English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 456 of 931
A close nesting association between two or more colonies of social insects with little actual interaction.
A special kind of space-filling polyhedron, defined as the Voronoi cell of a symmetric Delone set. Three-dimensional Euclidean space can be completely filled by copies of any one of these shapes, with no overlaps.
Being part of the subfamily Cervinae, having lost the parts of the second and fifth metacarpal bones closest to the foot (though retaining the parts away from the foot).
An organism which represents a primitive state of evolution relative to another organism.
Having a similar but differentiable and contrastable meaning; of or being a plesionym.
The state of being close but not identical in meaning, as with the words "overcast" and "cloudy".
Any of the order †Plesiosauria of extinct marine reptiles, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
Any of the genus †Plesiosaurus of extinct long-necked marine reptiles from the Early Jurassic.
Pertaining to or characteristic of the Byzantine philosopher Gemistos Plethon (1355–1453).
An instrument for measuring changes in volume within an organ or whole body (usually via fluctuations in the amount of fluid it contains).
Any instrument designed to measure small changes in volume, usually via the displacement of water
Each of a pair of smooth serous membranes which line the thorax and envelop the lungs in humans and other mammals.
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 456. 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.