English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 8 of 931
A narrow bridge with low parapets designed specifically for packhorses carrying loads across rivers or streams.
the migration of South Africans (particularly White South Africans) to Australia (especially to the city of Perth in Western Australia)
An industrial area of Chicago, Illinois, United States, known for its meatpacking industry.
The assembly or manufacture of packs (e.g., cigarette packs, backpacks, surgical packs).
The behavior of a packrat; a tendency to collect miscellanea or bric-a-brac, often to excess.
A backpack, knapsack, rucksack or similar bag packed with provisions or personal items, especially as carried by a traveller or a hiker, and often slung over the shoulder.
A still or moving close-up of a (usually packaged) product, used to portray the product in advertising.
A measure of the cigarettes a person has smoked, equal to a pack (of twenty cigarettes) each day for a year.
A taxane antineoplastic drug C₄₇H₅₁NO₁₄ originally isolated from the bark of the Pacific yew, Taxus brevifolia, but now typically derived as a semisynthetic product of the English yew; it interferes with microtubule function and inhibits cell division, and is used in the treatment of some cancers, especially those of the breast and ovary.
The conjecture that durable-goods monopolists have complete market power and can therefore exercise perfect price discrimination, extracting the total surplus.
Something of little or no value exchanged for something valuable, originally goods exchanged for slaves.
A medication belonging to the class of Janus kinase inhibitors, used for the treatment of myelofibrosis.
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 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.