English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 342 of 931
A session in which a photographer takes a number of photographs of a person or group of people.
A photographic image that has been computer-modified to show a not-yet existing feature
somnolence (induction of sleep) in a nocturnal animal caused by exposure to light
A police technique for identifying a person by having a witness select the person's photograph from a group.
To add compounds that absorb ultraviolet radiation to plastics in order to reduce photodegradation
The balance of energy, in photosynthetic plants, between photochemical input and metabolic output
A (non-xerographic) photocopy made using a Photostat machine; (loosely) any photocopy, even a xerographic one.
Describing a steady state reached by a photochemical reaction in which the rates of formation and disappearance of transient species are equal
sterilization, typically of surgical instruments, by exposure to ultraviolet light
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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 342. 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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