This page gathers the 4,340 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “Dated” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry. Page 30 of 44: from “Portagee” to “quad”.
- Portagee noun A person from Portugal or a person of Portuguese descent.
- portmanteau noun A schoolbag.
- post noun A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travellers on some recognized route.
- post office noun Dated form of post office.
- post-Soviet adj After the formation of the Soviet Union.
- poster noun A posthorse.
- pot verb To take a potshot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.
- pot-walloper noun One who cleans pots; a scullion.
- potass noun potassium
- potency noun Cardinality.
- potluck noun A meal, especially one offered to a guest, consisting of whatever food is available.
- potrack intj The shrill, high-pitched noise of a guinea fowl.
- pouch noun A protuberant belly; a paunch.
- pouf noun A small saddle cushion worn atop the buttocks (as a fashion trend – similar to a bustle).
- poundal noun A unit equal to the force needed to accelerate a mass of one pound at a rate of one foot per second per second.
- powder-bag noun A woman's accessory in the form of a small bag containing cosmetic powder.
- pox verb To infect with the pox, or syphilis.
- practitioner noun A sly or artful person.
- prancing adj That prances.
- prang noun An aeroplane crash.
- pranny noun The female genitals.
- preciseness noun pedantic behaviour
- prefecundation noun The collective changes or conditions preceding fecundation, especially those affecting the ovum.
- prefer verb To advance, promote (someone or something).
- present adj Ready; quick in emergency.
- presumption noun Arrogant behaviour; the act of venturing beyond due bounds of reverence or respect.
- pretendant noun A pretender; a claimant.
- preternatural adj Having an existence outside of the natural world.
- pretorium noun A splendid country seat.
- pretty adj Moderately large; considerable.
- preventive noun A thing that prevents, hinders, or acts as an obstacle to.
- price verb To ask the price of.
- prick verb To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.
- prickmadam noun Any of several species of stonecrop, such as Petrosedum rupestre, formerly used as ingredients of vermifuge medicines.
- priestess of Venus noun Synonym of prostitute.
- priggery noun Thievery or roguery.
- prime ministress noun A female prime minister.
- primitive adj Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution.
- prize-taking noun The capturing of an enemy ship at sea; this results in a payment to all hands from the Admiralty.
- problematic adj Only affirming the possibility that a predicate be actualised.
- procerebrum noun The prosencephalon.
- procession verb To honour with a procession.
- proclaim verb To make (something) the subject of an official proclamation bringing it within the scope of emergency powers.
- Procrustean assignment noun A form of assignment to fixed-length string variables in which a shorter value is padded to the necessary length while a longer one is…
- proctology noun The branch of medicine dealing with the surgery of the colon, rectum, and anus.
- professoriate noun The office of a professor.
- profit noun Benefit, positive result obtained.
- prog noun A proctor.
- project noun An idle scheme; an impracticable design.
- prolification noun The generation of young.
- promiscuity noun State of being mixed, composed of diverse elements, unsystematic; heterogeneity.
- prompt noun A time limit given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods.
- proneness noun Descent; declivity.
- prongbuck noun The springbok.
- prove verb To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of.
- provender noun Food, especially for livestock.
- pseudobacteria noun Microscopic organic particles, molecular granules, powdered inorganic substances, etc., which in form, size, and grouping resemble bacteria.
- pseudohemophilia noun Any of several disorders of prolonged blood clotting time, seeming clinically similar to the hemophilias, but pathophysiologically…
- pseudopatient noun A person who pretends to be ill, especially to gain some benefit.
- pseudotabes noun A syndrome with the characteristics of tabes (especially tabes dorsalis) that is not caused by syphilis.
- psychiatric noun A person who has a psychiatric disorder.
- psychogram noun A composite psychological measurement that attempts to integrate various interrelated elements of a person's thought processes.
- psychopathic noun A psychopath.
- pteroylglutamic acid noun folic acid, a polycyclic heterocyclic carboxylic acid of the vitamin B complex, essential for cell growth and reproduction.
- ptomaine noun Food poisoning.
- public enemy number one noun A person who ranks highest on the federal government's prioritized list of wanted criminal fugitives.
- pud noun Child's hand; child's fist.
- pudsy noun A nickname for a chubby or pudgy person, especially a baby.
- puff noun A puffer, one who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at auction to bid up the price; an act or scam of that type.
- puffer noun A train; a locomotive, usually one that is steam-powered.
- pull noun Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; advantage.
- pulpit noun A plane's cockpit.
- pulsator noun A beater; a striker.
- punctual adj Observing trivial points; punctilious.
- puppy noun A conceited and impertinent person, especially a young man.
- pur noun Dated form of purr (“low murmuring sound as of a cat”).
- purchase noun Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.
- push it verb To have sexual intercourse.
- puss noun A girl or young woman, or any child.
- pussy noun A cat.
- pussy-cat noun A sexy woman.
- pussydom noun The quality of being a pussy (seen as having characteristics associated with cats).
- pussyfoot noun A teetotaller.
- put about adj disturbed; upset
- put in verb To call at (a place or port), especially as a deviation from an intended journey.
- put on verb To switch on (a device).
- put paid to verb To mark a bill or a debt record as "paid".
- pwn verb To own, to defeat or dominate (someone or something, especially a game or someone playing a game).
- pygmy noun A member of one of various tribal peoples of the Congo Basin in equatorial Africa, notable for their very short stature.
- pyin noun An albuminoid constituent of pus, related to mucin, possibly a mixture of substances rather than a single body.
- pyramid verb To increase to or towards a peak.
- pyrognostics noun The characteristics of a substance, especially of a mineral or metal salt, that are revealed by heat, especially by the use of a blowpipe…
- pyrologist noun someone who studies the effects of heat or flame, often in regards to explosives or chemical compounds.
- pyrology noun the scientific study of the effects of heat or flame, often in regards to explosives or chemical compounds.
- pyrophile noun A person who accepts that the energy of volcanos originates from the heat of the Earth's interior.
- pyrotechnist noun A pyrotechnician: person skilled in the manufacture or setting off of fireworks and firework displays.
- Q-car noun An unmarked police car.
- Q.E.D. phrase Initialism of quod erat demonstrandum (“what was to be proved; what was to be demonstrated”): placed at the end of a mathematical proof to…
- QSO noun A radio-quiet quasar.
- quad noun A horse, from colloquial or humorous quadruped specifically for horse.