English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 142 of 931
A 2012 British controversy around taxation of hot snacks such as pasties, where Conservative ministers were said to be out of touch with the eating habits of ordinary people.
A vowel point in the Hebrew script appearing as a horizontal line placed below a letter (ִ◌ַ) and designating the open vowel a /a/.
The thin membrane that extends between the limbs and body of a bat or of gliding mammals.
A geographical region in southern South America, including the southern parts of Chile and Argentina.
A sailing vessel resembling a grab, formerly used in the coasting trade of Bombay and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
A type of open, hilly grassland, especially in Sri Lanka, often formed after the clearing of jungle.
a figure of speech that transcends the original context and creates a secondary reality independent of the original context.
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 142. 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.