English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 382 of 931
The stamping down of grape skins that float to the surface during the fermentation process in winemaking.
A timing device used to officially record the exact time a pigeon returns to its loft in a race.
A confidence trick in which the mark or "pigeon" is persuaded to give up a sum of money in order to secure the rights to a larger sum of money or more valuable object.
A savoury game pie made of pigeon meat and various other ingredients traditional to French cuisine.
Alternative form of pigeonholes (“outdoor game played in the 17th and early 18th centuries in which each player bowls a ball towards targets”).
The red berry of Rivina humilis, a flowering plant in the pigeonberry family Petiveriaceae.
A person who has served in the military only during peacetime, or only in a noncombat capacity, but offers strategic advice and promotes military actions.
One of an array of open compartments for housing pigeons in a dovecote or pigeon loft.
The theorem which states that any partition of a finite set of n elements into m (< n) subsets (allowing empty subsets) must include a subset with two or more elements; any of certain reformulations concerning the partition of infinite sets where the cardinality of the unpartitioned set exceeds that of the partition (so there is no one-to-one correspondence).
An outdoor game played in the 17th and early 18th centuries in which each player bowls a ball towards targets (probably small compartments).
Oriental trema, an evergreen tree of species Trema orientalis, widely distributed throughout much of the tropics.
Any of various mesembryanthemums of the genus Carpobrotus, native to coastal areas of Australia, and producing edible fruits.
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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 382. 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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