pallid (en)

(adjective) deficient in color; wan / (adjective) lacking sparkle or liveliness; dull

palmettos (en)

(noun) any of several usually low-growing fan-leaved palms (meaning "little palm" in Spanish)

palpebral (en)

(adjective) of, relating to, or located on or near the eyelids

pampas (en)

(noun) an extensive generally grass-covered plain of temperate South America east of the Andes; prairie / (noun) a South American grass (Cortaderia selloana) often grown for ornament that has showy white panicles borne on tall stems

pandanus (en)

(noun) screw pine - a kind of tropical tree

pandects (en)

(noun) a complete code of the laws of a country or system of law / (noun) a treatise covering an entire subject

panegyric (en)

(noun) a eulogistic oration or writing / (noun) formal or elaborate praise

Panglossian (en)

(adjective) marked by the view that all is for the best in this best of possible worlds; excessively optimistic

panoply (en)

(noun) a complete or impressive collection of things; (historically) a complete set of arms or suit of armor

panoptic (en)

(adjective) being or presenting a comprehensive or panoramic view

panopticon (en)

a type of building designed by English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the late 18th century; allows all (pan-) inmates to be observed (-opticon) by a single watchman without the inmates being able to tell whether or not they are being watched

pansophism (en)

universal wisdom or knowledge; omniscience; also known as "pansophy"

paphian (en)

(noun) prostitute / (noun) a native or inhabitant of Paphos / (adjective) of or relating to illicit love; wanton / (adjective) of or relating to Paphos or its people

pappus (en)

(noun) a downy, bristly, or other tuftlike appendage of the achene of certain plants (e.g., dandelions)

paradigmatic (en)

of or relating to a paradigm

paralalia (en)

a speech disorder marked by distortions of sounds or substitution of letters

parallipsis (en)

also spelled paralepsis and paralipsis; the rhetorical strategy of emphasizing a point by seeming to pass over it

parapraxes (en)

Freudian slip in Greek

parasagittal (en)

parallel to the sagittal plane (which divides the body into left and right halves)

paratactic (en)

(adj) relating to parataxis, a grammatical concept involving the placing of clauses or phrases one after another, without words to indicate coordination or subordination, as in "Tell me, how are you?"

paratext (en)

(noun) a concept in literary interpretation; the other material supplied by the author(s), editors, printers, and publishers, including front matter, back matter, footnotes, etc (the peritext) as well as the epitext (interviews, correspondence, diaries, etc); as defined by literary theorist Gérard Genette

pari passu (en)

(adverb or adjective) at an equal rate or pace

Paris Commune (en)

a radical socialist and revolutionary government that ruled Paris from 18 March to 28 May 1871. Following the defeat of Emperor Napoleon III in September 1870, the French Second Empire collapsed, and the French Third Republic rose up in its place (initially intended as a provisional government but it ended up lasting until 1940) to continue the war with Prussia, which resulted in a 4-month-long siege of Paris (ending Jan 28), which laid the groundwork for the Commune

parliamentarism (en)

(as defined by Ralph Milliband) dogmatic devotion to the parliamentary system

parlor-pink (en)

related to the slang term "Pinko", which was coined in 1925 in the United States to describe a person regarded as being sympathetic to communism; often used, derogatorily, to describe anyone perceived to have leftist or socialist sympathies