English Words: P

46,516 words · Page 538 of 931

pompadomnoun

Nonstandard form of poppadom.

pompadournoun

A women's hairstyle in which the hair is swept upwards from the face and worn high over the forehead.

pompadouredadj

Styled in a pompadour; (of a person) Having one's hair styled in a pompadour.

pompanonoun

Any of various carangid fish of genus Trachinotus or species Alectis ciliaris (African pompano), from coastal parts of the North Atlantic.

pompaticadj

pompous

pompatusnoun

One who is pompous or splendid.

Pompe diseasenoun

Glycogen storage disease type II

Pompeiname

A surname from Italian.

Pompeianadj

Alternative spelling of Pompeiian.

Pompeiananoun

Things relating to Pompeii.

Pompeiiname

A ruined Roman town in Italy, destroyed by Vesuvius (a volcano) in AD 79.

Pompeii wormnoun

Alvinella pompejana, a deep-sea polychaete worm.

Pompeiianadj

Of or pertaining to Pompeii.

Pompejiname

Alternative form of Pompeii: a city in Italy.

Pompeoname

A surname from Italian.

pomperverb

To pamper; To feed luxuriously.

Pompeyname

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, a military and political leader of the late Roman Republic.

pompholyxnoun

dyshidrosis

pompiernoun

A pompier hook

pompiloidnoun

Any wasp of the superfamily Pompiloidea

pomplessadj

Without pomp.

pompoirnoun

A sexual technique the woman uses her pubococcygeus (vagina) muscles to stimulate the man's penis while both partners remain still.

pompomnoun

A ball made of pieces of soft fabric, tinsel, plastic, or paper streamers, tied together in the middle and left loose at the ends, used as decoration or as a showy prop for cheerleading.

pompommedadj

Having one or more pompoms attached.

pomponnoun

Alternative form of pompom (“decorative ball”).

pompon flowernoun

A flower of any of various cultivated plants with dense, globular masses of flower petals.

pomponedadj

Having a pompon or pompons.

pompositynoun

The quality of being pompous; self-importance.

pomposoadj

Ceremonious and dignified.

pompousadj

Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.

pompouslyadv

In a pompous manner.

pompousnessnoun

The quality of being pompous.

pomritanoun

A margarita cocktail made with pomegranate.

pomsetnoun

Partial ordered multiset.

Pomskynoun

A mixed breed dog that is a cross between the Pomeranian and Siberian Husky.

pomtininoun

A pomegranate martini.

ponnoun

A call for forming a set of three identical tiles using a discarded tile.

Pon Yupname

Panyu, a modern district of Guangzhou.

poncenoun

A man living off another's earnings, especially a woman's.

ponceaunoun

Any of a number of red pigments, some of which are used as indicators.

ponceletnoun

An obsolete French unit of power, equal to the power required to raise a quintal at a velocity of one metre per second.

Poncelet wheelnoun

A kind of undershot water wheel.

ponceyadj

Alternative spelling of poncy.

ponchiknoun

A type of fried dough pastry popular in many Central Asian and Eastern European countries, made by deep-frying dough until it becomes puffy, then filling it with custard, jam, or cream, and sometimes glazing the result or dusting it with powdered sugar.

ponchikinoun

plural of ponchik

ponchonoun

A simple garment, made from a rectangle of cloth, with a slit in the middle for the head.

ponchoedadj

Wearing a poncho.

Ponciauname

A suburban village in Rhosllanerchrugog community, Wrexham borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SJ2946).

poncifnoun

An unoriginal or uninspired idea; a cliché.

poncifiedadj

Made poncy.

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 538. 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.

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