English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 281 of 931
Any of the flowering plants of genus Petunia, of which most garden varieties are hybrids.
An anthocyanidin responsible for the dark red or purple colour in many berries and flower petals.
A small town and civil parish with a town council in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU9721).
A soft, steel-gray isometric telluride mineral generally deposited by hydrothermal activity and usually associated with rare tellurium and gold minerals.
A photographic lens consisting of two doublet lenses with an aperture stop in between.
A tasteless white crystalline substance extracted from the roots of the sulphurwort (Peucedanum), masterwort (Imperatoria), and related plants (tribe Selineae).
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.
An Arctic port town and the administrative center of Chaunsky District in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia.
A village and civil parish in Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ6404).
One of the long benches in a church, seating several persons, usually fixed to the floor and facing the chancel.
The system according to which certain people or certain social classes were allocated particular pews in the local church.
A synthetic antimicrobial peptide developed for the treatment of infection in diabetics.
An intracellular vesicle involved in the degradation of peroxisome by macropexophagy
A patch of lymphoid tissue or lymphoid nodules on the walls of the ileal-small intestine.
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.
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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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