English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 204 of 931
A thin, often triangular flag or streamer, especially as hung from the end of a lance or spear.
The rural and exurban part of the state of Pennsylvania outside the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia metropolitan areas, more specifically the mountainous central region.
Those people of German origin who settled in the Pennsylvania area prior to 1800, and their descendants.
Pennsylvania Dutch country; an area of southeastern Pennsylvania that historically had a high percentage of Pennsylvania Dutch inhabitants. The region centers around the cities of Allentown, Hershey, Lancaster, Reading, and York.
In the United Kingdom and Ireland and many other countries, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₂₄₀ of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: d.
The world's first official national mail postage stamp, issued in 1840 in the United Kingdom as part of the postal reforms establishing a uniform penny post.
A cheap paperback book, particularly those concerning lurid depictions of crime in the Victorian era.
A type of bicycle popular in the 19th century, with the front wheel far larger than the rear one.
Used to inquire into the thoughts and feelings of another, especially when the person appears pensive or conflicted.
An entertainment in 19th-century England consisting of short theatrical displays such as dancing, singing, clowning, and plays.
Any of various postal systems in which a short letter or light package could be sent for the price of one penny, particularly uniform penny post in which the rate applied regardless of distance.
A British coin worth 1⁄240 of a pound sterling, made of silver prior to 1797, and copper thereafter, Abbreviation: d.
A highly speculative stock selling for less than one dollar or pound per share and quoted in cents or pence.
A wedding at which the guests contribute payments in order to fund the event and to benefit the newly-married couple.
Prudent and thrifty with small amounts of money, but wasteful with large amounts.
One who supplies writing to public journals for a set fee per line of text; a poor writer for hire; a hack.
A suburb of Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, on the west side of the River Foyle.
Any of several plants, of the genus Thlaspi, that have flattened seedpods (in the form of an old penny).
The activity of pennying in general, as part of a meal or drinking game, whereby dropping a penny in a person's drink means that they must finish it (or some such variation thereof); commonly associated with crewdates at Oxford and swaps at Cambridge.
Dated form of penniless, today used most often for the sense of "without using pennies" rather than "without money".
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 204. 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.