English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 403 of 931
Any of a group of dabbling ducks, all in genus Anas, having a characteristic pointed tail.
One who is particularly fond of using the American image-sharing social media service Pinterest.
Any bean of several varieties of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), common in the US and Mexico.
A kind of oil gas formerly used for lighting railroad cars, which carried it in compressed form.
Any member of an Australian Aboriginal group whose homeland is in the area west of Lake MacDonald and Lake Mackay in Western Australia.
A village and civil parish in Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England, to the north of Pershore (OS grid ref SO9548).
Any of the genus Lechea of low North American herbs with branching stems, and very small and abundant leaves and flowers.
An artificial flower with a stem, usually plastic, for children: the flower spins round in the wind, like a small paper windmill.
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.
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.