English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 104 of 931
Interaction between two organisms, in which one organism (the parasite) benefits and the other (the host) is harmed.
Any organism that is parasitic during part of its life cycle, especially one that eventually kills its host.
A large subportion of taxonomically closely-related wasp taxa who engage in parasitoidism; usually defined as the spider wasps (Pompilidae), ichneumonoids (Ichneumonoidea), orussoids (Orussoidea), and chalcidoids (Chalcidoidea).
One-sided (especially of a relationship, as for example that between a celebrity and their audience or fans, whom they do not know).
A species of shrub or bushy tree, Macaranga tanarius, family Euphorbiaceae, found throughout South, East, and Southeast Asia, through to New Guinea, and eastern Australia.
An irregularly shaped compartment of the cell, found in the nucleus's interchromatin space
A bone situated immediately beneath the sphenoid in the base of the skull in many vertebrates.
Describing a crystalline protein that forms around a spore in some bacteria that acts as a toxin precursor when digested
Any of a group of proteins with anticancer activity, derived from Bacillus thuringiensis.
A company, agency, or intergovernmental organization that possesses political clout and is separate from the government, but whose activities serve the state, either directly or indirectly.
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 104. 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.