English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 322 of 931
The color that a synesthete may report seeing in association with a particular letter or number.
The formation of a charge dipole in the vicinity of a semiconductor surface after ultrafast photogeneration of charge carriers.
A romantic story illustrated with sequential photographs in the style of a comic strip, published in magazines etc.
A situation in which all of the energy of a photon is transferred to an atom or molecule
A pigment that accepts a photon as the first stage in a photochemical reaction sequence
accumulation (of cells) in the presence of light (typically as part of a circadian rhythm)
The absorption of energy from a photon in raising a molecule (or chromophore) from the ground state; especially the first stage of photosynthesis in which energy is absorbed by chlorophyll
An increase in the adsorption of a substance at an interface in the presence of light.
the photoexcitation of a molecular entity (normally associated with a biomolecule) in order to attach a label
The damaging effect of prolonged exposure to sunlight on the skin, especially wrinkling, discoloration and susceptibility to cancer
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 322. 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.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "P" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.