5 Letter Words That Start With P

pious

Adjective : Of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, god-fearing.

Adjective : Relating to religion or religious works.

Adjective : Insisting on or making a show of one's own virtue, especially in comparison to others; sanctimonious, condescending, judgmental.

power

Noun : The ability to do or undergo something.

Noun : (social) The ability to coerce, influence, or control.

Noun : (countable) The ability to affect or influence.

poise

Noun : A state of balance, equilibrium or stability.

Noun : Composure; freedom from embarrassment or affectation.

Noun : Mien; bearing or deportment of the head or body.

pitch

Noun : A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.

Noun : A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil and tar.

Noun : (geology) Pitchstone.

plume

Noun : (archaic, literary and poetic) A feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one used as a decoration.

Noun : (archaic, literary and poetic) A cluster of feathers worn as an ornament, especially on a helmet; a hackle.

Noun : (figurative) A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides oneself; a prize or reward.

probe

Noun : (surgery) Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.

Noun : (comedy, fiction) An anal probe, a fictional instrument commonly used by aliens on abducted humans.

Noun : (figuratively) Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information.

plump

Adjective : Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.

Adjective : Fat.

Adjective : Sudden and without reservation; blunt; direct; downright.

place

Noun : (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.

Noun : An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.

Noun : (often in street names or addresses) A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name.

plain

Adjective : (now rare, regional) Flat, level.

Adjective : Simple, unaltered.

Adjective : Ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation; unembellished.

point

Noun : A small dot or mark.

Noun : Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.

Noun : A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.

pride

Noun : The quality or state of being proud; an unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority in terms of talents, looks, wealth, importance etc., which comes across as being lofty, distant, and often showing contempt of others.

Noun : (having a positive sense, often with of or in) A sense of one's own worth, and scorn for what is beneath or unworthy of oneself.

Noun : Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation.

prime

Adjective : First in importance, degree, or rank.

Adjective : First in time, order, or sequence.

Adjective : First in excellence, quality, or value.

proud

Adjective : Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.

Adjective : That makes one feel proud (of something one did)

Adjective : Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth.

peril

Noun : A situation of serious and immediate danger.

Noun : Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.

Noun : (insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.

piety

Noun : (uncountable, religion) Reverence and devotion to God.

Noun : (uncountable) Similar reverence to one's parents and family or to one's country.

Noun : (countable) A devout or otherwise laudable act, thought, or statement.

preen

Noun : A forked tool used by clothiers for dressing cloth.

Noun : (dialectal) pin

Noun : (dialectal) bodkin; brooch

petty

Adjective : (often derogatory)

Adjective : Having little or no importance.

Adjective : Of persons or their behaviour: marked by or reflective of undesirably limited interests, sympathies, or views; begrudging, selfish, small-minded; also, preoccupied with subjects having little or no importance and not mindful of broader concerns.

pivot

Noun : A thing on which something turns; specifically a metal pointed pin or short shaft in machinery, such as the end of an axle or spindle.

Noun : (figuratively, by extension) Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.

Noun : Act of turning on one foot.

peach

Noun : (countable) Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.

Noun : (countable, uncountable) Soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.

Noun : (uncountable) A light yellow-red colour.

perch

Noun : Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca.

Noun : Any of the about 200 related species of fish in the taxonomic family Percidae, especially:

Noun : (South Africa) Acanthopagrus berda

privy

Adjective : (now chiefly historical) Private, exclusive; not public; one's own.

Adjective : (now rare, archaic) Secret, hidden, concealed.

Adjective : With knowledge of; party to; let in on.

piece

Noun : A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.

Noun : A single item belonging to a class of similar items.

Noun : (chess) One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished from a pawn; by extension, a similar counter etc. in other games.

party

Noun : (law) A person or group of people constituting one side in a legal proceeding, such as in a legal action or a contract.

Noun : (dated, slang, vulgar or humorous) A person; an individual.

Noun : With to: someone who takes part in an action or affair; an accessory.

prior

Adjective : Coming before in order or time; earlier, former, previous.

Adjective : More important or significant.

Adjective : (Bayesian statistics) Chiefly in prior probability: of the probability of an event: determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.

pussy

Noun : (informal, endearing) A cat.

Noun : (vulgar, colloquial) The female genitalia; the vulva or vagina.

Noun : Anything soft and furry; a bloom form, or catkin, as on the pussy willow.

plaza

Noun : A town's public square.

