English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 314 of 931
A branch of phonology that deals with the restrictions a language applies to combinations of phonemes.
Relatively benign trauma to the vocal cords, typically by nodules, lesions or callouses
An early technique for recording a mechanical television signal onto gramophone records.
A leather strap worn by an aulos player to avoid excessive strain on the lips and cheeks due to continuous blowing.
Any of a group of complex organic compounds, containing oxazole rings, isolated from marine sponges of the genus Phorbas; some of these exhibit cytostatic activity.
A primordial sea god, son of Pontus and Gaia, who by Ceto fathered numerous monsters including Echidna and the gorgons.
An association between two organisms in which one (e.g. a mite) travels on the body of another, without being a parasite.
An instrument used in eye examinations to determine an individual's prescription, the patient looking through various lenses at a chart on the other side.
A zooid of the sexual generation of some free-swimming tunicates which though it becomes free-swimming does not mature sexually.
Any of the extinct flightless birds of the family Phorusrhacidae, which inhabited South America from the early Cenozoic era until about 0.1 million years ago.
A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing carbon, chlorine, lead, and oxygen.
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 314. 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.