Starting with P

Quell the anger, agitation or excitement of

Elaborate display or ceremony

Of or relating to pages

Done with or employing great care and thoroughness

A knight renowned for heroism and chivalry

Of an action or proposal, acceptable or satisfactory

The sense of taste

Resembling a palace as being spacious and splendid

Prolonged and tedious fuss or discussion

A palace or large building

A word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same backwards as forwards

Make a disease or its symptoms less severe without removing the cause

Pale, deficient in colour, wan

Unnatural paleness

Of a feeling or atmosphere, so intense as to seem almost tangible

Beat rapidly, strongly or irregularly

Paralysis

Equivocate or prevaricate in action or speech

Trifling, petty

A solution to all problems

Flamboyant confidence of style or manner

Of a disease, prevalent over a whole country or the world

Wild and noisy disorder or confusion, uproar

Gratify or indulge

A public speech or published text in praise of someone or something

A pathological fear of everything

An extensive or impressive collection, a splendid display

Showing or seeing the whole at one view

An unbroken view of the whole region surrounding an observer

Universal wisdom or knowledge

Enormous

By aeroplane

By excellence or superiority

A typical example or pattern of something, a pattern or model

A fundamental change in approach or underlying assumptions

Of a place, ideal or idyllic, heavenly

Of, like, or befitting paradise

A seemingly absurd or contradictory statement or proposition which when investigated may prove to be well founded or true

Seemingly absurd or self-contradictory

A person or thing regarded as a perfect example of a particular quality

More important than anything else, supreme

A lover

Unjustified suspicion and mistrust of other people

Miscellaneous articles, especially the articles needed for a particular activity

Preference for or addition to unusual sexual practices

Express the meaning of something written or spoken using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity

Make or become dry through intense heat

The action of forgiving or being forgiven for an error or offence.

Reduce something in size, extent or quantity

A piece of work that is supplemental to or by-product of a larger work.

Side by side, at the same rate or on equal footing

The state or condition of being equal, especially as regards status or pay

Way of speaking, or language

A conference between opposing sides in a dispute

Full of danger or uncertainty, precarious

Having a limited or narrow outlook or scope

An imitation of the style of a particular writer etc with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect

Words having the same root or stem

A sudden attack or outburst of a particular emotion or activity

Someone who kills either of their parents

To ward off

Very unwilling to spend money or use resources

Extreme or excessive economy or frugality

Join in an activity

A preconceived view, a bias

Strong supporter of a party, cause or action

Divided into parts

Divide into parts

About to give birth, in labour

Just good enough to be acceptable, satisfactory

No longer fashionable, out of date

Capable of feeling or suffering, susceptible to sensation or emotion

Having, showing or caused by strong feelings or beliefs

A section, division or canto of a story or poem, especially a medieval one.

Easily recognizable, obvious

The head of a family

Arousing pity, especially through vulnerability and sadness

A bacterium, virus or other microorganism that can cause disease.

Compulsive, obsessive

A quality that evokes pity or sadness

The jargon or informal speech used by a particular social group

The support given by a patron

Treat in a condescending way OR to favour

The presence of something in only small or insufficient quantities or amounts

A very poor person

Inclined to avoid conflict or dissent

Lively, cheerful

Capable of sinning

A relatively minor fault or sin

Having committed a fault or sin

Embezzle or steal money

Different to what is normal of expected, strange

Relating to or consisting of money

The method and practice of teaching

A person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning

Excessively concerned with minor details or rules

Having no peer or equal

A word expressing contempt or disapproval

Relating to the open sea

Translucently clear, easily understood, lucid

A punishment inflicted on oneself as an outward expression of repentance for wrongdoing

