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Pa
- pac-, peac-, peas- (Latin: peace, calm)
- pachy-, pacho-, pach- (Greek: thick, dense; large, massive)
- pago-, pag- (Greek: a "peak", but used by ecologists in the restricted sense of "foothill")
- pago-, pag- (Greek: cold, frost, freezing; fixed or hardened; united)
- pago-, pag-, pagan- (Latin: country, district, province; rustic)
- -pagus (Greek: something fixed or fastened together; a suffix that denotes conjoined twins, the first element of a word denotes the parts fused)
- palaeo-, palae-, paleo-, pale- (Greek: original, ancient, primitive, old)
- palato-, palat- (Latin: roof of the mouth)
- pali-; palim-, palin- (Greek: recurrence, repetitious; back, backward, again; returning, repeating)
- pall- (Greek: shake, vibration)
- palli-, pallio, pallit- (Latin: mantle, covering; cloak)
- palmati- (Latin: marked with the palm of the hand; adorned with palm leaves; used primarily in the sense of "having five lobes that diverge from a common center" [as fingers from an open palm])
- palpebr- (Latin: eyelid)
- palpo-, palp-, palpi- (Latin: to touch, to stroke)
- paludi-, palud- (Latin: marsh, marshes, marshy; malarial)
- palyn- (Greek: pollen, spores)
- pan- (Latin: panis, bread)
- pan-, panto- (all, every, entire) words: pan to panic, part 1 of 2.
- pan-, panto- (all, every, entire) words: panimmunity to panzootic, part 2 of 2..
- pancreatico- (Greek: pertaining to the pancreas)
- pancreo-, pancre-, pancreato-, pancreat- (Greek: pancreas [pan, "all" plus kreas, "flesh"; the idea apparently being that the pancreas is an organ composed entirely of glandular flesh)
- -pand-, -pans-, -pass- (Latin: stretch, spread)
- papaver- (Latin: poppy; used in extended senses to mean "pertaining to, containing, or derived from opium")
- papillo-, papill-, papilli- (Latin: nipple; nipple-shaped elevation or growth)
- papulo-, papul-, papuli- (Latin: pimple, pustule)
- papyro-, papyr- (Greek: papyrus [singular], papyri [plural]; paper, papyros > Latin > Old French; papyrus, an Egyptian rush [a reed plant] from which material was made for writing or drawing. Used in the sense of "fibrous material on which to write or draw")
- para-, par- (Greek: by the side of, beside; associated, near; past, beyond; contrary, wrong; abnormal, irregular)
- para-, par- (Greek: that which protects)
- para-, par-, part-, -para, -parity, -parous, -parously, -partum (Latin: to bring forth, to bear; producing viable offspring; giving birth to; brood; secreting)
- parasito-, parasit-, parasiti- (Greek: eating beside, with, or at the table of [someone else])
- pari-, par- (Greek: same, equal, equality, equal value)
- parieto-, pariet- (Latin: wall [of a house]; used in the extended sense of "the walls of a cavity or organ of the body")
- parr- (Latin: close family member, parent)
- part-, parti- (Latin: part, to divide)
- partheno-, partho- (Greek: virgin, maiden, young girl)
- parvo-, parvi- (Latin: [parvus] small, little; minute, minuscule)
- pass-, pati- (suffering, feeling; enduring): compassion to ncompassionate
- pat- (Latin: to spread or lie open)
- pater-, patri-, -patria (father, dad; fatherland, country) words: allopatric to sympatria
- patho-, -pathy (feeling, sensation): anthropopathy to unsympathetic, part 1 of 1 "feeling" words.
- patho-, -pathy (perception, suffering, disease [medical]): acroleukopathy to cytopathy, part 1 of 6 medical words.
- patho-, -pathy (perception, suffering, disease [medical]): demonopathy to gynopathy, part 2 of 6 medical words.
- patho-, -pathy (perception, suffering, disease [medical]): haematopathology to nostopathy, part 3 of 6 medical words.
- patho-, -pathy (perception, suffering, disease [medical]): oculopathy to pathogens, part 4 of 6 medical words.
