pessulusA delicate bar of cartilage connecting the dorsal and ventral extremities of the first pair of bronchial cartilages in the syrinx of some birds.
pestiferousContaining organisms that cause contagious diseases.
petasusA broad-brimmed, low-crowned hat worn by the Ancient Greeks and Romans, especially for travelling, and as often pictured to be worn by Hermes (or Mercury); (later also) the brimless winged cap worn by Hermes in later artistic depictions.
PetrinityThe quality of being comparable to or originating from Saint Peter.
PetroniumAn ancient city in modern Turkey, now Bodrum
PhaeaciaA region in Greek mythology mentioned in Homer's Odyssey.
PhaëthonThe son of the sun god Helios who was killed by Zeus while driving his father's chariot uncontrolledly across the sky.
PhaëthonteanOf, belonging to, or connected with Phaëthon.
PhaethusaA daughter of Helios and Neaera, the personification of the brilliant, blinding rays of the sun. With her sister, Lampetia, she guarded the cattle of Thrinacia.
PhegeusA male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek], of historical usage
PherecrateanConsisting of three prosodic feet, normally a spondee, dactyl, and spondee (or trochee), but admitting of some variations.
PherecratesA celebrated Athenian poet of the Old Comedy, living in the fifth century BCE (born after Crates and Cratinus but before Aristophanes, Eupolis, and Plato Comicus – so between c. 519 and c. 446 BCE), victorious at least thrice at the City Dionysia and the Lenaia in the 440s–430s, and inventor of the Pherecratean metre.
PherecydesAn Ancient Greek thinker from the island of Syros, who authored a cosmogony that bridged the mythological thought of Hesiod and pre-Socratic philosophy (fl. 6th century BC)
PhilodemusPhilodemus of Gadara, an Epicurean philosopher and poet
PhilomelaThe sister of Procne who is raped and mutilated by her brother-in-law Tereus and supposedly transformed into a bird by the gods.
philtrumThe shallow vertical groove running from the nasal septum to the center of the upper lip.
PhocaeaAn ancient Ionian Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia, now located in İzmir Province, Turkey; modern Foça.
PhocisA regional unit of the administrative region of Central Greece, in modern Greece. Capital and largest city: Amphissa. It is located north northeast of the Peloponnese, which included Delphi.
pilentumA ceremonial chariot or carriage, used by Roman noblewomen.
pili tortiA condition of the skin appendage, characterized by short and brittle hairs that appear flattened and twisted when viewed through a microscope.
planulaIn embryonic development, a vesicle filled with fluid, formed from the morula by the divergence of its cells in such a manner as to give rise to a central space, around which the cells arrange themselves as an envelope; an embryonic form intermediate between the morula and gastrula.
pollexThe thumb; the first, or preaxial, digit of the forelimb, corresponding to the hallux in the hind limb. In birds, the pollex is the joint which bears the alula or bastard wing.