English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 90 of 931
A chromaffin body; a small group of chromaphil cells in the abdomen, connected with the ganglia of the sympathetic trunk and the ganglia of the celiac, renal, adrenal, aortic and hypogastric plexuses
Originating in the character of the germ, or at the first commencement of an individual; said of peculiarities of structure, character, etc.
A geosyncline within or adjacent to a craton and usually less elongated, shallower, and less persistent than an orthogeosyncline.
The false recognition of a meaning etc. that is not actually present, in cases of aphasia.
The addition of a sound, syllable or letter to the end of a word, either through natural development or as a grammatical function.
Of, pertaining to, or constituting, a paragoge; added to the end of, or serving to lengthen, a word.
A food-borne parasitic infection caused by the lung fluke, most commonly Paragonimus westermani, in humans usually spread by ingestion of raw or undercooked freshwater crabs or crayfishes.
A passage in text that starts on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented, and usually marks a change of topic.
Describing any feature of a text that is obvious to a reader (such as a sudden change in font, use of italics or handwriting etc)
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 90. 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.