English Words: P

46,516 words · Page 167 of 931

PDCAASnoun

Initialism of Protein Digestibility Corrected Amino Acid Score (“method of evaluating the quality of a protein”).

Pdenoun

Abbreviation of parade.

PDEAname

Acronym of Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency.

PDFname

Initialism of Parkinson's Disease Foundation, now just Parkinson's Foundation.

PDF filenoun

Filter-avoidance spelling of pedophile

PDFizeverb

To convert (a file) to PDF format.

PDLnoun

Initialism of passenger dedicated line.

pdocnoun

A psychotherapist or psychiatrist.

PDQadv

Initialism of pretty damned/darn quick: very quickly, as quickly as possible.

PDUnoun

Initialism of power distribution unit.

PDU30name

Rodrigo Duterte (born 1945), Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the 16th president of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022.

PDXname

Portland, Oregon.

PEname

Initialism of Prince Edward Island: a province of Canada.

Pe Ellname

A town in Lewis County, Washington, United States.

Pe Heenname

Alternative form of Pixian.

peanoun

Any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae: Pisum sativum and others.

pea beannoun

Various varieties of Phaseolus vulgaris (common beans that can be eaten as string beans or cooked from dried beans).

pea bugnoun

Any of several small beetles of the genus Bruchus which destroy pea plants; a pea weevil.

pea butternoun

A culinary spread, a thick paste made from brown peas that is a substitute for peanut butter.

pea coatnoun

A coat of heavy, navy-coloured wool, originally worn by sailors of European navies.

pea eggplantnoun

A wild eggplant, of species Solanum torvum, or its fruit (susumber or turkey berries).

pea flournoun

Synonym of peasemeal.

pea galaxiesnoun

plural of pea galaxy

pea greenadj

Of a yellowish green colour, like that of peas.

pea jacketnoun

A short woollen overcoat, originally as worn by sailors; a pea coat.

pea patchnoun

A small piece of land planted with peas.

pea rollernoun

A now-illegal delivery where the ball is rolled along the ground rather than bowled overarm.

pea soupnoun

A thick soup made with dried peas (often split peas) and various other ingredients.

pea wetnoun

The cooking liquor from mushy peas, often offered as a free condiment at a fish and chip shop.

pea-coatedadj

Wearing a pea coat.

pea-jacketedadj

Wearing a pea jacket.

pea-nutnoun

Obsolete spelling of peanut.

pea-pheasantnoun

A peacock-like pheasant of the genus Polyplectron.

pea-sizedadj

Of the relative size of a pea.

pea-soupernoun

A dense, yellowish fog, often mixed with smoke; a pea-soup fog, a smog.

pea-soupyadj

Resembling or characteristic of pea soup.

pea-timenoun

The time when peas ripen: pea season.

peaberrynoun

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.

Peaboname

A male given name from English.

Peabodyname

A surname transferred from the nickname.

Peabody actionnoun

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.

Peabody birdnoun

white-throated sparrow, an American sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) with a conspicuous white throat.

peabrainnoun

A stupid or clumsy person; a cretin.

peabrainedadj

stupid; moronic

peacakenoun

A type of cake made with peas as the main ingredient.

peacenoun

A state of tranquility, quiet, and harmony. For instance, a state free from civil disturbance.

peace and quietnoun

Tranquility; freedom from stress or interruptions.

peace be upon herintj

Female equivalent of peace be upon him.

peace be upon himintj

an honorific phrase used by Muslims after any mention in speech or print of holy persons

peace bondnoun

A court order forbidding one party to bother another.

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.

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