Noun : An open area used for gathering in a city, often having small trees and sitting benches.

Noun : (Canada, US) A strip mall.

pesky

Adjective : (informal) Annoying, troublesome, irritating (usually of an animal or child).

panic

Adjective : (by extension (see the etymology))

Adjective : Of fear, fright, etc: overwhelming or sudden.

Adjective : Pertaining to or resulting from overwhelming fear or fright.

prick

Noun : A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.

Noun : An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.

Noun : (obsolete) A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point.

proxy

Adjective : Used as a proxy or acting as a proxy.

Noun : An agent or substitute authorized to act for another person.

Noun : The authority to act for another, especially when written.

press

Noun : An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.

Noun : (countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.

Noun : (uncountable) A crowd.

pique

Verb : (transitive)

Verb : To wound the pride of (someone); to excite to anger; to irritate, to offend.

Verb : To excite (someone) to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate (an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest).

prowl

Verb : (ambitransitive) To rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner; especially, to search in, as for prey or booty.

Verb : (intransitive) To idle; to go about aimlessly.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To collect by plunder.

plush

Adjective : (UK) Very extravagant.

Adjective : (UK) Very expensive, or appearing expensive; opulent, luxurious.

Adjective : Having a soft, fluffy exterior (of a man-made object, especially stuffed animals or upholstery).

posit

Noun : Something that is posited; a postulate.

Noun : (computing) A number format representing a real number consisting of a sign bit, a variable-size "regime" part (which modifies the exponent), up to two exponent bits, and a fraction part, proposed as a more efficient alternative to IEEE 754 floats in AI applications.

Verb : To assume the existence of; to postulate.

prone

Adjective : Lying face-down.

Adjective : Of the hand, forearm or foot: turned facing away from the body; with the thumb inward or big toe downward.

Adjective : Having a downward inclination or slope.

prose

Noun : Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry.

Noun : Language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.

Noun : (Roman Catholicism) A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass.

prove

Verb : (transitive) To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for; to bear out; to testify.

Verb : (intransitive) To turn out; to manifest.

Verb : (copulative) To turn out to be.

parry

Verb : To avoid, deflect, or ward off (an attack, a blow, an argument, etc.).

Noun : A defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying.

Noun : (fencing) A simple defensive action designed to deflect an attack, performed with the forte of the blade.

pinch

Verb : To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

Verb : To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.

Verb : To squeeze between two objects.

paddy

Noun : Rough or unhusked rice, either before it is milled or as a crop to be harvested.

Noun : (countable) A paddy field, a rice paddy; an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown.

Adjective : (obsolete) Low; mean; boorish; vagabond.

phony

Adjective : (informal) Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance.

Noun : (informal) A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own.

Noun : (informal) A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold.

pylon

Noun : A gateway to the inner part of an Ancient Egyptian temple.

Noun : (electricity) A tower-like structure, usually one of a series, used to support high-voltage electricity cables.

Noun : (architecture) A tall steel or concrete tower from which cables are strung.

polar

Adjective : Of or having a pole or polarity, as:

Adjective : (geography) Of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole); within the Arctic or Antarctic circles.

Adjective : (space sciences) Of an orbit that passes over, or near, one of these poles.

pseud

Noun : (derogatory) An intellectually pretentious person; a poseur.

Noun : (medicine, colloquial) Pseudomonas bacteria.

Noun : (Internet slang) A pseudonym.

prill

Verb : to flow, spurt

Noun : a rill, a small stream

Noun : (obsolete) a spinning top

perdu

Adjective : (obsolete, military) Stationed in an exposed or hazardous position; hidden in ambush. Originally as sentinel perdu.

Adjective : (now rare) In a dangerous situation; lost, desperate.

Adjective : (now rare) Hidden; concealed from sight. Chiefly with lie.

pound

Noun : Various non-English units of measure.

Noun : A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.

Noun : A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of mass when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.

pearl

Noun : A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery.

Noun : (figuratively) Something precious.

Noun : A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing liquid for e.g. medicinal application.

poach

Verb : (transitive) To cook (something) in simmering or very hot liquid (usually water; sometimes wine, broth, or otherwise).

Verb : (intransitive) To be cooked in such manner.

Noun : The act of cooking in simmering liquid.

pithy

Adjective : Concise and meaningful.

