English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 100 of 931
The study of things adjacent to postage stamps, such as artistic or ownership stamps or collectors of stamps.
An abnormal sexual arousal or attraction, especially to objects or situations that are not of a sexual nature; typically of extreme or pathological nature.
A clinical condition in which an atypical sexual interest causes significant distress or impairment, or involves non-consenting individuals.
A restatement of a text in different words, often to clarify meaning or from memory rather than verbatim.
Any of a group of psychotic illnesses involving delusions, distinct from paranoia and schizophrenia.
Of a defined group of taxa: not including all descendants of the most recent common ancestor of all members.
Describing movement of a joint that is greater than normal physiological movement, but is less than that which would cause damage
A minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants.
A monoclinic-prismatic black mineral containing antimony, arsenic, sulfur, and thallium.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter P contains 46,516 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 931 pages, and you are currently viewing page 100. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "P" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.