English Words: P
4,417 words · Page 29 of 89
A person, thing, or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.
Collection of people in an organization, such as employees and office staff, members of the military, etc.
plural of person, used to refer to them individually, rather than as a group; contrast people
To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through reasoning and verbal influence.
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.
A historical county in central Scotland, joined with Kinross-shire for administration after 1929.
A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Peru. Capital and largest city: Lima.
One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error, or adopted a twisted sense of values or morals.
Often followed by to: capable of being penetrated by another body or substance, such as air or water; admitting passage.
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.