English Words: P

46,516 words · Page 55 of 931

pancake bondnoun

A type of chemical bond most prominently observed in polycyclic hydrocarbons, in which the nuclear distance between molecular constituents reaches or exceeds a bond length of approximately 305 pm.

pancake lensnoun

A type of flat lens design.

pancake syndromenoun

Synonym of oral mite anaphylaxis.

pancake turnernoun

A spatula; fish slice; kitchen turner; cooking turner.

pancake-makernoun

One who makes pancakes, thin fried batter cakes.

pancakedverb

simple past and past participle of pancake

pancakelikeadj

Resembling or characteristic of a pancake.

pancakesnoun

plural of pancake

pancakes and wafflesnoun

A response which misrepresents an opponent's argument, i.e., a straw man.

pancakeyadj

Resembling or characteristic of a pancake.

pancakingverb

present participle and gerund of pancake

pancanceradj

Relating to all cancers, or all types of cancer.

pancardiacadj

That affects all (or most) regions of the heart

pancarditisnoun

Inflammation of all three layers of the heart.

pancartenoun

A royal charter confirming to a subject all his possessions.

Pancasilaname

The official philosophical foundation of the Indonesian state, comprising five principles: belief in the divinity of God; just and civilized humanity; the unity of Indonesia; democracy guided by the inner wisdom in the unanimity arising out of deliberations amongst representatives; and social justice for all of the people of Indonesia.

pancaspaseadj

Involving or relating to all (or most) caspases

pancellularadj

Affecting or relating to all cells.

pancentromericadj

Sensitive to both centromere-positive (aneugenic) and centromere-negative (clastogenic) events

pancerebellaradj

Relating to all (parts) of the cerebellum

pancessionnoun

The economic recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

pancettanoun

A cured belly or pork; bacon.

panchnoun

Alternative form of paunch.

panch phoronnoun

A blend of five spices used in East India and Bangladesh that consists of fenugreek, nigella seeds, cumin, black mustard, and fennel seeds.

Panchagarh Districtname

One of the eight districts in the Rangpur Division of Bangladesh

Panchalname

A kingdom in northwestern part of ancient India during the Mahajanapadas era.

panchalohanoun

Any of the traditional five-metal alloys of sacred significance used for making Hindu temple idols.

Panchaminame

The fifth day (tithi) of the lunar fortnight (paksha) in the Hindu calendar.

panchannoun

Misspelling of banchan.

panchangamnoun

A Hindu calendar and almanac.

Panchardname

A surname from French.

Panchatantraname

A canonical collection of Sanskrit as well as Pali (Buddhist) animal fables in verse and prose.

panchaxnoun

Any of various tropical fish in the cyprinodontiform families Aplocheilidae and Nothobranchiidae which were formerly classified in the genus Panchax.

panchayatnoun

A village council or local government.

Panchen Lamanoun

The second-highest-ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism, after the Dalai Lama.

pancheonnoun

A shallow dish used to stand milk while the cream separates, or in which to bake bread.

Panchiaoname

Alternative form of Banqiao.

Panchihhuaname

Alternative form of Panzhihua.

Panchimalconame

A town in San Salvador department, El Salvador.

panchiranoun

upskirt, panty shot

panchnamanoun

A record of witness testimony, usually prepared by the police, during the investigation of a crime or after a death.

panchrestonnoun

An explanation that is used in so many different cases that it becomes almost meaningless.

Panchristismnoun

Christocentric pantheism.

panchromaticadj

sensitive to all visible colours

panchromaticallyadv

sensitively at all wavelengths (or to all colours)

panchromiumnoun

An early proposed name for the element vanadium

panchronicadj

Not restricted to a specific point in time

panchwaynoun

A Bengalese four-oared passenger boat.

pancitnoun

Filipino noodles

pancit cantonnoun

A Filipino dish of stir-fried egg noodles with meat, vegetables, soy sauce and other seasonings.

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 55. 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.