| peripatetic | (adjective) of or relating to Aristotle or his philosophy | Synonyms: Aristotelean, Aristotelian, Aristotelic |
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| (adjective) traveling especially on foot | Synonyms: wayfaring |
| (noun) a person who walks from place to place | - |
| periphrastic | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutious, circumlocutory |
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| pessimistic | (adjective) expecting the worst possible outcome | - |
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| phagocytic | (adjective) capable of functioning as a phagocyte | - |
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| pharmaceutic | (adjective) of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists | Synonyms: pharmaceutical |
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| (noun) drug or medicine that is prepared or dispensed in pharmacies and used in medical treatment | Synonyms: pharmaceutical |
| phlegmatic | (adjective) showing little emotion | Synonyms: phlegmatical |
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| phonetic | (adjective) of or relating to the scientific study of speech sounds | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to speech sounds | Synonyms: phonic |
| photic | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by light | - |
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| photosynthetic | (adjective) relating to or using or formed by photosynthesis | - |
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| phreatic | (adjective) of or relating to ground water | - |
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| phrenetic | (adjective) excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion | Synonyms: frantic, frenetic, frenzied |
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| phyletic | (adjective) of or relating to the evolutionary development of organisms | Synonyms: phylogenetic |
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| phylogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to the evolutionary development of organisms | Synonyms: phyletic |
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| physiotherapeutic | (adjective) of or relating to or used in physical therapy | - |
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| pianistic | (adjective) skilled at or adapted for the piano | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the piano | - |
| pietistic | (adjective) of or relating to Pietism | Synonyms: pietistical |
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| (adjective) excessively or hypocritically pious | Synonyms: holier-than-thou, pharisaic, pharisaical, pietistical, sanctimonious, self-righteous |
| plagiaristic | (adjective) copied and passed off as your own | Synonyms: plagiarised, plagiarized |
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| plagioclastic | (adjective) of or relating to plagioclase | - |
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| plastic | (adjective) forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning | Synonyms: formative, shaping |
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| (adjective) capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material) | Synonyms: fictile, moldable |
| (adjective) capable of being influenced or formed | Synonyms: pliant |
| (noun) a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has sufficient means of payment and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered | Synonyms: charge card, charge plate |
| (noun) generic name for certain synthetic or semisynthetic materials that can be molded or extruded into objects or films or filaments or used for making e.g. coatings and adhesives | - |
| pleonastic | (adjective) repetition of same and identical sense with different and non-identical words | Synonyms: redundant, tautologic, tautological |
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| pluralistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of pluralism | - |
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| plutocratic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a plutocrat | Synonyms: plutocratical |
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| pneumatic | (adjective) of or relating to or using air (or a similar gas) | - |
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| poetic | (adjective) of or relating to poetry | Synonyms: poetical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to poets | - |
| (adjective) characterized by romantic imagery | - |
| (adjective) characteristic of or befitting poetry | Synonyms: poetical |
| pointillistic | (adjective) of or relating to pointillism | Synonyms: pointillist |
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| politic | (adjective) marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness | - |
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| (adjective) smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication | Synonyms: bland, smooth, suave |
| polychromatic | (adjective) (of light or other electromagnetic radiation) composed of more than one wavelength | - |
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| (adjective) having or exhibiting many colors | Synonyms: polychrome, polychromic |
| polysemantic | (adjective) of words; having many meanings | Synonyms: polysemous |
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| polysynthetic | (adjective) forming derivative or compound words by putting together constituents each of which expresses a single definite meaning | Synonyms: agglutinative |
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| polytheistic | (adjective) worshipping or believing in more than one god | - |
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| porphyritic | (adjective) (of rocks) consisting of porphyry or containing large crystals in a fine groundmass of minerals | - |
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| positivistic | (adjective) of or relating to positivism | Synonyms: positive, positivist |
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| pragmatic | (adjective) of or concerning the theory of pragmatism | Synonyms: pragmatical |
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| (adjective) concerned with practical matters | Synonyms: matter-of-fact, pragmatical |
| (adjective) guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory | Synonyms: hard-nosed, hardheaded, practical |
| (noun) an imperial decree that becomes part of the fundamental law of the land | Synonyms: pragmatic sanction |
