| penuche | (noun) fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts | Synonyms: panocha, panoche, penoche |
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| penuchle | (noun) a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist | Synonyms: bezique, pinochle, pinocle |
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| penult | (noun) the next to last syllable in a word | Synonyms: penultima, penultimate |
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| penultima | (noun) the next to last syllable in a word | Synonyms: penult, penultimate |
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| penultimate | (adjective) second last | Synonyms: next-to-last |
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| (noun) the next to last syllable in a word | Synonyms: penult, penultima |
| penumbra | (noun) a fringe region of partial shadow around an umbra | - |
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| penumbral | (adjective) of or pertaining to the region of partial shadow around an umbra | - |
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| penurious | (adjective) not having enough money to pay for necessities | Synonyms: hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, pinched |
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| (adjective) excessively unwilling to spend | Synonyms: parsimonious |
| penuriously | (adverb) in a penurious manner | - |
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| penuriousness | (noun) a disposition to be niggardly with money | - |
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| (noun) a state of lacking money | Synonyms: impecuniousness, pennilessness |
| penury | (noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution | Synonyms: indigence, need, pauperism, pauperization |
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