English Words: P

4,417 words · Page 43 of 89

Pizarroname

A surname from Spanish.

pizzanoun

A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables.

Pizzagatename

A 2004 controversy around the alleged throwing of food (variously reported as pizza, soup, or coffee) at Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson by an unknown Arsenal player after a match between those two teams.

pizzazznoun

Flair, vitality, or zest; energy; vigor.

pizzerianoun

A restaurant that bakes and sells pizzas.

pizzicatoadv

To be played by plucking the strings instead of using the bow.

piñanoun

cloth woven from pineapple fiber

piñatanoun

A doll or other decorated container that is filled with candy and hit with a hammer or a stick by blindfolded children during birthday parties or other celebrations until the candy falls out.

PJnoun

Abbreviation of pajama.

pj'snoun

Alternative form of PJs.

PJsnoun

pajamas; pyjamas

PKnoun

Initialism of preacher's kid, pastor's kid, or priest's kid: the child of a clergyman and/or clergywoman, especially Protestant.

pkgnoun

Abbreviation of package.

PKKname

Kurdistan Workers' Party.

PKRname

initialism of Parti Keadilan Rakyat (People's Justice Party, Malaysian liberal political party.)

PLnoun

Initialism of public library.

PLAname

Initialism of Port of London Authority.

placardnoun

A sheet of paper or cardboard with a written or printed announcement on one side for display in a public place.

placateverb

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.

placenoun

An area; somewhere within an area.

placebonoun

A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment.

placedverb

simple past and past participle of place

placeholdernoun

Something used or included temporarily or as a substitute for something that is not known or must remain generic; that which holds, denotes or reserves a place for something to come later.

placementnoun

The act of placing or putting in place; the act of locating or positioning; the state of being placed.

placentanoun

An organ in most mammals during gestation that supplies food and oxygen to the foetus and passes back waste. It is on the wall of the uterus and links to the foetus through the umbilical cord. It is expelled after birth.

placentaladj

Of or pertaining to the placenta.

Placentianame

A city in Orange County, California, United States.

placernoun

One who places or arranges something.

placesnoun

plural of place

placidadj

calm and quiet; peaceful; tranquil

placingverb

present participle and gerund of place

placingsnoun

plural of placing

plagenoun

A region viewed in the context of its climate; a clime or zone.

plagiarismnoun

Copying of another person's ideas, text, or other creative work, and presenting it as one's own, especially without permission; plagiarizing.

plagiarizeverb

To use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing, speech, ideas, or other intellectual or creative work, especially in an academic context; to commit plagiarism.

plagioclasenoun

Any of a group of aluminum silicate feldspathic minerals ranging in their ratio of calcium to sodium.

plaguenoun

The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.

plaguesnoun

plural of plague

plaguingnoun

annoyance; harassment

plaicenoun

Several similar marine flatfish of the righteye flounder family Pleuronectidae:

plaidnoun

A type of twilled woollen cloth, often with a tartan or chequered pattern.

plainadj

Flat, level.

plaineadj

Obsolete spelling of plain.

plaineradj

comparative form of plain: more plain

plainlyadv

In a plain manner; simply; basically.

plainsnoun

plural of plain

plaintextnoun

Alternative spelling of plain text.

plaintiffnoun

A party bringing a suit in civil law against a defendant; accuser.

plaintiveadj

Sounding sorrowful, mournful or melancholic.

plaitnoun

A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter P contains 4,417 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 89 pages, and you are currently viewing page 43. 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.