English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 411 of 931
Magic, witchcraft; a spell, especially one designed to cause or cure illnesses to man or beast, or to increase or decrease the quantities of farm products such as butter or milk.
A mythical white male demon in South American folklore, who steals and eats the bodyfat of indigenous South Americans, or cuts up their flesh to convert it into food.
An ornamental portal projecting from the facade of a building, often as the formal gateway to an iwan.
Alternative form of pixie (supernatural being): A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.
A concretionary grain, typically of calcium carbonate, between a microid and a macroid in size.
A real algebraic integer greater than 1 all of whose Galois conjugates are less than 1 in absolute value.
Exuberance or enthusiasm, especially to an excessive degree; bravado; youthful energy.
A clam which squirts water, such as a geoduck (Panopea generosa) or a long-neck clam (Mya arenaria).
To test positive for prohibited drugs (such as cocaine, heroin, and often marijuana) in a urine drug test.
To say flattering or fawning things to a person in the hope of gaining favour with them.
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 411. 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.