English Words: P

46,516 words · Page 281 of 931

petuneverb

To spray (tobacco) with a liquid intended to produce flavour or aroma.

petunianoun

Any of the flowering plants of genus Petunia, of which most garden varieties are hybrids.

petunidinnoun

An anthocyanidin responsible for the dark red or purple colour in many berries and flower petals.

petunsenoun

Rock rich in feldspar and/or mica, mixed with kaolin to create hard-paste pottery.

Petworthname

A small town and civil parish with a town council in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU9721).

Petzname

A surname.

petzitenoun

A soft, steel-gray isometric telluride mineral generally deposited by hydrothermal activity and usually associated with rare tellurium and gold minerals.

Petzval lensnoun

A photographic lens consisting of two doublet lenses with an aperture stop in between.

peucedaninnoun

A tasteless white crystalline substance extracted from the roots of the sulphurwort (Peucedanum), masterwort (Imperatoria), and related plants (tribe Selineae).

peucedanoidadj

Relating to one of two forms of Zygaena ephialtes.

peucedanumnoun

Any apiaceous plant of the genus Peucedanum.

Peucetianadj

Of or relating to the Peucetii.

peucilnoun

A liquid resembling camphene, obtained by treating turpentine hydrochloride with lime.

Peugeotname

A surname from French.

Peullaname

A small village at the east end of Todos los Santos Lake, Los Lagos region, Chile.

Peutingerianadj

Of or relating to Konrad Peutinger, German humanist and antiquarian of the 15th and 16th century; applied to the Tabula Peutingeriana, a map of the road network in the Roman Empire, which was bequeathed to him in 1508.

Pevekname

An Arctic port town and the administrative center of Chaunsky District in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia.

Pevenseyname

A village and civil parish in Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ6404).

Pevsnername

A surname from Yiddish.

Pevznername

A surname from Yiddish.

pewnoun

One of the long benches in a church, seating several persons, usually fixed to the floor and facing the chancel.

pew pewnoun

A firearm.

pew-openernoun

An usher in a church.

pewanoun

Alternative spelling of peewah.

pewagenoun

A fee paid for the use of a church pew.

pewdomnoun

The system according to which certain people or certain social classes were allocated particular pews in the local church.

Pewdsname

PewDiePie (Felix Kjellberg; born 1989), online video streamer.

pewedverb

simple past and past participle of pew

peweenoun

Any of various tyrant flycatchers of the genus Contopus.

pewfellownoun

Someone who occupies the same pew as another.

pewfulnoun

An amount sufficient to fill a pew.

pewholdernoun

One who has a pew reserved for themselves in church.

pewholdingnoun

The system by which people can reserve pews for themselves in a church.

pewingverb

present participle and gerund of pew

pewlessadj

Without a pew.

pewlikeadj

Resembling or characteristic of a pew.

pewmatenoun

One who shares the same pew.

pewsnoun

plural of pew

Pewseyname

A village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1660).

pewternoun

An alloy of approximately 93–98% tin and 1–2% copper, and the balance of antimony.

pewterernoun

A manufacturer of pewterware.

pewterwarenoun

Articles made from pewter.

pewterwortnoun

Equisetum arvense, the field horsetail or common horsetail.

pewteryadj

Of or resembling pewter.

pexelizumabnoun

A humanized monoclonal antibody designed to reduce side effects of cardiac surgery.

pexiganannoun

A synthetic antimicrobial peptide developed for the treatment of infection in diabetics.

pexophagosomenoun

An intracellular vesicle involved in the degradation of peroxisome by macropexophagy

Peyer's patchnoun

A patch of lymphoid tissue or lymphoid nodules on the walls of the ileal-small intestine.

Peyerianadj

Of or relating to Johann Conrad Peyer (1653–1712), Swiss anatomist.

peyotenoun

A small, spineless cactus (Lophophora williamsii) found from southwest United States to central Mexico that produces buttonlike tubercles that can be chewed for their psychedelic effect, primarily from the drug mescaline.

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 281. 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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