English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 273 of 931
A flat collar with rounded ends, cut to fit around the curve of the neckline, usually white or pale-coloured.
The supposed psychological phenomenon of immaturity among some men, who, like the fictional character, remain childish or childlike and fail to assume appropriate adult social roles and responsibilities.
The theory that people in an organization tend to rise (be promoted) to the level of their incompetence.
Peter I, the Tsar of all Russia from 1682, and the first Emperor of all Russia from 1721 until his death in 1725.
A kind of streetcar distinguished from other streetcars of the era by its use of the center door as an exit only, with a conductor stationed inside just in front of the door.
An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing carbon, hydrogen, mercury, and oxygen.
A county in Southern Ontario, Canada, with its county seat in Peterborough, an independent city.
A village and civil parish in south-west Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO3438).
A municipal town in Petrodvortsovy District of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia.
The events of 16 August 1819, when cavalry charged into a large crowd that had gathered in St Peter's Field, Manchester, England, to demand the reform of parliamentary representation, killing fifteen and injuring hundreds more.
A small village and civil parish in Torridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS4713).
An undirected graph with 10 vertices and 15 edges, serving as a simple example and counterexample for many problems in graph theory.
The theorem stating that every cubic bridgeless graph contains a perfect matching.
A theorem stating that, if a, b, c are three general skew lines in space, if a′, b′, c′ are the lines of shortest distance respectively for the pairs (b,c), (c,a) and (a,b), and if p, q and r are the lines of shortest distance respectively for the pairs (a,a′), (b,b′) and (c,c′), then there is a single line meeting at right angles all of p, q, and r.
A concurrent programming algorithm for mutual exclusion that allows two or more processes to share a single-use resource without conflict, using only shared memory for communication.
A monoclinic-sphenoidal mineral containing arsenic, calcium, cobalt, copper, iron, nickel, and oxygen.
A North Indian sweet made out of pieces of winter melon cooked in sugar syrup. Especially famous are pethas from Agra.
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 273. 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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