English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 41 of 931
A complex tic comprising the repetition or echoing of one's own spoken words, which may sound like stuttering.
A manuscript or document that has been erased or scraped clean, for reuse of the paper, parchment, vellum, or other medium on which it was written.
Pertaining to the textual relationality of a palimpsest; referential to earlier works or self-referential between several meanings of a single text.
An auditory form of perseveration: continuing to hear a sound after the physical noise has disappeared.
Having three or more primary veins originating near the base of the leaf, with additional branching above.
A word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units which has the property of reading the same forwards as it does backwards, character for character, sometimes disregarding punctuation, capitalization and diacritics.
An ode or other poem in which the author retracts something said in an earlier poem; (loosely) a recantation.
A visual disturbance that causes images to persist to some extent even after their corresponding stimulus has left.
Showing the previous location of geological features, correcting for any intervening crustal movements.
A horse race that takes place regularly in the main square of Siena, with horses and riders representing the "contrade" of the city
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 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.