English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 111 of 931
The juxtaposition of words that have the same roots; using cognate words together, such as "curvaceous curves", "my loving and beloved wife", or "he's a manly man".
A painkiller; a medicine which soothes or relieves pain; specifically the traditional patent medicine consisting of camphorated tincture of opium.
The tendency to interpret a vague stimulus as something known to the observer, such as interpreting marks on Mars as canals, seeing shapes in clouds, or hearing hidden messages in music.
Chondrodendron tomentosum, a large tropical liana native to Central and South America, and a source of tubocurare.
A condition of the muscles induced by exposure to severe cold, in which the electrical action of the muscle is reversed.
A kind of rhetorical parenthesis. The insertion of something relating to the subject in the middle of a period.
The functional tissue of an organ as distinguished from the connective and supporting tissue.
Relating to a network derived from isolated scalar data, where links between nodes (corresponding to features of the data) are weighted based on the deviation between them.
The government authority to act as the parent of a child or individual to protect them from abusive or negligent parents, legal guardian, or caretaker.
A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
The simplest member of a class of compounds, from which the others are formally obtained by substituting radicals for hydrogen atoms.
The initial compound in a biotransformation reaction, requiring metabolism for activation.
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 111. 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.