English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 236 of 931
A type of mesenchymal cell which in aggregation forms a contractile wrapping around a capillary.
A people who lived in the Cape Region in the southernmost portion of Baja California Sur until the 18th century.
The areas around a dwelling, especially the animal enclosures etc. of a rural dwelling
A rock consisting of small crystals of olivine, pyroxene and hornblende; the major constituent of the Earth's mantle.
The space between the columns and the wall of the cella in an Ancient Greek or Roman temple
Inflammation of the cerebral membranes, particularly leptomeningitis or inflammation of the pia mater.
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 236. 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.