| patristic | (adjective) of or relating to the writings of the early church fathers | Synonyms: patristical |
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| patristical | (adjective) of or relating to the writings of the early church fathers | Synonyms: patristic |
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| patristics | (noun) the study of the lives, writings, and doctrines of the Church Fathers | Synonyms: patrology |
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| (noun) the writings of the early Church Fathers | Synonyms: patrology |
| patrol | (noun) the activity of going around or through an area at regular intervals for security purposes | - |
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| (noun) a detachment used for security or reconnaissance | - |
| (noun) a group that goes through a region at regular intervals for the purpose of security | - |
| (verb) maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol | Synonyms: police |
| patroller | (noun) someone on patrol duty; an individual or a member of a group that patrols an area | - |
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| patrolman | (noun) a policeman who patrols a given region | Synonyms: flatfoot |
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| patrology | (noun) the study of the lives, writings, and doctrines of the Church Fathers | Synonyms: patristics |
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| (noun) the writings of the early Church Fathers | Synonyms: patristics |
| patron | (noun) a regular customer | Synonyms: frequenter |
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| (noun) someone who supports or champions something | Synonyms: sponsor, supporter |
| (noun) the proprietor of an inn | - |
| patronage | (noun) the act of providing approval and support | Synonyms: backing, backup, championship |
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| (noun) (politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support | - |
| (noun) the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers | Synonyms: trade |
| (noun) a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient | Synonyms: condescension, disdain |
| (noun) customers collectively | Synonyms: business, clientele |
| (verb) be a regular customer or client of | Synonyms: keep going, patronise, patronize, support |
| (verb) support by being a patron of | - |
| patroness | (noun) a woman who is a patron or the wife of a patron | Synonyms: patronne |
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| patronise | (verb) be a regular customer or client of | Synonyms: keep going, patronage, patronize, support |
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| (verb) treat condescendingly | Synonyms: condescend, patronize |
| (verb) assume sponsorship of | Synonyms: patronize, sponsor |
| (verb) do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of | Synonyms: buy at, frequent, patronize, shop, shop at, sponsor |
| patronised | (adjective) having patronage or clients | Synonyms: patronized |
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| patronising | (adjective) (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension | Synonyms: arch, condescending, patronizing |
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| patronisingly | (adverb) with condescension; in a patronizing manner | Synonyms: condescendingly, patronizingly |
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| patronize | (verb) be a regular customer or client of | Synonyms: keep going, patronage, patronise, support |
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| (verb) treat condescendingly | Synonyms: condescend, patronise |
| (verb) assume sponsorship of | Synonyms: patronise, sponsor |
| (verb) do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of | Synonyms: buy at, frequent, patronise, shop, shop at, sponsor |
| patronized | (adjective) having patronage or clients | Synonyms: patronised |
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| patronizing | (adjective) (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension | Synonyms: arch, condescending, patronising |
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| patronizingly | (adverb) with condescension; in a patronizing manner | Synonyms: condescendingly, patronisingly |
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| patronless | (adjective) having little patronage or few clients | Synonyms: unpatronised, unpatronized |
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| patronne | (noun) a woman who is a patron or the wife of a patron | Synonyms: patroness |
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| patronym | (noun) a family name derived from name of your father or a paternal ancestor (especially with an affix (such as -son in English or O'- in Irish) added to the name of your father or a paternal ancestor) | Synonyms: patronymic |
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| patronymic | (adjective) of or derived from a personal or family name | - |
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| (noun) a family name derived from name of your father or a paternal ancestor (especially with an affix (such as -son in English or O'- in Irish) added to the name of your father or a paternal ancestor) | Synonyms: patronym |
| patsy | (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fool, gull, mark, mug, soft touch, sucker |
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| patten | (noun) footwear usually with wooden soles | Synonyms: clog, geta, sabot |
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| patter | (noun) plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson) | Synonyms: line of gab, spiel |
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| (noun) a quick succession of light rapid sounds | - |
| (verb) make light, rapid and repeated sounds | Synonyms: pitter-patter |
| (verb) rain gently | Synonyms: pitter-patter, spatter, spit, sprinkle |
| pattern | (noun) a customary way of operation or behavior | Synonyms: practice |
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| (noun) a decorative or artistic work | Synonyms: design, figure |
| (noun) a perceptual structure | Synonyms: form, shape |
