English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 160 of 931
A row of shields hung on the side of a ship to protect it at war and discourage boarding by enemies.
A village in Stepantsi rural hromada, Cherkasy Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine, first recorded as a khutir on a map from 1920.
Of or relating to the theories of the Russian physiologist, psychologist, and physician Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, especially those related to behavioral conditioning.
A constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a peacock. It lies between the constellations Telescopium and Octans.
A monoclinic-prismatic white mineral containing bismuth, copper, lead, silver, and sulfur.
The soft foot of a mammal or other animal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails; comparable to a human hand or foot.
An edible univalve mollusc of the genus Haliotis, having a shell lined with mother-of-pearl.
The condition of having either the left or the right paw dominant; the handedness of an animal.
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.
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.