English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 402 of 931
A form of endocytosis in which material enters a cell through its membrane and is incorporated in vesicles for digestion.
A coarse flour made from ground toasted maize kernels, often mixed with herbs, which may be eaten by itself or incorporated into drinks.
A pine tree or pine tree-like plant of a species that has existed for a very long time, particularly the Wollemi pine.
The manner in which an electrical connector or device is wired; the list of signals that correspond to each pin or output.
A Filipino; a citizen or local inhabitant of the Philippines and those descending from such, especially a male.
A basketball move in which an offensive player picks up their dribble, does a pump fake, then proceeds to drive with the last two remaining legal steps to make an actual shot.
A tingling or prickling sensation, felt in a limb when a nerve compression is relieved and in other situations.
A screen through which many closely spaces parallel pins have been inserted, used to make an impression of a three-dimensional object. Used as a novelty and in animated film entertainment.
The person who clears fallen pins and resets them in tenpin bowling or candlepin bowling.
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 402. 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.