English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 130 of 931
Near, or connected to the navel (predominantly referring the small veins which, in human beings, connect the portal vein with the epigastric veins in the front wall of the abdomen).
A figure of speech by which the present tense is used instead of the past or the future, as in the animated narration of past events or the prediction of future ones.
A Hindu goddess, the goddess of love, devotion and power; nominally the second consort of Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction and rejuvenation.
A person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class, especially through acquisition of wealth, privileges, or political authority but has not gained social acceptance by those within that new class.
Any single-stranded DNA virus, of the genus Parvovirus, being the smallest found in nature; they infect only mammals other than humans.
A monoclinic-prismatic straw yellow mineral containing hydrogen, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.
A monoclinic-domatic yellow brown mineral containing antimony, arsenic, calcium, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.
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 130. 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.