English words: P

1498 words under P; 1101–1200 on this page.

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• pretence noun (pretence, pretences; US spelling pretense)
  Pretence is acting as if something is true when it is not, for example pretending to be asleep or happy.
• pretend verb (pretend, pretends, pretended, pretending); adjective…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To act as if something is true when it is not, for fun or to trick someone.
• pretending verb…
  Pretending means acting as if something is true when it is not, often in a game: pretending to be a dragon.
• pretense noun (pretenses); British spelling is «pretence»
  A pretense is a false show, where someone acts as if something is true when it is not.
• pretension noun (pretensions)
  A pretension is a claim to be or to have something, often one that is not really true.
• pretext noun (a pretext, pretexts)
  A false reason given to hide the real reason for doing something: «He called on the pretext of borrowing sugar, but really he wanted to…
• prettily adverb (prettily, more prettily, most prettily)
  In a way that looks nice to the eye; in a neat, charming way.
• pretty adjective (pretty, prettier, prettiest); adverb (pretty)
  Nice to look at; attractive in a gentle way: «a pretty dress».
• pretzel noun (a pretzel, pretzels)
  A baked snack made from dough twisted into a loose knot shape, usually salty; it can be hard and crunchy or big and soft.
• prevail verb (prevail, prevails, prevailed, prevailing)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To win or be stronger in the end after a struggle.
• prevailing adjective (prevailing); verb form…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Prevailing means most common or strongest at a certain time or place.
• prevalence noun (prevalence, uncountable)
  How common or widespread something is in a place or group at a given time.
• prevalent adjective (more prevalent, most prevalent)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Common or widespread in a place or at a time: «Colds are prevalent in winter.».
• prevent verb (prevent, prevents, prevented, preventing)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To prevent something means to stop it from happening.
• preventable adjective (preventable)
  Preventable means able to be stopped before it happens.
• preventative adjective; noun (a preventative, preventatives) – also…
  Preventative means meant to stop something bad from happening before it starts, such as illness, damage or crime.
• prevention noun (prevention — uncountable)
  Prevention means stopping something bad from happening before it happens.
• preview noun (a preview, previews); verb…
  A preview is a chance to see something before it is shown to everyone, such as a film or a show.
• previous adjective (previous)
  Happening or existing before the one you are talking about now: the previous page, the previous day.
• previously adverb (previously)
  Previously means before, at an earlier time.
• prey noun (prey, uncountable; a prey — rare); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Prey is an animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal.
• price noun (price, prices); verb (price, prices, priced, pricing)everyday · Jewish tradition
  The price is how much money you must pay to buy something.
• priceless adjective (priceless)
  Priceless means worth so much that no price could be put on it.
• pricey adjective (pricey, pricier, priciest)
  Pricey means expensive, costing a lot of money.
• prick verb (prick, pricks, pricked, pricking); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To make a tiny hole in something with a sharp point, like a needle or a thorn.
• prickle noun (a prickle, prickles); verb…
  A small sharp point on a plant or animal, like on a hedgehog, holly leaf or bramble.
• prickly adjective (prickly, pricklier, prickliest)
  Covered in sharp points or prickles, like a hedgehog, cactus or holly.
• pride noun (pride, a pride); verb (pride oneself on)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Pride is the happy feeling you have when you or someone close to you does something good.
• priest noun (a priest, priests)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A priest is a person whose job is to lead religious services and look after people in a church or temple.
• priestess noun (priestess, priestesses)
  A woman who serves a god or goddess in a temple and leads the religious ceremonies.
• priesthood noun (the priesthood — usually uncountable)everyday · Jewish tradition
  The job and calling of being a priest.
• priestly adjectiveJewish tradition
  Having to do with priests, or like a priest.
• prim adjective (prim, primmer, primmest)
  Very neat, proper and strict about manners; too careful about rules and never untidy.
• primal adjectiveJewish tradition
  First, earliest, from the very beginning.
• primarily adverbJewish tradition
  Mainly, or in the first place; most of all.
• primary adjective (primary); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Primary means first in importance; main.
• primate noun (a primate, primates)
  A primate is a mammal belonging to the group that includes humans, apes (gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, gibbons), monkeys and lemurs…
• prime adjective (prime); noun (prime — the best time); verb…
  In maths, a prime number is a whole number greater than 1 that can only be divided exactly by 1 and itself.
• primer noun (primer, primers)
  A primer is a first, easy book for learning to read or to count, or a short book that teaches the basics of a subject.
• primeval adjectiveeveryday · Jewish tradition
  Very, very old; from the earliest times of the world, long before people lived.
• primitive adjective (more primitive, most primitive); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Very simple and basic, not advanced: «a primitive tool made of stone».
• primordial adjectiveJewish tradition
  Existing from the very beginning of time; first and original.
• primrose noun (a primrose, primroses); adjective (primrose yellow)
  A primrose is a small wild plant with pale yellow flowers that bloom early in spring, common in Britain and Europe.
• primus nounJewish tradition
  A Latin word meaning "first"; "Tomus Primus" means "the first volume.".
• prince noun (a prince, princes)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A prince is a son or grandson of a king or queen.
• princedom noun (a princedom, princedoms)
  A country or land ruled by a prince; a principality.
• princely adjective (princely, more princely)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Like a prince; fit for a prince, grand and fine.
• princess noun (a princess, princesses)everyday · Jewish tradition
  The daughter or granddaughter of a king or queen.
• principal noun (a principal, principals); adjective (principal)everyday · Jewish tradition
  The head teacher of a school, especially in the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
• principality noun (a principality, principalities; the Principality)
  A country or area ruled by a prince or princess, such as Monaco or Liechtenstein.
• principally adverb (principally)
  Mainly; mostly; more than anything else: The club is principally for beginners.
• principle noun (a principle, principles)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A basic rule or belief about what is right that guides how someone behaves: She has strong principles.
