English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 159 of 931
Name of a rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the 41stmelakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music.
A pickup truck, SUV, or ute that is modified for off-road capabilities, such as large tires and suspension lifts, but rarely or never used off-road, often seen as showy or impractical.
The situation where damaged endothelium undergoes a change in properties that allows leukocytes to adhere to it.
A village and civil parish in Bedford borough, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP9955).
A canvas screen, formerly sometimes extended along the side of a vessel in battle, to conceal from the enemy the operations on board.
Most usually, a very large shield fitted with a stand, like a small moveable wall, carried in front to protect all or most of the bearer's body that could be positioned independently of the user, such as a crossbowman, often with a projecting ridge running vertically down the center. However, smaller, more standard shield types were also termed as such, with the central verticle ridge as a defining feature.
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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 159. 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.