English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 122 of 931
The paradox whereby a combination of losing strategies (such as alternating between two games that each, played individually, would result in an overall loss) may give a winning strategy.
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.
Any plant of two species of plants of genus Clianthus, with showy flowers, the glory pea.
Any of a group of warbler-like birds in the family Paradoxornithidae, native to East and Southeast Asia, generally small and long-tailed, which inhabit reed beds and similar habitats and feed mainly on seeds.
A perennial dicotyledon of species Myriophyllum aquaticum, natively found in South America but now grows around the world.
Any of genus Erythrura of small, colourful passerine birds, found in southeast Asia and Oceania.
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.
Thoughtless imitation or repetition of someone else's words or sayings; mindless repetition.
A type of muzzle-loading rifled artillery weapon used extensively in the American Civil War.
Video games whose combat system heavily involves waiting to be attacked and then parrying, seen as overused and uninspired.
The distal part of the adenohypophysis, which contains the majority of its hormone-secreting cells.
A small, triangular, flaccid portion of the eardrum located in the superior and posterior region of the membrane.
a neurosecretory center of the insect brain, located along the anterior midline.
A region constituting the majority of the posterior pituitary, and serving as the storage site of oxytocin and vasopressin.
The straight (descending) portion of the proximal tubule of the kidney, coming after the initial convoluted portion (the pars convoluta).
The larger and more robust region of the tympanic membrane, consisting of three layers: skin, fibrous tissue, and mucosa.
Part of the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland, which wraps the pituitary stalk in a highly vascularized sheath.
A Hebrew measure of itinerant distance: one parsa is about four kilometers, approximately the distance a man can walk in 72 minutes; a parasang.
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 122. 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.