English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 195 of 931
A village in Pembrey and Burry Port Town community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN4201).
A kind of table introduced in the 18th century, having a rectangular or oval top with dropleaves on each side, and sometimes having drawers.
A cattle herding dog breed that originated in Pembrokeshire, Wales; one of the two varieties of the Welsh corgi.
A maritime traditional county of Wales, bordered by Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire.
A drug that targets the programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) receptor, intended for use in treating metastatic melanoma.
A 2000 Mexican scandal in which funds from the state-owned oil company Pemex were used to support a political campaign.
A food made from meat which has been dried and beaten into a paste, mixed with berries and rendered fat, and shaped into little patties.
To make pemmican out of; to dry and beat into a paste, possibly combining with fat and berries.
A savoury fishcake delicacy from Indonesia (Palembang), made of fish, egg, and tapioca usually served with the traditional spice-based broth and sometimes also served with noodles.
Any of a group of rare autoimmune blistering skin diseases that superficially resemble pemphigus.
A severe autoimmune skin disease characterized by pustules and painful blisters, and which can be fatal.
An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
A small electronic device used to store digital data, more portable and robust than a hard drive; a flash drive.
A suburban area in Yeovil, Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST5716).
A fictitious name used by an author in place of their actual name; a writer's pseudonym.
The trick of spinning a pen on the knuckles of one hand without touching it with the other hand.
Performed by writing on paper, such as filling in a form, conducting an exam, writing a document, etc.
A coastal village in Llanrhidian Higher community, City and County of Swansea, Wales (OS grid ref SS5495).
A suburban area in Penydarren community, Merthyr Tydfil borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SO0507).
A village in Newcastle Higher community, Bridgend borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS8982).
A community (civil parish) in Rhondda Cynon Taf borough, Wales, which includes the village of Penygraig.
A colonial territory used (mainly) for the detention and forced labor of deportees, typically where free labor is desperately scarce.
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 195. 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.