- patho-, -pathy (perception, suffering, disease [medical]): pathognomonic to psychopath, part 5 of 6 medical words
- patho-, -pathy (perception, suffering, disease [medical]): rachiopathy to zoopathology, part 6 of 6 medical words
- pauci- (Latin: few, little)
Pe
- pec- (Greek: fix, make fast; use pek- before a "t")
- pecca-, pecc- (Latin: err, sin, commit a crime)
- pectin- (Latin: comb)
- pectoro-, pector- (Latin: breast, chest)
- ped-, -pedia (foot, feet) words: aliped to octoped, part 1 of 2
- ped-, -pedia (foot, feet) words: palmiped to velocipede, part 2 of 2.
- pediculo-, pedicul-, pedico, pedic- (Latin: louse, lousy; of lice)
- pedo-, paedo (child, boy) words: callipedia to pedantry, part 1 of 2.
- pedo-, paedo (child, boy) words: pedarchy to ptilopedic, part 2 of 2.
- pedo-, ped- (Greek: ground, soil, earth)
- peer, pair (Latin: same, equal, similar)
- pego-, -pegic (Greek: spring, fountain, mineral spring)
- pejor- (Latin: worse)
- -pel-, -peal, -pell, -pellent, puls- (Latin: drive, push, beat)
- pelago-, pelag- (Greek > Latin: sea, pertaining to the sea)
- pell- (Latin: skin, hide)
- pelo-, pel- (Greek: mud, earth)
- pelto-, pelt-, pelti- (Greek: shield)
- pelveo-, pelvo-, pelvio- (Latin: basin; basin-shaped structure of the body)
- pend-, pens, -pense, -pending, -pended (Latin: hang, weigh)
- peni-, peno-, peo- (Greek > Latin: tail; male organ of copulation, the penis)
- -penia- [singular], -penias [plural], -penic, pen-, penia- (Greek > Modern Latin: abnormal reduction, decrease in, insufficient, deficiency. Originally, the meaning was poverty, need; sometimes it is erroneously or incorrectly rendered as -poenia)
- penni-, pen- (Latin: almost, nearly)
- peno-, pen, poino-, poin- (Latin: punishment, penalty, pain)
- penta-, pent-, pente-, pento- (Greek: five; a number used as a prefix)
- penthera- (Greek: mother-in-law)
- penthero- (Greek: father-in-law)
- pepto-, pept-, -peptic, pepsi-, -pepsia, -pepsy (Greek: digestion, able to digest; cook; from "to cook, boil, digest")
- per- (Latin: through, across, over; beyond, by means of)
- peri- (Greek: around, about, near, enclosing; used as a prefix)
- perineo- (Greek: space between the scrotum or mons veneris and the anus)
- perisso-, periss- (Greek: extraordinary, odd, odd-numbered)
- peristera-, perister- (Greek: pigeon, dove)
- pero- (Greek: maimed, crippled)
- pesti-, pest- (Latin: plague, contagion)
- peta- [PE tuh] (Greek: derived from penta-, "five"; a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements)
- petalo-, petal-, -petalous (Greek: leaf; from the adjective petalos, "flat, spread out")
- -petalous (Greek: in botany, a suffix combining form meaning, "having a certain number or a certain shape of petals")
- peti-, pet-, -pit- (Latin: seek, ask, request; strive after)
- petro-, petr-, petri-, peter- (Greek > Latin: stone, rock)
- -pexy, -pexia, -pexes, -pexic, -pexis, -pex (Greek: a suffix; fixing [of a specified part]; attaching to, a fastening)
Ph
- phaco-, phac-, phako-, phak- (Greek: lentil; lens of the eye)
- phaeo-, pheo- (Greek: dusky; literally, having the color of the twilight sky)
- phago-, -phagia, -phagy (eat, eating; consume, ingest) words: Echidnophaga to lithophage, part 2 of 4.
- phago-, -phagia, -phagy (eat, eating; consume, ingest) words: macrophagous to ostreophagous, part 3 of 4.
- phago-, -phagia, -phagy (eat, eating; consume, ingest) words: pagophagia to zoophagous, part 4 of 4.
- phago-, -phagia, -phagy (eat, eating; consume, ingest): acridophage to dysphagia, part 1 of 4.
