English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 151 of 931
A social system in which the father is head of the household, having authority over women and children, and in which lineage is traced through the male line.
The transfer of a governmental power from a former mother country to a newly independent one.
A radix tree with radix of 2, meaning that each bit of the key is compared individually and each node is a two-way branch.
A member of any of the families constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens, before the development of the plebeian order; later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege conferred, belonged to the senior class of Romans, who, with certain property, had by right a seat in the Roman Senate.
Lepidochrysops patricia, a species of blue-winged butterfly in the family Lycaenidae found in South Africa.
An unincorporated community in Marion Township, Owen County, Indiana, United States.
A line of descent from a male ancestor to a descendant (of either sex) in which the individuals in all intervening generations are fathers.
Lineage based upon the paternal line; a group of descendants related through a common male lineage.
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 151. 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.