English words: police constable to politicoreligious
300 English words, part 118 of 213 of the words starting with P, A to Z. 25 have a page of their own.
English words police constable to politicoreligious
- police constable noun: A law enforcement officer of the lowest rank.
- police court noun: A court of justice for trying minor criminal cases brought before it by the police, often in summary proceedings.
- police department noun: Police force, especially a local or regional branch of a national police force.
- police detective noun: Synonym of detective (“a police officer tasked with collecting evidence and information in order to solve a crime”).
- police dog noun: A dog trained and employed by the police to pursue suspects or sniff out contraband.
- police escort noun: A service offered by police and law enforcement to assist in transporting important individuals or resources.
- police force noun: Any police organization; a constabulary.
- police jury noun: The most common type of governing body for a parish in the state of Louisiana.
- police lieutenant noun: A police rank in the police departments of certain nations.
- police line noun: A line, often marked with yellow tape, demarcating a crime or accident scene and which bystanders are not supposed to cross.
- police lives matter phrase: A phrase used to counter "black lives matter", rallying people to defend police officers and their use of lethal force in carrying out their duties.
- police magistrate noun: A magistrate who presides in a police court.
- police office noun: police station
- police officer noun: A peace officer who is a member of a police force.
- police one's brass verb: To clean up spent shell casings left behind after firing a gun, usually so the casings cannot be used to identify the gun.
- police positive noun: Synonym of police special (“pistol manufactured for police use”).
- police power noun: The inherent power, incident to sovereignty, of a state to regulate and exercise reasonable control over matters of public health, public morals, public...
- police procedural noun: A subgenre of crime fiction which portrays the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes.
- police protection noun: Law enforcement agency tasked to safeguard a community or a person from crime.
- police record noun: A file held by the police, containing a record of the past crimes of which someone has been suspected of or convicted.
- police report noun: An official record of an incident, documented by a police officer.
- police scanner noun: A scanner that is tuned to receive the frequencies used by police for their communications.
- police science noun: The scientific study of police work, including such topics as criminology, forensics, and jurisprudence.
- police search advisor noun: A police officer responsible for the planning, organisation, management and control of crime, missing person and counter-terrorism searches
- police sergeant noun: A rank of law enforcement who supervises officers and handles daily precinct operations.
- police service noun: Police force.
- police sketch noun: Synonym of identikit.
- police special noun: A pistol manufactured for police use.
- police squad noun: A small squad of law enforcement officers who are trained to deal with a particular kind of crime.
- police station noun: A building serving as the headquarters of a branch of the police force, and sometimes as a temporary place of confinement for offenders.
- police tape noun: Tape used as a police barricade, typically in order to restrict access to the scene of a crime.
- police up verb: To clean up an area or an item or person, usually in preparation for an inspection; to police an area for problems.
- police van noun: A type of vehicle operated by a police force, usually employed for the transport of prisoners inside a specially adapted cell.
- police village noun: Part of a township in Ontario, Canada, not incorporated by the provincial government, and having its own elected governing body of trustees.
- police violence noun: police brutality
- police wagon noun: Synonym of paddy wagon.
- police work noun: Work performed by police; the investigation of criminal activities.
- policeable adjective: That can be policed.
- policeboat noun: A boat used by police.
- policedog noun: Alternative form of police dog (A dog trained and employed by the police to pursue suspects or sniff out contraband.)
- policedom noun: The police collectively; the system or practice of policing.
- policeism noun: An ideology or political practice that favors extensive, especially oppressive, policing.
- policeless adjective: Without police or a police force.
- policelessness noun: Absence of police.
- policelike adjective: characteristic of or resembling a police force.
- policeman noun /pəˈliːsmən/: A police officer, usually a male.
- policeman's helmet noun: The invasive plant Impatiens glandulifera, native to the Himalayas.
- policemanish adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a policeman.
- policemanlike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a policeman.
- policemanly adjective: Of, befitting, or characteristic of a policeman; policemanlike.
- policemanship noun: The characteristic or quality of being a policeman.
- policeperson noun: A police officer of any gender.
- policer noun /pəˈliːsə(ɹ)/: One who, or that which, polices.
- policespeak noun: The jargon or formal language used by the police.
- policeware noun: Synonym of govware.
- policewear noun: Clothing to be worn by police officers.
- policewoman noun: A female police officer.
- policework noun: Alternative form of police work.
