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| Presumptuous | assuming too much; arrogant |
| Pretentious | pompous; self-important |
| Prevaricate | speak misleadingly and evasively |
| Pristine | unspoiled |
| Proclivity | tendency towards |
| Procrastinate | delay; put off |
| Prodigal | wasteful; extravagant |
| Prodigious | very large |
| Profane | unholy |
| Profanity | swearing; cursing |
| Profound | having deep meaning |
| Profundity | depth |
| Proletarian | member of the working class |
| Prolific | producing a lot |
| Proponents | promoters; supporters |
| Prosaic | dull; boring; ordinary |
| Proscribe | forbid |
| Prosody | study of versification |
| Prostration | 1. lying face down; 2. be overcome with extreme weakness |
| Protagonist | main character in film, book, play etc. |