English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 469 of 931
A brief, dull sound, such as the sound of a string of a stringed instrument being plucked, or the thud of something landing on a surface.
An angler who throws bait into the water and waits on the shore, rather than fishing from a boat.
A repeated plunk or twanging sound, especially a rhythmic one produced by picking a banjo or other stringed instrument.
A fruit which is a cross between a Japanese plum and an apricot, featuring more characteristics of plums than those of apricots.
Tense of a verb used when referring to something that happened before a past setting or the imperfect; formed in English by adding had before the past participle of a verb, or by adding had been before the present participle of the verb.
The use of the first-person plural instead of the first-person singular with the intent of referring to oneself more modestly.
A noun (either in certain of its senses or in all its senses) that does not generally have a singular form.
A person who holds multiple offices, especially a clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice.
The dislike, denial, or stigmatization of, or prejudice against, people with multiplicity (the psychological condition).
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 469. 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.