English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 363 of 931
A form of phytoremediation in which plant's metabolism modifies its environment by inactivating, degrading or immobilizing substances
A laboratory in the form of a greenhouse or similar building in which plants can be grown and studied under individually controlled conditions.
Any of a class of substances that inhibits auxin transport and therefore of root growth, gravitropism and phototropism.
The detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects of plant products
A form of phytoremediation in which substances from the soil are released into the air, sometimes after being broken down into volatile components
An island city in Kiên Giang Province, Vietnam, includes the Phú Quốc archipelago and the Thổ Chu archipelago
The sixteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek.
A technique for bringing a drowning non-swimmer to shore, by holding their head out of the water, encircling their waist or hips with one arm, and supporting their buttocks or thigh on one's hip, while propelling oneself by kicking.
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 363. 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.