Words in english starting with P

• paddy wagon — Noun – English ～ van used by police to transport prisoners
• prairie wake-robin — Noun – English ～ trillium of central United States having dark purple sessile flowers
• Prince-of-Wales feather — Noun – English ～ New Zealand with pinnate fronds and a densely woolly stalks; sometimes included in genus Todea
• Princess of Wales — Noun – English ～ English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles; her death in an automobile accident in Paris produced intense national mourning (1961-1997)
• Prince-of-Wales plume — Noun – English ～ New Zealand with pinnate fronds and a densely woolly stalks; sometimes included in genus Todea
• Prince of Wales — Noun – English ～ the male heir apparent of the British sovereign
• Prince of Wales heath — Noun – English ～ South African shrub grown for its profusion of white flowers
• Prince-of-Wales'-heath — Noun – English ～ South African shrub grown for its profusion of white flowers
• Prince-of-Wales fern — Noun – English ～ New Zealand with pinnate fronds and a densely woolly stalks; sometimes included in genus Todea
• Plantation walking horse — Noun – English ～ a horse marked by stamina and trained to move at a fast running walk
• power walking — Noun – English ～ a form of cardiopulmonary exercise consisting of rapid walking accompanied by vigorous swinging of the arms
• proscenium wall — Noun – English ～ the wall that separates the stage from the auditorium in a modern theater
• party wall — Noun – English ～ a wall erected on the line between two properties and shared by both owners
• pellitory-of-the-wall — Noun – English ～ herb that grows in crevices having long narrow leaves and small pink apetalous flowers
• Persian walnut — Noun – English ～ Eurasian walnut valued for its large edible nut and its hard richly figured wood; widely cultivated
• Pacific walrus — Noun – English ～ a walrus of the Bering Sea and northern Pacific
• palsy-walsy — Adjective – English ～ (used colloquially) having the relationship of friends or pals
• plain wanderer — Noun – English ～ small Australian bird related to the button quail; classified as wading bird but inhabits plains
• proxy war — Noun – English ～ a war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate
• Punic War — Noun – English ～ one of the three wars between Carthage and Rome that resulted in the destruction of Carthage and its annexation by Rome; 264-241 BC, 218-201 BC, 149-146 BC

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