- policial adjective: Relating to the police.
- policiary adjective: policial (of or relating to the police)
- policide noun: The intentional destruction of a nation.
- policied adjective, verb: prudent; wise
- policier noun: A film telling the fictional story of a police investigation, particularly such a film based on a novel.
- policification noun: The act or process of subjecting to police and policing.
- policify verb: To subject to policification.
- policing noun, verb: Monitoring or regulation.
- policingly adverb: In a policing manner; in a way that polices.
- policism noun: Alternative form of policeism.
- policlinic noun: An outpatient clinic, especially of a hospital.
- policlinical adjective: Of or relating to a policlinic.
- policosanol noun: Alternative form of polycosanol.
- policresulen noun: A topical haemostatic and antiseptic, indicated for common anal disorders.
- policresulin noun: Alternative form of policresulen.
- policy noun, verb /ˈpɒl.ə.si/: A principle of behaviour, conduct which an entity (government, organization, etc.) applies or seeks to follow, especially as formally expressed by an...
- policy economy noun: Aspect of the economy that encompasses the economic scale and implications of policy formulation and implementation.
- policy holder noun: Alternative spelling of policyholder.
- policy institute noun: An organization (typically a non-profit think tank) that conducts original research on issues, makes governmental policy recommendations based on its...
- policy interest rate noun: Synonym of policy rate.
- policy keyboard noun: A range of potential policies from which options can be chosen.
- policy maker noun: Alternative form of policymaker.
- policy-making adjective, noun: That formulates policies.
- policy mix noun: the combination of fiscal and monetary policies, especially their perceived relative importance
- policy pattern noun: Synonym of strategy pattern.
- policy rate noun: An interest rate set by a central bank to conduct monetary policy (often implemented as the bank's discount rate/bank rate or its repurchase agreement rate).
- policy shop noun: A gambling place where punters could bet on the numbers which would be drawn in lotteries.
- policy wonk noun: A person who studies or develops strategies and policies, especially one who has a keen interest in and aptitude for technical details.
- policyholder noun: The party to an insurance contract who owns the policy and thus transfers a risk to an insurer (i.e., pays the insurer to take the risk).
- policyholding noun: The holding of an insurance policy.
- policyless adjective: Without a policy or policies.
- policylessness noun: Absence of a policy.
- policymaker noun: One involved in the formulation of policies, especially politicians, lobbyists, and activists.
- policymaking noun: The formulation of policies.
- policyowner noun: Synonym of policyholder.
- policyscape noun: A "landscape" of political (and other) policies
- policywise adverb: In terms of policy.
- polidocanol noun: A local anaesthetic and antipruritic component of ointments and bath additives, also used as a sclerosant.
- Polidoro proper noun: A surname from Italian.
- Polie noun: A worker stationed at the South Pole.
- poligar noun: A territorial administrative and military governor appointed by the Nayaka rulers of South India during the 16th–18th centuries.
- poligar dog noun: A dog of a large breed found in South India.
- poligarship noun: The state or business of a poligar.
- poligeenan noun: A degraded form of carrageenan.
- poliglecaprone noun: A copolymer of glycolide and a caprolactone that is used for suturing
- polihexanide noun: Alternative form of polyhexanide.
- polilez noun: Short for political lesbian
- polinck noun: Alternative form of polink.
- poling noun, verb: The act of supporting or of propelling by means of a pole or poles.
- poling around noun: pole dancing
- poling boat noun: Any small boat, such as a punt, propelled using a long pole.
- polink noun: One of several stockaded mountain farms established, after the invasion of Jamaica by England in the late 17th century, by people of colour who had lived on...
- Polinsky proper noun: A surname from Polish.
- polio noun /ˈpəʊljəʊ/: Abbreviation of poliomyelitis.
- poliodystrophy noun: atrophy of the gray matter of the cerebrum
- polioencephalitis noun: Any encephalitis that is restricted to the gray matter.
- polioencephalomalacia noun: Laminar cortical necrosis, a disease of cattle, sheep and goats, characterized by softening of the cerebrocortical grey matter in a layered pattern.
- polioencephalomyelitis noun: The inflammation of the grey matter and the spinal cord.
- poliomavirus noun: Any virus of the family Polyomaviridae
- poliomyelitic adjective: Of, pertaining to, or afflicted with poliomyelitis
- poliomyelitis noun /ˌpɒlɪəʊmaɪəˈlaɪtɪs/: Acute infection by the poliovirus, especially of the motor neurons in the spinal cord and brainstem, leading to muscle weakness, paralysis and sometimes...