- phalacro-, phalacr- (Greek: baldheaded, bald; smooth)
- phalango-, phalang- (Greek via Latin: bone between two joints of a finger or toe; line of battle; from phalanx, heavy infantry in close order [from Greek antiquity])
- phallo-, phall-, phalli- (Greek: an image of the male organ of generation; a stick of wood cut as a symbol of the male organ and carried in Bacchic processions; the penis)
- phanero-, phaner-, -phane, -phanic, -phanous, -phany (Greek: to show; make visible, manifest, open)
- phant-, phanta-, -phant (Greek: illusion, show, appear, make visible, display, visible, show [through], shine [through])
- pharc-, phark-, pharcido-, pharcid-, pharkido-, pharkid- (Greek: pharkis, wrinkled)
- pharmaco-, pharmac-, -pharmic (Greek: drug, medicine; poison)
- pharyngo-, pharyng- (Greek: pharynx [the alimentary canal between the palate and the esophagus]; part of the neck or throat)
- -phasia, -phasic, -phasis, -phasy (Greek: talk, speak, say)
- phasmato-, phasmat-, phasmo-, phasm- (Greek: apparition, phantom)
- -phemia, -phemic, -phemism, -pheme (Greek: speak, speech)
- phengo-, pheng- (Greek: light, splendor, luster, sunlight, daylight)
- pheno-, phen-, phenomeno-, -phen (Greek: to show, appear, or display; making evident; literally, "to come" or "bring to light")
- phero-, pher- (Greek: bear, support; go)
- phi (Greek: the twenty-first letter of the Greek alphabet)
- philema-, philem-, philemato-, philemat- (Greek: kiss, a kiss)
- philo-, -philia (love, fondness for, attraction to) words: abrakophile to autophilous, part 1 of 10.
- philo-, -philia (love, fondness for, attraction to) words: balneophile to cypripareuniaphile, part 2 of 10.
- philo-, -philia (love, fondness for, attraction to) words: dekocerophile to fusiophilist, part 3 of 10.
- philo-, -philia (love, fondness for, attraction to) words: gastrocartephilist to korophilia, part 4 of 10.
- philo-, -philia (love, fondness for, attraction to) words: labalophilist to myiophilous, part 5 of 10.
- philo-, -philia (love, fondness for, attraction to) words: namatophilous to oxyphilous, part 6 of 10.
- philo-, -philia (love, fondness for, attraction to) words: pagophilous to philogynist, part 7 of 10.
- philo-, -philia (love, fondness for, attraction to) words: philology to pyroxylophilous, part 8 of 10.
- philo-, -philia (love, fondness for, attraction to) words: quamtophilist to syrtidophilous, part 9 of 10.
- philo-, -philia (love, fondness for, attraction to) words: tandentrophilist to zoophilous, part 10 of 10.
- phimo-, phim- (Greek: a muzzling; that which stops an opening)
- phlebo-, phleb- (Greek: vein, blood vessel [from the verb, phlein, "to flow"])
- phlego-, phleg-(Greek [phlegmatikos] & Latin [phlegmaticus]: heat, inflammation; burn, inflame)
- phlogo-, phlog-, phlox (Greek: fire, flame; inflammation)
- phobo-, -phobia (excessive fear; hatred for) words: ablutophobia to agoraphobia, part 1 of 13..
- phobo-, -phobia (excessive fear; hatred for) words: agraphobia to anthropophobia, part 2 of 13.
- phobo-, -phobia (excessive fear; hatred for) words: antlophobia to autophobia, part 3 of 13.
- phobo-, -phobia (excessive fear; hatred for) words: bacillophobia to brontephobia, part 4 of 13.
- phobo-, -phobia (excessive fear; hatred for) words: cacohydrophobia to cypriphobia, part 5 of 13.
- phobo-, -phobia (excessive fear; hatred for) words: daemonophobia to eurotophobia, part 6 of 13.
- phobo-, -phobia (excessive fear; hatred for) words: febriphobia to hypsiphobia, part 7 of 13.
- phobo-, -phobia (excessive fear; hatred for) words: iatrophobia to myxophobia, part 8 of 13.
- phobo-, -phobia (excessive fear; hatred for) words: nebulaphobia to oxyphobous, part 9 of 13.
- phobo-, -phobia (excessive fear; hatred for) words: paedophobia to phobotaxis, part 10 of 13.
- phobo-, -phobia (excessive fear; hatred for) words: phonophobia to pyrophobia, part 11 of 13.
- phobo-, -phobia (excessive fear; hatred for) words: radiophobia to syphiliphobia, part 12 of 13.
- phobo-, -phobia (excessive fear; hatred for) words: tabophobia to zoophobia, part 13 of 13.
- phono-, -phonia (sound, voice, speech) words: acrophonic to dysphonia, part 1 of 5.
