English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 265 of 931
The capability of a person or argument to convince or persuade someone to accept a desired way of thinking.
The technique of gently streaming oxygenated air through the blood vessels of a chilled organ for the purpose of organ preservation.
Any of several oxyanions (and their associated salts) that have peroxide units linked to one or more sulfur atoms
Either of two acids formally derived from sulfuric acid by replacing a -OH group with a -OOH group.
A yellow crystalline substance, analogous to sulphocyanic acid, but containing more sulphur.
Such that the values on each line perpendicular to the main diagonal are the same for a given line.
A highly immunogenic virulence factor of Bordetella pertussis, a bacterium that causes pertussis.
A word, usually an adjective, which can be defined as "of or pertaining to" another word.
A historical county in central Scotland, joined with Kinross-shire for administration after 1929.
In a stubbornly resolute manner; tenaciously holding one's course of action or opinion.
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 265. 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.