English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 136 of 931
The part of a road vehicle partitioned from the engine compartment, trunk or boot, etc., designed to hold the passengers and usually the driver; but in limousines and some taxis, buses and goods vehicles, the driver is separated in a cab or driver's compartment.
A basic unit used by transport companies for calculating profit levels etc. It is calculated by multiplying total distance travelled in a given period by the number of passengers.
A bird of the extinct species †Ectopistes migratorius, formerly endemic to North America.
A woman who consistently lets someone else (especially her partner) drive her around while she sits in the passenger seat.
A courtly dance, in triple time, from 17th-century France; a faster form of the minuet.
Of or relating to the Passeriformes order of perching birds, which are generally anisodactyl (“having three toes pointing forward and one back, which facilitates perching”).
A village and civil parish in East Hampshire district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU8234).
A special grip of the hand used by a freemason during a handshake, covertly communicating his freemason status to the other person.
An L-shaped piece of armor worn over one arm (typically the left arm), which generally kept it in a bent position and protected it during jousts.
A person who holds a pass to visit Walt Disney theme parks and who behaves obnoxiously while there.
A fan, particularly of science fiction, who watches and reads the genre but does not actively engage in fanac, or fan activity.
Throughout (used in citations to indicate that something, as a word, phrase, or idea, is to be found at many places throughout the work cited).
On a single-track railway or tramway, an extra track provided at a certain place to allow two trains travelling in opposite directions to pass each other. It can also allow a faster train to overtake a slower one.
extreme enthusiasm shown by a person who has recently taken a new task or set of beliefs.
A drive-in theatre or other unlit or dimly-lit secluded public or private location, with particular reference to it as a place of intimacy.
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 136. 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.