English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 379 of 931
Blocks of stone or concrete heaped loosely in the water to make a foundation (as for a sea wall), a breakwater, etc.
A congenital defect in humans, characterized by micrognathia and resulting glossoptosis and breathing problems.
A character from French pantomime; a buffoon in a loose white outfit; a popular choice for a masquerade costume.
A mixture of clay and small stones used in French Vernacular architecture of the Southern United States to infill between half-timbering with diagonal braces.
An orthorhombic-pyramidal grayish black mineral containing antimony, arsenic, sulfur, and thallium.
Former name of Polokwane, Limpopo province, South Africa, officially renamed in 2005.
A movement in the Lutheran church in the late 17th and 18th centuries, calling for practical and devout Christianity.
A decorative art, the inlay technique of using cut and fitted, highly polished colored stones to create images.
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 379. 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.