English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 196 of 931
A small set of rosary beads, consisting of a single decade of beads with a cross, attached to a ring.
The theory of atonement which holds that Jesus died on the Cross in place of human sinners.
An area of a pitch or field, inside which a penalty is given to the offensive team if a foul is made by the defensive team.
An enclosed bench where a player must remain for timed period (a penalty) that is assessed after an infraction.
An envelope whose mailing for an authorized purpose does not requiring postage, while its unauthorized use may be penalized.
a small white spot, painted on the grass, twelve yards in front of the centre of the goal line, from which all penalty kicks are taken
A mandated minimum rate of pay which is higher than the usual minimum wage, paid to an employee when working on weekends, public holidays, overtime, late night shifts or early morning shifts.
A series of penalties (penalty kicks in soccer), taken to decide a winner after a game has resulted in a tie and extra time has been played.
a small white spot, painted on the grass, twelve yards in front of the centre of the goal line, from which all penalty kicks are taken
An amount of money, used as a basis of a penalty fine, which can be adjusted by the government without the need to pass new legislation.
A bicyclic ring system containing a beta-lactam moiety fused with a five-member thiazolidine ring; the common core skeleton of the penicillin subclass of beta-lactam antibiotics.
An acetoxymethyl ester of benzylpenicillin; a prodrug that is processed to benzylpenicillin by esterases.
A voluntary self-imposed punishment for a sinful act or wrongdoing. It may be intended to serve as reparation for the act.
A kind of walking stick made from the stem of the East Asiatic palm (Licuala acutifida).
A town and community with a town council in Vale of Glamorgan borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST1871).
A village in Llanfihangel-ar-Arth community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN4436).
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 196. 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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