Discover a variety of useful and intriguing words starting with “pa” that can enhance your vocabulary and improve your language skills.
- Pacify- to bring peace or calm to a situation
- Package- a wrapped or boxed object; also, the act of wrapping goods.
- Pact- a formal agreement or treaty between two or more parties.
- Paddle- a tool used for rowing or paddling.
- Padlock- a detachable lock hanging by a pivoted hook on the object secured.
- Pageant- a public entertainment consisting of a procession of people in elaborate, colorful costumes, or an outdoor performance of a historical scene.
- Painful- causing physical or emotional pain.
- Paint- a colored substance that is spread over a surface and dries to leave a thin decorative or protective coating.
- Palace- a grand and impressive building denoting the official residence of a king, queen, bishop, or other sovereign or exalted personage.
- Palate- the roof of the mouth, separating the cavities of the nose and the mouth in vertebrates.
- Palm- the inner part of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers.
- Pamphlet- a small booklet or leaflet containing information or arguments about a single subject.
- Panache- flamboyant confidence of style or manner.
- Pancake- a thin, flat cake of batter, fried on both sides in a pan.
- Pandemic- prevalent over a whole country or the world.
- Pander- gratify or indulge (an immoral or distasteful desire or taste or a person with such desires).
- Panel- a flat or curved component, typically rectangular, that forms or is set into the surface of a door, wall, or ceiling.
- Panic- sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety, often causing wildly unthinking behavior.
- Pantomime- a dramatic entertainment in which performers express meaning through gestures accompanied by music.
- Papaya- a tropical fruit shaped like an elongated melon, with edible orange flesh and small black seeds.
- Paper- material manufactured in thin sheets from the pulp of wood or other fibrous substances, used for writing, drawing, or printing on, or as wrapping material.
- Parable- a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson.
- Parachute- a device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag.
- Parade- a public procession, especially one celebrating a special day or event.
- Paradox- a statement or proposition that, despite sound reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory.
- Paragraph- a distinct section of a piece of writing, usually dealing with a single theme and indicated by a new line, indentation, or numbering.
- Parallel- (of lines, planes, surfaces, or objects) side by side and having the same distance continuously between them.
- Paralysis- the loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body, typically as a result of illness, poison, or injury.
- Paramount- more important than anything else; supreme.
- Paranoia- a mental condition characterized by delusions of persecution, unwarranted jealousy, or exaggerated self-importance, typically elaborated into an organized system.
- Paraphrase- express the meaning of (something written or spoken) using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity.
- Parcel- a thing or collection of things wrapped in paper in order to be carried or sent by mail.
- Pardon- the action of forgiving or being forgiven for an error or offense.
- Parent- a father or mother.
- Park- a large public green area in a town, used for recreation.
- Parliament- a formal conference for the discussion of public affairs; specifically: a council of state in early medieval England.
- Parody- an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
- Parrot- a bird, often vividly colored, with a curved beak, known for its ability to mimic spoken language.
- Partake- join in (an activity).
- Partial- existing only in part; incomplete.
- Participant- a person who takes part in something.
- Partition- the action or state of dividing or being divided into parts.
- Partner- a person who takes part in an undertaking with another or others, especially in a business or firm with shared risks and profits.
- Party- a social gathering of invited guests, typically involving eating, drinking, and entertainment.
- Passage- a narrow way, typically having walls on either side, allowing access between buildings or to different rooms within a building.
- Passion- strong and barely controllable emotion.
- Passive- accepting or allowing what happens or what others do, without active response or resistance.
- Password- a secret word or phrase that must be used to gain admission to a place.
- Pasta- a dish originally from Italy consisting of dough made from durum wheat and water, extruded or stamped into various shapes and typically cooked in boiling water.
- Pastel- a soft and delicate shade of a color.
- Pastry- a dough of flour, water, and shortening that may be savory or sweetened.
- Patch- a piece of cloth or other material used to mend or strengthen a torn or weak point.
- Patent- a government authority or license conferring a right or title for a set period, especially the sole right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention.
- Pathetic- arousing pity, especially through vulnerability or sadness.
- Pathway- a way that constitutes or serves as a path.
- Patience- the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.
- Patriarch- the male head of a family or tribe.
- Patrol- an expedition to keep watch over an area, especially by guards or police walking or driving around at regular intervals.
- Patron- a person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, or cause.
- Pattern- a repeated decorative design.