| padding |
material used as pads or to make pads or cushions. [3 definitions] |
| paddle |
a wide-bladed oar with a long handle, used with both arms for moving a small boat, esp. a canoe, through the water. [8 definitions] |
| paddleball |
a game played on a handball court following handball rules, but in which the ball, resembling a tennis ball, is hit with a short-handled, perforated paddle. |
| paddlefish |
a large fish, found in the Mississippi and Yangtze river basins, that has a long flat snout shaped like a paddle. |
| paddle tennis |
a modified form of tennis, handball, and squash played on an outdoor court with wooden paddles and a rubber ball. |
| paddle wheel |
an engine-driven or pedal-operated wheel that has boards or paddles fixed at right angles around its circumference, used to propel a boat, esp. a river steamboat. |
| paddock |
an enclosed field, usu. near a barn, for grazing or exercising horses. [2 definitions] |
| Paddy |
(slang; often derogatory) an Irishman. |
| paddy |
a flooded field for growing rice. |
| padlock |
a portable lock for fastening doors, boxes, cables, and the like. [2 definitions] |
| padre |
father (a form of address used for a priest in Spanish-speaking countries). |
| padrone |
a master; boss. [2 definitions] |
| paduasoy |
a rich, strong, corded silk fabric. [2 definitions] |
| paean |
a song or hymn sung as an expression of praise. |
| paella |
a Spanish dish combining chicken, rice, vegetables, and usu. meat and seafood, that is seasoned with saffron. |
| paeon |
a metrical unit of one long and three short syllables that may occur in any order. |
| pagan |
a person professing belief in a polytheistic religion. [6 definitions] |
| paganize |
to make or become pagan. |
| page1 |
one side of a sheet of printed or written paper. [6 definitions] |
| page2 |
esp. formerly, a young person who attends someone of authority such as a king. [3 definitions] |
| pageant |
a public spectacle with much colorful display, often celebrating and commemorating events of history or legend and presenting scenes from these. [2 definitions] |