English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 187 of 931
People obsessed with upholding and enforcing the usage of "correct" English; militant prescriptivists.
Constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters; fretful, whiny.
A medication belonging to the class of Janus kinase inhibitors, used for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
A synthetic chemotherapeutic agent used to treat severe and life-threatening bacterial infections.
A substance used to lubricate the pegs of a string instrument and to provide friction between the pegs and the strings
To cause the hand of a dial indicator to reach the highest measurement, due to reaching the maximum measurable speed, pressure, etc.
A retail product, especially a collectible, that has very high supply and very low demand.
A person who practices peganism, a variant of the vegan diet and paleo diet, with organic, unprocessed foods.
The diet of pegans, eating organic, unprocessed foods, containing 75% fruits and vegetables; and 25% protein foods (seeds, nuts, other plant proteins); with 35% of calories coming from plant fats
A female fan of the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, typically an adult.
A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the blood of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. Bellerophon tamed and rode upon Pegasus when he defeated the Chimaera.
A board that has a pattern of holes into which pegs are fitted; used especially to record the score in some card games.
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 187. 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.