p

P is the 16th letter of the English alphabet or the sound of this letter.

(noun)

An example of p is the first letter in the word "plant."

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See p in Webster's New World College Dictionary

or P

noun pl. P's, p's

  1. the sixteenth letter of the English alphabet: from the Greek pi, a borrowing from the Phoenician
  2. any of the speech sounds that this letter represents, as, in English, the (p) of peace
  3. a type or impression for p or P
  4. the sixteenth in a sequence or group
  5. an object shaped like

adjective

  1. of p or P
  2. sixteenth in a sequence or group
  3. shaped like

  1. page
  2. part
  3. participle
  4. past
  5. penny; pennies
  6. per
  7. peseta
  8. peso
  9. petite
  10. pico-
  11. pint
  12. pipe
  13. Baseball pitcher
  14. pole
  15. population
  16. power
  17. pressure
  18. pro
  19. Physics proton

Origin: It piano: see piano

Musical Direction soft(ly)

  1. Genetics parental generation
  2. park (on automotive automatic-shift indicators)
  3. Chess pawn
  4. peta-
  5. Bible Peter
  6. petite
  7. Baseball pitcher
  8. poise(s) (unit of viscosity)
  9. police
  10. Physics power
  11. president
  12. Physics pressure
  13. priest
  14. prince
  15. Mil. prisoner
  16. Football punter
    sometimes written p
  17. purl

phosphorus

  1. Chem. para- (sense ): usually italicized and hyphenated in chemical names
  2. Elec. positive

See p in American Heritage Dictionary 4

or P

noun pl. P's p's or P's also ps or Ps
  1. The 16th letter of the modern English alphabet.
  2. Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter p.
  3. The 16th in a series.
  4. Something shaped like the letter P.
  5. P A hypothesized documentary source of certain portions of the Pentateuch that have a formal style, contain genealogical lists and descriptions of rituals, and use the Tetragrammaton to refer to God.


Physics
The symbol for momentum.

abbreviation
  1. piano (musical direction)
  2. proton

The symbol for the element phosphorus.

abbreviation
  1. Genetics parental generation
  2. Physics parity
  3. pass
  4. pawn (chess)
  5. Bible Peter
  6. petite
  7. Physics pressure

abbreviation
  1. page
  2. part
  3. participle
  4. past
  5. penny
  6. peseta
  7. peso
  8. pint
  9. pipe
  10. pole
  11. population
  12. Economics principal

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