English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 13 of 931
Commonwealth spelling of pedophobia (“an irrational, obsessive fear or dislike of children”).
The systematic study or theoretical consideration of the nature, functioning, and development of the minds (or, more rarely, the souls) of children and/or infants; child psychology.
A savory Valencian dish made of rice, cooked in a frying pan with vegetables and meat or shellfish.
The rule of Classical Latin pronunciation which states that a word receives antepenultimate stress if its penult is a short or metrically light syllable, but receives penultimate stress if its penult is a long or metrically heavy syllable.
The land of the Paeonians, a people inhabiting between the lands of Macedonians, Thracians, and Illyrians.
The horizontal element on the ground at the front of a wharenui, serving as the threshold of the building.
An ancient Greek city in Magna Graecia, on the coast of present-day Campania in southern Italy.
Of or relating to any of several hypothetical or obsolete language families of Colombia and Ecuador.
A city, the provincial capital of Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga Peninsula, Mindanao, Philippines.
A sporting tactic in which a large amount of space is deliberately left open in the attacking area of the ground, into which players can run.
A Roman ball stuffed with feathers, used in a game that is sometimes considered a precursor to golf (since early golf balls had a similar construction).
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 13. 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.
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