English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 263 of 931
A person, thing, or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.
An ethical philosophy of personhood according to which rights are conferred on a creature to the extent that it is a person.
Collection of people in an organization, such as employees and office staff, members of the military, etc.
A large basket hoisted by crane to transfer people between offshore installations, drilling rigs, vessels, etc.
The state, quality, or condition of a person; personality; individuality; personhood; personableness.
A more participatory form of democracy, intended to care for every person and not just the majority.
plural of person, used to refer to them individually, rather than as a group; contrast people
The assignment of a particular perspective to a narrative through the use of language.
The philosophical view that all perception always takes place from a specific perspective.
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 263. 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.