English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 503 of 931
A suburb on the south side of Glasgow, City of Glasgow council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5661).
A person who consumes no animal flesh with the exception of chicken or other poultry such as turkey.
A colorless transparent mineral of the zeolite family consisting of hydrous cesium aluminum silicate and occurring massive or crystallizing in cubes.
A foreign substance that makes something dirty, or impure, especially waste from human activities.
A politician who supports policies and initiatives that result in environmental damage.
Physical contamination, now especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances, or by disruptive levels of noise, light etc.
A variant of the Davy Crockett hat, intended for women and made from white rabbit fur.
A line stereotypically repeated by parrots that have been trained to talk.
The practice of a government modifying the way that economic measures are calculated, in order to give a more optimistic impression of economic development.
The phenomenon of disyllabic -oro-, -ere- and -olo- reflexes in East Slavic languages of Late Proto-Slavic closed syllable clusters involving a vowel *a, *o, *e followed by a liquid *r or *l.
A ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal.
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 503. 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.