English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 86 of 931
The plant Acmella oleracea, used for culinary purposes in northern Brazil and Madagascar.
Describing a hormone or other secretion released from endocrine cells into the surrounding tissue rather than into the bloodstream
A poetical composition, in which the first verse contains, in order, the first letters of all the verses of the poem.
Any crystalline material that has a highly distorted lattice with unit cells of highly variable shape and size
A clinical symptom observed in patients suffering from bilateral conductive deafness involving a sensation wherein it is possible to hear more easily in the midst of a noisy environment rather than in a relatively quiet one.
A polymeric modification of cyanogen, obtained as a brown or black amorphous residue by heating mercuric cyanide.
Any cyclophane in which the aliphatic bridge connects the 1,4 (para) positions of the benzene ring
A triclinic-pinacoidal light yellow mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, oxygen, and zinc.
A parade featuring a progression of people wearing comic and grotesque costumes, commonly accompanied by floats and models representing monsters.
Someone missed out on the joys of life, an opportunity, or popular movement
A position of rest in which the feet are 12 inches apart and the hands clasped behind the back, or the left hand is behind the back and the right hand holds the rifle with its butt on the ground.
A ridiculously restrictive poetic form consisting of four sestets that must repeat lines and reuse all previous words according to a fixed pattern.
Of or relating to a family of inflammatory odontogenic cysts that typically appear in relation to crown or root of partially erupted molars.
A square in Zurich, Switzerland, known as the location of the headquarters of several Swiss banks.
One of the descendants of the Sephardic immigrants to South Asia (where they mostly settled in Cochin and Madras) fleeing persecution in Spain.
The quality of appealing to and promising to satisfy multiple contradictory desires.
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 86. 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.