English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 485 of 931
Alternative form of pogue (“soldier who is assigned administrative rather than combat duties”).
Snacks, candy, and similar food items that are not generally available to soldiers in the field.
An optical illusion involving the misperception of the position of one segment of a transverse line that has been interrupted by the contour of an intervening structure.
A brownie point earned by a man who curries favor with a female courtship partner or her parents.
A dangerous oscillation in the fuel or structure of a rocket along the long axis induced by a surge in thrust.
A toy, used for hopping up and down on, consisting of a pole with a T-bar handle at one end, and spring-loaded footpads on the other.
The act of cultivating, or growing and grooming, a mustache, beard, sideburns or other facial hair.
A medieval administrative and territorial district in Russia, varying in size from tens to hundreds of villages.
A city in southeastern Albania, located on a narrow plain along the southwestern shore of Lake Ohrid; it is the seat of its eponymous municipality and municipal unit.
A hamlet in “Posyolok Betlitsa” Rural Settlement, Kuybyshevsky Raion, Kaluga Oblast, Central Federal District, Russia.
A riot aimed at persecution or massacre of a particular ethnic or religious group, usually Jews.
The negative of the base 10 logarithm of the concentration of hydroxide ions, measured in moles per liter.
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 485. 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.