English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 326 of 931
A change (normally an increase) in the electrical conductivity of a material as a result of incident electromagnetic radiation
The increase in the electrical conductivity of a material as a result of incident electromagnetic radiation.
In computer vision, the property of a voxel that appears to be occupied by part of an object, since its colour appears similar to all cameras that can see it.
The consumption of a chemical species (typically molecular oxygen) under the influence of light
A machine which reproduces documents by photographing the original over a glass plate and printing duplicates.
A kind of folklore comprising humorous material and urban legends that are reproduced on photocopiers.
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 326. 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.