English Words: P

46,516 words · Page 540 of 931

A sawmill employee responsible for the millpond and the logs stored there.

The quality of being a pond.

A crudely-built hut in parts of Asia.

In Africa, a primitive makeshift shelter, often made with iron or tin

The "landscape" of a pond

Alternative form of pond scum.

Beside a pond.

Litsea aestivalis, an American shrub of the laurel family, growing in ponds and swamps.

A pond and its surrounding area.

An old English measure of weight, usually of wool, perhaps equal to 3 cloves.

pondus Judaeusnoun

A weight attached to the penis in order to restore the foreskin to someone who has been circumcised, chiefly with reference to Jews in Ancient Rome.

Nearest a pond; facing a pond; leading toward a pond, etc.

Alternative form of pondward.

The water in a pond.

Any of several plants that grow in ponds or similar aquatic conditions:

A submerged aquatic plant native to Europe and northwestern Asia (Stratiotes aloides).

Resembling a pond; pondlike

ponenoun

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

A village in Rivne Raion, Rivne Oblast

The west; the area of the setting sun.

The study of evil.

Yiddish form of Panevėžys (A city in Lithuania).

Archaic form of pony (“small horse”).

A humanized monoclonal antibody designed for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.

pongnoun

A stench, a bad smell.

To take a shower; to bathe.

A medium-sized tree fern endemic to New Zealand, of species Alsophila tricolor (syns .Alsophila dealbata, Cyathea dealbata et al.).

A Hindu harvest festival of South India, particularly in the Tamil community, observed at the start of the month Tai (typically around January 14).

Alternative form of pongal (“rice dish”).

A sitio in the barangay of Poblacion, Tuba, Benguet, Philippines.

A soft unbleached silk, from China or India, from silkworms that feed on oak leaves.

pongee sticknoun

Alternative spelling of punji stick: Synonym of punji.

beer, or half and half

Anything that has a bad smell.

Obsolete spelling of phongyi.

The state or condition of being pongy.

An informal variety of the English language spoken by Polish people, incorporating Polish words and constructions.

A soldier.

A surname from German.

Having a bad smell.

Synonym of scrapple (“dish of pork scraps”).

PONInoun

Abbreviation of project of national interest

A dagger typically having a slender square or triangular blade.

Poniatowskiname

A surname from Polish.

The capability of being placed or located.

Horsepower.

to turn an existing character into a My Little Pony-style cartoon equine.

ponknoun

A nocturnal evil spirit.

A sweet, round citrus fruit which is a hybrid of a mandarin and a pomelo (Citrus poonensis).

Cowhide, or a dish made thereof.

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 540. 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.