English Words: P

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Pandavasnoun

A mytho-historical group of archetypes of perfection, the five acknowledged sons of Pandu, according to the Indian epic Mahabharata.

Pandename

A surname.

pandemicadj

Of a disease: epidemic over a wide geographical area and affecting a large proportion of the population; also, of or pertaining to a disease of this nature.

pandemoniumnoun

A loud, wild, tumultuous protest, disorder, or chaotic situation, usually of a crowd, often violent.

pandernoun

A person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others; a pimp or procurer.

panditnoun

An honorary title for a learned man or scholar.

Pandoraname

The first woman on earth, who had been given a box by the gods and instructed not to open it, but who disobeyed the instructions out of curiosity, releasing all manner of evils into the world.

Panduname

A mytho-historical figure from India, best known as the father of another group of figures, the Pandavas in Mahabharata.

panenoun

An individual sheet of glass in a window, door, etc.

panedadj

Having panes.

paneernoun

A soft, non-matured, Indian cheese.

panegyricnoun

A formal speech publicly praising someone or something.

panelnoun

A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.

paneledadj

Having panels.

panelingverb

Alternative spelling of panelling.

panelistnoun

A person who is a member of a panel.

panelledadj

Having panels.

panellingnoun

The panels with which a surface (especially an indoor wall) is covered, considered collectively.

panellistnoun

A person who appears on a panel, either as a member of a committee or jury, or as part of a panel game.

panelsnoun

plural of panel

panesnoun

plural of pane

Panettaname

A surname from Italian.

pangnoun

A paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe.

Pangaeaname

A former supercontinent that included all the landmasses of the earth before the Triassic period and that broke up into Laurasia and Gondwana.

Pangasinanname

A province of the Ilocos Region, Luzon, Philippines. Capital: Lingayen. Largest city: San Carlos.

Pangeaname

Alternative spelling of Pangaea: (geology) A former supercontinent that included all the landmasses of the earth before the Triassic period and that broke up into Laurasia and Gondwana.

pangolinnoun

Any of several long-tailed, scale-covered mammals of the family Manidae within the order Pholidota of tropical Africa and Asia.

Panguname

The first living being and creator of all in Chinese mythology.

panhandlenoun

The handle of a pan.

panhandlingnoun

The act or habit of begging for money.

Panhellenicadj

of or relating to all Greece or all the Greeks.

panicadj

Alternative letter-case form of Panic (“pertaining to the Greek god Pan”).

panickedverb

simple past and past participle of panic

panickingnoun

A state of panic.

panickyadj

In a state of panic.

panicumnoun

Any of the genus Panicum of tropical grasses.

panininoun

plural of panino

Panjabname

Alternative spelling of Punjab

Panjabiadj

Alternative form of Punjabi.

Pankajname

A male given name from Sanskrit common in India.

Pankhurstname

A surname.

pankonoun

Coarse, dry breadcrumbs used in Japanese cuisine.

Panmurename

A suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.

pannedverb

simple past and past participle of pan

panniernoun

A large basket or bag fastened, usually in pairs, to the back of a bicycle or pack animal, or carried in pairs over the shoulders.

panningnoun

The act of one who pans, as for gold.

panonoun

A panoramic image.

panoplynoun

A splendid display of something.

panopticonnoun

A kind of projector in the 18th and 19th centuries.

panoramanoun

An unbroken view of an entire surrounding area.

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 6. 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.