Adjective : Of, like, or abounding in pith; spongy or having small holes or pits.

proof

Noun : (countable) An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.

Noun : (uncountable) The degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments which induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration.

Noun : The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness which resists impression, or does not yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies.

pupil

Noun : (dated outside UK) A learner at a school under the supervision of a teacher.

Noun : One who studies under supervision of a renowned expert in their field.

Noun : (law, obsolete) An orphan who is a minor and under the protection of the state.

plumb

Noun : A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction.

Noun : (nautical) A weight on the end of a long line, used by sailors to determine the depth of water.

Noun : The perpendicular direction or position.

pushy

Adjective : Overly assertive, bold, or determined; aggressively ambitious.

phase

Noun : A distinguishable part of a sequence or cycle occurring over time.

Noun : That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object.

Noun : Any appearance or aspect of an object of mental apprehension or view.

pulse

Noun : (physiology)

Noun : A normally regular beat felt when arteries near the skin (for example, at the neck or wrist) are depressed, caused by the heart pumping blood through them.

Noun : The nature or rate of this beat as an indication of a person's health.

parse

Verb : (linguistics, ambitransitive) To resolve (a sentence, etc.) into its elements, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by agreement or government; to analyze and describe grammatically.

Verb : (transitive) To examine closely; to scrutinize.

Verb : (computing, ambitransitive) To split (a file or other input) into pieces of data that can be easily manipulated or stored.

pixie

Noun : (mythology, fantasy literature, fairy tales) A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.

Noun : (slang) A cute, petite woman with short hair.

Noun : (astronomy, meteorology) An upper-atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a short-lasting pinpoint of light on the surface of convective domes that produces a gnome.

prude

Noun : A person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who is easily offended by matters of a sexual nature.

Adjective : Prudish.

Noun : A surname.

prise

Verb : To force (open) with a lever; to pry.

Verb : Extract something that is difficult to obtain.

Noun : (obsolete) An enterprise or adventure.

plunk

Verb : (transitive) To drop or throw something heavily onto or into something else, so that it makes a dull sound.

Verb : (intransitive) To land suddenly or heavily; to plump down.

Verb : (transitive, baseball) To intentionally hit the batter with a pitch.

prate

Noun : Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity.

Verb : (ambitransitive) To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly.

potty

Noun : A chamber pot.

Noun : A small, usually plastic, chamber pot used to toilet-train small children.

Noun : (childish, humorous) Any other device or place for urination or defecation: a toilet; a lavatory; a latrine; an outhouse.

pursy

Adjective : Out of breath; short of breath, especially due to fatness.

Adjective : Fat and short.

Adjective : Puckered.

patch

Noun : A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole.

Noun : A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.

Noun : A piece of any size, used to repair something for a temporary period only, or that it is temporary because it is not meant to last long or will be removed as soon as a proper repair can be made, which will happen in the near future.

pilot

Noun : A person who steers a ship, a helmsman.

Noun : A person who knows well the depths and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel to help navigate the harbor or coast.

Noun : A guide book for maritime navigation.

purse

Noun : A small bag for carrying money.

Noun : (US) A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items)

Noun : A quantity of money given for a particular purpose.

pansy

Noun : A cultivated flowering plant, derived by hybridization within species Viola tricolor.

Noun : A deep purple colour, like that of the pansy.

Noun : Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Junonia.

paean

Noun : (Ancient Greece, historical) A chant or song, especially a hymn of thanksgiving for deliverance or victory, to Apollo or sometimes another god or goddess; hence any song sung to solicit victory in battle.

Noun : (by extension) Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph.

Noun : (by extension) An enthusiastic expression of praise.

paseo

Noun : A public path or avenue designed for walking, sometimes for dining or recreation.

phren

Noun : (philosophy, historical) The brain or mind.

Noun : (obsolete, anatomy) The diaphragm.

perse

Noun : A very dark (almost black) purple or blue-gray colour.

Noun : A cloth of this colour.

Adjective : Very dark greyish (almost blackish) purple or blue.

prize

Noun : That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.

Noun : (military, nautical) Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; especially, property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.

Noun : An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.

pluck

Verb : (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out

Verb : (transitive) To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.

Verb : (transitive, music) To play (a single string on a musical instrument) by pulling and then releasing it, such as on a guitar.

pasty

Adjective : Like paste, sticky.

