English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 18 of 931
A very rare orange-red borate mineral consisting mostly of calcium, zirconium, boron, aluminium, and oxygen.
A traditional Indian anklet, often adorned with small bells or intricate designs. The delicate sound produced by the bells as the wearer moves is considered auspicious and adds a musical quality to footsteps.
A negative incentive system involving a financial penalty in the event of loss or failure.
Carefully attentive to details; studious; diligent in performing a process or procedure.
The state or characteristic of being painstaking; the giving of careful attention to details.
A weapon consisting of a baton capable of delivering a jolt of pain on contact with the body.
A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied.
To describe a situation or prospective set of events in an upbeat, optimistic manner.
A tool in some graphics editor applications that fills in a portion of the image with a certain color or pattern.
To create a predicament or problem for oneself; to do something that leaves one with no good alternatives or solutions.
A small town in Jackson County, Alabama, United States, alongside the Paint Rock River.
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 18. 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.