4-letter words starting with p
- puna — a high, cold, arid plateau, as in the Peruvian Andes.
- pune — a city in W Maharashtra, W India, SE of Mumbai.
- pung — a sleigh with a boxlike body.
- punk — Slang. something or someone worthless or unimportant. a young ruffian; hoodlum. an inexperienced youth. a young male partner of a homosexual. an apprentice, especially in the building trades. Prison Slang. a boy.
- puns — the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
- punt — an ancient Egyptian name of an area not absolutely identified but believed to be Somaliland.
- puny — of less than normal size and strength; weak.
- pupa — an insect in the nonfeeding, usually immobile, transformation stage between the larva and the imago.
- pupu — any hot or cold usually bite-size appetizer, often served in a varied assortment.
- pure — free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind; free from extraneous matter: pure gold; pure water.
- puri — poori.
- purl — the action or sound of purling.
- purr — to utter a low, continuous, murmuring sound expressive of contentment or pleasure, as a cat does.
- purs — to utter a low, continuous, murmuring sound expressive of contentment or pleasure, as a cat does.
- push — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- puss — face: She smacked him in the puss.
- putt — an act of putting.
- putz — fool; jerk.
- puzo — Mario, 1920–99, U.S. novelist.
- pvt. — Pvt. is used before a person's name as a written abbreviation for the military title private.
- pyat — the magpie
- pyic — an albuminous constituent of pus.
- pyin — an albuminous constituent of pus.
- pyle — Ernest ("Ernie") 1900–45, U.S. war correspondent and journalist.
- pyo- — denoting pus
- pyr- — pyro-
- pyre — a pile or heap of wood or other combustible material.
- pyro — a pyromaniac.