English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 216 of 931
A linguist who specialises in studying Penutian languages, chiefly one who believes in the validity of such a grouping.
A town and civil parish in South Ribble district, near Preston, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref (approx) SD5228). It appears on maps as Higher Penwortham, Lower Penwortham and Penwortham Lane.
A hamlet, formerly a village, in Tawe-Uchaf community, Powys, Wales (OS grid ref SN8515).
A village in Pen-y-bont-fawr community, Powys, Wales, historically in Montgomeryshire (OS grid ref SJ0824).
A suburban village in Pen-y-graig community, Rhondda Cynon Taf borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS9991).
A suburb of Caerphilly in Penyrheol, Trecenydd and Energlyn community, Caerphilly borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST1488).
A coastal town, port, and civil parish with a town council in Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW4730).
A hexagonal-trapezohedral grayish white mineral containing copper, gold, selenium, silver, and sulfur.
The state of being a peon; the system of paying back debt through servitude and labour; loosely, any system of involuntary servitude.
plural of person: a body of persons considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons.
Journalism taking for its subject the lives of celebrities rather than traditional news and current affairs.
A fully automated, grade-separated mass transit system, typically serving a small area such as an airport.
Non-Muslim adherents of religions based on holy scripture, especially of the Abrahamic religions.
Considered to be of, from, or in tune with the common people, rather than from a ruling elite.
A communist-based military organization, often linked to a communist political party; the armed forces of a communist state.
An administrative level in rural areas of the People's Republic of China from 1958 to 1983.
People's Liberation Army Ground Force, the army branch of the military arm of the People's Republic of China.
Former official name of Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville): a country in Central Africa; used from 1969 to 1992 when it was a Marxist-Leninist state.
A Maoist military strategy where the basic concept is to maintain the support of the population and draw the enemy deep into the countryside where the population will bleed them dry through a mix of mobile warfare and guerrilla warfare.
Language that refers to people with disabilities by saying people first, for example "people with disabilities", instead of adjectives ("disabled people") and copulas ("he is disabled") that would give primacy to the disability.
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 216. 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.