| ponce | (noun) someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) | Synonyms: fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, pimp, procurer |
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| (noun) a man who is effeminate in his manner and fussy in the way he dresses | - |
| poncho | (noun) a blanket-like cloak with a hole in the center for the head | - |
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| pond | (noun) a small lake | Synonyms: pool |
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| ponder | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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| ponderable | (adjective) capable of being weighed or considered | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being thought about | Synonyms: cogitable |
| ponderer | (noun) a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation | Synonyms: muller, muser, ruminator |
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| pondering | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, reflective, ruminative |
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| ponderosa | (noun) common and widely distributed tall timber pine of western North America having dark green needles in bunches of 2 to 5 and thick bark with dark brown plates when mature | Synonyms: bull pine, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, western yellow pine |
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| ponderosity | (noun) the property of being large in mass | Synonyms: heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderousness |
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| ponderous | (adjective) slow and laborious because of weight | Synonyms: heavy, lumbering |
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| (adjective) having great mass and weight and unwieldiness | - |
| (adjective) labored and dull | - |
| ponderously | (adverb) in a heavy ponderous manner | - |
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| (adverb) in an uninterestingly ponderous manner | - |
| ponderousness | (noun) the property of being large in mass | Synonyms: heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderosity |
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| (noun) an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency | Synonyms: heaviness |
| pondweed | (noun) any of several submerged or floating freshwater perennial aquatic weeds belonging to the family Potamogetonaceae | - |
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| (noun) submerged freshwater perennials | Synonyms: ditchmoss, Elodea, genus Elodea |
| pone | (noun) cornbread often made without milk or eggs and baked or fried (southern) | Synonyms: cornpone |
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| pong | (noun) an unpleasant smell | Synonyms: niff |
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| pongee | (noun) a soft thin cloth woven from raw silk (or an imitation) | - |
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| pongid | (noun) any of the large anthropoid apes of the family Pongidae | Synonyms: great ape |
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| poniard | (noun) a dagger with a slender blade | Synonyms: bodkin |
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| (verb) stab with a poniard | - |
| pons | (noun) a band of nerve fibers linking the medulla oblongata and the cerebellum with the midbrain | Synonyms: pons Varolii |
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| pontifex | (noun) a member of the highest council of priests in ancient Rome | - |
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| pontiff | (noun) the head of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: Bishop of Rome, Catholic Pope, Holy Father, pope, Roman Catholic Pope, Vicar of Christ |
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| pontifical | (adjective) denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops | Synonyms: episcopal |
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| (adjective) proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles | Synonyms: apostolic, apostolical, papal |
| (adjective) puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, portentous |
| (noun) the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop) | - |
| pontificate | (noun) the government of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: papacy |
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| (verb) talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner | - |
| (verb) administer a pontifical office | - |
| pontoon | (noun) a float supporting a seaplane | - |
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| (noun) (nautical) a floating structure (as a flat-bottomed boat) that serves as a dock or to support a bridge | - |
| pony | (noun) any of various breeds of small gentle horses usually less than five feet high at the shoulder | - |
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| (noun) a range horse of the western United States | - |
| (noun) an informal term for a racehorse | - |
| (noun) a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey | Synonyms: jigger, shot glass |
| (noun) a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly) | Synonyms: crib, trot |
| ponycart | (noun) a cart with an underslung axle and two seats | Synonyms: donkey cart, pony cart, tub-cart |
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| ponytail | (noun) a hair style that draws the hair back so that it hangs down in back of the head like a pony's tail | - |
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