English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 112 of 931
The identity and nature of one's parents, and in particular, the legitimacy of one's birth.
A political movement aimed at restricting the teaching of gender, sexuality, and race without parental consent.
Lacking one or both parents, or having parents who are inadequately supportive or caring.
The realm, world, sphere, influence, jurisdiction, or authority of a parent; parenthood.
Administered by some means that avoids the gastrointestinal tract, particularly intravenously or by injection.
A clause, phrase or word which is inserted (usually for explanation or amplification) into a passage which is already grammatically complete, and usually marked off with brackets, commas or dashes.
A septal pore cap, a microscopic structure of unknown function found in the cells of basidiomycete fungi.
A process of role reversal whereby a child is obliged to act as a parent to its own parent or sibling.
The place where an ethnic group originated; the place from which a population immigrated.
The state or condition of being parentless (not having a (living) parent (i.e., a father or mother)).
A subgenre of Sherlock fan fiction in which Sherlock and John raise a child or children together.
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 112. 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.