| (noun) a model considered worthy of imitation | - |
| (noun) something intended as a guide for making something else | Synonyms: blueprint, design |
| (noun) something regarded as a normative example | Synonyms: convention, formula, normal, rule |
| (noun) graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle | Synonyms: radiation diagram, radiation pattern |
| (noun) the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport | Synonyms: approach pattern, traffic pattern |
| (verb) plan or create according to a model or models | Synonyms: model |
| (verb) form a pattern | - |
| patterned | (adjective) having patterns (especially colorful patterns) | - |
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| patternmaker | (noun) someone who makes patterns (as for sewing or carpentry or metalworking) | - |
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| patty | (noun) round flat candy | - |
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| (noun) small pie or pasty | - |
| (noun) small flat mass of chopped or ground food | Synonyms: cake |
| patzer | (noun) a poor chess player | - |
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| paucity | (noun) an insufficient quantity or number | Synonyms: dearth |
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| paunch | (noun) a protruding abdomen | Synonyms: belly |
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| paunchiness | (noun) the bodily property of a protruding belly | Synonyms: abdominousness |
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| paunchy | (adjective) having a large belly | Synonyms: abdominous, potbellied |
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| pauper | (noun) a person who is very poor | - |
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| pauperisation | (noun) the act of making someone poor | Synonyms: impoverishment, pauperization |
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| pauperise | (verb) reduce to beggary | Synonyms: beggar, pauperize |
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| pauperism | (noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution | Synonyms: indigence, need, pauperization, penury |
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| pauperization | (noun) the act of making someone poor | Synonyms: impoverishment, pauperisation |
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| (noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution | Synonyms: indigence, need, pauperism, penury |
| pauperize | (verb) reduce to beggary | Synonyms: beggar, pauperise |
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| pause | (noun) temporary inactivity | - |
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| (noun) a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something | Synonyms: break, intermission, interruption, suspension |
| (verb) cease an action temporarily | Synonyms: break, intermit |
| (verb) interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing | Synonyms: hesitate |
| pavage | (noun) the act of applying paving materials to an area | Synonyms: paving |
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| (noun) a tax toward paving streets | - |
| pavan | (noun) a stately court dance of the 16th and 17th centuries | Synonyms: pavane |
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| (noun) music composed for dancing the pavane | Synonyms: pavane |
| pavane | (noun) a stately court dance of the 16th and 17th centuries | Synonyms: pavan |
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| (noun) music composed for dancing the pavane | Synonyms: pavan |
| pave | (noun) a setting with precious stones so closely set that no metal shows | - |
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| (verb) cover with a material such as stone or concrete to make suitable for vehicle traffic | - |
| paved | (adjective) covered with a firm surface | - |
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| pavement | (noun) the paved surface of a thoroughfare | Synonyms: paving |
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| (noun) walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway | Synonyms: sidewalk |
| (noun) material used to pave an area | Synonyms: paving, paving material |
| pavilion | (noun) large and often sumptuous tent | Synonyms: marquee |
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| paving | (noun) the act of applying paving materials to an area | Synonyms: pavage |
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| (noun) the paved surface of a thoroughfare | Synonyms: pavement |
| (noun) material used to pave an area | Synonyms: pavement, paving material |
| pavior | (noun) a machine for laying pavement | Synonyms: paving machine, paviour |
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| paviour | (noun) a machine for laying pavement | Synonyms: paving machine, pavior |
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| pavis | (noun) (Middle Ages) a large heavy oblong shield protecting the whole body; originally carried but sometimes set up in permanent position | Synonyms: pavise |
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| pavise | (noun) (Middle Ages) a large heavy oblong shield protecting the whole body; originally carried but sometimes set up in permanent position | Synonyms: pavis |
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| pavlova | (noun) a dessert consisting of a meringue base or cup filled with fruit and whipped cream | - |
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| pavonia | (noun) any of various evergreen plants of the genus Pavonia having white or yellow or purple flowers | - |
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| paw | (noun) a clawed foot of an animal especially a quadruped | - |
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| (noun) the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb | Synonyms: hand, manus, mitt |
| (verb) touch clumsily | - |
| (verb) scrape with the paws | - |
| pawer | (noun) a person who handles or caresses in a clumsy or overfamiliar manner | - |
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| pawky | (adjective) cunning and sly | - |
