1. Coming from the northwest
   "northwesterly winds"
   - northwest 
2. Situated in or oriented toward the northwest
   - northwestern, northwest

See also: north, northwester

• order Plectognathi
• order Pleuronectiformes
• order Plumbaginales
• order Podicipediformes
• order Podicipitiformes
• order Polemoniales
• order Polygonales
• order Polymastigina
• order Polypodiales
• order Primates
• order Primulales
• order Proboscidea
• order Procellariiformes
• order Proteales
• order Protura
• order Pseudomonadales
• order Pseudoscorpiones
• order Pseudoscorpionida
• order Psilophytales
• order Psilotales
• order Psittaciformes
• order Psocoptera
• order Pterosauria
• order Pulmonata
• order Pycnogonida