English Words: P

4,417 words · Page 11 of 89

parliamentnoun

A formal council summoned (especially by a monarch) to discuss important issues.

parliamentariannoun

A member of a parliament, congress or an elected national legislative body of another name.

parliamentaryadj

Of, relating to, or enacted by a parliament.

parlornoun

The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking; a sitting-room or drawing room.

parlournoun

Commonwealth standard spelling of parlor.

parmnoun

A dish served in the parmigiana style (combined with cheese and coated with tomato sauce before baking).

parmanoun

A dish cooked in the parmigiana style.

Parmarname

A surname.

Parmenidesname

An Ancient Greek philosopher born in Elea, in southern Italy. Founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy.

parmesannoun

A hard, full-fat Italian cheese from Parma.

Parmigianonoun

Synonym of Parmigiano-Reggiano (“parmesan cheese”).

Parnassusname

A mountain in central Greece, adjacent the site of the ancient city of Delphi, that in Greek mythology was sacred to Apollo and the Corycian nymphs and was the home of the Muses.

Parnellname

A surname from the given name Petronella. (see Etymology)

Paroname

A town in Bhutan.

parochialadj

Pertaining to a parish.

parodicadj

Of, related to, or having characteristics of parody.

parodynoun

A work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony.

parodyingverb

present participle and gerund of parody

parolenoun

Originally, one's oath or word of honour, given as a condition of release from custody; now specifically, describing the release of a former prisoner under certain conditions, especially the promise of good behaviour.

paroleenoun

A person who is released on parole.

Parosname

An island of the Cyclades, Greece.

parotidadj

Relating to the parotid gland.

paroxetinenoun

An antidepressant that is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor and is also used for the treatment of anxiety disorders.

paroxysmaladj

Of, pertaining to, causing or accompanied by paroxysms.

parpintj

Representing the sound of a car horn, a trumpet, or breaking wind.

parquetnoun

A wooden floor made of wooden tiles or veneers arranged in a decorative geometrical pattern.

parrnoun

Young salmon, at a stage between fry and smolt when they feed chiefly on invertebrates but cannot tolerate saltwater.

Parraname

A surname from Spanish.

Parramattaname

A local government area in the Greater Western Sydney region of New South Wales, Australia; in full, the City of Parramatta.

parrotnoun

A kind of bird, many species of which are colorful and able to mimic human speech, of the order Psittaciformes or (narrowly) of the family Psittacidae.

parrotfishnoun

Any of several tropical marine fish of the family Scaridae known for their beak-like mass of teeth used to scrape algae from rocks or coral.

parrotingnoun

mindless repetition of words or ideas

Parrottname

A surname transferred from the given name.

parryverb

To avoid, deflect, or ward off (an attack, a blow, an argument, etc.).

parryingnoun

The act of one who parries.

parsnoun

plural of par

parsanoun

A Hebrew measure of itinerant distance: one parsa is about four kilometers, approximately the distance a man can walk in 72 minutes; a parasang.

parseverb

To resolve (a sentence, etc.) into its elements, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by agreement or government; to analyze and describe grammatically.

parsernoun

A computer program that parses.

Parsinoun

A member of the larger and older of the two Zoroastrian communities of the Indian subcontinent (the other community being that of the Iranis).

parsimoniousadj

Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in the expenditure of money; frugal, possibly to excess.

parsimonynoun

Great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily.

parsingnoun

The act or process in which an agent (person or computer) parses something (a text, a program).

parsleynoun

A bright green, biennial herb, Petroselinum crispum, having many cultivars.

parsnipnoun

A biennial plant, Pastinaca sativa, related to the carrot.

parsonnoun

An Anglican cleric having full legal control of a parish under ecclesiastical law.

parsonagenoun

The residence of the minister of a parish.

Parsonsname

A surname originating as an occupation.

partnoun

A portion; a component.

partakeverb

To take part in an activity; to participate.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter P contains 4,417 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 89 pages, and you are currently viewing page 11. 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.