English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 125 of 931
A generalization of Von Neumann's minimax theorem, stating that a particular class of games has a mixed value, provided that at least one of the players has a strategy restricted to absolutely continuous distributions with respect to the Lebesgue measure (i.e. one of the players is forbidden to use a pure strategy).
A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.
of or pertaining to the partheneia (παρθένειᾰ, an Ancient Greek song performed by maidens)
A toxic substance in the flowering plant Parthenium hysterophorus, causing dermatitis and respiratory malfunction in humans, and is toxic to other plants.
An ancient temple to Athena and monument in the city of Athens. It is a symbol of Greek achievement in the arts and of Athenian democracy.
Of or relating to the Parthenopean Republic (Italian: Repubblica Partenopea), a French First Republic-supported republic in the territory of the Kingdom of Naples, existing from January to June 1799.
An ancient empire of West Asia founded as a kingdom by Arsaces I with his 3rd-century-BCE conquest of Parthia (only recently a satrapy of the Seleucid Empire) and subsequently greatly expanded by Mithridates I.
A military maneuver where archers on horseback turned their bodies back in full gallop to shoot at the pursuing enemy.
A word in a language bearing a deceptive resemblance to a word in another language, and at least one meaning in common, but not all.
A function whose domain is a subset of the set on which it is formally defined; i.e., a function f: X→Y for which values f(x) are defined only for x ∈ W, where W ⊆ X.
An indulgence that remits part of a person’s sins, and thus part of their time in purgatory.
(informal) An ordering of the elements of a collection that behaves like that of the natural numbers by size, except that some elements may not be comparable (if all elements are comparable, it is called a total order); (formal) a binary relation that is reflexive, antisymmetric, and transitive.
The doctrine that the three persons of the Trinity are each three parts of God; in other words, each one thirds of God.
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 125. 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.
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