English Words: P

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palesomeadj

Characterised or marked by paleness

palestadj

superlative form of pale: most pale

Palestinename

A country in Western Asia, in the Middle East; the State of Palestine; the homeland of the Palestinian people.

Palestinesnoun

plural of Palestine

Palestinianadj

Of, from, or pertaining to Palestine or the Palestinian people.

Palestinian Sign Languagename

a sign language that is predominantly used by Palestinians

Palestinianisationnoun

The process of Palestinianising.

Palestinianiseverb

Alternative spelling of Palestinianize.

Palestinianismnoun

Palestinian nationalism; advocacy of Palestinian independence and autonomy.

Palestinianistnoun

A proponent of Palestinianism, Palestinian nationalism.

Palestinianizationnoun

The process of Palestinianizing.

Palestinianizeverb

To make Palestinian; to convert to the culture or style of Palestine.

Palestiniannessnoun

The state or quality of being Palestinian.

Palestinismnoun

Support for the establishment of Jewish settlement in Palestine.

Palestinkianadj

Palestinian.

Palestino-prefix

Palestinian, Palestine

Palestinocentricadj

Centred on or emphasizing Palestine or Palestinians

Palestinologistnoun

One who studies Palestinology

Palestinologynoun

The academic study of Biblical archaeology in the Holy Land.

Palestinophilenoun

A lover of Palestine and its culture.

Palestinophilianoun

An affection for, or interest in, things related to Palestine or Palestinians.

Palestinophilicadj

Of or pertaining to Palestinophilia.

palestricadj

Of or relating to the palestra, or to wrestling.

Palestrinaname

A town in Rome, Lazio, Italy; ancient Praeneste.

Palestrinianadj

Of or relating to Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.

paletnoun

Alternative form of pallet (“diminutive pale”).

paletanoun

A caramel lollipop.

palethverb

third-person singular simple present indicative of pale

paletotnoun

A loose outer jacket, cloak, coat, overcoat, greatcoat, three-quarter coat.

Palettaname

A surname from Italian.

palettenoun

A thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours.

palette swapverb

To change the color palette used to render a palettized image.

palettedadj

palettized

palettelikeadj

Resembling or characteristic of a palette.

palettiseverb

Alternative spelling of palettize.

palettizationnoun

The act or process of palettizing.

palettizeverb

To encode (an image) efficiently by mapping its pixels to a palette containing only those colours that are actually present in the image.

palewiseadv

Divided by perpendicular vertical lines like pales.

Paley's watchname

A hypothetical pocket watch found lying on a heath, taken to be too complex to be formed by natural forces and therefore created by some entity; used in arguments for the existence of a creator God.

palfreynoun

A small horse with a smooth, ambling gait, popular in the Middle Ages with nobles and women for riding (contrasted with a warhorse).

palfreyedadj

Mounted on a palfrey.

palfreymannoun

A groom who specializes in palfreys or good quality riding horses.

Palgravename

A placename:

Palharesname

A surname from Portuguese.

Paliname

A Middle Indo-Aryan language of north India, closely related to Sanskrit; the sacred language of Theravāda Buddhism.

palificationnoun

The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm.

paliformadj

Resembling a palus.

paligraphianoun

A writing disorder characterised by the repetition of syllables, words or phrases.

palikarismnoun

The lawless warlike practices of certain ancient Greeks.

palilanoun

Loxioides bailleui, a finch-billed species of Hawaiian honeycreeper with a golden-yellow head and breast.

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 40. 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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