English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 80 of 931
A small, inflammatory, irritated spot on the skin, similar in appearance to a pimple, but not containing pus.
A small, raised, semisolid skin lesion, representing an intermediate stage between a papule and a pustule.
A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL268645).
An early device for reproducing documents by means of a paper stencil and corrosive ink.
A student of or expert in papyrology, the study of papyrus and ancient writings on papyrus.
The study of papyrus, particularly the branch of archeology concerning ancient texts written on papyrus.
A preoccupation with paper, or by extension with written sources or bureaucratic paperwork.
A plant (Cyperus papyrus) in the sedge family, native to the Nile river valley, paper reed.
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 80. 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.