English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 7 of 931
A tendency of reporting to become homogeneous due to the reporters' habit of relying on one another for news tips, or being dependent on a single source for information.
A set of usually 52 playing cards divided into four suits used for playing a wide variety of card games such as pontoon, bridge, euchre, and poker.
Any of several small North American rodents, of the genus Neotoma, that have bushy tails.
A unit of measure for estimating the number of cigarettes a person has previously smoked, equivalent to average number of packs (each containing 20 cigarettes) smoked per day multiplied by the number of years the person has smoked.
A circumstance in which two or more items are provided together, especially if it is impossible to obtain one without also receiving the other.
A package manager: the tool used by an operating system to manage software installation.
A retail store that sells alcoholic beverages, specifically one in which only sealed containers may be sold for consumption off the premises.
A meal, sandwiches or anything packed and intended to be eaten away from home; especially, one packed at home as opposed to a portable packaged lunch from a vendor.
A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation
An ocean-going ship chartered by the government to carry the mail and official communications.
A ferry port used by packets (ferries) carrying mail and passengers over short distances, e.g. across a channel.
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 7. 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.