English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 205 of 931
Mentha pulegium, a plant of the mint family, formerly much used in various medicinal treatments and as a flea repellent.
A thief who steals jewellery from shops, leaving an imitation of the stolen article in its place.
A six-holed flute-like instrument with a fipple. They have approximately a two octave range (sometimes a little higher). Stereotypically, they are made out of tin, but in reality they come in all sorts of varieties, including tin, brass, nickel, cane, polymer, etc.
Any of several not closely related plants around the world, generally with round leaves of about the shape and size of a penny.
One of a sovereign people indigenous to what is now Maritime Canada and the northeastern United States, particularly Maine.
A monoclinic-sphenoidal pale yellow mineral containing boron, calcium, chlorine, hydrogen, iron, and oxygen.
A small village in Gobion Fawr community, Monmouthshire, Wales, previously in Llanover community (OS grid ref SO3210).
A village and community in the Cynon Valley, Rhondda Cynon Taf borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST0597).
A small town and community with a town council in Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH6138).
A market town and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness district, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district, historically in Cumberland (OS grid ref NY5130).
a two-dimensional diagram capturing the causal relations between different points in spacetime
A hypothetical process whereby the ergosphere of a black hole can be used as an energy source due to its angular momentum.
An impossible loop of endlessly ascending and descending stairs, or an optical illusion appearing to be one.
An impossible loop of endlessly ascending and descending stairs, or an optical illusion appearing to depict such a loop.
An impossible loop of endlessly ascending and descending stairs, or an optical illusion appearing to be one.
A complex analog of the Radon transform that relates massless fields on spacetime, or more precisely the space of solutions to massless field equations, to sheaf cohomology groups on complex projective space.
An optical illusion depicting an impossible solid object made of three straight beams of square cross section which meet pairwise at right angles at the vertices of the triangle they form.
An argument based on Gödel's incompleteness theorem, suggesting that the human mind cannot be computed on a Turing machine that works on Peano arithmetic because the latter cannot see the truth value of its Gödel sentence, while a human mind can.
An isometric-diploidal creamy grayish white mineral containing cobalt, copper, nickel, and selenium.
A town and civil parish with a town council in southern Cornwall, England, to the north of Falmouth (OS grid ref SW7834).
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 205. 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.