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11,127 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

Porfirio: a male given name, equivalent to English Porphyry
Porfirio: a surname transferred from the given name
Porras: a surname
Port Isabel: Port Isabel (a city in Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas, United States)
Port Royal: Port Royal (a town in Jamaica); alternative form of Puerto Real
Port Vila: Port Vila (the capital and largest city of Vanuatu)
Portalatín: a surname
Porto Novo: Porto-Novo (the official capital of Benin; the de-facto capital is Cotonou); Porto Novo (a municipality on the island of Santo Antão, Cape Verde); Porto Novo (a city, the capital of the municipality of Porto Novo, on the island of Santo Antão, Cape Verde)
Portocarrero: a surname
Portugal: Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula)
Portuguesa: a state of Venezuela
Portuondo: a surname from Basque
Porón: Mount Porón, location of the Spanish village of Benarrabá, province of Málaga in southern Spain
Posada: a surname
Posadas: a surname
Poseidón: Poseidon
Potiphar: Potiphar
Potonico: a town in Chalatenango department, El Salvador
Potosí: a department of Bolivia
Pozo: a surname
Pozoblanco: Pozoblanco (a town and municipality of Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain)
Prado: a surname
Praga: Prague (the capital city of the Czech Republic; the former capital of Czechoslovakia; the former capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia)
Pravia: Pravia (a municipality in Asturias, Spain)
Premier: Premier League
Premio Nobel: Nobel Prize
Prepirineo: Pyrenean foothills
Prepuna: Prepuna
Presidente Aguirre Cerda: a department of Chile
Presidente Roque Sáenz Peña: a department of Córdoba, Argentina.
Pretoria: Pretoria (the administrative capital of South Africa)
Prialé: a surname
Priene: Priene
Prieto: a descriptive surname
Primavera Árabe: Arab Spring (2010 pro-democracy movement in Arab countries)
Primera Guerra Mundial: First World War; World War I
Primera Región: alternative spelling of I Región
Primorie: Primorye
Princesa de Asturias: a royal title given to the female heir apparent to the reigning monarch of Spain
Pristina: Pristina (the capital city of Kosovo); Pristina (a district of Kosovo)
Procopio: Procopius
Prometeo: Prometheus
Propercio: Propertius (Roman poet)
Propóntide: Propontis
Prospero: a male given name, equivalent to English Prosperus
Proteo: Proteus (moon of Neptune); Proteus
Protágoras: Protagoras
Provenza: Provence (a region of France)
Proverbios: Proverbs (the book of the Bible)
Providencia: a commune in northeastern Santiago, Chile
Prudencio: a male given name
Prudente: a surname
Prudhomme: a surname from French
Prusia: Prussia (a geographical area on the Baltic coast of Northeast Europe); Prussia (a former duchy, kingdom and (after German unification in 1871) a federal state of Germany, existing from 1525 to 1947, mostly in areas now part of Germany, Poland and Russia)
Príamo: Priam (king of Troy in the Iliad)
Príapo: Priapus (god of procreation)
Príncipe de Asturias: a royal title given to the male heir apparent to the reigning monarch of Spain
Prípiat: Pripyat (a river in Eastern Europe, flowing east through Ukraine and Belarus, draining into the Dnieper); Pripyat (an abandoned city and ghost town in northern Ukraine, near the border with Belarus)
Pródico: Prodicus (a sophist from Ceos and contemporary of Socrates)
Próximo Oriente: Near East (the geographic region of Western Asia located southeast of Eastern Europe, comprising Anatolia, Transcaucasia, the Levant, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, and Arabia)