | Synonyms: gray kingbird, grey kingbird, Tyrannus domenicensis domenicensis |
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| petitionary | (adjective) of the nature of or expressing a petition | - |
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| pettifoggery | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bicker, bickering, fuss, spat, squabble, tiff |
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| photochemistry | (noun) branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of light | - |
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| photometry | (noun) measurement of the properties of light (especially luminous intensity) | - |
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| phratry | (noun) people descended from a common ancestor | Synonyms: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept |
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| phrontistery | (noun) an establishment for study and learning (sometimes including modern universities) | - |
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| phylactery | (noun) (Judaism) either of two small leather cases containing texts from the Hebrew Scriptures (known collectively as tefillin); traditionally worn (on the forehead and the left arm) by Jewish men during morning prayer | Synonyms: tefillin |
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| phytochemistry | (noun) the branch of organic chemistry dealing with the chemistry of plants | - |
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| piggery | (noun) a farm where pigs are raised or kept | Synonyms: pig farm |
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| pilary | (adjective) covered with hairs especially fine soft ones | Synonyms: pilose, pilous |
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| pillory | (noun) a wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the wrists and neck; offenders were locked in and so exposed to public scorn | - |
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| (verb) criticize harshly or violently | Synonyms: blast, crucify, savage |
| (verb) punish by putting in a pillory | - |
| (verb) expose to ridicule or public scorn | Synonyms: gibbet |
| piscary | (noun) a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold | Synonyms: fishery |
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| piscatory | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the activity of fishing | Synonyms: piscatorial |
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| pituitary | (adjective) of or relating to the pituitary gland | - |
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| (noun) the master gland of the endocrine system; located at the base of the brain | Synonyms: hypophysis, pituitary body, pituitary gland |
| placatory | (adjective) intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | Synonyms: appeasing, placating, placative |
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| planetary | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets | Synonyms: planetal |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants | Synonyms: terrestrial |
| (adjective) involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope | Synonyms: global, world-wide, world, worldwide |
| (adjective) having no fixed course | Synonyms: erratic, wandering |
| pleasantry | (noun) an agreeable or amusing remark | - |
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| plenary | (adjective) full in all respects | - |
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| plenipotentiary | (noun) a diplomat who is fully authorized to represent his or her government | - |
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| pleximetry | (noun) tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes | Synonyms: percussion |
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| plumbery | (noun) the occupation of a plumber (installing and repairing pipes and fixtures for water or gas or sewage in a building) | Synonyms: plumbing |
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| podiatry | (noun) the branch of medicine concerned with the feet | Synonyms: chiropody |
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| poetry | (noun) literature in metrical form | Synonyms: poesy, verse |
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| (noun) any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling | - |
| poisonberry | (noun) Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible | Synonyms: black nightshade, common nightshade, poison-berry, Solanum nigrum |
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| poltroonery | (noun) abject pusillanimity | - |
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| polyandry | (noun) the state of having more than one husband at a time | - |
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| polymetry | (noun) The combining of different metres simultaneously. | - |
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| popery | (noun) offensive terms for the practices and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: papism |
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| porphyry | (noun) any igneous rock with crystals embedded in a finer groundmass of minerals | Synonyms: porphyritic rock |
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| pottery | (noun) the craft of making earthenware | - |
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| (noun) ceramic ware made from clay and baked in a kiln | Synonyms: clayware |
| (noun) a workshop where clayware is made | - |
| poultry | (noun) a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl | Synonyms: domestic fowl, fowl |
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| (noun) flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food | - |
| powdery | (adjective) consisting of fine particles | Synonyms: fine-grained, powdered, pulverised, pulverized, small-grained |
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| (adjective) as if dulled in color with a sprinkling of powder | - |
| prebendary | (noun) a canon who receives a prebend for serving the church | - |
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| precatory | (adjective) expressing entreaty or supplication | Synonyms: precative |
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| precautionary | (adjective) taken in advance to protect against possible danger or failure | Synonyms: precautional |
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| precursory | (adjective) warning of future misfortune | Synonyms: premonitory |
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| predatory | (adjective) living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain | Synonyms: predaceous, predacious |
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| (adjective) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | Synonyms: rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous |
| (adjective) characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding | Synonyms: marauding, raiding |
| prefatory | (adjective) serving as an introduction or preface | Synonyms: introductory, prefatorial |
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| prehistory | (noun) the time during the development of human culture before the appearance of the written word | Synonyms: prehistoric culture |
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| preliminary | (adjective) denoting an action or event preceding or in preparation for something more important | - |
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| (noun) a minor match preceding the main event | Synonyms: prelim |
| (noun) something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows | Synonyms: overture, prelude |
| premonitory | (adjective) warning of future misfortune | Synonyms: precursory |
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| preparatory | (adjective) preceding and preparing for something | Synonyms: preparative, propaedeutic |
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| presbytery | (noun) building reserved for the officiating clergy | - |
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| primary | (adjective) of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary | - |
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| (adjective) of or being the essential or basic part | Synonyms: basal, elemental, elementary |
| (adjective) most important element | Synonyms: chief, main, master, principal |
| (adjective) not derived from or reducible to something else; basic | - |
| (noun) a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen | Synonyms: primary election |
| (noun) one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing | Synonyms: primary feather, primary quill |
| (noun) coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit | Synonyms: primary coil, primary winding |
| (noun) (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it | - |
| priory | (noun) religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress | - |
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| probationary | (adjective) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon | Synonyms: provisional, provisionary, tentative |
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| probatory | (adjective) tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade you of the truth of an allegation | Synonyms: probative |
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| profanatory | (adjective) profaning or tending to desecrate | - |
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| prohibitory | (adjective) tending to discourage (especially of prices) | Synonyms: prohibitive |
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| proinflammatory | (adjective) tending to cause inflammation | Synonyms: pro-inflammatory |
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| prolusory | (adjective) of or relating to or having the character of a prolusion | - |
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| promissory | (adjective) relating to or having the character of a promise | - |
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