English Words: P

46,516 words · Page 160 of 931

pavisadenoun

A row of shields hung on the side of a ship to protect it at war and discourage boarding by enemies.

pavisernoun

A soldier carrying a pavis (type of shield).

pavisornoun

A foot soldier trained in the use of the pavais.

Pavlakname

A surname.

Pavlicekname

A surname.

Pavlichname

A surname.

Pavlikname

A surname from Czech.

Pavlivkaname

A village in Stepantsi rural hromada, Cherkasy Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine, first recorded as a khutir on a map from 1920.

Pavlodarname

A city on the Irtysh River in the northeast of Kazakhstan.

Pavlohradname

A city and raion of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, in south-eastern Ukraine.

Pavlovname

A transliteration of the Russian surname Па́влов (Pávlov).

Pavlov dogphrase

Alternative form of Pavlov's dog.

Pavlov pouchnoun

An exteriorized section of the stomach, used in studying digestion.

Pavlov's dognoun

A person who reacts instinctively to a stimulus, without thought or consideration.

pavlovanoun

A meringue dessert usually topped with fruit and cream.

Pavlovianadj

Of or relating to the theories of the Russian physiologist, psychologist, and physician Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, especially those related to behavioral conditioning.

Pavlovianismnoun

The use of, or belief in, Pavlovian conditioning.

Pavlovianlyadv

In a Pavlovian manner; involving Pavlovian conditioning.

Pavlovicname

A surname from Serbo-Croatian.

Pavlovichname

A surname from Serbo-Croatian.

Pavoname

A constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a peacock. It lies between the constellations Telescopium and Octans.

pavonnoun

A small triangular flag, especially one attached to a knight's lance; a pennon.

pavonatedadj

Colored like the neck of a peacock: peacock blue.

pavonazzettonoun

A type of variegated marble.

Pavonazzonoun

A kind of white marble originally from Docimium.

pavonenoun

A peacock.

pavonianoun

Any plant of the genus Pavonia of swampmallows.

pavonianadj

Of or pertaining to the peacock

pavonineadj

Of or pertaining to the genus Pavo or its family Pavonidae, including the peafowl.

pavonininnoun

A saponin used as a shark repellent.

pavonitenoun

A monoclinic-prismatic white mineral containing bismuth, copper, lead, silver, and sulfur.

pavonnenoun

Alternative spelling of pavane.

Pavukname

A surname from Slovak.

pawnoun

The soft foot of a mammal or other animal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails; comparable to a human hand or foot.

paw offverb

To masturbate.

Paw Paw Frenchname

Synonym of Missouri French.

paw upverb

To dig up with, or as if with, paws.

paw-pawnoun

Alternative form of pawpaw, Asimina triloba.

pawanoun

An edible univalve mollusc of the genus Haliotis, having a shell lined with mother-of-pearl.

pawangnoun

A Malay shaman.

Pawarname

A surname from Marathi.

pawbnoun

Deliberate misspelling of paw.

pawdicurenoun

Pedicure on the paws of an animal.

pawedverb

simple past and past participle of paw

pawednessnoun

The condition of having either the left or the right paw dominant; the handedness of an animal.

Pawelekname

A surname from Polish.

Pawelskiname

A surname from Polish.

pawernoun

One who paws.

pawestverb

second-person singular simple present indicative of paw

pawethverb

third-person singular simple present indicative of paw

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 160. 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.

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