Nouns starting with P

• paint roller — Noun – English ～ a roller that has an absorbent surface used for spreading paint
• Pax Romana — Noun – English ～ the Roman peace; the long period of peace enforced on states in the Roman Empire
• Prix de Rome — Noun – English ～ an annual prize awarded by the French government in a competition of painters and artists and sculptors and musicians and architects; the winner in each category receives support for a period of study in Rome
• pump room — Noun – English ～ a pump house at a spa where medicinal waters are pumped and where patrons gather
• powder room — Noun – English ～ a woman's restroom in a public (or semipublic) building
• President Roosevelt — Noun – English ～ 26th President of the United States; hero of the Spanish-American War; Panama Canal was built during his administration; "Theodore Roosevelt said `Speak softly but carry a big stick'" (1858-1919)
• President Roosevelt — Noun – English ～ 32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the Great Depression and led country during World War II (1882-1945)
• President Franklin Roosevelt — Noun – English ～ 32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the Great Depression and led country during World War II (1882-1945)
• prop root — Noun – English ～ a root that grows from and supports the stem above the ground in plants such as mangroves
• pleurisy root — Noun – English ～ erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers
• posterior root — Noun – English ～ one of two roots of a spinal nerve that passes dorsally from the spinal cord and that consists of sensory fibers
• pepper root — Noun – English ～ North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots
• papoose root — Noun – English ～ tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally
• pale coral root — Noun – English ～ plant having clumps of nearly leafless pale yellowish to greenish stems bearing similarly colored flowers with white lower lips; northern New Mexico north through South Dakota and Washington to Alaska
• pityriasis rosea — Noun – English ～ pityriasis in which an itchy rash develops over the trunk and extremities
• Pogonia rosea — Noun – English ～ orchid of central and northern South America having 1- to 3-blossomed racemes of large showy rose-colored flowers; sometimes placed in genus Pogonia
• Pastor roseus — Noun – English ～ glossy black bird with pink back and abdomen; chiefly Asian
• post-rotational nystagmus — Noun – English ～ nystagmus caused by suddenly stopping the rapid rotation of the body; large slow movements of the eyeballs are in the direction opposite to the direction of rotation
• Philip Milton Roth — Noun – English ～ United States writer whose novels portray middle-class Jewish life (born in 1933)
• Philip Roth — Noun – English ～ United States writer whose novels portray middle-class Jewish life (born in 1933)

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