- phono-, -phonia (sound, voice, speech) words: earphone to neurophonia, part 2 of 5.
- phono-, -phonia (sound, voice, speech) words: odynophonia to phonocatheterization, part 3 of 5.
- phono-, -phonia (sound, voice, speech) words: pneumatophony to xylophonist, part 5 of 5.
- phono-, -phonia- (sound, voice, speech) words: phonodynamograph to phony, part 4 of 5.
- phono-, phon- (Greek: phono[s]; slaughter, murder, homicide)
- phoro-, phor-, -phora, -phorous, -phoresis, -phore, -phori, -phoria (Greek > Latin: bearer, to bear, carrying; producing, transmission; directing, turning)
- phospho-, phosphor- (light, light bringer, shine; morning star) words: dephosphorize to tribophosphoroscope
- photo- (light) words: aphotesthesia to photoerythema, part 1 of 2.
- photo- (light) words: photoesthesia to sthenophotic, part 2 of 2.
- phrag-, phragmo-, phragm-, phrax- (Greek: fence, wall off, stop up)
- phras-, phra-, -phrasia, -phrase, -phrastic (Greek: talk, speak, say)
- phreato-, phreat-, phreati- (Greek: well, reservoir, ground water)
- phreno- (mind, brain; diaphragm) words: aphrenia to schizophrenia, part 1 of 1.
- phreto-, phret- (Greek: well, reservoir, a tank)
- phront-, phorntid-; phronemo-, phron- (Greek: thought, care, attention; think, thinking, contemplation)
- phryno-, phryn- (Greek: toad)
- phtheiro-, phtheir-, phthirio-, phthiri- (Greek: louse, lice)
- phthisio-, phthis-, phthi- (Greek: decay, waste away)
- phyco-, phyc- (Greek: alga, algae; seaweed)
- phylacto-, phylact-, phylac-, phylax- (Greek: guard, protect, preserve)
- phyllo-, phyll-, -phyll, -phyllous (Greek: leaf, leaves)
- phylo-, phyl- (Greek: tribe, race; class; clan)
- phyo-, phy- (Greek: beget, bring forth, produce, be by nature)
- phys-, physa-, physe- (Greek: blow, inflate)
- physalo-, physal-, physali- (Greek: bubble)
- physico-, physic-, physio-, physi-, phy- (Greek: nature, natural, inborn [make grow, produce])
- physo-, phys- (Greek: breath, wind; pertaining to air or gas; bellows, bladder, bubble; swollen; as seen in many modern scientific terms)
- phyto-, phyt-, -phyte (Greek: a plant; growth [growing in a specified way or place; produce])
Pi
- pi (Greek: the sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet)
- pica (Latin: magpie; related to Latin, picus, "woodpecker")
- pici-, pic- (Latin: woodpecker)
- pico- [PEE koh] (Italian: very small or from Spanish, "beak, tip, very small"; and from Latin, beccus, beak; also, a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements)
- picro-, picr- (Greek: bitter, sharp, pungent)
- piezo-, piez- (Greek: to press; pressure)
- pigmento-, pigment- (Latin: "paint"; bodily coloring)
- pileo-, pile- (Latin: cap)
- pilo-, pil-, pili- (Latin: hair)
- pimelo-, pimel-, pimele- (Greek: [soft] fat)
- pineal-, pinea- (Latin: pine tree, relating to the pine; shaped like a cone)
- pinnati- (Latin: feathered; featherlike)
- pinni-, pin- (Latin: feather; pointed peg used as a fastener)
- pino-, pin- (Greek: a combining form confused between three Greek roots and may mean "hunger", "dirt", or "drink"; and there is one Latin form referring to the "pine tree")
- pio-, pi-, pion- (Greek: fat)
- pisci-, pisc- (Latin: fish)
- pitheco-, pithec-, -pithecan, -pithecoid (Greek: ape, monkey)
- pituit- (Latin: phlegm, rheum)
Pl
- plac-, placi-, -plais (Latin: peace, calm; to please, satisfy)
- placento-, placent-, placenta- (Latin: flat cake; cakelike mass, especially the uterine organ that connects the mother to the child by way of the umbilical cord)
- plagiar- (Latin: a literary thief; "plunderer, oppressor, kidnapper" [one who "abducts the child or slave of another"]; then by extension, to take and use the thoughts, writings, etc. of someone else and represent or claim them as one's own)
- plagio-, plagi- (Greek: sideways, slanting, sloping)
- Plankton words: acroplankton to phytioplankton, part 1 of 2.
