English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 435 of 931
A mentality according to which an organization or society is divided into a ruling elite and a class of workers treated as inferior, especially along racial lines.
The current geological epoch, understood as having been created by the effects of large-scale monocropping.
A flower box; an object that contains live flowers, usually affixed outside, just below a window.
A type of wooden one-person armchair with wickerwork backing, designed to be used in tropical climates.
The occupation or position of a planter (manager of a plantation, especially in the United States or Caribbean).
The act of a candidate who greets workers at the entrance to a factory, etc. in order to promote his/her campaign.
Any of many insects, of superfamily Fulgoroidea, that bear a remarkable resemblance to leaves and are capable of prodigious leaps.
The study of plants in order to understand their relationships to humans and human culture.
Of or relating to Alvin Plantinga (born 1932), American analytic philosopher, known for his work in philosophy of religion, epistemology, metaphysics and Christian apologetics.
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 435. 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.