English Words: P

46,516 words · Page 250 of 931

perivascularlyadv

In a perivascular manner

perivasculaturenoun

perivascular tissue

perivasculitisnoun

inflammation of the perivascular sheath

Perivenname

The ship of characters Peridot and Steven Universe from the Steven Universe series.

perivenousadj

Surrounding a vein.

periventricularadj

Surrounding a ventricle

periventricularlyadv

Around the ventricle.

perivenularadj

Around a vein.

perivertebraladj

Surrounding the vertebrae.

perivesicaladj

Near, or surrounding the urinary bladder

perivesicularadj

Surrounding a vesicle

perivesseladj

perivascular

perivillousadj

Surrounding the villi

perivisceraladj

Around the viscera.

perivitellinadj

Alternative form of perivitelline.

perivitellineadj

Situated around (or near) the vitellus.

perivulvaladj

Around the vulva.

perivulvaradj

Surrounding a vulva (of a nematode)

periwignoun

A wig, especially any kind of stylised wig as formerly worn by men and women.

periwiggedadj

Wearing a periwig.

periwinklenoun

Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Vinca with blue or white flowers.

periwinkledadj

Covered in periwinkles.

periwinklernoun

One who fishes for periwinkles.

periworkoutadj

At the time of or closely after or before the workout.

periwoundadj

Surrounding a wound

Periyalvarname

One of the twelve alvar saints, foster father of Andal.

perizomanoun

A loincloth worn by men and women in ancient Greece.

perizonialadj

Relating to a perizonium.

perizoniumnoun

A thin membrane surrounding the auxospore of a diatom.

periœcinoun

plural of periœcus

Perișaniname

A river in Vâlcea, Romania.

perjinkadj

Meticulously neat and precise; prim or finicky.

perjurableadj

Ability to be perjured.

perjureverb

To knowingly and willfully make a false statement of witness while in court.

perjuredlyadv

Having committed perjury.

perjurernoun

someone who has committed perjury by lying under oath

perjuressnoun

A female perjurer.

perjurestverb

second-person singular simple present indicative of perjure

perjurethverb

third-person singular simple present indicative of perjure

perjuriousadj

Of or pertaining to perjury.

perjuriouslyadv

In a perjurious manner.

perjuriousnessnoun

Quality of being perjurious.

perjurornoun

One who commits perjury.

perjurousadj

Alternative form of perjurious.

perjurynoun

The deliberate giving of false or misleading testimony under oath.

perknoun

Perquisite.

perk upverb

To become more upright

perked outadj

High on Percs (Percocet pills).

perkenverb

To make or become perked or perky.

perkilyadv

In a perky manner.

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 250. 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.