A strong or habitual liking for something or tendency to do something

Awaiting decision or settlement

Hanging down loosely

Allowing things to pass through, permeable

The innermost parts of a building; a secret or hidden place

Go into or through something

Feeling or showing sorrow and regret for having done wrong

Engaged in, involving or reflecting deep or serious thought

A period of five years

Consisting of or divided into five parts

Second last

Extremely poor, poverty stricken

The state of being very poor, extreme poverty

A person who does menial work

Walk or travel through or round a place

Become aware or conscious of something, come to realise or understand

The ability to see, hear or become aware of something through the senses

Having perception

Spread gradually through an area or group of people

Made, done or effected through the skin

A state of eternal punishment and damnation into which a sinful and unrepentant person passes after death

Enduring continuously, imperishable

Remain in existence, endure

Insisting on immediate attention or obedience, especially in a brusquely imperious way

Lasting or existing for a long or apparently infinite time, enduring or continually recurring

Intense and impassioned

The state of being deceitful and untrustworthy

Deceitful and untrustworthy

Pierce and make a hole or holes in

Used to express necessity or inevitability

Carried out without real interest, feeling or effort

Serious and immediate danger

Full of danger or risk

Occurring or appearing at regular intervals

Travelling from place to place

A sudden reversal of fortune or change in circumstances, especially in relation to a fictional narrative

Relating to or situated on the edge or periphery of something OR of secondary or minor importance

The external boundary of any surface or area

Die, especially in a violent or sudden way

Wilfully tell an untruth or make a misrepresentation under oath

The condition or quality of being permanent

Lasting or intending to last indefinitely

Capable of being permeated

Spread through something, pervade

Permitted, allowed

Each of several possible ways in which a set or number of things can be ordered or arranged

Having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way

Speak at length

Vertical, upright

To perform, execute or commit

Never ending or changing

Make perpetual, preserve from oblivion

Endless or indefinitely long duration or existence

Make someone feel completely baffled

An incidental emolument, fee etc

To pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment

Persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success

Light and slightly contemptuous mockery or banter

Continuing firmly or obstinately in an opinion or course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition

A person acceptable to others

An unacceptable or unwelcome person

Having a pleasant appearance and manner

Attribute a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human

A particular attitude towards or way of regarding something, a point of view

Having a ready insight into and understanding of things

The quality of having a ready insight into things, shrewdness

Induce someone to do something through reasoning or argument

Attractively lively or cheeky

Be appropriate, related, or applicable to

Holding firmly to an opinion or a course of action

Relevant or applicable to a particular matter, apposite

Make someone anxious or unsettled

Examine carefully or at length

Be present and apparent throughout

Spreading widely throughout an area or a group of people

Contrary to the accepted or expected standard or practice

Distortion or corruption of the original course, meaning or state of something

Distort or corrupt the original course, meaning or state of something

Permeable

A tendency to see the worst aspect of things or believe the worst will happen

Destructive to life, deadly

An engine of war or an explosive device formerly used to blow in a door or gate

Of women, little or tiny

The section of the bourgeoisie having least wealth, status etc

A fallacy in which a conclusion is taken to be granted in the premises, begging the question

A formal written request, typically signed by many people, appealing to an authority in respect of a particular cause

Make someone so frightened that they are unable to move

Of little importance, trivial

Childishly sulky or bad-tempered

A body of troops or police officers standing or moving in close formation

An illusion, apparition or ghost

A sequence of real or imaginary images like that seen in a dream

A fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen, especially one whose cause or explanation is in question

A man who readily or frequently enters into casual sexual relationships with women

The desire to promote the welfare of others, expressed especially by the generous donation of money to good causes

The collection and study of postage stamps

Devoted to music

A lover of Greece and Greek culture

A person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts

A person who likes or admires women

The branch of knowledge that deals with the structure, historical development and relationships of a language or languages

Having many offspring

Relating or devoted to the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality and existence OR having or showing a calm attitude towards disappointment or difficulties

A drink supposed to arouse love and desire for a particular person in the drinker

A person having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition

An extreme or irrational fear or aversion to something

Relating to speech sounds OR of a system of writing, having a direct correspondence between symbols and sounds

