| prise | (verb) regard highly; think much of | Synonyms: esteem, prize, respect, value |
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| (verb) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open | Synonyms: jimmy, lever, prize, pry |
| (verb) make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry | Synonyms: pry |
| prism | (noun) optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image | Synonyms: optical prism |
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| (noun) a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms | - |
| 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 | - |
| prismatoid | (noun) a polyhedron whose vertices all lie in one or the other of two parallel planes; the faces that lie in those planes are the bases of the prismatoid | - |
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| prismoid | (noun) a prismatoid whose bases are polygons having the same number of sides and whose other faces are trapezoids or parallelograms | - |
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| prison | (noun) a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment | Synonyms: prison house |
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| (noun) a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement | Synonyms: prison house |
| prisonbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, gaolbreak, jailbreak, prison-breaking |
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| prisoner | (noun) a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war | Synonyms: captive |
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| prisonlike | (adjective) resembling a prison | - |
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| prissily | (adverb) in a prissy manner | Synonyms: primly |
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| prissy | (adjective) excessively fastidious and easily disgusted | Synonyms: dainty, nice, overnice, squeamish |
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| (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
| pristine | (adjective) immaculately clean and unused | - |
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| (adjective) completely free from dirt or contamination | - |