| paradigm | A typical example or pattern of something; a model | |
| panned | To criticize severely. | |
| pangs | A sudden sharp pain or painful emotion | |
| pander | To gratify or indulge (an immoral or distasteful desire or taste or a person with such a desire or taste) | |
| panacea | A solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases | |
| pallid | Pale, typically because of poor health | |
| pall | A cloth spread over a coffin, hearse, or tomb | |
| palimpsest | A manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain | |
| palatial | Resembling a palace in being spacious and splendid | |
| painstaking | Done with great care and thoroughness | |