English Wordbook/P

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pabulum	n	fare, food, tucker
pace	vb & n	step
pacifist	n	frithweaver
package	n	bale
paedophile	n	childluster, bairnluster
paedophilia	n	childlust, bairnlust
pagan	n	heathen
paganism	n	heathendom
page	n	side, leaf
pacify	vb	allay, befrith
pain	n	smart
palace	n	thronehalls, thronehouse, thronehold, thronestead
palate	n	roof of the mouth
pale	adj	wan
pale	n	wall, weir
Paleolithic	n	Old Stone Eldth
palliate	vb	whitewash, gloss over
palpitate	vb	throb
pamphlet	n	leaflet, flyer/flier
panacea	n	healer of all, healall, allheal
pancreas	n	allflesh
pant(aloon)s	n	britches, breeches, hoes
pants, under-	n	netherlings, netherbritches, underwear, underkegs, undies
papacy	n	popedom
paper	n	bookstuff
parable	n	byspel
paradise	n	heaven, nerxenwang (OE neorxna-wang)
parallel	adj	alongside
paralyzed	adj	lame, lamed
paralysis	n	lameness
paramour	n	lover, leman
paraphrase	vb & n	new wording, new bewording
parasol	n	sunshade
parchment	n	book-fell
parenting	n	child-rearing
parenthesis	n	byspeech
parents	n	folks, elders
pariah	n	outcast
parliament	n	witan, lawmoot, witenagemot, witen, witenmoot, allthing (Icelandic)
parsley	n	crispleaf
part	n	deal, share, bit
part	vb	split, break, sunder
participate	vb	take part, partake
participant	n	partaker, player
particle1	n	[grammar] wordling
particle2a	n	mote
particle2b, smallest	n	whit
particularly	adv	namely
partner	vb & n	mate
party	n	gathering, merrymaking, bash
parvenu	n	upstart
pass	vb	overtake
passage	n	gangway, thoroughfare
passport	n	furlough, forloff,
past	adj	bygone
patella	n	kneecap
paternal	adj	fatherly
pater noster	n	the lord's prayer, our father
pathetic	adj	rueful, ruthful
patience	n	thild, forbearing
patient	adj	forbearing
patria	n	homeland, fatherland
patriarch	n	elder, eldfather, highfather
patrimony	n	fatherland
patriotic	n	landtrothen, home-loving, homeland loving, fatherland loving
patriotism	n	landtrothenness, home-love, homeland love, fatherland love
patron	n	backer, bestower
patronage	n	business, trade
pattern	n	cut, doing, doings, folkway, goings-on, layout, outline, setting, shape, set-up, warp & woof, way, ways, weave, web, yardstick
pause	n	break, let-up
paucity	n	lack, fewness, scantiness
pavement	n	sidewalk, footpath, walkway
pay	vb	betell
payment	n	fee
peace	n	frith
peal	vb	ring, toll
peasant	n	churl
peculation	n	thefting
peculiar	adj	odd, quirky, weird, funny
pedagog	n	youth teacher, childteacher
pedal1	n	footkey
pedal2	adj	foot(ed)
pedantic	adj	well-taught, know-it-all, bookfed, book-learned, bookish, bookwise, nitpicking, teachy, overlearned, wise, dryasdust
pedestrian	n	footfolk(att'd), footgoer, sidewalker, walker
peel	n	rind, skin
peel	vb	rend, skin, tear
pelican	n	wanfoot
pelt	n	hide
penetrate	vb	thrill, bore
peninsula	n	by-land, seagirt, spit
pentagon	n	fivekneer
penultimate	adj	last- but-one, next-to-last, forelast
penis	n	yard, pintle, manhood, tail
people	n	folk
perceive	v	underget, get, understand, truetake, soothtake
percent	n	hundredths
perception	n	undergetting, understanding, truetake, soothtake, truetaking, soothtaking
percolate	vb	leach
perfect	adj	flawless, forfit
perfect	vb	forfitten, fullcome
perforate	vb	riddle, thrill
perform	vb	do, behave, work, play, uptread (theatrical; calque of Dutch, optreden)
period	n	while, timespan, time frame, spell
perish	vb	forfare, forworth
perjure	vb	mainswear, forswear, lie under oath
perhaps	adv	byhaps, maybe, mayhap
perimeter	n	rim, rimlength, rimspan
permanent	adj	ever-lasting
permission1‘‘‘	n	leave, goahead
permit1‘‘‘	vb	let, brook
permit2‘‘‘	n	letwrit, goahead
