English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 496 of 931
A large village and civil parish in North Warwickshire district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SK2602).
a sweet flour and milk porridge typical of western Andalusia, whose origin is probably linked to subsistence food
A constituted body of officers representing the civil authority of government, empowered to maintain public order and safety, enforce the law, and prevent, detect, and investigate crime.
A register, maintained by the desk sergeant, of people arrested or brought in for questioning to a police station; (UK) charge sheet.
An automobile used by a police officer when on duty. Usually marked with police livery; sometimes an unmarked car.
A phrase used to counter "black lives matter", rallying people to defend police officers and their use of lethal force in carrying out their duties.
A subgenre of crime fiction which portrays the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. Unlike in other types of crime fiction, the perpetrator may be known at the outset of the story.
A building serving as the headquarters of a branch of the police force, and sometimes as a temporary place of confinement for offenders.
To clean up an area or an item or person, usually in preparation for an inspection; to police an area for problems.
An ideology or political practice that favors extensive, especially oppressive, policing.
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 496. 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.