English Words: P
4,417 words · Page 66 of 89
A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
Of or pertaining to preparation, having the purpose of making something or someone ready, preparative.
To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble or equip; to forearm.
Superiority in amount or number; the bulk or majority; also, a large amount or number; an abundance, a profusion.
Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.
Being or relating to something (such as clothing) that is typical of students at prep schools.
program that processes its input data to produce output that is used as input to another program
All the preliminary arrangements that are made before the start of a project, especially before the filming of a movie.
In a series of works, an installment that is set chronologically before its predecessor, especially the original narrative or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative work with at least one sequel.
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 66. 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.