English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 124 of 931
A simple notation used to identify a piece of music through the falling and rising motion of its pitch.
A kind of computer programming puzzle in which the respondent is asked to choose from a selection of source code fragments in order to construct a program that will solve a given problem.
A modernist square or rectangular table whose four legs are square in cross section, flush with the edges of the top, and equal to it in thickness.
A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing hydrogen, lead, oxygen, phosphorus, and uranium.
An integral or essential piece; that which must be done or accepted as part of something else.
A state from 1947 to 1956 that was formed from a chief commissioner's province and placed under direct control of the Union Government. Most of them were merged with other states or converted to union territories.
A contract where one party pays money and supplies goods or services, and the other supplies goods or services in exchange.
A linguistic category of words sharing syntactic or morphological behaviour and semantic properties, such as noun or verb.
For, during, or involving less than the normal time for some activity, especially the number of hours an employee works.
Of or relating to Harry Partch (1901–1974), American composer and creator of musical instruments.
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 124. 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.