English Words: P
4,417 words · Page 41 of 89
An artificial flower with a stem, usually plastic, for children: the flower spins round in the wind, like a small paper windmill.
Any of three semistable mesons, having positive, negative or neutral charge, composed of up and down quarks/antiquarks.
Involving accomplishments or activities that have not been done before, or developing or using new methods or techniques.
A small tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, used for transferring or delivering measured quantities of a liquid.
A game of cards for two people, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes being set aside.
Robbery at sea, a violation of international law; taking a ship away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it.
A municipality and port in Greece, part of Athens agglomeration, the chief port of Athens, located on the Saronic Gulf.
Any of certain freshwater fish of the subfamily Serrasalminae, native to South America; they are characterised by razor-sharp teeth and a reputation of being ferocious predators (despite most species being omnivorous).
A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
A constellation of the zodiac traditionally figured as a pair of fish with their tails tied by a ribbon.
A drained basin near a church's altar for the disposal of water from liturgical ablutions.
A liquor distilled from grapes (a brandy) made in wine-producing regions of Peru and Chile. It is the most widely consumed spirit in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter P contains 4,417 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 89 pages, and you are currently viewing page 41. 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.