Nouns starting with P

• philosophers' wool — Noun – English ～ oxide of zinc; a white powder used as a pigment or in cosmetics or glass or inks and in zinc ointment
• portmanteau word — Noun – English ～ a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings; "`smog' is a blend of `smoke' and `fog'"; "`motel' is a portmanteau word made by combining `motor' and `hotel'"; "`brunch' is a well-known portmanteau"
• polysemous word — Noun – English ～ a word having more than one meaning
• polysyllabic word — Noun – English ～ a word of more than three syllables
• polysemantic word — Noun – English ～ a word having more than one meaning
• Princeton WordNet — Noun – English ～ a machine-readable lexical database organized by meanings; developed at Princeton University
• police work — Noun – English ～ the investigation of criminal activities
• piece of work — Noun – English ～ a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing; "it is not regarded as one of his more memorable works"; "the symphony was hailed as an ingenious work"; "he was indebted to the pioneering work of John Dewey"; "the work of an active imagination"; "erosion is the work of wind or water over time"
• power worker — Noun – English ～ a worker at a power station
• power-station worker — Noun – English ～ a worker at a power station
• public works — Noun – English ～ structures (such as highways or schools or bridges or docks) constructed at government expense for public use
• phantasy world — Noun – English ～ something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality)
• proboscis worm — Noun – English ～ soft unsegmented marine worms that have a threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract
• potato worm — Noun – English ～ large green white-striped hawkmoth larva that feeds on tomato and potato plants; similar to tobacco hornworm
• polychete worm — Noun – English ～ chiefly marine annelids possessing both sexes and having paired appendages (parapodia) bearing bristles
• polychaete worm — Noun – English ～ chiefly marine annelids possessing both sexes and having paired appendages (parapodia) bearing bristles
• parasitic worm — Noun – English ～ worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes
• peanut worm — Noun – English ～ small unsegmented marine worm that when disturbed retracts its anterior portion into the body giving the appearance of a peanut
• place-worship — Noun – English ～ the worship of places
• place of worship — Noun – English ～ any building where congregations gather for prayer

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