English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 397 of 931
A hothouse or (tropical) area used as a plantation for the cultivation of pineapple plants (genus Ananas) and production of their homonymous fruit.
A myco-heterotroph (Monotropa hypopitys), formerly thought to be a saprophyte, having racemes of drooping flowers.
A low, bushy, nearly leafless herb (Hypericum gentianoides), common in sandy soil in the eastern United States.
A coniferous forest ecoregion in the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, dominated by Bahamian pine.
A victorious maneuver in which both of an opponent's shoulders are held against the mat for a prescribed period of time.
A kind of dot matrix printer equipped to take paper with holes running along each side for alignment.
An obsolete kind of brass cartridge in which the priming compound is ignited by striking a small pin which protrudes radially from just above the base of the cartridge.
An open enclosure for animals, especially an area where stray animals were rounded up if their owners failed to properly supervise their use of common grazing land.
One of the channels through which, in traditional Indian medicine, the energies or prana of the physical body, are said to flow..
A message automatically sent to a blog when one of the blogger's entries is referenced by another blogger.
The rapid rise in self-isolation resulting from many people being sent advisory alerts ("pings") by the National Health Service’s COVID-19 test and trace app for mobile phones.
A locality in Trimsaran community and Pembrey and Burry Port Town community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN4203).
A device that emits a short, high-pitched sound burst, such as in sonar or other echo location systems.
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 397. 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.