English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 45 of 931
Ellipsis of palmaris longus muscle (“a muscle in the mammalian forearm which inserts into the palmar aponeurosis”). In humans it is vestigial, and is absent in some people in one or both arms.
A change-up pitch in which the baseball is held tightly in the palm or between the thumb and ring finger, then thrown like a fastball.
A colony, or an individual cell within a colony, of immobile, asexually reproducing green algae, formed in response to adverse conditions such as desiccation.
A regional index using precipitation and temperature data to study moisture supply and demand.
A suburban area in the borough of Enfield, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3193).
Of or pertaining to Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865), British prime minister.
Any small, terrestrial invertebrate, usually an agricultural pest and having many legs and a hairy body.
Any of various fan palms of the family Arecaceae, especially Sabal palmetto or the saw palmetto, Serenoa repens.
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 45. 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.