Relating to speech sounds

Looking attractive in photographs or film

Of or expressed in pictures, illustrated

Visually attractive, especially in a quaint or charming way

The most important or remarkable feature

The quality of being religious or reverent

Steal things of little value

Rob using violence, especially in wartime

A wooden framework with holes for the head and hands in which offenders were formerly imprisoned and exposed to public abuse AND to attack or ridicule publicly

Covered with long soft hairs

Restrain or immobilise someone by tying up or holding their arms or legs

The need of certain animals within the system to return to a watering point to drink, this necessarily establishing the limits of the system

Dutiful or loyal

Having a pleasantly sharp taste or appetising flavor OR pleasantly stimulating or exciting to the mind

A feeling of irritation or resentment resulting from a slight, especially to one's pride OR arouse interest or curiosity

A course of action followed as a last resort

The right of privilege of fishing in particular waters

Of or concerning fishermen or fishing

Fish eating

Deserving or arousing pity

Terse and vigorously expressive

Deserving or arousing pity

Deserving or arousing pity

Showing no pity, cruel

A very small or inadequate amount of money

The feeling of sorrow and compassion caused by the sufferings and misfortunes of others

Of crucial importance in relation to the development or success of something else

An attractive combination of vitality and glamour

Make someone less angry or hostile

A medicine or procedure prescribed for the psychological benefit to the patient rather than any physiological effect

Beneficial effect asserted by a patient after taking a placebo

Pleasantly calm or peaceful

The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own

Sounding sad and mournful

Loud and resonant, with a mournful tone

A remark or statement, especially one with a moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful

Intimate and affectionate but not sexual

Praise

Seeming reasonable or probable

Where a member of government can safely deny and direct or exact knowledge of something

Make an emotional appeal

A member of the lower social classes

A direct vote of all the qualified electors in regard to some important issue

Unqualified, absolute

Invested with or possessing full power

To fill up, replenish

An abundance

Plentiful

Amply supplied with something

An assembly of all the members of a group or committee

The use of more words than are necessary to convey meaning

A large or excessive amount of something

Overfull, inflated

Easily bent, flexible

Easily bent

A dangerous, difficult or otherwise unfortunate situation

Explore or experience fully to extremes

Steal goods from a place or person, typically using force

Denoting more than one

A system in which two or more states, groups, principles, sources of authority etc coexist

A government or state in which the wealthy class rules

Of or relating to air

Indifferent or unconcerned

An eminent poet appointed as a member of the British royal household

The fact of experiencing a fitting or deserved retribution for one's actions

Evoking a keen sense of sadness and regret

Graceful and elegant bearing in a person

Divide or cause to divide into two sharply contrasting groups or sets of opinions or beliefs

A strong verbal or written attack on someone or something

A form or process of civil government or constitution

An utter coward

The practice of having more than one husband at a time

The practice of having more than one spouse at a time

Knowing or using several languages

A person of wide knowledge or learning

Having or consisting of many parts

Ceremony or splendid display

Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important

Think about something carefully

Slow and clumsy because of great weight

A small, slim dagger

Express one's opinions in a pompous and dogmatic way

The inhabitants of an area, population

A political philosophy concerned with the needs of the common people

A person who supports or seeks to appeal to the concerns of ordinary people

Full of people or inhabitants, well populated

Resembling swine or pigs

Having pores

Full of pores

Capable of being transported or conveyed

Means of access

Be a sign or warning that something is likely to happen

A sign or warning that a momentous or calamitous event is likely to happen

Ominous, ominously indicative

Large in person, stout, corpulent

Depict or describe

To put forward as fact or as a basis for argument

A philosophical system recognising only that which can be scientifically verified or which is capable of logical or mathematical proof

After the war

Taking effect after death

Coming after in time or order, later

All future generations of people

Arising, existing or continuing after one's death

To put off to a later time, defer

During or relating to the period after dinner or lunch

An extra piece of information about an event that is added after it has happened

A candidate, especially one seeking admission into a religious order

• Verb: suggest or assume the existence, fact or truth of something as a basis for reasoning, discussion or belief
• Noun: a thing suggested or assumed as true as the basis for reasoning, discussion or belief