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| pawl | (noun) a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward | Synonyms: click, detent, dog |
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| pawn | (noun) borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan | - |
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| (noun) (chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank | - |
| (noun) a person used by another to gain an end | Synonyms: cat's-paw, instrument |
| (noun) an article deposited as security | - |
| (verb) leave as a guarantee in return for money | Synonyms: hock, soak |
| pawnbroker | (noun) a person who lends money at interest in exchange for personal property that is deposited as security | - |
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| pawnshop | (noun) a shop where loans are made with personal property as security | Synonyms: loan office, pawnbroker's shop |
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| pawpaw | (noun) fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples | Synonyms: papaw |
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| (noun) small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit | Synonyms: Asimina triloba, papaw, papaw tree |
| (noun) tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit | Synonyms: Carica papaya, melon tree, papaia, papaya, papaya tree |
| pax | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a greeting signifying Christian love for those assisting at the Eucharist | Synonyms: kiss of peace |
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| pay | (noun) something that remunerates | Synonyms: earnings, remuneration, salary, wage |
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| (verb) dedicate | Synonyms: devote, give |
| (verb) bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action | - |
| (verb) convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) give money, usually in exchange for goods or services | - |
| (verb) bring in | Synonyms: bear, yield |
| (verb) do or give something to somebody in return | Synonyms: compensate, make up, pay off |
| (verb) cancel or discharge a debt | Synonyms: ante up, pay up |
| (verb) make a compensation for | - |
| (verb) discharge or settle | - |
| (verb) render | - |
| (verb) be worth it | - |
| payable | (adjective) subject to or requiring payment especially as specified | Synonyms: collectable, collectible |
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| (noun) a liability account showing how much is owed for goods and services purchased on credit | Synonyms: account payable |
| payables | (noun) money that you currently expect to pay on notes and accounts | - |
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| payback | (noun) the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life | Synonyms: retribution, vengeance |
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| (noun) financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment) | - |
| paycheck | (noun) a check issued in payment of wages or salary | Synonyms: payroll check |
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| payday | (noun) the day on which you receive pay for your work | - |
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| payee | (noun) a person to whom money is paid | - |
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| payer | (noun) a person who pays money for something | Synonyms: remunerator |
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| paygrade | (noun) rank in a military organization | Synonyms: military rank, military rating, rating |
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| paying | (adjective) for which money is paid | Synonyms: compensable, remunerative, salaried, stipendiary |
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| (adjective) yielding a fair profit | Synonyms: gainful, paid |
| payload | (noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, consignment, freight, lading, load, loading, shipment |
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| (noun) the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents | Synonyms: load, warhead |
| paymaster | (noun) a person in charge of paying wages | - |
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| payment | (noun) the act of paying money | Synonyms: defrayal, defrayment |
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| (noun) an act of requiting; returning in kind | Synonyms: requital |
| (noun) a sum of money paid or a claim discharged | - |
| paynim | (noun) a heathen; a person who is not a Christian (especially a Muslim) | - |
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| payoff | (noun) a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing | Synonyms: reward, wages |
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| (noun) the final payment of a debt | Synonyms: final payment |
| (noun) payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment | Synonyms: bribe |
| (noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | Synonyms: issue, proceeds, return, take, takings, yield |
| payola | (noun) a bribe given to a disc jockey to induce him to promote a particular record | - |
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| paypig | (noun) A sexually submissive male | - |
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| payroll | (noun) the department that determines the amounts of wage or salary due to each employee | Synonyms: payroll department |
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| (noun) a list of employees and their salaries | Synonyms: paysheet |
| (noun) the total amount of money paid in wages | Synonyms: paysheet |
| paysheet | (noun) a list of employees and their salaries | Synonyms: payroll |
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| (noun) the total amount of money paid in wages | Synonyms: payroll |
| payslip | (noun) a slip of paper included with your pay that records how much money you have earned and how much tax or insurance etc. has been taken out | - |
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| paywall | (noun) A mechanism used to limit access to only paying users | - |
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