English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 16 of 931
A religious building in South and Southeast Asia, especially a multi-storey tower erected as a Hindu or Buddhist temple.
The pathological consumption of ice, a manifestation of pica, often resulting from iron or nutritional deficiencies.
A town and home rule municipality, the county seat of Archuleta County, Colorado, United States.
A headdress worn by men in India, comprising a several-metre-long band of fabric wound around the head.
A municipality in the Special Geographic Area, Bangsamoro in the province of Cotabato, Philippines
In South Asia, someone from the hills or mountains, a hillman; specifically a member of any of various peoples living in the Himalayan regions of India and Nepal.
A Lahnda Indo-Aryan language spoken in Punjab and Azad Kashmir, Pakistan as well as parts of India's Kashmir region.
An isometric-tetartoidal mineral containing beryllium, calcium, hydrogen, lithium, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, and sodium.
The Pahlavi script, a writing system derived from the Aramaic script and used to write several Iranian languages, the most common form of which was the Book Pahlavi.
An Iranian state under the rule of the Pahlavi dynasty (1925–1979), characterized by centralization, modernization, and secular reforms prior to the 1979 revolution.
An Iranian nationalist ideology centered on the rule and legacy of the Pahlavi dynasty (1925–1979).
A form of lava flow of basaltic rock, usually dark-colored with a smooth or ropey surface. It is one of two chief forms of lava flow emitted from volcanoes of the Hawaiian type, the other form being aa.
A cucumber salad; a Szechwan dish composed of smashed cucumbers with a garlic and sauce dressing.
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 16. 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.