English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 94 of 931
A convex quadrilateral in which each pair of opposite edges are parallel and of equal length.
A polyhedron that can tessellate three-dimensional spaces with face-to-face contacts via translations.
A generalization of parallelogram and parallelepiped into a figure of arbitrary dimensionality.
A portabilized set of parallel bars consisting of two horizontal bars to be made to stand apart by the user, upon which callisthenic exercises are performed.
The study of paralogic rhetoric; the study of understanding language by successive approximation.
A fallacious argument or illogical conclusion, especially one committed by mistake, or believed by the speaker to be logical.
(of multiple genes at different chromosomal locations in the same organism) Having a similar structure indicating divergence from a common ancestral gene
A pair of genes that derives from the same ancestral gene and now reside at different locations within the same genome.
An international sports competition participated in by sportspeople with physical disabilities, which is held every four years as a counterpart of the Olympic Games and nowadays at the same venue.
Synonym of Paralympic Games (“an international sports competition participated in by sportspeople with physical disabilities, which is held every four years as a counterpart of the Olympic Games and nowadays at the same venue”).
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 94. 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.