English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 20 of 931
Any prone-ridden surf-craft that is neither an inflatable mat nor a traditional finless soft bodyboard.
A relationship, often permanent, formed between a male and female animal; initiated during courtship and maintained after mating.
The commission of an ensign in the infantry or a cornet in the cavalry; an ensigncy or cornetcy.
A tool used for cutting thin material, consisting of two crossing blades attached at a pivot point in such a way that the blades slide across each other when the handles are closed
The breaking apart of a pair (of particles etc) with release or absorption of energy.
Let A_λ_(λ∈Λ) be any collection of sets indexed by a set Λ. We call the indexed collection pairwise disjoint if for any two distinct indices, λ,μ∈Λ, the sets A_λ and A_μ are disjoint.
The country (ie: the jury); also, the people living in the district from where the jury is taken.
The supposed ability of electrically charged matter, under controlled conditions of spin or vibration, to generate high-energy electromagnetic fields.
A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Indian, Nepalese, or Pakistani rupee.
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 20. 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.