English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 163 of 931
Of a man, to make respectful approaches to a woman with a view to courting her romantically.
To visit the place where the remains of a dead person has been prepared for burial or cremation, either as a private act of remembrance or as a public display to others.
To grieve or mourn a person to a degree appropriate for one's relationship; to attend someone's funeral.
Paper provided by employer to an employee as an indication of payment of wages or salary; it generally includes details such as the amount of tax withheld, and is attached to the payment if by check.
To incur the negative consequences of (one’s own or someone else’s) actions or decisions.
To die as a result of a fatal choice or decision, or because of deep commitments.
To pay an exorbitant or excessive amount, either in money or in some other manner.
Designed in such a way as to allow players to exchange real-world currency for in-game benefits.
To pay in total a sum which is owed, especially when the sum has been owed for a period of time.
A financial policy by which capital projects are financed from current revenue in the operating budget rather than through borrowing.
A contactless electronic payment technology by which a purchase is made by waving a card or mobile phone near a reader.
Leaving no significant net income to sustain the household; only covering childcare costs, travel, and other expenses.
A system of viewing individual television programmes for an additional charge over and above that for the standard service; normally used on cable and satellite systems.
The practice where retailers charge manufacturers a slotting fee to place their products on the shelves of stores.
A traditional performance art of the Southern Cone, consisting of a duel between two payadores who take turns singing improvised ten-line verses in response to the previous payador, accompanied by guitar.
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 163. 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.