English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 309 of 931
Of or relating to a burlesque dramatic form that developed in the ancient Greek colonies of Magna Graecia in the 4th century BC, mixing figures from the Greek pantheon with the stock characters and situations of Attic comedy.
Characterized by the presence of small pustules, or whitish elevations resembling pustules.
An ancient Ionian Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia, now located in İzmir Province, Turkey; modern Foça.
A congenital disorder of the limbs, the affected person being born with abnormally short or missing bones and flipper-like hands or feet.
The land of city states of the Phoenicians which around 1000 BC was situated on the coast of present day Syria and Lebanon, and included the cities of Tyre and Sidon.
The belief that the ancient Phoenician civilization was the primary ethnic and cultural foundation of the modern Lebanese people, as opposed to later Arab immigration.
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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 309. 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.