English Words: P

4,417 words · Page 31 of 89

Petrosname

A transliteration of the Greek male given name Πέτρος (Pétros).

Petrovname

A patrilineal surname from Bulgarian

Petrovaname

A female surname from the Slavic languages, masculine equivalent Petrov.

Petrovicname

A surname from Serbo-Croatian.

Petrucciname

A surname from Italian.

Petryname

A surname.

petsnoun

plural of pet

Pettername

A surname from Dutch or German.

petticoatnoun

A tight, usually padded undercoat worn by women over a shirt and under the doublet.

Pettigrewname

A surname.

pettinessnoun

The quality of being petty.

pettingverb

present participle and gerund of pet

pettyadj

Having little or no importance.

petulancenoun

Rudeness, insolence.

petulantadj

Childishly irritable.

petunianoun

Any of the flowering plants of genus Petunia, of which most garden varieties are hybrids.

Petworthname

A small town and civil parish with a town council in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU9721).

Peugeotname

A surname from French.

pewnoun

One of the long benches in a church, seating several persons, usually fixed to the floor and facing the chancel.

Pewdsname

PewDiePie (Felix Kjellberg; born 1989), online video streamer.

pewsnoun

plural of pew

pewternoun

An alloy of approximately 93–98% tin and 1–2% copper, and the balance of antimony.

peyotenoun

A small, spineless cactus (Lophophora williamsii) found from southwest United States to central Mexico that produces buttonlike tubercles that can be chewed for their psychedelic effect, primarily from the drug mescaline.

Peytonname

A surname.

Pezname

A kind of candy in the form of small blocks that is sold in small plastic dispensers.

PFnoun

Initialism of pilot flying, a pilot currently in control of the flight trajectory of the aircraft, as opposed to pilot monitoring.

PFAname

Initialism of Paper Football Association.

pfaffverb

Alternative spelling of faff.

PFCnoun

Initialism of private first class.

PFDnoun

Initialism of phase-frequency detector.

Pfeifername

A surname.

Pfeiffername

A surname from German.

pffintj

An expression of annoyance or disappointment.

pfftintj

Used to signify a sudden ending or disappearance.

Pfistername

A surname from German.

Pfizername

A surname from German.

PFLPname

Initialism of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

pfpnoun

Abbreviation of profile picture.

PFSnoun

Initialism of perfect forward secrecy.

PFTnoun

Initialism of physical fitness test.

PGadj

Initialism of parental guidance: suitable for viewing, reading, or listening, by minors.

PGAname

Initialism of Professional Golfers Association, the name for golfers' trade association in many countries.

PGPnoun

Initialism of preferred gender pronoun.

Phaname

A surname from Vietnamese.

phabletnoun

A mobile device intermediate in size between smartphone and tablet.

Phaedraname

The wife of Theseus, who falls in love with but is spurned by her stepson Hippolytus, then commits suicide, but is the cause of his later death (details vary between versions).

Phaedrusname

A Roman cognomen.

phaetonnoun

a light four-wheeled open carriage drawn by four horses

phagenoun

A virus that is parasitic on bacteria.

phagocytosisnoun

A form of endocytosis in which a cell incorporates a particle by extending pseudopodia and drawing the particle into a vacuole of its cytoplasm.

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 31. 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.