English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 374 of 931
A scientific approach to measuring and analysing the characteristic features of artworks.
A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble an easel. It lies between the constellations Carina and Dorado.
A school of artistic photography that emphasized using photography to mimic certain styles of contemporary painting, that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
The picture or image component of something, such as an emblem or poem, that contains a combination of imagery and text or symbols.
A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
An elaborate woman's hat with a wide brim, typically black with feathers or other decorations.
The point at which a film has gone through final editing and will no longer undergo any visual changes.
An elaborately decorated motion picture theater, principally constructed from 1910 to 1950.
In a television set, before the development of LED screens, the cathode ray tube which produced moving images on its surface.
A large fixed window in a wall, with few or no glazing bars, providing an unimpeded view.
Perfect in appearance as with the subjects in paintings or photographs, without the common imperfections of real life.
Synonym of filmdom (“the film or movie industry; the people who work in that industry”).
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 374. 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.