passbackThe circumvention of an access restriction to a physical site by passing one's access card to another person after having entered.
passbandThe range of frequencies or wavelengths that can pass through a filter without being reduced in amplitude.
passbookA customer's record of deposits and withdrawals from a savings account or current account at a bank, typically recorded in a small booklet. The bank keeps its own record, which is final in any dispute.
passbyAn instance of one thing passing by another.
passcardA card that allows the bearer to pass a security checkpoint.
passcodeA string of characters used for authentication on a digital device.
passerelleA gangplank or platform used to board or leave a large yacht.
passeridAny member of the family Passeridae of sparrows and their close relatives.
passeridanOf or relating to the Passerida, a parvorder containing sparrows and related songbirds.
passeriformOf or pertaining to a sparrow; sparrow-like; bird-like.
passerineOf or relating to the Passeriformes order of perching birds, which are generally anisodactyl, having three toes pointing forward and one back, which facilitates perching.
PassfieldA village and civil parish in East Hampshire district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU8234).
passgripA special grip of the hand used by a freemason during a handshake, covertly communicating his freemason status to the other person.
passguardAn L-shaped piece of armor worn over one arm (typically the left arm), which generally kept it in a bent position and protected it during jousts.
passimUsed in citations to indicate that something, as a word, phrase, or idea, is to be found at many places throughout the work cited; here and there, throughout.
passionflowerAny of very many vines, in North America and elsewhere, of the genus Passiflora that bear edible fruit called passion fruit, and showy flowers of a structure symbolic of the Passion of Christ.
passivalAn archaic progressive construction in middle voice (syntactically active but semantically passive), replaced by the passive progressive in modern English. For example, "the house is building", "the meal was eating", "the trunks were carrying down" (today "the house is being built", "the meal is being eaten").
passivateTo reduce the chemical reactivity of (a surface) by applying a coating.
passivationThe process of making a material passive (non-reactive) in relation to another material prior to using the materials together.
passivatorA material that inhibits corrosion of a metal surface by increasing its passivity
passiveBeing subjected to an action without producing a reaction.
passivelyIn a passive manner; without conscious or self-directed action.
passivenessThe state or condition of being passive; passivity.
passivismThe quality or principle of being passive.
passivistOne who adopts a passive approach, or passivism.
passoverThe one-day Biblical feast or festival (not a holy day) that begins at twilight at the beginning of the fourteenth day of the first month (Abib or Nisan 14), during which the firstborn sons of the Israelites were passed over by God while those of the Egyptians were killed; this feast day is then immediately followed by the seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread (Nisan 15 to 21; the first and seventh days are holy days or yearly Sabbaths).
passoverishResembling or characteristic of the Jewish Passover.
passportedFor which one is automatically eligible if receiving certain other benefits.
passportificationThe supply of passports to citizens of another country for national political reasons.
passportingThe provision of commercial services in another EEA (European Economic Area) country without requiring separate authorization to operate in that country.
passportizationThe act by one country (chiefly Russia) of inducing residents of another country to take up the citizenship of (and possess a passport from) the first country.
passportizeTo induce (residents of another country) to take up the citizenship of and possess a passport from one's own country (chiefly Russia).
passrollA shot in the game of croquet which consists of moving both the striker ball and the croqueted ball together at about the same distance and possibly having the striker ball move farther than the croqueted ball with the stroke.
passthoughtA thought used to gain admittance or access to something.
passthroughAs of a signal through a device or network.
pastThe period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.
pastaDough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating.
PastafarianismA parody religion centered around the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a creator deity who resembles spaghetti and meatballs.
PastagateThe 2013 scandal wherein an Italian restaurant was requested by the OQLF to use the French language on its menus. The incident was falsely believed to have been an attempt by Quebec to ban the word ‘pasta.’
pastebinA website allowing users to paste and store plain text, so that they can refer to it with a simple hyperlink rather than having to paste the entire text elsewhere.