English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 440 of 931
a quinone, related to the carotenoids, involved in the electron transport process of photosynthesis
The nearly flat part of the shell structure of a tortoise or other animal, similar in composition to the carapace.
A mythical monster or ghost in the folklore of the West Indies and southern United States; it is a being with large, glowing eyes, capable of shapeshifting and sometimes depicted as a phantom bound to a particular place, such as a cave or grove, as a guardian (for buried treasure, etc).
An ancient Greek city-state situated in Boeotia near the frontier with Attica at the foot of Mt. Cithaeron, between the mountain and the river Asopus, which divided its territory from that of Thebes.
Any of several clawed frogs of the genus Xenopus which spend most of their time in water and rarely emerge onto land, especially the common platanna, Xenopus laevis.
An isometric-diploidal gray mineral containing arsenic, platinum, rhodium, ruthenium, and sulfur.
A border of flowers in a garden, especially along a wall; a strip of turf forming a border.
A block of stamps from the edge of the sheet which shows the plate from which the stamps were printed.
Sheet glass; a type of glass, initially produced in plane form, commonly used for windows, windshields, etc.
A legal emblem stamped into articles made from precious metals such as gold and silver to indicate the value of the metal.
A United States postage stamp with the number of the printing plate or plates printed on it.
A piece of laboratory equipment used to detect the changes that might occur in a microtiter plate.
A galleon, especially a Spanish one, carrying a cargo of precious metals and other treasure.
The large-scale movement of tectonic plates that contributes to continental drift.
Any of several universities founded in the United Kingdom in the 1960s in the era of the Robbins Report on higher education.
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 440. 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.