English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 162 of 931
Time off work granted to an employee to take care of a pet, especially a cat or dog.
A painted, stamped or carved tablet with a representation of Christ or the Virgin Mary, which was kissed by the priest during the Mass ("kiss of peace") and then passed to other officiating clergy and the congregation to be kissed. See also osculatory.
The period of relative peace in the Western world since the end of World War II in 1945, coinciding with the military and economic dominance of the United States.
The period of British hegemony over the seas and most oversea colonies between the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 and the onset of World War I in 1914.
A hypothetical period of future international peace based on submission to prospective Israeli dominance over international affairs.
The long period of relative peace and minimal expansion by military force experienced by the Roman Empire between 27 BC and 180 AD.
All or any of various periods of general peace in East Asia occasioned by a hegemonic dynasty in China, particularly
A potassium channel blocker; a toxic, tremorgenic indole alkaloid produced by Penicillium paxilli.
Used by schoolchildren to express immunity from "being caught" in games such as bulldog or it.
Either of two species of North American plants with glossy, evergreen leaves, Paxistima canbyi or Paxistima myrsinites, grown as groundcovers or low shrubs.
Reminiscent of the forthright and abrasive interviewing style of Jeremy Paxman (born 1950), English broadcaster and journalist.
A strong ligament of the back of the neck in quadrupeds, connecting the back of the skull with dorsal spines of the cervical vertebrae; the nuchal ligament.
Having been the recipient of help or a good deed, to propagate goodwill by helping another person in turn.
A period in which no wage or salary increases occur, when wages and salaries are frozen.
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 162. 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.