English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 462 of 931
To go one's own way; to proceed independently, without regard to other people.
To persevere with an activity of consuming something, both literally and figuratively.
A boy who directed the draught animals that pulled a plough; a boy who served as a ploughman's helper.
The Scottish carucate or hide: a unit of land area and tax assessment intended to support a household.
A light meal of bread, cheese, and pickled onions (or cucumbers), etc., especially one served in a pub at lunchtime.
Moving, like a plough on a field, alternately from left to right and from right to left.
Rare form of Plutonian (“of or relating to Pluto, the Greek and Roman god of the underworld”).
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 462. 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.