English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 197 of 931
A guanine analogue antiviral drug C₁₀H₁₅N₅O₃ that is used mostly topically for the treatment of recurrent herpes labialis.
An object purposed to contain different stationery like pencil, rubber, correction fluid, etc.
The situation where punters discover that a horse is almost certain to lose, and so become eager to lay bets against it.
Of an investment, to make sense financially or to be expected to generate the desired returns.
A small bag used for holding pencils and other creative instruments, usually with a zipper to keep the items in the bag. Most commonly used by students.
A slim skirt (clothing) with a straight and narrow cut, usually approximately knee-length.
To approve a document without actually knowing or reviewing what it is that is being approved.
In comic book production, a person who develops the plot and creative content, and draws an outline to be filled in by an inker.
Art created by hand with a pencil or coloured pencils, (usually satirically) considered to be inferior to AI art.
A town and community with a town council in Bridgend borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS9581).
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 197. 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.