English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 167 of 931
Initialism of Protein Digestibility Corrected Amino Acid Score (“method of evaluating the quality of a protein”).
Rodrigo Duterte (born 1945), Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the 16th president of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022.
Various varieties of Phaseolus vulgaris (common beans that can be eaten as string beans or cooked from dried beans).
Any of several small beetles of the genus Bruchus which destroy pea plants; a pea weevil.
A culinary spread, a thick paste made from brown peas that is a substitute for peanut butter.
A wild eggplant, of species Solanum torvum, or its fruit (susumber or turkey berries).
A now-illegal delivery where the ball is rolled along the ground rather than bowled overarm.
The cooking liquor from mushy peas, often offered as a free condiment at a fish and chip shop.
A kind of coffee bean, one that develops alone in the cherry rather than with a second seed and thus has a more oval shape.
An early form of breechloading firearm action, where the heavy breechblock tilted downwards across a bolt mounted in the rear of the breechblock, operated by a lever under the rifle.
white-throated sparrow, an American sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) with a conspicuous white throat.
A state of tranquility, quiet, and harmony. For instance, a state free from civil disturbance.
an honorific phrase used by Muslims after any mention in speech or print of holy persons
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 167. 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.