pernicious	adj	baleful, baneful
pernio	n	chillblain
perpendicular	adj	straightways(nb att'd), straight on
perpetually	adj	ever, aye, unendingly
perpetuity, in	adv	forevermore
perplex	vb	bewilder, bewonder
persecute	vb	forfollow, hound
personal	adj	monnly, self, own; inner, innermost, inmost; belittling; near
personality	n	selfhood, egg, mood
personal stereo	n	walkman
personnel	n	staff, men, ware
Perspicacious	adj	insightful
perspicacity	n	insight, keenness, shrewdness
perspective	n	outlook
persuade	vb	overrede, wheedle, sweet-talk, overwin
pervert	n	lewdster (nb. att'd Shakespear)
perverse	adj	thirtover, lewd, wayward, thrawn, forcouth, untoward
pervert	vb	offset, froward, throw off track
pet-name	n	nickname, ekename
petrify	vb	(for)stonen
petroleum	n	black gold
peruse	vb	look through, read through
phantom	n	ghost
phlebotomy	n	bloodletting
philosophy	n	witlore, lorelief
phloem tube	n (biol)	wortpipe
photograph	n	snap, still, sunprint, lightstain, lightwrit, lightblot, snapshot
phobia	n	fear, misfear
phosphorescent	adj	briny
photographer	n	sunprinter, sunprintster, sightblotter, lightplotter, lightblotster, lightwriter, sightsnapper
photography	n	sunprinting, lightplotting, sightblotting, lightblotting, lightwriting
phototoxin	n	lightbane
phrase	n	wordstring sliver
physics	n	worldken
physical	adj	bodily, litchly
picturesque	adj	pretty, lovely, fetching, striking, sightworthy, sightly, highly wrought
piece	n	bit
pierce	vb	bere, bore, stab, thrill, gore
pianoforte	n	softhard keyboard
pigeon	n	culver, dove
pile	n	heap
pillage	vb	ransack, plunder, reave
pilot	n	lodeman, skyship boss, foreflyer
pimple	n	wheal
pinch	vb	nip, squeeze, steal, scrimp, nab
pioneer	n	groundbreaker, waymaker
pioneering	adj	groundbreaking, waymaking
pious	adj	godly
pip	n	(hard) seed
pirate	n	searobber, searover, wiching
pity	n	ruth, mildheartness
place	vb	lay, put, stow
place	n	stead, stow, spot, -where
place-name	n	steadname
placenta	n	afterbirth
plagiarism	n	thought-theft
plague	n	folkbane
plan	vb	plot, forethink
plan	n	layout, outline, draft
plank	n	board, sill
plankton	n	drifter moss
planning	n	forethought
planet	n	world, wanderstar
plant	n	wort
plateau	n	dish
plateau	n	wold
platform	n	deck, hustings(esp. for poltiical gatherings), staddle
pleasant	adj	lithe, likesome
please	interj	prithee, kindly
please	vb	gladden, list
pleased	adj	glad, happy
pleasure	n	lust, gladness,
plebiscite	n	folkcast, folksay
pledge	n	plight
plentiful	adj	rife
plenty	adv	enough, weal
-plex	suff	-fold
plumber	n	pipefitter, waterfitter
plumbing	n	pipework, leadwork, founding
plunge	vb	dip, dunk, dive
plural	adj	manysome, many
plutocracy	n	gelddom, goldwield
pneumatic	adj	suckwork, by air (pressure)
poem	n	lay
poet	n	wordwright, wordcrafter, scop
poetry	n	wordcraft, scopery
point	n	tip, tine, nib
poison	n	bane, atter
polecat	n	thummart
police	n	law-warden
political	adj	mootish
political party	n	mootband
politician	n	rikemaster, mootsman, mootswoman
politics	n	mootsmanship
pollute	vb	besmear, foul, befoul, besmerch
polycephaly	n	many-headedness, maniheadedness
polygamist	n	maniwedder
polyglot	n	manispoken, many-speeched, manytongued
polygon	n	manycornered, manykneed
polyhedron	n	manyface
polytheism	n	manygodhood, manygoddedness
pompous	adj	overblown
pontoon	n	punt
poor	adj	arm, needy
popular	adj	well-liked, well thought of, held dear, well known, all-the-thing, homespun, household name, far heard, widespread
population	n	befolking, bewoners, indwellers, folk, ware, erdeners
porcines	n	pig, boar, hog, swine, sow, yelt
pork	n	pigflesh, pig, swineflesh
porous	adj	holey, hole-shotten, seepsome, holesome
port	n	harbour, larboard
