English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 288 of 931
An uncontrollable impulse to pick at a spot or growth on one's body; the habit of picking at scabs, biting one's nails, or picking pimples.
An optical instrument or toy, resembling the phenakistoscope and illustrating the same principle.
A popular 18th- and 19th-century form of theater entertainment whereby ghostly apparitions are formed.
In a manner, or to an extent, typical of phantasmagoria; thus, fantastically or bizarrely
Of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantasm (“something seen but having no physical reality”); imaginary, unreal.
The god and personification of inanimate objects in prophetic dreams; the son of Hypnos and Pasithea, or Nyx and Erebus.
A type of optical illusion that works by using perspectival anamorphosis of stereoscopic vision to create distorted images.
Debt that is old, defaulted, or not owed but has somehow been revived, henceforth haunting the presumed debtor.
The energy that is lost due to standby electronic activity of equipment that is "off", on standby or sleep mode.
The false sensation, which is often painful, that an amputated limb is still present and attached.
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 288. 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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