| presocratic | (adjective) before the time of Socrates | Synonyms: pre-Socratic |
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| presymptomatic | (adjective) of or relating to the early phases of a disease when accurate diagnosis is not possible because symptoms of the disease have not yet appeared | Synonyms: preclinical |
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| prismatic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling or constituting a prism | - |
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| (adjective) exhibiting spectral colors formed by refraction of light through a prism | - |
| probabilistic | (adjective) of or relating to or based on probability | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the Roman Catholic philosophy of probabilism | - |
| probiotic | (noun) a beneficial bacterium found in the intestinal tract of healthy mammals; often considered to be a plant | Synonyms: probiotic bacterium, probiotic flora, probiotic microflora |
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| (noun) A dietary supplement containing live bacteria, usually taken after a course of antibiotics to replenish the damaged gastrointestinal flora. | - |
| problematic | (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: baffling, elusive, knotty, problematical, tough |
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| (adjective) open to doubt or debate | Synonyms: debatable, problematical |
| procaryotic | (adjective) having cells that lack membrane-bound nuclei | Synonyms: prokaryotic |
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| proclitic | (noun) a clitic that is associated with a following word. | - |
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| prognostic | (adjective) of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions | Synonyms: predictive, prognosticative |
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| (noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, portent, presage, prodigy, prognostication |
| prokaryotic | (adjective) having cells that lack membrane-bound nuclei | Synonyms: procaryotic |
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| propaedeutic | (adjective) preceding and preparing for something | Synonyms: preparative, preparatory |
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| (noun) a course that provides an introduction to an art or science (or to more advanced study generally) | Synonyms: propaedeutics |
| propagandistic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by propaganda | Synonyms: propagandist |
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| prophetic | (adjective) foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention | Synonyms: prophetical |
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| prophylactic | (adjective) preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease | Synonyms: preventative, preventive |
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| (adjective) warding off | Synonyms: cautionary |
| (adjective) capable of preventing conception or impregnation | Synonyms: antifertility, contraceptive |
| (noun) contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse | Synonyms: condom, rubber, safe, safety |
| (noun) remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease | Synonyms: preventative, preventive |
| prostatic | (adjective) relating to the prostate gland | Synonyms: prostate |
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| prosthetic | (adjective) relating to or serving as a prosthesis | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to prosthetics | - |
| prosthodontic | (adjective) of or relating to prosthodontics | - |
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| proteolytic | (adjective) of or relating to proteolysis | - |
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| pseudohermaphroditic | (adjective) having internal reproductive organs of one sex and external sexual characteristics of the other sex | Synonyms: pseudohermaphrodite |
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| psychoanalytic | (adjective) of or relating to or incorporating the methods and theory of psychiatric treatment originated by Sigmund Freud | Synonyms: psychoanalytical |
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| psychogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to the origin and development of the mind | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the psychological cause of a disorder | Synonyms: psychogenic |
| psychokinetic | (adjective) moving an object without apparent use of physical means | - |
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| psycholinguistic | (adjective) of or relating to the psychology of language | - |
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| psychoneurotic | (adjective) affected with emotional disorder | Synonyms: neurotic |
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| (noun) a person suffering from neurosis | Synonyms: mental case, neurotic |
| psychosomatic | (adjective) used of illness or symptoms resulting from neurosis | - |
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| psychotherapeutic | (adjective) of or relating to or practicing psychotherapy | - |
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| (adjective) emotionally purging | Synonyms: cathartic |
| psychotic | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from psychosis | - |
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| (noun) a person afflicted with psychosis | Synonyms: psycho, psychotic person |
| pugilistic | (adjective) of or relating to pugilism or pugilists | - |
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| pycnotic | (adjective) of or relating to or exhibiting pyknosis | Synonyms: pyknotic |
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| pyknotic | (adjective) of or relating to or exhibiting pyknosis | Synonyms: pycnotic |
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| pyrectic | (adjective) having or causing fever | - |
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| (noun) any substance that can cause a rise in body temperature | Synonyms: pyrogen |
| pyretic | (adjective) causing fever | - |
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| pyrogenetic | (adjective) produced by or producing fever | Synonyms: pyrogenic, pyrogenous |
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| pyrolytic | (adjective) resulting from pyrolysis | - |
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| qabalistic | (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cabalistic, cryptic, cryptical, kabbalistic, sibylline |