- polioplasm noun: The circulating portion of the cytoplasm.
- poliopyrite noun: Synonym of marcasite.
- poliorcetic adjective: Relating to poliorcetics, the art of siege warfare.
- poliorcetics noun /ˌpəʊlɪɔːˈsɛtɪks/: The art of siege warfare, namely, that of conducting or resisting a siege.
- poliosis noun: The decrease or absence of melanin in head hair, eyebrows, or eyelashes.
- poliothyrsoside noun: The glycoside [(2R,3S,4S,5R,6S)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-[4-hydroxy-2-(hydroxymethyl)phenoxy]oxan-2-yl]methyl benzoate
- poliovirion noun: An individual particle (virion)) of a poliovirus
- poliovirology noun: The scientific study of polioviruses.
- poliovirus noun: A human enterovirus of the Picornaviridae family that causes poliomyelitis.
- poliphagous adjective: Dated form of polyphagous.
- poliplicate adjective: Alternative form of polyplicate.
- Poliquin proper noun: A surname from French.
- polis noun, suffix /ˈpɒ.lɪs/: Forms names of cities or kinds of cities.
- polisci noun: Alternative form of poli sci.
- polish adjective, noun, verb /ˈpəʊlɪʃ/: Of, from or native to Poland, or relating to the Polish language.
- Polish alexandrine noun: An alexandrine that features 13 syllables with a middle pause after the 7th syllable (7/6 split) and primary stresses on the 6th and 12th syllables,...
- Polish bed noun: A kind of canopy bed draped with a baldacchin.
- Polish-Lithuanian adjective: Of, from or relating to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- Polish Lowland Sheepdog noun: A medium-sized, shaggy-coated, sheepdog breed native to Poland.
- Polish millet noun: A grass of species Digitaria sanguinalis.
- Polish notation noun: A notation for arithmetic (and logical) formulae in which operations (respectively, quantifiers and operands) are written immediately before their operands,...
- polish off verb: To finish completely, especially a food (polish the plate with one's tongue) or liquor.
- polish one's rocket verb: To masturbate by stimulating one's penis.
- Polish parliament noun: The Sejm of the Republic of Poland.
- Polish rabbit noun: A small breed of domestic rabbit that likely originated from England.
- polish remover noun: Any type of solvent used to remove polish that has been coated on a surface.
- Polish sausage noun: Synonym of kielbasa.
- Polish space noun: A separable, completely metrizable topological space
- Polish studies noun: An academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the Polish language, Polish linguistics, and Polish sociolinguistics.
- polish up verb: To polish something to make it shiny.
- polish up on verb: Synonym of polish up.
- Polish victory lap noun: A victory lap driven in the reverse direction.
- polishability noun: The quality or degree of being polishable.
- polishable adjective: That can be polished.
- Polishdom noun: Polish rule or identity, especially in contrast to Germandom.
- polished adjective, verb /ˈpɑlɪʃt/: Made smooth or shiny by polishing.
- polished rice noun: Rice with the husk or outer brown layers removed; white rice.
- polishedly adverb: In a polished manner; refinedly, elegantly.
- polishedness noun: The quality of being polished.
- polisher noun: A person who makes something smooth or shiny.
- polishing adjective, noun, verb: verbal noun of polish: the action whereby something is polished.
- polishing slate noun: A mineral used for polishing glass, marble, and metals, composed chiefly of silica, with a little alumina, lime, iron oxide, and water.
- polishment noun: The act of polishing
- Polishness noun: The quality or state of being Polish.
- polishure noun: The state of being polished; a state of smoothness or refinement.
- polisman noun: Policeman.
- polissoir noun: A groove found carved into rock, once used to polish stone axes.
- polisson noun: A dishonest or mischievous person; a scamp.
- polistine noun: Any of the wasps of the subfamily Polistinae.
- polit. adjective, noun: Abbreviation of political.
- politainer noun: A politician who is or used to be an entertainer.
- Politano proper noun: A surname.
- politarch noun: A ruler or magistrate, especially one within a politocracy.
- politarchic adjective: Of or relating to politarchs.
- politbureau noun: Alternative form of politburo.
- politbureaucratic adjective: Of or relating to the politburo.
