English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 560 of 931
A town, port, and local government area (the Town of Port Hedland) in the Pilbara region, Western Australia.
A coastal village in St Endellion parish, on the north coast of Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW9980).
A coastal settlement in the Sunshine Coast Regional District, British Columbia, Canada.
Any port (except its home port) being visited by a ship, especially to load or unload cargo or passengers or to take on supplies.
A small port in Llandygai community, east of Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH5972).
A coastal city and local government area (Port Pirie Regional Council) in South Australia.
An unincorporated community in Upper Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States.
A hamlet and cove in St Endellion parish, on the north coast of Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW9780)
A ghost town in Port Radium, Cameron Bay, Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada.
A suburb and model village by the Mersey in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ3483).
A town and community (without a council) in Neath Port Talbot borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS7689).
A tong / pair of tongs, used to open wine bottles (especially old bottles of port) with heat stress fracturing. The tongs are designed to be heated red hot, then applied to the neck of the bottle, for which the tongue is shaped to fit around, heating the glass.
One of the inhabitants in the Cistercian convent of Port-Royal-des-Champs, and later of Port-Royal Abbey, near Paris, France.
A portable toilet, (in UK, particularly) a chemical toilet comprising only the fixture rather than an entire enclosure.
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 560. 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.