English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 261 of 931
A type of hunting where the predator uses a combination of running and tracking to pursue the prey to exhaustion.
An organic compound, predominantly synthetic, that is resistant to environmental degradation through chemical, biological, and photolytic processes, and that is often associated with health risks.
One whose inconvenient interruption prevents the completion of something important.
Someone who police have reason to believe may have a connection to a crime, or to possess important information relating to that crime, but who has not been accused or charged by authorities nor been officially deemed to be a suspect.
To show courage, strength, toughness, or responsibility; a gender-neutral alternative to "man up".
One person's working time for a day, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much work or labor is required or consumed to perform some task.
One person's working time for a year, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much work or labor is required or consumed to perform some task.
A classified advertisement placed by an individual, typically with the aim of finding a friend or romantic partner.
A communications network intended for devices within one person's workspace (a small room or cubicle); it is typically wireless.
Someone whose job is to assist and organize someone else's day-to-day business or personal tasks.
The public image of an individual's unique and desirable qualities, often based on particular marketing strategies and the use of social media.
Financial resources or other wealth belonging to a particular person, especially when used for investment purposes.
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 261. 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.