English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 392 of 931
Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
A pimp's ability to maintain effective control of the prostitutes who work for him, by means of intimidation etc.
To prostitute, take advantage of, exploit, use, to hire out or provide to others like a whore.
An inflamed (raised and colored) spot on the surface of the skin that is usually painful and fills with pus.
A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
A curl made by dampening a lock of hair, fashioning it into a coil, and securing with a hair pin or clip while it dries.
An allowance of money given by a man to his wife or to other dependents for their personal, discretionary use.
A children's game involving pinning a piece of material on a specified spot while blindfolded.
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 392. 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.