English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 69 of 931
Alternative spelling of pentacle, used by A. E. Waite and probably also some other members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and then by Aleister Crowley.
An article of clothing covering each leg separately, that covers the area from the waist to the ankle.
A marsh (a broad, flat area with pools of water and trees) in the Pantanal region of South America.
Any of species Leopardus braccatus (sometimes subspecies Leopardus colocola braccatus) of cats of tropical South America.
A building or place housing shops or stalls where all sorts of (especially exotic) manufactured articles are collected for sale.
An early kind of fax machine using telegraph lines to transmit small drawings, signatures, etc.
An early device for voice transmission, in which the contact of variable resistance is formed between a fixed piece of platinum and a small carbon lozenge attached to a plate of cork suspended by two springs on the upper part.
An inhabited volcanic island belonging to the province of Trapani, Sicily, between Italy and Tunisia.
A kind of volcanic rock, a peralkaline rhyolite with more iron and less aluminium than comendite.
Any reptile of the clade Pantestudines, which are more closely related to turtles than any other animals.
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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 69. 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.
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