| peremptory | Insisting on immediate attention or obedience, especially in a brusquely imperious way | |
| peregrinate | To travel or journey, especially to walk on foot | |
| penury | Extreme poverty; destitution | |
| penurious | Extremely poor; poverty-stricken | |
| penitent | Feeling or showing sorrow and regret for having done wrong; repentant | |
| pendulous | Hanging down loosely | |
| peevish | easily irritated, especially by unimportant things | |
| pedestrian | A person walking along a road or in a developed area | |
| pedantic | Excessively concerned with minor details or rules; overly concerned with formalism and precision | |
| paucity | The presence of something in only small or insufficient quantities or amounts | |