English Words: P
4,417 words · Page 49 of 89
Initialism of put me on (to), putting me on (to), or putting me on (to) (“to show; to draw someone's attention to something useful or interesting”).
Inflammation of the lungs caused by viruses, bacteria or other infectious microorganisms.
Presence of air inside the pleural cavity, usually caused by injury either to the lung or the chest wall.
Alternative letter-case form of PNG; Portable Network Graphics, an open protocol for digital images.
Initialism of Philippine National Railways (“the main rail operator in the Philippines, particularly around Luzon”).
To cook (something) in simmering or very hot liquid (usually water; sometimes wine, broth, or otherwise).
A person who trespasses in order to take game illegally, one who poaches; a person who illegally takes animals or plants from the wild.
A self-contained unit, container, or enclosure that holds, protects, or transports something.
A program, especially an audio program, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones.
The distribution of multimedia files over the Internet for playback on a mobile device, often in MP3 format.
A health care practitioner who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of foot ailments.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter P contains 4,417 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 89 pages, and you are currently viewing page 49. 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.