- Plankton words: phytoplankton to zooplankton, part 2 of 2.
- plano- (drifting, wandering, or roaming): angioplany to superplanetary with planet words from Greek and Latin myths.
- plano-, plan-, plani- (Latin: flat, level)
- planta-, plant- (Latin: sole of the foot)
- plasmo-, plasm-, plast- plasma-, plasmato-, -plasmat-, -plasia, -plasis, -plasm, -plasmatic, -plasmic, -plast, -plastic, -plasy, -plasty (Greek: something made, molded, or formed)
- platy-, plat-, platino-, platt- (Greek: broad, wide; flat, level)
- plaud-, plaus-, plod-, plos- (Latin: applause, to clap, strike, beat, to clap the hands)
- ple-, pleini-, plen-, plet- (Latin: fill, full)
- pleb- (Latin: common people, common multitude; as opposed to the patricians [upper-class citizens] of Roman times)
- plecto-, pleco- (Greek: plaited, twisted)
- -plegia, -pleg, -plegic, -plegy (Greek: used as a suffix; paralysis [stroke, blow, strike])
- pleio-, plei-, pleo-, pleon-, pleio- (Greek: more, most, full)
- pleo- (Greek: more, most, full)
- plesio-, plesi- (Greek: near; resembling that which is named by the combining root)
- plethor-, plethysmo- (Greek: excess, superabundance, overly full, fullness; increase)
- pleuro-, pleur- (Greek: side, rib; a thin membrane with two layers that line the chest cavity)
- pleusto-, pleust- (Greek: to sail, to float; flow)
- -plex, -plexity, -plexus, -ple, -pli, -plic, -plicat, -plicit, -plicate, -plication, -ply, plici- (Latin: bend, curve, turn, fold, twine, twist, interweave, weave)
- -plexia, -plexias, -plexies, -plexy, -plectic, -plexic (Greek: used as a suffix; stroke, wound; used in medicine to denote "a condition resulting from a stroke")
- -ploid-, -ploidy-, -plo- (Greek: a fold; folded)
- plum-, plumi-, -plume (Latin: feather)
- plumbo-, plumb-, plumbi- (Latin: lead, Pb, [the metal])
- pluri-, plur-, plu- (Latin: more, many)
- Pluto, planet and Greek god of wealth, words from myths.
- pluto-, plut- (Greek: wealth, wealthy, rich)
- pluv-, pluvio-, pluvi- (Latin: rain)
Pn
- pneo-, -pnea, -pneic, -pnoea, -pnoeic, -pneo (Greek: air, wind; breathing)
- pneumato-, pneumat- (Greek: air, wind, breath; presence of air; spirit)
- pneumo-, pneum-, pneumono-, pneumon- (Greek: lung [breath])
- pneumo-, pneum-, pneumono-, pneumon- (Greek: lung [breath])
- pnigo-, pnig-, pnigmato-, pnigmat- (Greek: choke, stifle, smother)
Po
- po-, poo-, -poa- (Greek: grass, a grassy place; meadow, meadows)
- -poeia, -poie, -peia, -poiesis, -poesis, -poeic, -poetic, -poietic, -poetical, -poietical (Greek: making, producing, creating, creative, forming, formation)
- pogo-, pogono-, -pogon (Greek: beard)
- poikilo-, poikil- [on some occasions, poecilo-, poecil-] (Greek: varied, irregular, mottled)
- pol- (Greek: axis of a sphere)
- polem- (Greek: war, warlike, pertaining to war; battle)
- polio- (Greek: gray; pertaining to the "gray matter" of the nervous system, brain, and the spinal cord)
- polis-, polit-, poli- (Greek: city; method of government)
- pollaki- (Greek: frequent, frequently)
- pollen (Latin: fertilizing male elements of flowers; fine flour; milldust; spores; powder)
- -poly, -polistic (sale, selling) dictionary words: bibliopole to xylopoly, part 1 of 1.
- poly- (many, much; excessive) words: polyacanthous to polylogy, part 1 of 2.
- poly- (many, much; excessive) words: polymastia to polyzoan, part 2 of 2.
