English Words: P
4,417 words · Page 35 of 89
the process of transferring a phosphate group from a donor to an acceptor; often catalysed by enzymes.
A machine which reproduces documents by photographing the original over a glass plate and printing duplicates.
Of or relating to the electric effects of electromagnetic radiation, especially the ejection of an electron from a surface by a photon.
A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.
The art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces, and its digital counterpart.
A form of journalism in which a story is told primarily through photographs and other images.
The quantum of light and other electromagnetic energy, regarded as a discrete particle having zero rest mass, no electric charge, and an indefinitely long lifetime. It is a gauge boson.
The science and technology of generating and controlling photons, particularly in the visible and near infrared light spectrum.
A session in which a photographer takes a number of photographs of a person or group of people.
Any process by which plants and other photoautotrophs convert light energy into chemical energy.
The technology of the conversion of sunlight into electricity using semiconductors that exhibit the photovoltaic effect.
The pseudoscience which studies the relationships between a person's character and the morphology (structure) of the skull.
A geographic region and ancient kingdom in the west central part of Asia Minor, in what is now modern-day Turkey.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter P contains 4,417 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 89 pages, and you are currently viewing page 35. 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.