English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 423 of 931
Initialism of preacher's kid, pastor's kid, or priest's kid: the child of a clergyman and/or clergywoman, especially Protestant.
A thick-shanked nail with an indentation in the middle of its head, driven into the ground to mark a position precisely.
initialism of Parti Keadilan Rakyat (People's Justice Party, Malaysian liberal political party.)
A traditional Thai seasoning made by fermenting fish with rice bran or roasted rice powder and salt for a long period.
A sheet of paper or cardboard with a written or printed announcement on one side for display in a public place.
To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that they become content or at least no longer irate.
A card set down at a table to inform a guest (named on the card) where they are to sit.
A favorable position, characterized by comfort, success, wealth or general well-being.
Money wagered on a horse, etc. to come second or third in a race, rather than winning it.
A place, usually a building such as a church, mosque, synagogue or temple where believers can practise their faith.
A blog dealing with the news and daily life of a community, written by its inhabitants.
Including a comparison (control) group with placebo. (describing clinical trials)
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 423. 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.