English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 388 of 931
A large crawler track-mounted drill used in foundation projects which require drilling into sandy soil, clay, silty clay, and similar environments. Such rigs are similar in function to oil drilling rigs.
A style of constrained writing that uses consecutive digits of pi to determine the lengths of words or sentences.
A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
A clandestine operation where a medical worker illicitly offers prescription medication to patients in exchange for bribes.
An edible treat for a pet, designed to conceal a medicinal pill to make it easier to administer.
A monoclinic-prismatic black mineral containing antimony, chlorine, copper, lead, oxygen, and sulfur.
A free-standing item of street furniture in the form of a short, red pillar (green in the Irish Republic) with a slot for posting letters.
To divide into social pillars, in which each social group has its own social institutions.
The two promontories at the Strait of Gibraltar, and thus the western limit of the Mediterranean world.
a sacred symbol, used by Hindus in South India and Sri Lanka to draw it at beginning of diaries, notebooks, etc. before writing anything new.
A small hat, usually worn by women, with a flat crown, straight, upright sides, and no brim.
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 388. 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.