English Words: P

46,516 words · Page 378 of 931

A village in Cotmeana, Argeș County, Romania.

Resembling a pie.

piemnoun

A mnemonic to aid in memorizing the digits of pi.

A person who makes pies.

The manufacture of pies.

A man who sells pies.

Archaic spelling of pimento.

A monoclinic sorosilicate mineral of the epidote group, reddish in colour.

Alternative form of peen (“end of a hammer”).

Describes something that has one or more piends.

A mountain range in southern Poland and northern Slovakia.

Alternative form of Pianguan.

A surname from Polish.

A rhubarb of species Rheum rhaponticum, garden rhubarb.

Chiefly in court of piepowders, etc. (sense 2): a traveller, particularly one on foot; a wayfarer; specifically, a travelling merchant.

piernoun

A raised platform built from the shore out over water, supported on piles; used to secure, or provide access to shipping; a jetty.

A tall narrow mirror, usually set between two windows, above a pier table.

wharfage

An uninhabited hamlet in Kurhannie sielsaviet, Rahačoŭ Raion, Homiel Oblast, Belarus, founded in the early-1920s, last inhabited 2019–2021.

A surname from French.

To puncture; to break through.

Pierce Countyname

One of 159 counties in Georgia, United States. County seat: Blackshear.

Pierce's diseasenoun

A disease of grapes caused by Xylella fastidiosa bacteria.

pierceabilitynoun

The property of being pierceable.

Capable of being pierced; penetrable.

simple past and past participle of pierce

One who receives or has received a piercing.

That cannot be pierced.

A structure that has pierced into another.

An instrument that pierces or perforates, such as a stiletto.

second-person singular simple present indicative of pierce

third-person singular simple present indicative of pierce

Piercevillename

An unincorporated community in Ripley County, Indiana, United States.

present participle and gerund of pierce

In a piercing manner.

piercingnessnoun

The quality of being piercing.

Furnished with piers.

A tall narrow mirror, usually set between two windows, above a pier table

The end of a pier farthest from shore.

Of or relating to Pierides or Muses.

Pierian springnoun

The source of knowledge, inspiration, or learning.

The Muses.

A butterfly of the family Pieridae.

Without a pier.

Resembling or characteristic of a pier.

The person in charge of a pier.

A Polish sweet-baked good, traditionally made from flour and honey.

A square- or crescent-shaped dumpling of unleavened dough, stuffed with sauerkraut, cheese, mashed potatoes, cabbage, onion, meat, or any combination of these, or with a fruit filling.

A surname.

A surname from Norman.

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 378. 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.

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