English Words: P

46,516 words · Page 403 of 931

pintanoun

A pint of milk.

pintablenoun

A pinball table.

pintadonoun

A fine cotton cloth; chintz.

pintadoitenoun

A tetragonal mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and vanadium.

pintailnoun

A pintail duck, a type of dabbling duck with a characteristic pointed tail.

pintail combnoun

A comb with a long, pointed handle for curling or styling the hair.

pintail ducknoun

Any of a group of dabbling ducks, all in genus Anas, having a characteristic pointed tail.

pintailedadj

Having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers longest.

Pintarname

A surname from Slovene.

pinternoun

The drinking of a certain number of pints of beer

Pinteresqueadj

Reminiscent of the playwright Harold Pinter or his works.

Pinterestnoun

An account on Pinterest.

Pinterestaholicnoun

One who is particularly fond of using the American image-sharing social media service Pinterest.

Pinteresternoun

A user of the image sharing and social media service Pinterest.

Pinterestianadj

Of or relating to the photo-sharing social media service Pinterest.

Pinterianadj

Of or relating to Harold Pinter (1930–2008), English dramatist, or his works.

Pinterishadj

Reminiscent of the works of Harold Pinter; Pinteresque.

pintglassnoun

Alternative form of pint glass.

pintidnoun

One of the lesions in the skin disease pinta.

pintlenoun

The penis.

pintlessadj

Without a pint or pints.

pintmannoun

A man who habitually drinks pints of beer, or is revered for his way of drinking them.

pintonoun

A horse with a patchy coloration that includes a white color.

pinto beannoun

Any bean of several varieties of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), common in the US and Mexico.

Pintsch gasnoun

A kind of oil gas formerly used for lighting railroad cars, which carried it in compressed form.

pintsizedadj

Alternative form of pint-sized.

pintucknoun

A very narrow tuck.

Pintupinoun

Any member of an Australian Aboriginal group whose homeland is in the area west of Lake MacDonald and Lake Mackay in Western Australia.

pintxonoun

A Basque snack served in bars, resembling tapas.

pinulenoun

One of the sights of an astrolabe.

pinupnoun

Alternative form of pin-up.

pinusnoun

Any member of the genus Pinus; a pine.

Pinvinname

A village and civil parish in Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England, to the north of Pershore (OS grid ref SO9548).

pinwalenoun

A corduroy fabric having narrow ribs.

Pinwarename

A town in Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador.

pinweednoun

Any of the genus Lechea of low North American herbs with branching stems, and very small and abundant leaves and flowers.

pinwheelnoun

An artificial flower with a stem, usually plastic, for children: the flower spins round in the wind, like a small paper windmill.

pinworksnoun

A factory that makes pins.

pinwormnoun

Any of several nematode worms, of the family Oxyuridae, that are parasitic to mammals

pinxitnoun

An inscription indicating the identity of the one who created a painting.

Pinxynoun

A Pinoy or Pinay (of any gender).

pinyadj

Of, pertaining to, or having many pines.

pinyinnoun

Alternative form of Pinyin.

Pinyinisationnoun

Alternative spelling of Pinyinization.

Pinyinizationnoun

The Romanization of Standard Mandarin using the Pinyin system.

Pinyinizeverb

To romanize Standard Mandarin using the Pinyin system.

pinyonnoun

Alternative spelling of piñon.

pinçagenoun

A mixture of mirepoix and tomato or tomato paste, sautéed and used in cooking.

piobaireachdnoun

Alternative form of pibroch.

pioglitazonenoun

A thiazolidinedione derivative taken orally in the form of its hydrochloride C₁₉H₂₀N₂O₃S·HCl to treat type 2 diabetes by decreasing insulin resistance.

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 403. 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.

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