English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 254 of 931
A form of fossilization in which minerals are deposited in the pores of bone and similar hard animal parts.
A tetragonal-scalenohedral pink brown mineral containing antimony, copper, and selenium.
A paper form that a school sends home with a student to a parent, onto which the parent provides authorization for the student to attend a certain event, such as a field trip.
A mental framework or set of ideas that allows one to change one’s mind without negative emotional or psychological consequences.
The relative likelihood of something or someone to grant permission or allow something to happen.
The belief that there are situations where the evidence for a proposition justifies either believing or doubting that proposition.
A property of a dielectric medium that determines the forces that electric charges placed in the medium exert on each other.
The time period including the latter parts of the Carboniferous and the early part of the Permian.
A group whose elements are permutations (self-bijections) of a given set and whose group operation is function composition.
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 254. 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.