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| quadratic | (adjective) involving the second and no higher power of a quantity or degree | - |
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| (noun) a polynomial of the second degree | Synonyms: quadratic polynomial |
| (noun) an equation in which the highest power of an unknown quantity is a square | Synonyms: quadratic equation |
| quantic | (noun) a homogeneous polynomial having at least two variables | - |
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| quartic | (noun) an algebraic equation or function of the fourth degree | Synonyms: biquadrate, biquadratic, fourth power |
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| quixotic | (adjective) not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic | Synonyms: romantic, wild-eyed |
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| rachitic | (adjective) affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets | Synonyms: rickety |
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| rationalistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of rationalism | - |
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| realistic | (adjective) aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of realism | - |
| (adjective) representing what is real; not abstract or ideal | Synonyms: naturalistic |
| relativistic | (adjective) relating or subject to the special or the general theory of relativity | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of relativism | - |
| revivalistic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterizing revivalism | - |
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| rheumatic | (adjective) of or pertaining to arthritis | Synonyms: arthritic, creaky, rheumatoid, rheumy |
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| (noun) a person suffering with rheumatism | - |
| ritualistic | (adjective) of or characterized by or adhering to ritualism | - |
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| robotic | (adjective) of or relating to mechanical robots | - |
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| (adjective) resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine | Synonyms: automatic, automatonlike, machinelike, robotlike |
| romantic | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts | Synonyms: romanticist, romanticistic |
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| (adjective) not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic | Synonyms: quixotic, wild-eyed |
| (adjective) expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance | Synonyms: amatory, amorous |
| (noun) a soulful or amorous idealist | - |
| (noun) an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism | Synonyms: romanticist |
| romanticistic | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts | Synonyms: romantic, romanticist |
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| rustic | (adjective) awkwardly simple and provincial | Synonyms: bumpkinly, hick, unsophisticated |
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| (adjective) characteristic of the fields or country | Synonyms: agrestic |
| (adjective) characteristic of rural life | Synonyms: countrified, countryfied |
| (noun) an unsophisticated country person | - |
| sabbatic | (adjective) of or relating to the Sabbath | Synonyms: sabbatical |
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| sadistic | (adjective) deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from inflicting pain on another | - |
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| sadomasochistic | (adjective) of or relating to sadomasochism | - |
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| saprophytic | (adjective) obtaining food osmotically from dissolved organic material | - |
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| (adjective) (of some plants or fungi) feeding on dead or decaying organic matter | - |
| sarcastic | (adjective) expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds | - |
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| sceptic | (noun) someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs | Synonyms: doubter, skeptic |
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| schematic | (adjective) represented in simplified or symbolic form | Synonyms: conventional, formal |
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| (noun) diagram of an electrical or mechanical system | Synonyms: schematic drawing |
| schismatic | (adjective) of or relating to or involved in or characteristic of schism | Synonyms: schismatical |
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| scholastic | (adjective) of or relating to schools | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of scholasticism | - |
| (noun) a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit | Synonyms: bookworm, pedant |
| sciatic | (adjective) of or relating to the ischium (or the part of the hipbone containing it) | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or caused by or afflicted with sciatica | - |
| sciolistic | (adjective) showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish | Synonyms: dilettante, dilettanteish, dilettantish |
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| sclerotic | (adjective) of or relating to the sclera of the eyeball | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or having sclerosis; hardened | Synonyms: sclerosed |
| scorbutic | (adjective) of or relating to or having or resembling scurvy | - |
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| semantic | (adjective) of or relating to meaning or the study of meaning | - |
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| semiaquatic | (adjective) partially aquatic; living or growing partly on land and partly in water | Synonyms: subaquatic |
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| (adjective) having an aquatic early or larval form and a terrestrial adult form | Synonyms: amphibiotic |
| semiautomatic | (adjective) (of firearms) capable of automatic loading and firing continuously | Synonyms: autoloading, self-loading |
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| (adjective) partially automatic | - |
| (noun) a pistol that is a semiautomatic firearm capable of loading and firing continuously | Synonyms: semiautomatic pistol |
| semiotic | (adjective) of or relating to semiotics | Synonyms: semiotical |
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