English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 501 of 931
A supervisory political officer responsible for ideological education and organization; political commissar
A soft rubber bulb used to inflate the middle ear by increasing air pressure in the nasopharynx.
The inflation of the middle ear by blowing air up the nose during the act of swallowing.
An extensive depression having a flat floor and steep walls but no outflowing surface stream and found in a region having karst topography (as in parts of Yugoslavia).
Any of a number of uniform round dots, repeated to make a regular geometric pattern on a fabric.
A tight-fitting knitted jacket worn by women. It was fashionable in the 19th century.
A music genre that combines polka with punk, rockabilly and other genres of rock music.
An isometric-hexoctahedral brownish gray mineral containing germanium, iron, lead, and sulfur.
A formula that states a relationship between the queue length and service time distribution Laplace transforms for an M/G/1 queue.
An abugida loosely based on the Latin alphabet, designed for use with the Miao language A-Hmao.
A general-purpose integer factorization algorithm, particularly effective at splitting composite numbers with small factors.
An arrangement of hairs on part of the tibia on the hind legs of certain species of bees used in transporting pollen.
An unusually high concentration of pollen in the air over a relatively short period of time.
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 501. 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.