English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 295 of 931
Acronym of personnel halting and stimulation response, a non-lethal laser weapon technology that causes temporary blindness.
Pertaining to words used to convey any kind of social relationship and whose meaning is otherwise either deemphasized or absent.
Communication that takes place primarily for social purposes rather than for the exchange of vital information, such as small talk and social pleasantries.
A triclinic-pinacoidal colorless mineral containing arsenic, calcium, hydrogen, and oxygen.
The son of the sun god Helios who was killed by Zeus while driving his father's chariot uncontrolledly across the sky.
A species of coucal, Centropus phasianinus, of Indonesia, New Guinea, and Australia.
A runner who is said to have ran from Marathon to Athens to deliver to news of the Athenian victory at the Battle of Marathon, inspiring the marathon race
A flavanonol found in Phellodendron amurense; the 8-prenyl 7-glucoside derivative of aromadendrin.
Either of a pair of organic cyclic monoterpenes, α-phellandrene and β-phellandrene, used in fragrances.
A liturgical vestment worn by a priest of the Eastern Christian tradition, equivalent to the chasuble of the Western tradition.
The personification of fame and renown, her favour being notability, her wrath being scandalous rumours.
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 295. 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.