portal	n	doorway, gate, gateway, yet
portend	vb	bode, by-sen, forerun, ill-bode, foreshadow, forewarn
portent	n	foretoken, boding
portentous	adj	baleful, baneful, bodeful, boding, by-sening, dire, doomful,fateful,foreboding, forerunning, forewarning, ill-boding, untoward, weighty
portion	n	lot, share
portrait	n	likeness
position	n	stead, steadholding
positive (aspect)	n	upside
possess1‘‘‘	vb	own, owe
possess2‘‘‘	vb	devilsicken, bewitch
possessed	adj	devilsick, owned, ought, owed, own, giddy, bewitched, deviltaken
possession	n	ownership, belonging, ought
possibility	n	likelihood, mightsomeness
possible	adj	doughtbefall, dowedbefall, hapsome, likely, mightsome, within reach
possibly	av	likely, maybe
posterior	n	rump, back(side)
posteriority	n	afterness,
posterity	n	afterbairns, afterkin, eretide, offspring
post-existence	n	afterlife, afterbeing, the beyond, the great beyond, the next world, other world, the great unknown, the world to come
postpone	vb	shelve, call off
post script (p.s.)	n	afterthought, afterwrit (a.w.)
potassium	n	potash
potato	n	nightshade runner ("solanum tuberosa"), shaderoot, tater, tatty, pot, spud, earthapple, breadroot
potential	adj	mayly, likely, maybe
poultry	n	hen, fowl
pour	vb	birle
poverty	n	armth, armhood, hardship, need, lack, illth
powder	n	dust
power	n	craft, might, know-how, main, strength
power	vb	drive, feed
power line	n	spark rope
powerful	adj	mightful, mighty, strong, strengthful, main
practically	adv	nearly, well-nigh, indeed
pram	n	buggy
precede	vb	forego
precipitation	n	rainfall, snowfall, downpour, wetfall, breefall
preclude	vb	forestall, foreclose
precognition	n	foreknowledge, foreboding
precursor	n	forerunner, forebear
predecessor	n	forerunner, forebear, foreling(by analogy to afterling)
predestination	n	wyrd, foredooming, doom, wierd
predetermine	vb	foreset, foredoom, foretomark
predetermined	vb	foregone, foreset
predicament	n	hardship, quagmire, quandary, jam, scrape, plight, hardplace
predict	vb	foretell, foresay, foresee
pre-eminent	adj	foremost
pre-existence	n	aforeness, beforeness, forebeing
prefabricated	adj	ready-made, ready-built, forewrought, fore-timbered(houses)
preface	n	foreword
prefer	'vb	rather, berather
prefer to	vb	would rather, would sooner, had liefer
prefigure	vb	foreshadow , foreshow
pregnancy	n	(phantom) falsebrooding
pregnant	adj	bearing, with-child, childladen
prehistory	n	aforeyorelore, yesteryore
prejudical	adj	foredeeming
prejudice	n	foredeeming
prejudge	vb	foredeem
premature	adj	foreripe, oversoon, untimely
prematurely	adv	oversoon
premeditate	vb	forethink
premeditated	adj	forethought
premier	adj	foremost
premise	n	given, starter, foretruth
premises(a building's site)	n	toft
premonition	n	forefeeling, foreboding
preoccupy	phr & vb	worry about, taken up by, beset, come uttermost, inthrall, fill the thoughts, spellbind, take over the mind
preparation	n	readiness, readying,(complete) alreadiness, yareness
prepare	vb	aready, agraith, foreready, make ready, ready, rede, yare
prepared	adj	ready
preposition	n	forplacing ,foreputword
prepuce	n	foreskin
prescience	n	foreknowledge, forethought, forwisdom
prescient	adj	farsighted, foresighted, foreseeing, forwise, forknowing
prescribe	vb	forespell, shrive
press1‘‘‘	vb	thrimp, shove
pressure	n	(of water, gas) head
present	adj	nowa
present	adv	nowadays
present1	n	nonce, time being, now
present2	n	gift
present	vb	show, give, bestow,
presentiment	n	forefeeling
preserve	vb	hain, keep, uphold
president	n	kithhead, stoolman
presume	vb	guess, dare, make free with
presumptuous	adj	uppity, overweening, daring
pretender	n	would-be
pretense	n	make-believe, falsehood
