English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 190 of 931
A Chinese dish consisting of roasted duck skin, small pancakes, hoisin sauce and other ingredients.
A high-quality black tea made using young leaves, grown in Sri Lanka, India, Java and the Azores.
An orthorhombic-pyramidal lead gray mineral containing bismuth, copper, lead, selenium, and sulfur.
An orthorhombic-dipyramidal colorless mineral containing boron, oxygen, silicon, and strontium.
Scotopelia peli, a large owl that feeds nocturnally on fish and frogs snatched from the surface of lakes and rivers.
Of or pertaining to Pelagius (circa 354–420/440), an ascetic who denied the need for divine aid in performing good works.
A Christian belief that denies the view of original sin and the necessity of grace, asserting that man is capable of achieving salvation by his own efforts.
Any of the extinct crocodile-like animals of genus †Pelagosaurus which lived during the Jurassic period.
An anthocyanidin, 2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)chromenylium-3,5,7-triol, found in geraniums and several soft berries
Any of various flowering plants of the genus Pelargonium, similar to (and often confused with) true geraniums, but less hardy and often cultivated as annuals for ornamental purposes.
The eponymous ancestor of the Pelasgians, the mythical inhabitants of Greece who established the worship of the Dodonaean Zeus, Hephaestus, the Cabeiri, and other divinities.
The volcanic glass threads or fibers formed when small particles of molten material are thrown into the air and spun out by the wind into long hair-like strands.
Small black pieces of solidified lava formed when airborne particles of molten material fuse into tear-like drops of volcanic glass.
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 190. 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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