English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 137 of 931
The fifth Sunday in Lent, the second Sunday before Easter, the first day in Passiontide.
Dominated or controlled by the passions (as opposed to the intellect, for example).
Any of very many vines, in North America and elsewhere, of the genus Passiflora that bear edible fruit called passion fruit, and showy flowers of a structure symbolic of the Passion of Christ.
A member of a Roman Catholic religious institute with a special emphasis on the Passion of Jesus Christ.
An archaic progressive construction in middle voice (syntactically active but semantically passive), replaced by the passive progressive in modern English. For example, "the house is building", "the meal was eating", "the trunks were carrying down" (today "the house is being built", "the meal is being eaten").
The process of making a material passive (non-reactive) in relation to another material prior to using the materials together.
An attack in which the cryptanalyst cannot interact with any of the parties involved, attempting to break the system solely based upon observed data such as ciphertext.
An income that is made using little to no effort, such as pension income, rent, or interest, as opposed to normal employment.
An investor in a business who by agreement or otherwise can not take an active role in the management of the business.
noncompliance with an authority as a form of protest against injustice, as by fasting, peaceful demonstration, or refusal to cooperate
Making direct use of solar energy without first converting it to another form such as electricity.
The involuntary inhalation of the vape of a psychoactive by a non-vaper due to the proximity to a vaper.
The words and phrases, collectively, that someone understands in speech and writing but does not commonly use.
Showing passive, sometimes obstructionist resistance to following authoritative instructions in interpersonal or occupational situations.
Of a personality, characterized by both passiveness, a lack of self-reliance, and emotional overdependence on others.
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 137. 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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