English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 81 of 931
thermocautery by means of a hollow platinum point, which is kept constantly hot by the passage through it of benzene vapour
The par delictum rule prescribes that a party should not obtain satisfaction from a court of law with where his own conduct is wrongful.
An adaptation of the sport of equestrian for athletes with a physical disability.
A social order giving off impressions of being dynamically fascist and populist, but trying to abstain from its most radical practices.
A linguistic phenomenon in which coordination and subordination (e.g. of conjunctions) are mixed or not distinguished.
Symbols commonly used in phonetic transcription alongside the International Phonetic Alphabet, but which are not officially included by the International Phonetic Association.
Any of various mixed languages of non-Indo-Aryan classification that contain considerable admixture from the Romani language.
An adaptation of the sport of table tennis for athletes with a physical disability.
The traditional form of paper in Burma, made of daphne bark agglutinated into a kind of pasteboard and blackened with charcoal paste, then folded and written on with a steatite pencil.
A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing barium, hydrogen, oxygen, and tantalum.
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 81. 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.