English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 348 of 931
The pseudoscience which studies the relationships between a person's character and the morphology (structure) of the skull.
A form of mind control using magnetic or mesmeric influence to (apparently) will someone to act, such as by touching parts of the head.
A nitrogenous body that contains no phosphorus, related to cerebrin, supposed to exist in the brain.
A blow to the chest which causes the diaphragm to go into spasm, making it difficult to draw a breath.
Son of Athamas and brother of Helle, with whom he fled to Colchis on a golden winged ram.
A Greek educational institution that operated from 1682/3 to 1921 in Trabzon in the Ottoman Empire, now Turkey.
A geographic region and ancient kingdom in the west central part of Asia Minor, in what is now modern-day Turkey.
A soft, close-fitting conical cap with the top bent forward, represented in Greek and Roman art as worn by ancient Phrygians, and later associated with the Roman liberty cap.
A mode whose scale is the same as a minor key with the second scale degree lowered by one half step, with the interval pattern
An Ancient Greek courtesan of the 4th century BC, reputedly the model for Praxiteles' Aphrodite of Cnidus and famously tried for the capital charge of impiety, during which trial she allegedly bared her breasts before the judges.
A bright greenish-blue crystalline synthetic pigment from the group of phthalocyanine dyes.
A synthetic pigment (full name phthalocyanine) of a bright, high intensity, used in oil- and acrylic-based artists' paints, and in other applications.
Any of a family of macrocyclic compounds having a structure similar to that of porphyrin; they are blue/green pigments that are used in plastics and enamels.
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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 348. 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.
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