English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 399 of 931
An oil obtained from Jatropha curcas (syn. Curcas multifidus), formerly used as an emetic.
A decorative holder for flowers, having a round base with a set of pins projecting upward.
A simple lensless device for producing a photographic image, consisting of an enclosed box with film or some other flat photosensitive surface on one interior side and a tiny hole in the opposite side.
A dicarboxylic acid and recognized as an oxidation product of α-pinene, a common terpene found in pine resin.
A kind of rigging used by Indonesian sailing vessels, carrying seven to eight sails on two masts.
A cyclitol with antidiabetic activity, first identified in the sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana).
A newspaper supplement or edition concerning sport, especially football, printed on pink newsprint.
An informal (and often unacknowledged) barrier to promotion or advancement, in employment and elsewhere, for gay and lesbian people.
A recreational drug that includes an inconsistent mixture of other drugs, such as ketamine, cocaine, MDMA, and various designer drugs.
An agreement between a spammer and their ISP, where the spammer pays additional charges in order to be exempted from the provider's terms of service, which would otherwise prohibit spamming.
A style of Japanese softcore pornographic theatrical film, originating in the early 1960s, in which the genitals are censored.
A signal or process with a frequency spectrum such that the spectral energy density is proportional to the reciprocal of the frequency (1/f).
The fruit of Schinus molle (and occasionally Schinus terebinthifolia), which is used as a spice similar to pepper.
An undesirable pink-colored microbial mass occurring in the slurry used in making paper.
A fashionable formal tea party or other social gathering; specifically, one organized and attended chiefly by women to discuss matters of suffrage, raise funds for charity, etc.
A noncyanotic patient with tetralogy of Fallot due to a lack of significant obstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract.
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 399. 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.