English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 543 of 931
A town and community with a town council in Rhondda Cynon Taf borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST0790).
A small horse; specifically, any of several small breeds of horse under 14.2 hands at the withers.
A container for beer holding 7.75 US gallons, equal to half the size of a standard beer keg.
The Southern Methodist University football scandal, involving illicit cash payments to potential recruits.
A woman, usually submissive, who takes the role of a pony; this typically includes wearing tack such as a bridle and bit
A form of petplay in which one or more players take on the role of a horse or pony, especially as the pet of another.
A hairstyle where the hair is pulled back and tied into a single "tail" which hangs down behind the head.
A 2015 controversy around the alleged pulling of the hair of a young waitress by New Zealand's Prime Minister John Key.
An island off the coast of Lazio, Italy in the Pontine Islands, Tyrrhenian Sea, Mediterranean.
Pertaining to a scheme whereby investors' returns are paid for directly by later investors' investments, giving the false impression that the investment is viable.
A fraudulent scheme where earlier investors are paid with the money taken from new investors, giving the impression that the scheme is a viable investment.
An optical illusion whereby a horizontal bar looks wider when farther up a picture of railroad tracks than when lower.
A sour citrus-based sauce usually made from the juice of the 橙 (daidai), an Asian variety of bitter orange, mixed with soy sauce.
The process of adding a new character to a work of fiction, or altering characters already present, in a bid to make the work cooler or more extreme.
An obsolete Russian unit of mass, equal to 40 Russian funt, or about 16.38 kg (approximately 36.11 pounds).
A breed of dog originating in Europe as hunting dogs, and having heavy, curly coat in a solid color; their shoulder height indicates their classification as standard, medium, miniature, or toy.
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 543. 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.