• print verb (print, prints, printed, printing); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To print is to put words or pictures onto paper with a machine.
• printer noun (printer, printers)
  A printer is a machine that prints words and pictures on paper from a computer.
• printing verb form of print (print, prints, printed, printing); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Printing means putting words or pictures on paper with a machine called a printer.
• printmaker noun (a printmaker, printmakers)
  An artist who makes pictures by printing, such as woodcuts, lino prints, etchings or screen prints.
• prior adjective (formal); preposition phrase (prior to); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Happening or existing before something else; earlier.
• priority noun (a priority, priorities)
  A priority is something that is more important than other things and must be done or dealt with first.
• prise verb (prise, prises, prised, prising; US pry); noun…
  To force something open or apart, often by pushing a tool into a gap and levering: «She prised the lid off the tin with a coin.».
• prism noun (a prism, prisms)
  A solid shape with two ends that are the same flat shape and parallel, joined by flat sides (rectangles in a right prism).
• prismatic adjective
  Shaped like a prism: a solid with two matching ends and flat sides.
• prison noun (a prison, prisons; also uncountable: in prison)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A building where people who have broken the law are kept as a punishment.
• prisoner noun (a prisoner, prisoners)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A person who is kept in prison as a punishment for a crime.
• privacy noun (privacy — uncountable)
  Being away from other people so they cannot see or hear you: "the privacy of your bedroom".
• private adjective (private); noun (a private — a soldier)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Private means belonging to or for one person or group only, not for everyone: a private room.
• privately adverb (privately)
  Without other people being there or knowing; in secret or alone.
• privet noun (privet, uncountable; a privet hedge)
  A bush with small, dark green, shiny leaves that is often grown as a garden hedge.
• privilege noun (a privilege, privileges); verb…
  A special right or advantage that only some people have.
• privily adverbJewish tradition
  In secret, so that others do not see or know.
• privy noun (a privy, privies); adjective (privy to, formal)everyday · Jewish tradition
  An outdoor toilet, a small hut over a hole in the ground.
• prize noun (prize, prizes); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A prize is something you win for doing well in a game, race or contest.
• pro noun (a pro, pros) — informal; preposition/prefix (pro-)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A pro is a professional: a person paid for a sport or job.
• probability noun (probability, probabilities)
  How likely something is to happen, given as a number from 0 (impossible) to 1 (certain), or as a fraction or percentage.
• probable adjective (probable; more probable, most probable); noun…
  Likely to happen or be true, but not certain.
• probably adverbeveryday · Jewish tradition
  Probably means very likely; almost certainly, but not 100% sure.
• probate noun (probate, uncountable); verb…
  Probate is the official legal process that checks that a dead person's will is real, so that their money and belongings can be shared out…
• probation noun (probation — uncountable)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Probation is when a person who broke the law is allowed to stay out of prison but must behave well and meet regularly with a probation…
• probationary adjective (probationary)
  Done or given for a trial time, to see if a person is good enough before they are made permanent.
• probe noun (a probe, probes); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A space probe is a spacecraft with no people in it, sent to explore planets and space.
• problem noun (problem, problems)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A problem is a question you have to work out, like a maths story: a word problem.
• proboscis noun (a proboscis, proboscises)
  A proboscis is a long, bendy nose or snout, like an elephant's trunk or a tapir's snout.
• procedure noun (a procedure, procedures)
  A set of steps to follow in a certain order to do something correctly or safely (the fire drill procedure).
• proceed verb (proceed, proceeds, proceeded, proceeding); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To proceed is to go on or continue, often after a stop.
• proceedeth verb, old form of «proceeds» (he, she, it)
  «proceedeth» means «proceeds», a form of «proceed»: (formal) To proceed is to go on or continue, often after a stop.
• proceeding verb present participle of proceed…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Proceeding means going on or continuing: The work is proceeding well.
• proceeds noun, plural only (the proceeds); also a form of the verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  The proceeds are the money you get from selling something or from an event, such as a fair or a concert.
• process noun (a process, processes); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A process is a series of steps or changes that happen one after another to reach a result.
• processed adjective and verb…
  changed by a factory or machine (processed food).
• procession noun (a procession, processions)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A line of people, cars or animals moving slowly forward in an orderly way, often as part of a ceremony or celebration.
• processor noun (a processor, processors)
  A processor is the part of a computer that carries out instructions and does calculations; it is the computer's «brain».
• proclaim verb (proclaim, proclaims, proclaimed, proclaiming)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To announce something officially and publicly: «The king proclaimed a holiday.».
• proclaimed verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Announced something officially and publicly: "The king proclaimed a holiday.".
• proclamation noun (a proclamation, proclamations)everyday · Jewish tradition
  An official public announcement, especially from a king, queen, president or government.
• procrastination noun (procrastination — uncountable); verb procrastinate…
  Procrastination is putting off something you should do, especially something boring or hard, and doing it later or at the last minute.
• procurable adjective (procurable)
  Able to be got, bought or obtained: The part is not procurable here.
• procure verb (procure, procures, procured, procuring)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To procure means to get or obtain something, often with some effort: "they procured food for the journey".
• procurement noun (procurement — usually uncountable)
  The act of getting or buying something, especially goods for a company or government.
• prod verb (prod, prods, prodded, prodding); noun (a prod, prods)
  To poke someone or something with a finger, a stick or another pointed thing.
• prodigal adjective (prodigal); noun (a prodigal, prodigals)
  The prodigal son is the young man in Jesus's story who wastes his father's money, comes home sorry, and is welcomed with love.
• prodigious adjective
  Very large, great or amazing in size, strength or amount.

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