English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 147 of 931
An agent that can cause disease, especially an infectious microorganism, such as a bacterium, virus, protozoon or fungus.
The study of characteristic indications (pathognomonic signs) of particular diseases.
An expert in pathology; a specialist who examines samples of body tissues for diagnostic or forensic purpose.
The treatment of a health or behaviour condition as if it were a medical condition.
To characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease.
The study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences; now usually and especially in the clinical and academic medicine subsenses defined below.
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 147. 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.