Words in english starting with P

• Paris quadrifolia — Noun – English ～ European herb with yellow-green flowers resembling and closely related to the trilliums; reputed to be poisonous
• Pinus quadrifolia — Noun – English ～ five-needled pinon of southern California and northern Baja California having (sometimes three-needled or four-needled showing hybridization from Pinus californiarum)
• paternal quality — Noun – English ～ the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father; "the gentleness and fatherliness of the strange old man eased her fears"
• parental quality — Noun – English ～ a quality appropriate to a parent
• prime quantity — Noun – English ～ a natural number that has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: 1 and itself
• parametric quantity — Noun – English ～ a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves
• pas de quatre — Noun – English ～ (ballet) a dance for four people
• previous question — Noun – English ～ a motion calling for an immediate vote on the main question under discussion by a deliberative assembly
• push-down queue — Noun – English ～ a queue in which the last item to go in is the first item to come out (LIFO)
• primary quill — Noun – English ～ one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing
• patchwork quilt — Noun – English ～ a quilt made by sewing patches of different materials together
• President John Quincy Adams — Noun – English ～ 6th President of the United States; son of John Adams (1767-1848)
• Parthenocissus quinquefolia — Noun – English ～ common North American vine with compound leaves and bluish-black berrylike fruit
• Panax quinquefolius — Noun – English ～ North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng
• pop quiz — Noun – English ～ a quiz given without prior warning
• potato race — Noun – English ～ a novelty race in which competitors move potatoes from one place to another one at a time
• Platanus racemosa — Noun – English ～ tall tree of Baja California having deciduous bark and large alternate palmately lobed leaves and ball-shaped clusters of flowers
• plate rack — Noun – English ～ a rack for holding plates to dry after they have been washed
• pipe rack — Noun – English ～ a rack for holding a smoker's pipes
• Pinus radiata — Noun – English ～ tall California pine with long needles in bunches of 3, a dense crown, and dark brown deeply fissured bark

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