English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 210 of 931
Five consecutive histidine amino-acids in a peptide or protein; the equivalent repeats in a nucleic acid or gene
A hydrate whose solid contains five molecules of water of crystallization per molecule, or per unit cell.
A species of treeshrew (Ptilocercus lowii) of Borneo, with a very long, quill-shaped tail, which is scaly at the base and plumose at the tip.
A Catalan solid equivalent to a dodecahedron with a pentagonal pyramid covering each face, in the end having 60 isosceles triangle faces, 90 edges, and 32 vertices.
A set of five works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as five individual works.
A congenital heart defect in which a tetralogy of Fallot presents with an additional patent foramen ovale or atrial septal defect.
A pyranonaphthoquinone antibiotic isolated from the East African medicinal plant Pentas longiflora
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 210. 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.