English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 425 of 931
A bet in which the bettor must correctly pick a placed horse from each of the first six races from any British race meeting.
The act or habit of watching or listening to live or recorded media on a remote device via the Internet or over a network.
A vote of assent, as of the governing body of a university, an ecclesiastical council, etc.
A sacrificial move in chess which is played with the intention of fatally interfering with the opponent's combination attacking or defensive position.
A public court or assembly in the Middle Ages, over which the sovereign presided when a consultation was held upon affairs of state.
A platelike thickening of the epithelial layer of an embryo from which an organ, especially a sense organ, develops.
A member of an extinct paraphyletic class (Placodermi) of jawed fish with armored heads and thoraces; the group lived during the Silurian and Devonian periods.
Of, or relating to, prehistoric armoured fishes in the paraphyletic class Placodermi.
Platelike; having irregular, platelike, bony scales, often bearing spines; pertaining to the placoid fish
Any of a group of balloon-shaped marine organisms, of the phylum Placozoa, considered to be the simplest living animals.
The People's Liberation Armed Forces, the army of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam during the 1960s and early 1970s.
A falling cadence in which a subdominant chord precedes the tonic; especially used in an ending Amen.
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 425. 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.