English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 400 of 931
A surge in the number of women running for office, the number of female voters, or the number of people voting for female candidates during an election, which results in the election of more women or politicians supporting feminist issues (such as abortion rights).
The mass publication of poor-quality news reports (computer-generated or written by poorly-paid outsourced writers) across a network of ostensibly local news outlets.
Of or relating to Steven Pinker (born 1954), Canadian-born experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and linguist, known for his advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.
The tendency of some Asians to regard Caucasians as superior or more desirable, especially where marriage or relationships are concerned.
A locality in the Glen Innes Severn council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
A notional pill taken by femcels (female incels) who have adopted a nihilistic philosophy that unattractive women will never be sexually or romantically successful.
A perennial North American herb (Spigelia marilandica), sometimes cultivated for its showy red blossoms.
Used in the names of several tarantula species of the genus Avicularia, referencing their distinguishable pink footpads.
A Vietcong stronghold said to be located in the region of Sơn Mỹ village in Quảng Ngãi Province during the Vietnam War.
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 400. 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.