English Words: P
4,417 words · Page 33 of 89
The study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view.
A thing or being, event or process, perceptible through senses; or a fact or occurrence thereof.
The appearance of an organism based on a multifactorial combination of genetic traits and environmental factors, especially used in pedigrees.
A univalent hydrocarbon radical, C₆H₅ (benzene minus one hydrogen atom), and the basis of an immense number of aromatic derivatives.
An essential amino acid C₉H₁₁NO₂ found in most animal proteins; it is essential for growth; the inability to metabolize it leads to phenylketonuria; it is a constituent of aspartame.
A synthetic compound related to hydantoin, used as an anticonvulsant in the treatment of epilepsy.
A chemical secreted by an animal, especially an insect, that affects the development or behavior of other members of the same species, functioning often as a means of attracting a member of the opposite sex.
The largest city in Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of coterminous Philadelphia County; the former capital of the United States.
Of or pertaining to philanthropy; characterized by philanthropy; loving or helping mankind
The eighteenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the epistle of Saint Paul to a fellow Christian called Philemon.
The eleventh book of the New Testament of the Bible, the epistle of St Paul to the Philippians.
A non-Semitic person from ancient Philistia, a region in the southwest Levant in the Middle East.
A person who engages in philology (historical linguistics), especially as a profession; a collector of words and their etymologies.
The humanistic study of texts and their languages, especially ancient or classical languages.
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 33. 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.