English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 118 of 931
A member of a parliament, congress or an elected national legislative body of another name.
The system of government in which the executive branch is legitimised by parliament.
a Member of Parliament appointed, usually as a junior minister, to assist a Minister of the Crown with departmental responsibilities
Originally a requirement in the Railway Regulation Act 1844 for railways to run at least one train a day each way, at a cost to passengers of no more than one penny a mile, on every railway line in the country. Presently the term is used for passenger trains that serve a line or station only once a day or week to avoid the cost of applying for closure.
A room set aside for visitors in a monastery or convent, where they can talk to residents.
The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking; a sitting-room or drawing room.
A low-income male homosexual who behaves in a feminine manner and stereotypically works in a beauty parlor.
A maid whose primary tasks involve direct interaction with her employers and their guests, such as serving food and answering the door.
Any of a number of amusing games played indoors with few props by the members of a social gathering.
A maid whose primary tasks involve direct interaction with her employers and their guests, such as serving food and answering the door.
A dish served in the parmigiana style (combined with cheese and coated with tomato sauce before baking).
An Ancient Greek philosopher born in Elea, in southern Italy. Founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy.
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 118. 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.