P. | Car park; passed (examination); Police; Pope; Port. |
p. | Page; participle; past; piano (Italian), soft; pint; pole or perch. |
Pa. | Pennsylvania. |
P. A. | Personal assistant; power of attorney; Press Association; private account; provisional allowance; public address. |
p.a. | Per annum (Latin), yearly. |
P. & L. | Profit and loss. |
P. & O. | Peninsular and Oriental. |
par. | Paragraph; parallel; parish. |
para. | Paragraph. |
parl. | Parliamentary. |
pars. | Paragraphs; parentheses. |
Part. | Participating. |
part. | Participle; particular. |
Pat. | Patent. |
P.A.Y.E. | Pay as you earn. |
P.B. | British Pharmacopoeia; pawnbroker; Plymouth Brother, or Brethren; Prayer Book. |
P.C. | Perpetual curate; police constable; Privy Councillor. |
p.c. | Current prices; per centum (Latin), by the hundred; postcard. |
P.C.T. | Provincial Cinematograph Theatres. |
P.D. | Dublin Pharmacopoeia; position doubtful; postal district; potential difference; printer's devil. |
pd. | Paid. |
P.E. | Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia; personal estate; presiding elder. |
ped. | Pedal. |
P.E.I. | Prince Edward Island. |
Pemb. | Pembrokeshire. |
Pen. | Peninsula; penitentiary. |
Pent. | Pentateuch; Pentecost. |
pent. | Pentagon(-al); pentameter. |
per cent. | Per centum (Latin), by the hundred. |
perf. | Perfect; perform(-ance); perforated. |
Perp. | Perpendicular (architecture). |
per pro. | Per procurationem (Latin), by proxy, on behalf of. |
Pers. | Persian. |
pes. | Peseta; peso. |
Pet. | Epistle of S. Peter. |
Petriburg | Petriburyensis (Latin), of Peterborough (Bp.'s signature). |
Pf. | Preference shares. |
P.G. | German Pharmacopoeia; paying guest. |
Ph. | Philosophy. |
Phar. | Pharmaceutical; Pharmacopoeia. |
Phil. | Epistle to the Philippians; Philharmonic; Philippine; philology; philosophy. |
Philem. | Epistle to Philemon. |
phon. | Phonetic(-ally). |
phr. | Phrase. |
pi. | Pice. |
pinx. | Pinxit (Latin), he painted. |
pizz. | Pizzicato (Italian), plucked. |
Pk. | Park. |
pk. | Pack (weight); peck (measure). |
PI. | Place (street). |
P.L. | London Pharmacopoeia; Poet Laureate. |
P/L. | Profit and Loss. |
pi. | Plate; plural. |
Plen. | Plenipotentiary. |
piff. | Plaintiff. |
P.L.M. | Paris-Lyon-Marseille Railway. |
plup. | Pluperfect. |
P.M. | Pacific mail; past master; Paymaster; peculiar measure (music); piae memoriae (Latin), of pious memory; prime minister. |
pm. | Premium. |
p.m. | Post meridiem (Latin), afternoon; pro mense (Latin), by the month. |
p.n. | Promissory note. |
P.O. | Postal order; post office; power operated. |
P.O.A. | Probation of Offenders Act. |
p.o.d. | Pay on delivery. |
P.O.P. | Printing-out paper. |
pop. | Popular(-ly); population. |
Port. | Portuguese. |
P.O.S.B. | Post Office Savings Bank. |
poss. | Possessive; possible. |
posth. | Posthumous(-ly). |
PP. | Patres (Latin), Fathers of the Church. |
P.P. | Parish priest; present pupil. |
pp. | Pages; pianissimo (Italian), very soft. |
p.p. | Past participle; per procurationem (Latin), by proxy; post paid. |
p.p.c. | Picture postcard. |
p.p.i. | Policy as proof of interest. |
P.P.S. | Parliamentary, or Principal, Private Secretary. |
P.O. | Parliamentary question; Province of Quebec. |
Pr. | Prayer; Preferred stock; priest; primitive; printer; Provencal. |
P.R. | Populus Romanus (Latin), the Roman people; Prize Ring; Proportional Representation; Public Relations; Puerto Rico. |
pr. | Pair; pounder; present; pressure; price; pronoun. |
P.R.C. | Post Roman conditam (Latin), after the founding of Rome. |
Preb. | Prebendary. |
Pref. | Preface; Preference shares; Preferred stock; prefix. |
Prelim. | Preliminary examination. |
prem. | Premium. |
prep. | Preparation; preparatory; preposition. |
Pres. | Presbyterian; President. |
Prim. | Primary; Primate; Primitive. |
pro. | Professional. |
Prob. | Probate; problem. |
Proc. | Proceedings; Proctor. |
Prof. | Professor. |
Prom. | Promenade (concert); promontory. |
pron. | Pronoun; pronounce(-d). |
prop. | Properly; property; proposition; proprietary. |
Propr. | Proprietor. |
Prot. | Protestant. |
pro tern. | Pro tempore (Latin), for the time being. |
Prov. | Book of Proverbs; Provence; Provost. |
prov. | Province; provincial; provisional. |
prox. | Proximo mense (Latin), in the next month. |
Ps(a). | Psalm. |
P.S. | Passenger steamer; Permanent Secretary; police sergeant; postscriptum (Latin), additional writing; Private Secretary; Privy Seal; prompt side. |
ps. | Pesetas; pieces. |
P.S.A. | Pleasant Sunday Afternoon. |
P.S.N.C. | Pacific Steam Navigation Company. |
Pt. | Point (geographical); Port. |
P.T. | Physical training; postal town; pupil teacher. |
pt. | Part; payment; pint; point; port. |
Ptg. | Participating. |
ptg. | Printing. |
P.T.I. | Physical Training Instructor. |
P.T.O. | Please turn over. |
pty. | Party; proprietary. |
pub. | Public; publication; published. |
publ. | Publish(-er) or (-ed). |
P.U.S. | Pharmacopoeia of the United States. |
P.X. | Please exchange. |
pxt. | Pinxit (Latin), he painted. |