English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 225 of 931
The use of physical concussion, such as a knock or a tap, in an attempt to make a malfunctioning device work.
A suburban village in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3367).
To deuterate such that all (or all significant) hydrogen atoms are replaced with deuterium
deuteration in which all (or all significant) hydrogen atoms are replaced with deuterium
Stationed in an exposed or hazardous position; hidden in ambush. Originally as sentinel perdu.
The theory that material objects have distinct temporal parts throughout their existence, rather than being persistent individuals that move through time.
A portion of biblical king Herod's kingdom, on the eastern side of the Jordan River valley, from about one third the way down from the Sea of Galilee to about one third the way down the eastern shore of the Dead Sea.
To travel from place to place, or from one country to another, especially on foot; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.
A person's life regarded as a temporary stay on earth and a journey to the afterlife.
A medium-sized, very swift falcon, of species Falco peregrinus, that hunts small birds.
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 225. 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.