English Words: P

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personificationnoun

A person, thing, or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.

personifyverb

To be an example of; to have all the attributes of.

personnelnoun

Collection of people in an organization, such as employees and office staff, members of the military, etc.

personsnoun

plural of person, used to refer to them individually, rather than as a group; contrast people

perspectivenoun

A view, vista or outlook.

perspexnoun

Any tough, transparent plastic that is used instead of glass for windows.

perspirationnoun

The action or process of perspiring.

perspireverb

To emit (sweat or perspiration) through the skin's pores.

perspiringadj

Producing perspiration; sweating.

persuadeverb

To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through reasoning and verbal influence.

persuadedverb

simple past and past participle of persuade

persuadingnoun

An act of persuasion.

persuasionnoun

The act of persuading, or trying to do so; the addressing of arguments to someone with the intention of changing their mind or convincing them of a certain point of view, course of action etc.

persuasiveadj

Able to persuade; convincing.

persuasivelyadv

In a manner intended to convince or persuade.

pertadj

Attractive.

pertainverb

To belong to or be connected as a part, adjunct, attribute, or accessory.

pertainingverb

present participle and gerund of pertain

Perthname

A city in Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland, historically in Perthshire.

Perthshirename

A historical county in central Scotland, joined with Kinross-shire for administration after 1929.

pertinentnoun

A right that attaches to land, in Scots law.

perturbationnoun

Agitation; the state of being perturbed.

perturbedadj

Disturbed; flustered.

pertussisnoun

Whooping cough.

Peruname

A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Peru. Capital and largest city: Lima.

Perugianame

The capital city and associated province of Umbria, Italy.

Perumalname

a Hindu deity, considered to be a form of Vishnu.

perusalnoun

The act or process of perusing, or an instance of it.

peruseverb

To examine or consider with care.

perusingnoun

Synonym of perusal.

Peruviannoun

A person from Peru or of Peruvian descent.

pervnoun

A pervert.

pervadeverb

To be in every part of; to spread through; to permeate.

pervasiveadj

Manifested throughout; pervading, permeating, penetrating or affecting everything.

pervasivenessnoun

The state or quality of being present in all parts of a particular thing or place.

perverseadj

Turned aside while against something, splitting off from a thing.

perverselyadv

In a perverse manner.

perversionnoun

The action of perverting someone or something; humiliation; debasement.

perversitynoun

The quality of being perverse.

pervertnoun

One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error, or adopted a twisted sense of values or morals.

pervertedadj

Deviating from what is normally considered right, normal or correct.

Pervezname

A male given name.

perviousadj

Often followed by to: capable of being penetrated by another body or substance, such as air or water; admitting passage.

pervyadj

Behaving or looking like a sexual pervert.

pesnoun

the foot of a human

Pesachname

The Jewish festival of Passover.

Pescaraname

A province of Abruzzo, Italy.

Peshawarname

A city, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

peshmerganoun

A term used by Kurds to refer to armed Kurdish fighters.

peskyadj

Annoying, troublesome, irritating (usually of an animal or child).

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter P contains 4,417 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 89 pages, and you are currently viewing page 29. 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.