English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 171 of 931
A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc.
A small dolphin (Cephalorhynchus australis) found in the waters around Tierra del Fuego at the foot of South America.
A set of axioms of first-order logic for the natural numbers specifying the operations of zero, successor, addition and multiplication, including a first-order schema of induction.
Any of a set of fundamental axioms describing the natural numbers and their relationships.
the scaling limit of random planar maps equipped with a collection of loops coming from a critical FK model.
A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea, native to South America.
Peanut butter and jelly (or jam) that is spread on bread to make a sandwich.
In the nineteenth century, the cheap seats at the back of a theatre or in the upper balcony.
Nickname for Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter Jr.; 1924–2024), American politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981.
An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but typically elongated towards the stem.
An alcoholic cider made from pears, especially the commercial product made from imported pear juice.
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 171. 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.