English Wordbook/P
From The Anglish Moot
Staff P of the English Wordbook.
| 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, godstow, 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, above all, all the more, at length, ever so, in the main, more than ever |
| 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, life's way, world outlook, thinking |
| 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, versemonger, verseman |
| 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 |
| practical | adj | useful, earthy, down-to-earth, yielding |
| 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, headleaf, flyleaf |
| 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 |
| prelude | n | forerunner, lead-up, lead-in, harbinger, foreword, forspiel, |
| 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 |
| 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 |
