English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 477 of 931
A spirometer that measures the flow rate of gases by detecting pressure differences across the fine mesh.
Presence of air inside the pleural cavity, usually caused by injury either to the lung or the chest wall.
An ophthalmic instrument that is used to measure the intraocular pressure using a balanced air pressure (sometimes achieved by blowing a puff of air at the cornea and measuring the subsequent flattening for the corneal surface)
A noninvasive method of estimating the intraocular pressure of the eye by exposing the cornea to a sudden puff of air
Alternative letter-case form of PNG; Portable Network Graphics, an open protocol for digital images.
A YouTube personality who uses stylized static images edited onto their videos as a substitute for a facecam.
Any element from group 15 of the periodic table, which includes nitrogen, phosphorus, arsenic, antimony and bismuth.
Any binary compound containing an anion of a pnictogen; namely nitride, phosphide, arsenide, antimonide or bismuthide
A nocturnal monster in Ancient Greece that would choke its victims; incubus; nightmare.
Initialism of Philippine National Railways (“the main rail operator in the Philippines, particularly around Luzon”).
A hill in Athens west of the Acropolis with a stone platform and steps set into its side, which was used as the meeting place of the democratic assembly in Ancient Greece.
Melamprosops phaeosoma, the black-faced honeycreeper, endemic to Hawaii, declared extinct in 2021.
A fried Bangladeshi delicacy made of all purpose and rice flour, water, jaggery, and salt.
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 477. 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.