English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 9 of 931
A river, formerly an important feature of ancient Lydia and said to contain gold; now rising and emptying in modern Turkey.
Any of certain freshwater fish of the family Serrasalmidae, endemic to South America; they are characterised by squarish, human-like teeth and a mainly herbivorous diet.
A traditional bull race in the Tanah Datar region of West Sumatra, Indonesia, where jockeys cling to a wooden plow attached to a pair of bulls, racing across muddy, harvested rice paddies to showcase their cattle's strength and speed, serving as a cultural festival and a way to boost the value of the bulls for sale. The crowd often decides on the best performers.
A stir fry Thai dish made from wide rice noodles, egg, broccoli, a protein, and a sweet soy sauce.
A stir-fired Thai dish made with glass noodles, tofu or meat, egg, cabbage, and carrot.
The basic metric unit of Vedic poetry, consisting of one line of verse in Sanskrit, typically as part of a four-line stanza.
Capable of being padded; said of a set whose strings can be transformed into infinitely many further strings in the set.
A room in a mental hospital lined with padding on the walls, and often a cushioned floor, in order to prevent occupants from injuring themselves.
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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 9. 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.