English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 40 of 931
A country in Western Asia, in the Middle East; the State of Palestine; the homeland of the Palestinian people.
To encode (an image) efficiently by mapping its pixels to a palette containing only those colours that are actually present in the image.
A hypothetical pocket watch found lying on a heath, taken to be too complex to be formed by natural forces and therefore created by some entity; used in arguments for the existence of a creator God.
A small horse with a smooth, ambling gait, popular in the Middle Ages with nobles and women for riding (contrasted with a warhorse).
A Middle Indo-Aryan language of north India, closely related to Sanskrit; the sacred language of Theravāda Buddhism.
Loxioides bailleui, a finch-billed species of Hawaiian honeycreeper with a golden-yellow head and breast.
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 40. 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.