English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 139 of 931
A tense used in some languages (such as French and Italian) in narrative, and in spoken language primarily when reading narrative or in storytelling, for completed actions in the past or in speaking of the deceased.
One who has an extremely high level of ability or knowledge within an area of achievement or expertise.
A grammatical form (often a verb form) that refers to an event, transaction, occurrence, or object that happened (or had happened), or existed, at some time before now (the applicable reference time).
Dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating.
A cheesemaking technique in which the curds are steeped in hot water or whey, then kneaded to obtain a soft, elastic, stringy texture.
Any of many sauces designed to be served with pasta (and sometimes used on pizza), especially a tomato-based red sauce with herbs and spices.
A parody religion centered around the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a creator deity who resembles spaghetti and meatballs.
The 2013 scandal wherein an Italian restaurant was requested by the OQLF to use the French language on its menus. The incident was falsely believed to have been an attempt by Quebec to ban the word ‘pasta.’
A website allowing users to paste and store plain text, so that they can refer to it with a simple hyperlink rather than having to paste the entire text elsewhere.
a kind of Armenian fruit leather made by simmering mashed fruits and berries, then drying the thickened substance in sheets
An attack that places unseen data on the clipboard, leading to a harmful result when it is pasted by the user.
Any of several subdued tints of colors, usually associated with pink, peach, yellow, green, blue, and lavender.
Of or relating to Boris Pasternak (Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к; 1890–1960), Russian poet, novelist, and translator.
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 139. 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.