pretentious	adj	showy, hoity-toity, over the top, kitsch
prevent	vb	forbid, forestop, forestall, hinder, let
preview	vb & n	forelook, forepeek, foreshow, foreshowing
previous	adj	yester, last, latter, foregoing, earlier
previously(general)	adv	afore, yesterly, beforehand
previously(before now)	adv	heretofore, until now, before now, hitherto
previously(before then)	adv	theretofore, until then, afore, before then
prima donna	n	leading lady
primary	adj	foremost, first
primer	n	futharkboook
prince	n	atheling
principal	adj	main, foremost, first, head
print	vb	offset, run off, stamp
prior	adj	beforehand, before
priority	n	foreness, beforeness
prison	n	lockup, clink, lagstead
pristine	n	earliest, firstness, spotless, yoreness, urhood
private	adj	homely
privy	n	outhouse
probable	adj	likely
probably	adv	maybe, most likely
problem	n	worry, kinch, bugbear
proceed	vb	go forth, thence go, yede, go on
process	vb	taw
processor, computer	n	mainframe, numbercruncher, reckoner
procreate	vb	beget, breed
product	n	ware, yield
productive	n	yieldsome, yieldy
prodigy	n	wonderchild
prodigal	adj	spendthrifty, feespilling
produce	vb	bring forth, get out, yield, make
production	n	yield, output
proem	n	foreword
professor	n	lorespeaker, loregiver
profit	n	gain, boot, yield
profitable	adj	worthwhile
proficiency	n	skill
profound	adj	underlying, deep
profusely	adv phr	flow thickly, running overly, teemingly
profusion	n	beteeming
progenitor	n	begetter, elder(s), father(s), forebear(s), forefather(s), fore-elder(s), Forerunner(s)
program	n	foredraught, broadcast, sending (see source code)
programming language	n	foredraughting tongue, foredraughting leid
progress	n	headway, foreway
progressive	adj	forward-looking, forthgangsome
prohibit	vb	forbid, forfend
projector	n	beamer
prokaryote	n	forekern, forekernel, forechurn(?)
proleteriat	n	working-poor
prolific	adj	birthy, broodful, birthful
prologue	n	foretale
promise	n	oath
promise	vb	swear, behight
promontary	n	headland, foreland, ness
promote	vb	uprear, further, boost, raise
pronounce	vb	utter, say
pronouncement	n	say-so
pronunciation	n	outspeech, uttering, wordloud
propose	vb	put forth
propel	vb	thrust, drive, drive forth
proper	adj	fitting, meet, seemly, right, true
property	n	ownings
prophesise	vb	foretell, foresee
prophesy	n	foresight, foretelling
prophet	n	soothsayer, godsayer
proprietor	n	householder, owner, landlord/lady
propulsion	n	thrust, spinthrust(as from a plane's propeller)
proscribe	vb	forbid
prosper	vb	thee, thrive
prosperity	n	wealth, riches, theedom, weal, thrivedom
prostitute	vb & n	whore
prostrate	adj	aground
protect	vb	ward, shield, forstand
protege	n	ward
protest	vb	say against, outcry
protestant	adj	againstish
protestant	n	againstisher
protoplasm	n	orslime
protoarchaeopterix	n	aforeoldenwing
protrude	vb	stick out, jut
proud	adj	rank, showy, overbearing
proverb	n	byword, saying, saw, folksay(ing)
provide	vb	give, open, afford
province	n	great shire
prow	n	foreship
prudence	n	forewit, thrift
pseudo-	n	fake, -like
psychiatrist	n	mindhealer
psychologist	n	mindlore(wo)man, mindlorester
pub(lic house)	n	inn, alehouse, boozer
public	adj	openly, stately, y-mean
public servant	adj	onbidsman
public toilet	n	outhouse
publish	vb	furthset, make known, folkcast, bring out, outbring
pulsate	vb	beat, throb
pulse1	n	beat, throb, heartbeat
pulse2	n	bean
pumpkin	n	harvestberry, harvestball
punish	vb	scold
pup	n	whelp
purchase1	vb	buy
purchase2	n	grip
purge	vb	cleanse
pure	adj	clean, sheer, white
purify	vb	cleanse
pursue	vb	follow, go after
purveyor	n	monger
push	vb	shove, thrust
pustule	n	pock
pyromania	n	firemadness