- pomo-, pom-, pomi- (Latin: fruit, fruit tree)
- pon-, posit-, pos-, -poning, -poned, -ponency, -ponent, -ponement, -pound (Latin: place, put)
- pono-, pon-, -ponic, -ponics (Greek: toil, labor, work hard, fatigue; exertion; also, suffering, pain)
- ponto-, pont-, pon- (Latin: bridge)
- popu- (Latin: people)
- porc-, pork- (Latin: pig, hog)
- porno-, porn- (Greek: harlot, prostitute)
- poro-, por-, pori- (Greek > Latin > Old French: passageway, used primarily as "a pore, a small orifice"; opening; cavity, tract)
- porphyro-, porphyr-, porpho-, porph- (Greek: the color purple from purple-fish; hence, purple dye; obtained from the purple-fish; hence, "purple")
- port- (Latin: door, gate, entrance, harbor)
- port-, portat- (carry, bring, bear) words: apport-transportation
- -posia, -posium (Greek > Latin: drinking; a word termination [suffix] denoting a relationship to drinking or the intake of fluids)
- post- (Latin: after, behind, later, subsequent; used as a prefix)
- postero- (Latin: after, behind, following; used as a prefix)
- potamo-, potam- (Greek: river, stream)
- potash (Dutch > New Latin: potassium carbonate)
- poten-, pot-, poss-, -potent, -potence, -potency, -potential (Latin: power, strength, ability)
- poto-, pot- (Latin: drink)
Pr
- pragmato-, pragmat- (Greek > Latin: current meaning is "practical")
- prandial- (Latin: prandium, literally, that which is eaten early)
- pratin-, pratini- (Latin: meadow-green, grassy)
- pre- (prae-)
- pred- (Latin: prey)
- Prefixes a-, an- words: abacterial to alexia, part 1 of 4.
- Prefixes a-, an- words: alogia to anonymous, part 2 of 4..
- Prefixes a-, an- words: anopia to asemasia, part 3 of 4.
- Prefixes a-, an- words: asemia to tritanopia, part 4 of 4.
- pregnan-, pregn- (Latin: with child)
- prehend-, prehens- (Latin: to clasp, seize, reach, attain, hold)
- presbyo-, presby- (Greek: old, relationship to old age, elderly, elder; literally, he that goes first)
- press-, presso-, pressi-, -prim-, -prin- (Latin: press, to bear down on or against)
- priap- (Greek, Priapos > Latin Priapus: god of procreation shown with a large penis; by extension, it means "penis")
- prim-, primi-, primo- (Latin: first, chief, foremost)
- prin- (Latin: first, chief)
- privat-, priv- (Latin: individual; not in public life)
- pro-, por- (Greek > Latin: before; forward; for, in favor of; in front of; in place of, on behalf of; used as a prefix)
- problem- (Greek > Latin: literally, "something thrown forward, to throw forward")
- procto-, proct- (Greek: anus, rectum)
- prodigy (Latin: sign, omen, portent; a wonder, a person [especially a child] endowed with extraordinary qualities)
- Professional-Egyptian scribe story, part 1 of 2.
- Professional-Egyptian scribe story, part 2 of 2; [plus 7 pix]
- proli-, prol- (Latin: offspring, child)
- pron- (Latin: inclined, face down)
- proprio-, propri- (Latin: one's own)
- pros- (Greek: toward, in addition to, nearby; to, against; at, near)
- proso-, pros- (Greek: forward, further; anterior)
- prosop- (Greek: face)
- prostato-, prostat- (Greek: one who stands before, in front of; refers primarily to the prostate gland [so named because it "stands before" the mouth of the bladder])
- protero-, proter- (Greek: former, earlier, older)
- proto-, prot- (Greek: first, original; used as a prefix)
- proximo-, proxim- (Latin: nearest, next)
- pruri-, prur-, prurit- (Latin: itch, itching; be wanton, be eager for)
Ps
- psammo-, psamm-, psamme- (Greek: sand)
- psellismo-, psellism- (Greek: stammering; faltering in speech)
- psepho-, pseph- (Greek > Latin: pebble/pebbles, stone/stones; election; vote)
- pseudo-, pseud- (Greek: false, deception, lying, untrue, counterfeit; used as a prefix)
- psi (Greek: the twenty-third letter of the Greek alphabet)
- psilo-, psil- (Greek: bare, smooth, plain, mere)
- psittacine [psittakos-, Greek; psittacinus-, Latin] (Greek > Latin: parrot)
- psoro-, psor- (Greek: itch, mange)
- psych-, psycho- (mind, mental process, life, soul, spirit) dictionary words: allopsychic to neuropsychosis, part 1 of 7.
