English Words: P

4,417 words · Page 54 of 89

pomegranatenoun

The fruit of the Punica granatum, about the size of an orange with a thick, hard, reddish skin enclosing many seeds, each with an edible pink or red pulp tasting both sweet and tart.

Pomeranianame

A former duchy, historical province of Prussia, and now a geographic region of Central Europe split between Germany and Poland on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea.

Pomeranianadj

Of, from or relating to Pomerania, a historic region split between the German states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Brandenburg and the Pomeranian Voivodeship, West Pomeranian Voivodeship and Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland.

pomfretnoun

A fish of family Bramidae, consisting of eight genera and some twenty species.

pommelnoun

The upper front brow of a saddle.

Pomonoun

An indigenous population native to Northern California.

pomodoronoun

A variety of pear-shaped tomato from Italy; San Marzano tomato.

Pomonaname

A goddess of fruitful abundance in Ancient Roman religion and myth

pompnoun

Show of magnificence; parade; display; power.

pompadournoun

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

pompanonoun

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

Pompeiiname

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

Pompeoname

A surname from Italian.

Pompeyname

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

pompositynoun

The quality of being pompous; self-importance.

pompousadj

Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.

ponnoun

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

poncenoun

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

ponchonoun

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

pondnoun

An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.

ponderverb

To wonder, think of deeply.

ponderedverb

simple past and past participle of ponder

ponderingnoun

An act of rumination or cogitation.

ponderosanoun

A pine tree of very large size, native to western North America (Pinus ponderosa).

ponderousadj

Heavy, massive, weighty.

Pondicherryname

Former name of Puducherry: A union territory in southern India, consisting of four geographically separated exclaves of former French India, namely its capital, Karaikal, Yanam, and Mahe.

ponenoun

A writ in law used by the superior courts to remove cases from inferior courts.

pongnoun

A stench, a bad smell.

pongonoun

A soldier.

poniesnoun

Horsepower.

ponsnoun

A bridge-like tissue connecting two parts of an organ.

Pontename

A surname.

Pontefractname

A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE4522).

Pontiacname

A municipality in western Quebec, Canada.

pontifexnoun

A pontiff, state minister, or high priest, in Ancient Rome.

pontiffnoun

A member of the most illustrious of the colleges of priests of the Roman religion, the College of Pontiffs; a pontifex.

pontificaladj

Of or pertaining to a pontiff.

pontificatenoun

The status or term of office of a pontiff or pontifex.

pontingnoun

the act of posing until nearly frozen in all sorts of uncomfortable positions.

Pontonname

A surname.

pontoonnoun

A flat-bottomed boat or other floating structure used as a buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage.

Pontusname

A sea god, particularly of the Black Sea.

pontynoun

Alternative form of punty.

Pontypoolname

A town in Torfaen borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SO2900).

Pontypriddname

A town and community with a town council in Rhondda Cynon Taf borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST0790).

ponynoun

A small horse; specifically, any of several small breeds of horse under 14.2 hands at the withers.

ponytailnoun

A hairstyle where the hair is pulled back and tied into a single "tail" which hangs down behind the head.

Ponziadj

Pertaining to a scheme whereby investors' returns are paid for directly by later investors' investments, giving the false impression that the investment is viable.

poonoun

Alternative spelling of pooh: an instance of saying "poo".

poochnoun

A dog.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter P contains 4,417 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 89 pages, and you are currently viewing page 54. 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.