English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 331 of 931
Used attributively to describe a form of photoemission in which an electron in a metal is excited by a photon and subsequently tunnels out of the surface
Nuclear fission as the result of the absorption of a gamma ray or other high-energy photon.
An image of a person constructed out of bits of photographs of other people; an identikit.
The production of a sketch of a criminal from available information, often specifically DNA.
A lamp that emits a brief flash of bright light; used to take photographs in a dark environment
A lamp that produces a broad beam of continuous bright light; used to illuminate a photographic subject
A photograph regarded as being published or broadcast in the interest of advancing an ideological agenda.
gelatin, coated on a glass plate, that carries an image to be printed by the collotype process
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 331. 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.