English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 354 of 931
The science that uses theories and techniques from physics to study chemical systems.
An element of an educational curriculum concerned with bodily development, physical health and wellness, strength, physical co-ordination, and agility.
A scientific generalization based upon empirical observation that is part of physics, standing in contrast to chemical law, biological law, sociological law, etc.
In the RISC-V instruction set architecture, a mechanism that allows for controlling the privileges of different regions of physical memory.
A philosophical position holding that everything which exists is no more extensive than its physical properties; that is, that there are no kinds of things other than physical things, which all are of logically procedural nature, based on fundamental laws at their deepest level of causality.
A practitioner of physic, i.e. a specialist in internal medicine, especially as opposed to a surgeon; a practitioner who treats with medication rather than with surgery.
One should attend to one's own flaws or defects before presuming to advise others about theirs.
The tendency of the mind toward, or its preoccupation with, physical phenomena; materialism in philosophy and religion.
A person whose occupation specializes in the science of physics, especially at a professional level.
Having both physical and mental aspects; involving both the body and the mind; psychosomatic.
Describing the properties of a macromolecule undergoing chromatography, gel filtration, electrophoresis etc.
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 354. 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.