English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 101 of 931
The outer part of the protoplasm, as opposed to the more granular and fibrillary inner part (the granuloplasm).
A modification of hyphal tissue, in which (unlike prosenchyma) the individual hyphae cannot easily be distinguished.
Of, related to, or suffering from paraplegia. Paralyzed from the lower half of the body down.
Any of the paired unjointed lateral outgrowths used for locomotion by worms such as annelids.
Law enforcement agents considered ancillary or subsidiary to the regular police force.
Political practices and arrangements that are unacknowledged and that intend to misinform or obfuscate a hidden agenda.
The state of a positronium exotic atom in which the positron and electron have antiparallel spins
A non-commutative bilinear operator acting on functions that in some sense is like the product of the two functions it acts on.
A person who is trained to assist a professional: for example, an assistant to an educator.
A figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part.
A skin disorder characterized by a superficial resemblance to psoriasis (red, scaly lesions), rather than by its underlying etiology.
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 101. 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.