- politburo noun /ˈpɒlɪtˌbjʊəɹəʊ/: The governing council and chief policymaking body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and other Marxist-Leninist political systems.
- politburocratic adjective: Alternative form of politbureaucratic.
- polite adjective, verb /pəˈlaɪt/: Well-mannered, civilized.
- polite fiction noun: A social scenario in which all participants are aware of a truth, but pretend to believe in some alternative version of events to avoid conflict or...
- polite literature noun: Belles-lettres; light reading.
- polite notice noun: A heading commonly placed on certain notices, such as "no parking" notices, originally intended to be misread at a glance as "police notice", thus imparting...
- polite society noun: The elite or upper crust of society.
- politeful adjective: Polite.
- politeia noun /ˌpɒlɪˈtiːə/: citizenship
- politely adverb /pəˈlaɪtli/: in a polite manner
- politeness noun /pəˈlaɪtnəs/: The quality of being polite.
- politesome adjective, adverb: Characterised or marked by politeness.
- politesse noun /pɒlɪˈtɛs/: Civility, politeness, courtesy or gallantry; genteel politeness or an instance of this.
- Politi proper noun: A surname from Italian.
- Politian proper noun: Poliziano, the Italian scholar Agnolo Poliziano
- politic adjective, noun, verb /ˈpɒl.ɪ.tɪk/: Of or relating to polity, or civil government; political.
- political adjective, noun /pəˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl/: Concerning or relating to politics, the art and process of governing.
- political animal noun: A person driven by political motives.
- political arithmetic noun: The demographic statistics of a country or state.
- political asylum noun: The protection, by a sovereign state, of a person who is persecuted in their own country for their political opinions or activity
- political base noun: Synonym of base (“a group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office”)
- political blackness noun: The use of the word black as an umbrella term to refer to all non-white people, with the aim of increased solidarity among people likely to experience...
- political capital noun: The ability of a person to influence political decisions.
- political cartoon noun: Editorial cartoon.
- political cartoonist noun: Editorial cartoonist.
- political climate noun /pəˈlɪtɪkəl ˈklaɪmət/: The aggregate mood or opinions of a population about current political issues that affect said population in some way.
- political commissar noun: A supervisory political officer responsible for ideological education and organization.
- political consumerism noun: The standpoint that consumption decisions are also political or ethical statements and that consumers can collectively influence the world through their...
- political correction noun: A modification that makes something more respectful to marginalized people.
- political correctness noun: An avoidance of expressions or actions that can be perceived to exclude, marginalize or insult people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against.
- political corrector noun: One or that which politically corrects somebody or something.
- political crime noun: An offence against the interests of a state or government.
- political-economic adjective: Of, pertaining to, or influenced by political economy.
- political economist noun: One who studies political economy.
- political economy noun: Interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics, law, and political science in explaining how political institutions, the political environment, and the...
- political entity noun: A polity; A territory whose boundaries are set by a political authority, especially one with its own governing organization.
- political football noun: A contentious political issue or problem that is often debated or discussed, but that remains unresolved; an issue or problem which is avoided by...
- political geography noun: The academic study of the spatially uneven outcomes of political processes and the ways in which political processes are themselves affected by spatial...
- political homelessness noun: The condition or state of being politically homeless.
- political incorrectness noun: The quality of being politically incorrect.
- political lesbian noun: A proponent or practitioner of political lesbianism.
- political lesbianism noun: A feminist doctrine that advocates lesbianism and lesbian separatism as a part of the struggle against sexism.
- political machine noun: A local political organization or individual politician that controls a large number of personal votes and can therefore exert political influence, and is...
- political machinery noun: The existence or activity of political machines.
- political map noun: A map that shows territorial borders.
- political marketing noun: promotion of political ideas, actors, or policies through the adoption of marketing and advertising techniques; commonly used to gain public support during...
- political opposition noun: A recognized political party or group of parties in multiparty political systems that is present in Parliament or some other legislative body and does not...
- political party noun: A political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power through representation in government.
- political price fixing noun: A situation in which a group of political parties band together to take opposing sides of certain issues, but take the same side on other issues. If the...
- political prisoner noun: A person imprisoned for their political views or political activism.
- political regime noun: Synonym of regime (A form of government, or the government in power)
- political risk noun: Any financial or other risk that stems from the possibility of a nation changing its policies.