- psych-, psycho- (mind, mental process, life, soul, spirit) dictionary words: omphalopsychic to psychauditory, part 2 of 7.
- psych-, psycho- (mind, mental process, life, soul, spirit) dictionary words: Psyche to psychoanalyst, part 3 of 7.
- psych-, psycho- (mind, mental process, life, soul, spirit) dictionary words: psychoasthenics to psychogenic, part 4 of 7.
- psych-, psycho- (mind, mental process, life, soul, spirit) dictionary words: psychogeriatric to psychomotility, part 5 of 7.
- psych-, psycho- (mind, mental process, life, soul, spirit) dictionary words: psychomotor to psychoscope, part 6 of 7.
- psych-, psycho- (mind, mental process, life, soul, spirit) dictionary words: psychosensory to psychurgy, part 7 of 7.
- psychro-, psychr- (Greek: cold)
- psylli-, psyll- (Greek > Latin: flea)
Pt
- ptarmo-, ptarm- (Greek: sneeze, a sneezing)
- pterido-, pterid- (Greek: fern [from pter[on], "feather, wing"])
- ptero-, pter-, -ptera, -pteron, -pteryx, -ptery, -pterous (Greek: feather, wing, winglike)
- pterygo-, pteryg- (Greek: wing)
- ptilo-, ptil-, ptilono- (Greek: feather [soft], down)
- ptocho-, ptoch- (Greek: one who crouches, a beggar, poor; pauper)
- -ptosia, pto-, -ptosis, -ptoma, -ptot- (Greek: fall, a falling down of an organ; drooping, sagging)
- ptyalo-, ptyal-, ptya-, pty- (Greek: spittle, salivia; salivary gland)
Pu
- puber-, pubo-, pub-, pubio- (Latin: adult, mature; sign of [sexual] maturity, especially the growth of pubic hair; extended to mean the "pubic bone")
- publi-, pub- (Latin: people, belonging to the people, concerning people, population)
- pudendum- [singular] pudenda- [plural] (Latin: originally, "that which one should be ashamed of"; the external organs of generation)
- puer- (Latin: boy, child)
- pugn-, pug- (Latin: fight)
- pulic-, puli- (Latin: flea)
- pulmo-, pulmoni-, pulmono-, pulmon-, -pulmonary, -pulmonic (Latin: lung, lungs)
- pulpo-, pulp-, pulpi- (Latin: flesh; used in reference to the tissue that exists in a tooth)
- puls-, pulsi-, pulso-, -puls, -pulse, -pulsion, -pulsive (Latin: push, beat, strike, knock, drive)
- pulver-, pulv-, pulvi- (Latin: dust)
- pulvin-, pulvill- (Latin: cushion)
- pung-, punc-, punct- (Latin: pierce, sting, bite; dot, mark; point, sharp point, pinpoint)
- pupillo-, pupill- (Latin: [diminutive of pupa, a young girl, doll or puppets] the pupil of the eye; the larva of insects)
- purg- (Latin: clean, cleanse, purify)
- puro-, pur-, puru- (Latin: pus)
- -pus (Greek: a suffix; foot)
- put-, puta-, -pute, -puter, -puting, -putation, -putative (Latin: trim, prune, lop, clean; think over, consider, reckon, count)
Py
- pycno-, pycn-, pykno-, pykn- (Greek: close, compact, thick, fast; frequent)
- pyelo-, pyel- (Greek: pelvis, especially of the kidney; from "tub, vat, basin, and trough")
- pygo-, pyg-, -pyga, -pygia (Greek: rump, buttocks, bottom; rear end; butt; the posterior part of the body)
- pykno- (Greek: thick, compact, dense; frequent)
- pyl-, pyle- (Greek: door, gate, entrance; orifice)
- pyloro-, pylor-, pylori- (Greek: gatekeeper; lower gastric orifice through which the contents of the stomach enter the duodenum)
- pyo- (Greek: pus)
- pyo-, py- (Greek: pus; purulent)
- pyreto-, -pyrexia, -pyrexias, pyrito- (Greek: fever, burning heat)
- pyro-, pyr- (Greek: fire, burn; and sometimes "fever"; heat, produced by heating)
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