A particular approach or attitude

Having great power, influence or effect

Having or showing the capacity to develop into something in the future

Increase the power, effect or likelihood of something

Able to be done or put into practice successfully

The aspects of a situation that involve the actual doing or experience of something rather than theories or ideas

Dealing with things sensibly or realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations

During or relating to dinner or lunch

Talk foolishly or at tedious length about something

To talk or chatter in a simple-minded or foolish way

Practice as distinguished from theory

Surpassing all others, very distinguished in some way

Take action in order to prevent an unanticipated event happening, forestall

Before a meal, especially of drinks

An introductory statement

A social class comprising people whose lives lack security and predictability, particularly in relation to jobs

Not securely held in position, dependent on chance, uncertain

A state of existence characterized by precariousness

Relating to or expressing a wish or request

A measure taken in advance to prevent something dangerous, unpleasant or inconvenient from happening

Come before something in time

Priority in importance, order or rank

An earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered in subsequent similar circumstances

Of the nature of or constituting a precedent

A general rule intended to regulate behavior or thought

Of the nature of expressing a precept, mandatory

A teacher or instructor

A defined area

Excessive refinement in art, music or language

Of great moral or spiritual worth

A very steep rock face or cliff

A cause of  particular action or event

Cause an event or situation to happen suddenly, unexpectedly or prematurely

The fact or quality of acting suddenly and rashly

An action done suddenly and without careful consideration

An abstract or summary

Marked by exactness and accuracy of expression or detail

A person who is rigidly precise and punctilious

Prevent from happening, make impossible

Having developed certain abilities or inclinations at an earlier age than is usual or expected

Form an ideal in advance

Arrange or organize something in advance

Proclaim or condemn publicly

Preceding something in time, development or position, preliminary

Someone or something that precedes

Preying naturally on others, seeking to exploit others

A person who held a job or office before the current holder

To define or delimit beforehand

To destine beforehand

To determine or decide beforehand

That may be predicated or affirmed

A difficult, unpleasant or embarrassing situation

Found or base something on

Say or estimate that a thing will happen in the future

A preference or special liking for something

Make someone liable or inclined to a specified attitude, action or condition

A liability or tendency to suffer from a particular condition, hold a particular attitude or act in a particular way

Present as the strongest or main element

An introduction to a book

Worthy to be preferred

Of or involving preference or partiality

Be an early indication or version of something

Vulnerable to attack

To judge beforehand

Preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience

Preceding or done in preparation for something fuller or more important

An action or event serving as an introduction to something more important

Serving as a prelude or introduction

To meditate, consider or plan beforehand

First in rank, chief, leading

An assertion or proposition which forms the basis for a work or theory

A forewarning

Decide or determine an outcome or course of action beforehand

The quality or fact of being greater in number, quantity or importance

Predominant in influence, number or importance

Contrary to reason or common sense, utterly absurd or ridiculous

Greater than others in power or influence

Required beforehand

A right or privilege exclusive to a particular individual or class

Be a sign or warning of an imminent event

The fact of knowing something in advance, foreknowledge

Having or showing knowledge of events before they take place

Leave out of consideration, detach or separate from something

State authoritatively or as a rule that an action or procedure should be carried out

An ordinance, law or command

Relating to the imposition or enforcement of a rule or method

Reputation or influence arising from success, achievement, rank or other circumstances

To take for granted, assume or suppose

Of a person or their behavior, failing to observe the limits of what is permitted or appropriate

To suppose or assume beforehand

An attempt to make something that is not the case appear true

The use of affectation to impress

Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed

A reason given in justification of a course of action that is not the real reason

Prove more powerful or superior

Widespread in a particular area at a particular time

Speak or act in an evasive way

Preceding in time or order, antecedent

Forsee or predict an event

At first appearance

The state of being first in order, rank, importance etc

Existing at or from the beginning of time

First in order of importance

So clean as to appear new

A relation between two parties that is recognized by law

Sharing in the knowledge of something secret or private

Likely to occur or prove true

Honesty and decency

A public or official announcement dealing with a matter of great importance

A tendency to choose to do something regularly, an inclination or predisposition towards a particular thing

