English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 497 of 931
A constructed language for police and emergency service cooperation at the Channel Tunnel, using a limited vocabulary drawn from French and English.
A film telling the fictional story of a police investigation, particularly such a film based on a novel.
A principle of behaviour, conduct which an entity (government, organization, etc.) applies or seeks to follow, especially as formally expressed by an authoritative body.
An interest rate set by a central bank to conduct monetary policy (often implemented as the bank's discount rate/bank rate or its repurchase agreement rate).
A gambling place where punters could bet on the numbers which would be drawn in lotteries.
A person who studies or develops strategies and policies, especially one who has a keen interest in and aptitude for technical details.
The party to an insurance contract who owns the policy and thus transfers a risk to an insurer (i.e., pays the insurer to take the risk).
One involved in the formulation of policies, especially politicians, lobbyists, and activists.
An international auxiliary language created by Billy Ray Waldon in the second half of the 20th-century.
A territorial administrative and military governor appointed by the Nayaka rulers of South India during the 16th–18th centuries.
The conjecture that, for any positive even number n, there are infinitely many prime gaps of size n.
One of several stockaded mountain farms established, after the invasion of Jamaica by England in the late 17th century, by people of colour who had lived on the island under Spanish rule.
Laminar cortical necrosis, a disease of cattle, sheep and goats, characterized by softening of the cerebrocortical grey matter in a layered pattern.
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 497. 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.