If you’re pantomnesic, then you seem to remember everything. PantoglotĪ pantoglot is someone who can speak all languages. Pantagruelianĭerived from Pantagruel, the name of an insatiable giant in the title of a work by François Rabelais, if something is pantagruelian, then it’s exceptionally large or has a voracious appetite. Panomphaeus is an old Latin epithet for the Roman god Jupiter, which essentially means “the entire voice of a god.” The corresponding adjective panomphean can be used just to mean “Jupiter-like” or “jovial,” but more specifically describes either someone who appears to hear everything, or else any word that appears universally understood by speakers of different languages. PanificationĪ formal name for the process of making bread. Pandiculation is the proper word for stretching and yawning when you wake up in the morning. When something shrinks, stretches, or bends under a heavy weight, that’s called pandation. Likewise, a panpharmacon is a universal medicine or remedy. Panchrestonĭerived from the Greek for “useful for everything,” a panchreston is a cure-all or panacea. It comes from a 16th century word, palp, meaning “to caress.” 8. To palpabrize someone is to flatter them.
Pailletteĭerived from paille, a French word for a husk or piece of grain, a paillette is a single decorative piece of reflective foil or glitter. If something is paedonymic, then it’s named after your child.
PaddynoddyĪn old Yorkshire dialect word for a lengthy and long-winded story that goes nowhere and might not even be true. Derived from that, the adjective Pactolian can be used either to describe somewhere covered in rich, golden sands, or else something notably lavish or lucrative. The Pactolus is a river in western Turkey that was renowned throughout ancient Greece and Lydia for its supposedly gold-rich waters and golden sands. The act of soothing or calming something, derived from the Latin word for “peace,” pax. Derived from the same root, pabulation is the proper name for the process of feeding yourself, and if something is pabular or pabulous, then it’s nourishing or wholesome. Pabulum is a Latin word meaning “fodder” or “nourishment,” which can be used in English to refer to any foodstuff that supports or nourishes. So why not push P’s profile by partaking in a few of these perfectly passable P words? 1. Despite all of these uses, however, P is on average one of the least-used letters of the alphabet, accounting for roughly 2 percent of any page of English text. The letter P is used as an abbreviation of post, pulse, page, pence and (in some countries at least) peso the chemical symbol for phosphorus, a symbol representing pressure, poise, power, and momentum in different branches of science a particular branch of the Celtic languages in a linguistics, an indication to play softly in a piece of classical music, a function in statistical mathematics, and a designation of the clarity of a video or television screen (in which case-as in the p of 1080p-it stands for “progressive scan”).
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