Adjective : Pale, lacking colour, having a pallor.

Adjective : (slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) Whiteskinned.

plash

Noun : (UK, dialectal) A small pool of standing water; a puddle.

Noun : A splash, or the sound made by a splash.

Noun : A sudden downpour.

proem

Noun : An introduction, preface or preamble.

phyle

Noun : (Ancient Greece) A local division of the people; a clan or tribe.

Noun : (historical) A subdivision of the priestly caste in ancient Egypt, headed by a phylarch.

parky

Adjective : Of, from, or related to a park or parks generally, especially parklike.

Adjective : Having parks or parklike areas.

Adjective : (British, informal) Synonym of chilly: somewhat cold but not extremely so.

penis

Noun : (anatomy) The male erectile reproductive organ used for sexual intercourse that in the human male and other placental mammals is also used for urination; the tubular portion of the external male genitalia (excluding the scrotum).

Noun : (zoology) A similar erectile sexual organ present in the cloacas of male amniotes.

posse

Noun : A group or company of people, originally especially one having hostile intent; a throng, a crowd.

Noun : (now historical, in later use chiefly US) A group of people summoned to help law enforcement.

Noun : (US) A search party.

pinky

Adjective : Pinkish.

Noun : (uncountable, historical, slang, Australia) Methylated spirits mixed with red wine or Condy's crystals.

Noun : A baby mouse, especially when used as food for a snake, etc.

poser

Noun : (British) A particularly difficult question or puzzle.

Noun : Someone who asks a question or sets a problem.

Noun : Someone who, or something which, poses; a person who sets their body in a fixed position, such as for photography or painting.

pogue

Noun : (Ireland) A kiss.

Noun : (dated, slang) A purse; hence, money.

Noun : (US, slang) A young, male, passive homosexual.

punch

Noun : (countable) A hit or strike with one's fist.

Noun : (countable, rare) A blow from something other than the fist.

Noun : (uncountable) Power, strength, energy.

plane

Adjective : Of a surface: flat or level.

Noun : A level or flat surface.

Noun : (geometry) A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane); a bounded portion thereof.

peace

Noun : A state of tranquility, quiet, and harmony; absence of violence.

Noun : A state free of oppressive and unpleasant thoughts and emotions.

Noun : (figuratively, euphemistic) Death.

prune

Noun : (obsolete) A plum.

Noun : The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.

Noun : (figurative) Something wrinkly like a prune.

peter

Noun : (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter P.

Noun : A male given name from Ancient Greek.

Noun : The leading Apostle in the New Testament: Saint Peter.

porch

Noun : (architecture) A covered entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. A porch often has chair(s), table(s) and swings.

Noun : A portico; a covered walk.

Noun : The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft.

pagan

Adjective : Relating to, characteristic of religions that differ from main world religions.

Adjective : (by extension, derogatory) Savage, immoral, uncivilized, wild.

Noun : A person not adhering to a main world religion; a follower of a pantheistic or nature-worshipping religion.

puppy

Noun : A young dog, especially before sexual maturity (12–18 months)

Noun : A young rat.

Noun : A young seal.

puffy

Adjective : Swollen or inflated in shape, as if filled with air; pillow-like.

Adjective : Coming or exhaling in puffs.

Adjective : Speaking or writing in an exaggeratedly eloquent and self-important manner.

patsy

Noun : A diminutive of the female given name Patricia.

Noun : A diminutive of the male given name Patrick.

Noun : A diminutive of the female given name Martha.

plebe

Noun : (historical, usually in the plural) A plebeian, a member of the lower class of Roman citizens.

Noun : (historical, obsolete) The plebs, the plebeian class.

Noun : (obsolete) The similar lower class of any area.

piker

Noun : (military, historical) A soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman.

Noun : One who bets or gambles only with small amounts of money.

Noun : A stingy person; a cheapskate.

prest

Noun : (rare) A payment of wages in advance

Noun : A loan or advance (of money)

Noun : A tax or duty

pikey

Noun : (informal) A pike (type of fish).

Adjective : Associated with or filled with pike (fish).

Noun : (UK, Ireland, ethnic slur, offensive) An itinerant person, especially one of Romani or Irish Traveller heritage.

passé

Adjective : (colloquial) Dated; out of style; old-fashioned.

Adjective : Past one's prime; worn; faded.

Noun : (fencing) An attack that passes the target without hitting.

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