English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 191 of 931
The Coregonus peled, a whitefish of the Salmonidae family, endemic to Northern Europe and Russia.
A kind of short cape or covering for the shoulders, associated especially with medieval pilgrims (of any gender).
Any of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae, having a long bill with a distendable pouch.
Someone who attempts to explain away UFO reports by means of any explanation, however illogical.
A mountain in Thessaly, northern Greece, forming a peninsula between the Pagasetic Gulf and the Aegean Sea.
A rare leukodystrophy in which coordination, motor abilities, and intellectual function are delayed to variable extents.
A subsidy provided by the United States federal government to students who need it to pay for college.
The Diophantine equation x²-my²=1 for a given integer m, to be solved in integers x and y.
A disease characterised by skin lesions and mental confusion, primarily caused by a niacin deficiency.
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 191. 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.