English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 198 of 931
A drop-shaped diamond or other gem used as a pendant; also, a piece of jewellery in pendant form.
The concave triangular sections of vaulting that provide the transition between a dome and the square base on which it is set and transfer the weight of the dome.
A village in Hirwaun community, Rhondda Cynon Taf borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SN9408).
A chelating agent consisting of pentetic acid linked to the tripeptide glycine (G) – ʟ-tyrosine (Y) – ʟ-lysine (K).
Moral studies, a school subject for non-Muslim students in Malaysia that teaches about personal morality.
A row variation where the bar is grabbed from the ground for each repetition which forces greater range of motion and precludes momentum.
A village and civil parish in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD7539).
Also capitalized as Pendragon: a title assumed by the ancient British chiefs when called to lead other chiefs: chief war leader, chieftain, dictator, despot or king.
A genetic disorder leading to congenital bilateral sensorineural hearing loss and goitre with occasional hypothyroidism.
A theory, initially proposed by H. Simroth, that the earth not only rotates on its axis and revolves around the sun, but also has a slower swinging movement like a pendulum.
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 198. 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.