English Words: P
4,417 words · Page 8 of 89
A small dog of a certain toy spaniel breed having large upright ears with a shape that resembles butterfly wings.
The markedly reduced sepals of an Asteraceae floret that take the form of trichomes or scale attached to the ovary or seed.
Powdered spice made from dried and ground fruits of sweet pepper (bell pepper) or chili pepper (cultivars of Capsicum annuum), or mixtures of these (used especially in Hungarian cooking).
The southern part of what is now called Papua New Guinea, formerly administered as a separate territory to New Guinea.
A plant (Cyperus papyrus) in the sedge family, native to the Nile river valley, paper reed.
A short narrative illustrating a lesson (usually religious/moral) by comparison or analogy.
The conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to a tangent plane to the cone; the locus of points equidistant from a fixed point (the focus) and line (the directrix).
The adopted name of Philippus von Hohenheim, a Swiss thinker of the 16th century known for his pioneering scientific work and his research into the occult and alchemy.
A synthetic compound used as a drug to relieve and reduce fever, usually taken in tablet form.
A device, generally constructed from fabric, that is designed to employ air resistance to control the fall of an object or person, causing them to float instead of falling.
A pattern, a way of doing something; especially a pattern of thought, a system of beliefs, a conceptual framework.
An apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa.
A passage in text that starts on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented, and usually marks a change of topic.
A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Paraguay. Capital and largest city: Asunción.
One who assists a lawyer in routine legal work, but who is without qualified status as a solicitor or barrister (England and Wales), attorney (U.S.), or advocate; known more commonly in the U.S. as a legal assistant.
An apparent shift in the position of two stationary objects relative to each other as viewed by an observer, due to a change in observer position.
The state or condition of being parallel; agreement in direction, tendency, or character.
A convex quadrilateral in which each pair of opposite edges are parallel and of equal length.
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 8. 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.