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Word/prefix/suffix meaning
Paddock enclosed field or piece of land, small field or enclosure especially for pasture near a stable or house.
Pant (Welsh) a hollow or valley.
Park a large enclosed piece of ground usually with grass and trees attached to a country house, a similar ground in town for public use and recreation.
Peak the sharp top of a hill.
Pen- head, end, top.
Penthouse originally a lean-to, an additional structure on a roof.
Pentre (Welsh) a village.
Pightle a small field or enclosure.
Pike a turnpike or toll-bar, the peaked top of a hill (in the English Lake District), (Old English - Pic-a-point).
Pinetum a plantation of pine trees.
Pingle a small enclosed piece of land.
Place originally an open space in a town, a spot, a locality, a residence.
Pol- pool.
Pond a pool of standing water either naturally or artificially enclosed.
Pont (Welsh) a bridge.
Pool any small collection of liquid on a surface, still deep place in a stream.
Pwll (Welsh) a pool or pit.

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