To defer action, delay

Produce young, reproduce

Obtain something, especially with care or effort

Spending money or using resources freely and recklessly, wastefully extravagant

Remarkably or impressively great in extent, size or degree

A young person with exceptional qualities or abilities

A preface or preamble to a book or speech

Blasphemous or obscene language

Hold out or put forward something to someone for acceptance

Competent or skilled in doing or using something

Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources

Very great or intense

Great depth of insight or knowledge

Very plentiful, abundant

Descendants

The likely course of a medical condition

Foretell or prophesy (a future event)

The anticipation and answering of possible objections in rhetorical speech

Working class people regarded collectively

Increase rapidly in number, multiply

Present in large numbers or quantities, plentiful

Of speech or writing, using or containing too many words, tediously lengthy

A separate introductory section of a literary, dramatic or musical work

To lengthen out in time

To prolong

A preliminary action or event, a prelude

Important, famous

Promote or make widely known

Information used to promote a political cause or view

Spread and promote widely

An inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way

A prediction of what is to come

Accurately predicting what will happen in the future

The state of being close to someone or something, proximity

Giving or indicating a good chance of success, favourable

Someone who puts forward a proposition or proposal

A statement or assertion that expresses a judgement or opinion

Put forward an idea or theory for consideration by others

Relating to an owner or ownership

Conformity to conventionally accepted standards of behavior or morals

Discontinue a session of parliament or other legislative assembly without dissolving it

Commonplace, unromantic, dull

Forbid, especially by law

The action of forbidding something, banning

Written or spoken language in its ordinary form

Continue with a course of action with a view to its completion

A person who has converted from one opinion, religion or party to another

Of or in the future

Successful in material terms, flourishing financially

Completely overcome or helpless, especially with distress or exhaustion

The main figure or one of the most prominent figures in a situation

Someone who is guided and supported by an older and more experienced or influential person

The accepted or established code of procedure or behavior in any group, organization or situation

The first martyr in any cause

To draw out or lengthen in time

Extend beyond or above a surface

The place of origin or earliest known history

Well known, especially so as to be stereotypical

Timely preparation for future eventualities

Making or indicative of timely preparation for the future

Of or concerning the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow minded

Arranged or existing for the present, possibly to be changed later

Stipulation or condition

A person who has radical and unsettling ideas that disturb the status quo

Action or speech that makes someone angry, especially deliberately

Outstanding ability

Nearest, very near

Nearness in place, time or relation

Of next month

Acting with showing care and thought for the future

Involving or showing care and forethought

Having or encouraging an excessive interest in sexual matters, especially the sexual activity of others

Not genuine, sham

An assumed name adopted by an author

Of a physical illness, caused or aggravated by a mental factor such as internal conflict or stress

Relating to or denoting a person at or approaching the age of puberty

Modesty or embarrassment

Childishly silly and immature

Exaggerated commendation

Eager or quick to argue, quarrel or fight

Having great power or influence

Beauty

Breed or spread prolifically or rapidly

Expand and contract with strong regular movements

A fine or petty point of conduct or procedure

Showing great attention to detail or correct behavior

Strictly observant of an appointed or regular time

An expert in a particular subject or field who is frequently called upon to give their opinions to the public

Having a sharply strong taste or smell

Inflicting or intending as punishment

Purification or cleansing

Someone who tries to be very pure and strict in moral and religious matters

Appear to be or do something

Having or done with purpose

In accordance with

Consisting of, containing, or discharging pus

Provide or supply food, drink or other goods as one's business

The scope of the influence or concerns of something

Showing a lack of courage or determination, timid

Generally considered or reputed to be

To render putrid

In a state of foul decay or decomposition

Through or characterised by lack of due regard to the law or facts