This page gathers the 5,895 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “UK” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry. Page 37 of 59: from “pantomime villain” to “personation”.
- pantomime villain noun A person who has become a designated villain, often seen as cartoonishly villainous; someone people "love to hate".
- pantopragmatic noun A busybody; someone who interferes with others.
- pantry noun A small room, closet, or cabinet usually located in or near the kitchen, dedicated to shelf-stable food storage or storing kitchenware…
- pants adj Of inferior quality, rubbish.
- paper noun A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.
- paper towel noun A sheet of absorbent paper dispensed in restrooms, usually used for drying washed hands.
- paper trade noun The sale of printed song lyrics by street peddlers.
- papermaker noun A person who gathers rags to sell.
- papoose noun A backpack for carrying a baby, or specifically a cradleboard.
- par noun An amount which is taken as an average or mean.
- par off verb To reject, ignore, or spurn.
- para adj Very drunk.
- parade noun A row of shops beside a street.
- paraffin noun A petroleum-based thin and colourless fuel oil.
- paralytic adj Very drunk.
- parents' evening noun An evening consisting of short meetings between a parent and their child's teachers to discuss the child's academic progress.
- parfait noun A smooth pâté, usually made from liver and flavoured with liqueurs.
- parish pump politics noun Political activity that is more evidently concerned with addressing the immediate needs of the local electorate than with strategy that…
- parish seat noun A seat on a parish council which is won in an election.
- park noun An inventory of matériel.
- parkie noun A parking or traffic warden.
- parking attendant noun A person who issues tickets for parking violations.
- parking permit noun A pre-printed card, issued by several local authorities, that a resident (or his visitor) can display in his car when parking in a…
- parklife intj A response to a statement perceived as pretentious, pompous or verbose.
- parkway noun A railway station built on the edge of a town, typically with a large car park to function as a park and ride interchange.
- parky adj Synonym of chilly: somewhat cold but not extremely so.
- parliament noun a length of time for which a parliament is summoned, in modern times therefore the period between two consecutive elections.
- parliamentary noun A parliamentary train.
- Parliamentary Secretary noun a Member of Parliament appointed, usually as a junior minister, to assist a Minister of the Crown with departmental responsibilities
- parliamentary train noun Originally a requirement in the Railway Regulation Act 1844 for railways to run at least one train a day each way, at a cost to passengers…
- parlour match noun A low-sulphur or sulphurless friction match, a friction match with no disagreeable brimstone odour, particularly those employing paraffin…
- parlourmaid noun A maid whose primary tasks involve direct interaction with her employers and their guests, such as serving food and answering the door.
- parmo noun A north-eastern English dish of deep-fried breaded chicken topped with béchamel sauce and cheese, sometimes served like a pizza with…
- parterre noun The part of the ground-floor section behind the stalls and underneath the galleries; the pit.
- parting noun The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
- Partridgean adj Self-important but bathetic; unable to distinguish the meaningful from the trivial and therefore prone to absurdity.
- party store noun A shop that sells or hires fancy dress and other goods for parties.
- passenger noun Somebody in a team who does not do their fair share of the work.
- passive armour noun Shielding that is chemically inert (unlike reactive armour) and does not require electricity or active sensors to operate. It is usually…
- pasteurisation noun Heat-treatment of a perishable food to destroy heat-sensitive vegetative cells followed by immediate cooling to limit growth of the…
- pat verb To stroke or fondle (an animal). Compare pet.
- patchery noun Living quarters for married soldiers.
- patent medicine noun A medicine that is protected by a patent.
- patience noun Any of various card games that can be played by one person.
- patisserie noun A shop that sells pastries and cakes.
- patrial noun One who has the right of abode in the United Kingdom by having a British parent or grandparent.
- patron noun One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.
- patronage noun The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.
- patten noun An ice skate.
- patterer noun Someone who patters, or talks glibly.
- pave verb To cover something with paving slabs.
- pavement noun A paved path, for the use of pedestrians, located at the side of a road.
- pavement pizza noun A patch of vomit on the pavement, road or ground.
- pax intj A cry for peace or truce in children's games.
- pay as you earn noun The national system whereby income tax and national insurance is deducted by an employer from the salary or wages of an employee.
- pay-as-you-go noun A payment method where the charge of a service is taken automatically, usually in small amounts, after the usage, in contrast of paying…
- pay-to-stay noun A United Kingdom government policy, due to come into effect in April 2017 but never implemented, whereby council tenants earning £30,000…
- PC noun Initialism of previous conviction.
- pea-souper noun A dense, yellowish fog, often mixed with smoke; a pea-soup fog, a smog.
- peak noun visor (horizontal part of a cap sticking out in front and shading the wearer's eyes)
- peak organisation noun An organisation which represents an entire sector of industry or the community to the government, often incorporating other organisations…
- pear-shaped adj Usually in the phrase go pear-shaped: wrong, awry.
- pearly noun A tooth.
- peasweep noun The peewit, or lapwing.
- pec noun Money.
- peck noun Food.
- pecker noun An eater, a diner.
- peckish adj mildly hungry
- peculiar noun an ecclesiastical district, parish, chapel or church outside the jurisdiction of the bishop of the diocese in which it is situated.
- pee noun Pence; penny (a quantity of money)
- peeler noun A police officer.
- Peelite noun One of a breakaway faction of the British Conservative Party in the nineteenth century, characterised by a commitment to free trade and a…
- peep noun A person.
- peer of the realm noun Any member of the House of Lords who is not a life peer.
- peg noun A small quantity of a strong alcoholic beverage.
- peg-fiched noun A West Country game played with sharp-pointed stakes: one is thrust into the ground and the others are thrown in an attempt to dislodge it.…
- peggy noun The petty officers' mess steward.
- peise noun A weight; a poise.
- pen licence noun Permission to use a pen for schoolwork instead of a pencil, granted to a child whose handwriting has reached an acceptable standard.
- penguin noun A member of the air force who does not fly aircraft.
- penny stock noun A highly speculative stock selling for less than one dollar or pound per share and quoted in cents or pence.
- pension book noun A small book of vouchers supplied by the government to pensioners in order to issue weekly payments.
- pensioner noun Someone who lives on a pension, especially the retirement or old age pension.
- penultimate adj Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.
- pepper noun A fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in a wide range of mild (sweet, nonspicy) to…
- pepper pot verb To intersperse privately-owned houses and social housing.
- perambulator noun A baby carriage.
- perch noun Lateolabrax japonicus, Tautogolabrus adspersus
- percy noun Chiefly in point Percy at the porcelain: the penis.
- pergal noun A box containing a plastic bladder of milk (most commonly with three Imperial gallons of milk), used commercially in a refrigerated machine…
- period pants noun Underwear worn by a woman or girl during menstruation, typically old, cheap, or of a dark colour in case of staining.
- perisher noun An annoying child, a brat.
- permanent wave noun A series of waves in the hair produced by means of chemical substances and heat; a perm
- permissive working noun A system allowing more than one train at a time to be on the same line in a block section, a signal section, or a dead-end platform line.
- pernickety adj Fussy; paying undue attention to minor details; fastidious.
- person having ordinary skill in the art noun A hypothetical person having the normal skills and knowledge in a particular technical field (an "art"), without being a genius; used in a…
- personal pension noun A pension plan that is funded entirely by individual contributions rather than any employer contributions.
- Personal Social Health Education noun A school subject in which students are taught important facts of life not covered in other subjects, such as sexual relationships, drug…
- personal video recorder noun A device that can record broadcast television programmes, or the images from a video camera, for subsequent playback through a television…
- personation noun The act of voting in an election by impersonating someone else.