English Words: P

46,516 words · Page 165 of 931

Paynename

An English surname, variant of Paine.

Payne Countyname

One of 77 counties in Oklahoma, United States. County seat: Stillwater.

Payne effectnoun

A particular aspect of the mechanical response of rubber, observed under cyclic loading conditions with small strain amplitudes, and manifested as a dependence of the viscoelastic storage modulus on the amplitude of the applied strain.

Payne's greynoun

A dark blue-grey colour used in painting, originally a mixture of iron blue (Prussian blue), yellow ochre and crimson lake.

Paynehamname

An eastern suburb of Adelaide in the City of Norwood Payneham and St Peters, South Australia, named by settler Samuel Payne after himself.

Paynesvillename

A town in the Shire of East Gippsland, eastern Victoria, Australia.

paynightnoun

The night when workers are paid.

paynimnoun

A pagan or heathen, especially a Muslim, or a Jew.

paynizeverb

To treat or preserve (wood etc.) by a process resembling kyanization.

PAYOphrase

Initialism of pay as you order.

payolanoun

A bribe given in exchange for a favor, such as one given in exchange for the promotion of goods or services (originally one given to a disk jockey to play a record).

Payonkname

A surname from Polish.

payornoun

One who makes a payment.

payoutnoun

An amount of money paid out.

PayPalname

A worldwide online payment system.

PayPalernoun

An employee of PayPal.

payphonenoun

A public telephone that requires prepayment to operate, generally via the insertion of coins or a credit card.

paypignoun

The submissive participant in financial domination, who provides another person with money.

paypointnoun

A location where people can make payments for a service.

payraisenoun

Alternative form of pay raise.

payrisenoun

Alternative form of pay rise.

payrollnoun

A list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each.

payrolleenoun

A person who is on a payroll.

payrollernoun

Someone on a payroll; someone who earns a salary.

payrunnoun

The periodic calculation of a payroll.

paysverb

third-person singular simple present indicative of pay

pays d'étatnoun

Any of several provinces of pre-Revolutionary France which retained their own local assemblies.

Pays de la Loirename

An administrative region of France, near Brittany.

paysagenoun

A landscape.

paysagistnoun

An artist who paints landscapes.

payscalenoun

A system of pay grades.

paysheetnoun

A document indicating the amount of money to be paid to an employee.

paysitenoun

A website that charges money for admission, especially a pornographic one.

payslipnoun

A small document, included with an employee's wage or salary, giving details of money earned and tax and insurance paid.

paystreaknoun

The zone, parallel to the walls of a vein, in which the ore is concentrated, or any narrow streak of paying ore in less valuable material.

Paytakaranname

One of the provinces of Greater Armenia. Now in Azerbaijan.

paytannoun

The writer of a piyyut.

paytechnoun

Payment technology, that is, technology (usually information technology) that is focused on processing payments.

paythroughnoun

A kind of security issued by a trust, allocating the cash flows from the underlying pool to the securities holders on a pro rata basis.

paytinenoun

An alkaloid obtained from a white bark resembling that of the cinchona.

Paytonname

A habitational surname from Old English.

paytriotnoun

A right-wing activist (especially a supporter of the QAnon movement) who uses the movement to make money for themselves rather than to advance its goals.

paywallnoun

A system that restricts access to content with a purchase or a paid subscription.

paywalledadj

Having a paywall; requiring payment for access.

paywarenoun

Software for which a payment is required.

Payzawatname

A county of Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

Payziwatname

Alternative form of Payzawat.

Pazname

A river in El Salvador.

pazazznoun

Alternative spelling of pizzazz.

Pazendname

A variant of Avestan alphabet used to write Middle Persian.

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 165. 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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