English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 170 of 931
A bird of the genus Pavo or Afropavo, notable for the extravagant tails of the males; a peacock (unspecified sex).
A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
Alternative spelling of Peak XV, former name of Mount Everest: a mountain in Himalayas, South Asia, on the border of Nepal and China in Tibet autonomous region.
The activity of attempting to reach the summits of a collection of peaks, usually those above some height or prominence in a particular region, or having a particular feature.
An organisation which represents an entire sector of industry or the community to the government, often incorporating other organisations in that area.
An organisation which represents an entire sector of industry or the community to the government, often incorporating other organisations in that area.
A golden age of television generally held as beginning in the late 1990s and peaking in the 2010s, characterized by the proliferation of a large, diverse array of scripted shows coinciding with the rise of premium cable and streaming services.
Of or pertaining to Mervyn Peake (1911-1968), English modernist writer and artist, or his works.
An electric power station used to rapidly generate power to prevent brownouts when demand rapidly increases, exceeding supply and the ability of baseload power generation stations to ramp up the supply of electricity.
A village and civil parish in Peterborough district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF1606).
A supporter of the peak oil theory, or one who advocates policies that depend on this theory.
A member of the Peaky Blinders gang. They operated in Birmingham from the end of the 19th century until after the First World War. Gang members had a distinctive appearance: close-cropped hair, bell-bottomed trousers, peaked caps, and a white scarf knotted at the throat.
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 170. 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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