English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 538 of 931
A women's hairstyle in which the hair is swept upwards from the face and worn high over the forehead.
Any of various carangid fish of genus Trachinotus or species Alectis ciliaris (African pompano), from coastal parts of the North Atlantic.
A sexual technique the woman uses her pubococcygeus (vagina) muscles to stimulate the man's penis while both partners remain still.
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.
A flower of any of various cultivated plants with dense, globular masses of flower petals.
An obsolete French unit of power, equal to the power required to raise a quintal at a velocity of one metre per second.
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.
A suburban village in Rhosllanerchrugog community, Wrexham borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SJ2946).
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.
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.