- political science noun: The systematic study of government and politics.
- political scientist noun: An expert in political science.
- political spectrum noun: The various political viewpoints represented as a continuum, ranging from the extreme left to the extreme right.
- political system noun: A complete set of institutions, political organizations, interest groups (such as political parties, trade unions, lobby groups), the relationships between...
- political unit noun: Synonym of political entity.
- political vacuum noun: A state of relative anarchy compared to neighboring states, often caused by death of the head of state before a successor could be designated.
- political warfare noun: Intentional use by a state of noncombat methods, such as diplomacy, misinformation, propaganda and economics, to affect the decision making of foreign...
- politicalese noun: Synonym of politicianese.
- politicalise verb: Alternative form of politicalize.
- politicalism noun: Political zeal.
- politicalization noun: The process or instance of making something political.
- politicalize verb: To make political; to politicize.
- politicalizer noun: One who politicalizes.
- politically adverb: In a political manner.
- politically correct adjective, verb: Possessing or conforming to the correct political positions; following the official policies of a government or political party.
- politically correctly adverb: in a politically correct way
- politically correctness noun: Political correctness.
- politically homeless adjective: Alienated from the current political atmosphere or from one's previous political affiliations, and struggling to identify with any political party or ideology.
- politically incorrect adjective: Not politically correct; not conforming to correct political positions.
- politicalness noun: Quality of being political.
- politicalspeak noun: Synonym of politicianese.
- politicaster noun: A petty politician.
- politicese noun: Political jargon, language used by politicians.
- politician noun /ˌpɒl.ɪˈtɪʃ.ən/: One engaged in politics, especially an elected or appointed government official.
- politicianese noun: Political jargon; the obfuscatory or euphemistic language used by politicians.
- politicianess noun: A female politician.
- politicianlike adjective: Resembling a politician.
- politicianly adjective: Befitting a politician.
- politicianship noun: The condition of, or the time served as, a politician.
- politicianspeak noun: Synonym of politicianese.
- politicidal adjective: Of or pertaining to politicide.
- politicide noun /pəˈlɪtɪˌsaɪd/: Political suicide
- politicious adjective: Political.
- politicisation noun: Alternative spelling of politicization.
- politicise verb: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of politicize.
- politicised adjective, verb: Alternative form of politicized.
- politicism noun: A political utterance.
- politicist noun: A writer about politics
- politicizable adjective: Capable of being politicized.
- politicization noun /pəˌlɪt.ɪ.sɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/: The state of being (or process of becoming) politicized
- politicize verb /pəˈlɪtɪˌsaɪz/: To engage in or discuss politics.
- politicized adjective, verb: politically aware or active (of a person)
- politicizer noun: One who politicizes.
- politick verb: To engage in political activity.
- politicker noun: A politician; one who employs politics.
- politickese noun: Alternative spelling of politicese.
- politicly adverb: In a politic (shrewd) manner
- politicness noun: The quality of being politic.
- politico noun, prefix /pəˈlɪtɪkəʊ/: A politician.
- politico-administrative adjective: Relating to both politics and administration (of the state)
- politico-economic adjective: Political and economic.
- politico-economically adverb: Alternative form of politicoeconomically.
- politico-ideological adjective: Political and ideological.
- politico-ideologically adverb: In a politico-ideological manner.
- politico-military adjective: Both political and military.
- politico-organizational adjective: Of or pertaining to organizational structures intersecting with political activities.
- politicocommercial adjective: Relating to both politics and commerce.
- politicocultural adjective: Of or relating to both politics and culture.
- politicoeconomic adjective: Alternative form of politico-economic.
- politicoeconomically adverb: In a politico-economic manner or context.
- politicoepistemic adjective: Both political and epistemic.
- politicoethical adjective: Relating to politics and ethics.
- politicogeographical adjective: Of or pertaining to geography and politics.
- politicohistorical adjective: Relating to politics and history.
- politicoideological adjective: Alternative form of politico-ideological.
- politicojudicial adjective: Relating to political and legal systems.
- politicolegal adjective: Relating to political and legal systems.
- politicomania noun: A fascination with politics.
- politicophilosophical adjective: Relating to politics and philosophy.
- politicophobia noun: An aversion to politics or politicians
- politicore noun: A subgenre of punk with overtly political themes.
- politicoreligious adjective: Relating to politics and religion.
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Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under P: 63,631 words, in 213 parts.