English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 418 of 931
An Aboriginal language, mainly spoken in central Australia and belonging to the Western Desert language group (Pama-Nyungan subfamily).
A town or burgh in Perthshire, Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NN9458).
One who operates a barbecue pit. Sometimes a term of respect for someone who is skilled at barbecuing.
A spike, wedge, or peg that is driven into a rock or ice surface as a support (as for a mountain climber).
A pressure measuring instrument used to measure fluid flow velocity, especially used to determine the airspeed of an aircraft.
A saw worked by two people, one standing on the log and the other beneath it, often in a pit.
The former name of a settlement in Pitstone parish, Buckinghamshire, England, now regarded as the northern half of Pitstone village (OS grid ref SP9315).
A rare genetic disorder characterized by developmental delay, moderate to severe intellectual disability, distinctive facial features, and possible intermittent hyperventilation followed by apnea.
An extinct Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal suffixing language formerly spoken over a large region of western Queensland in the vicinity of Boulia.
The abnormal and irrational fear of stickers, sticky labels and (sometimes, also) adhesive materials such as glue.
A number, calculated using a given stainless steel alloy's chemical composition, which aims to predict its resistance to pitting corrosion.
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 418. 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.