English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 420 of 931
A thing on which something turns; specifically a metal pointed pin or short shaft in machinery, such as the end of an axle or spindle.
A summary table used for automatic sorting, counting and averaging of the data in another table or spreadsheet.
A benzodiazepine derivative, the pivalate ester of oxazepam, with sedative and anxiolytic effects.
The New Zealand fantail, Rhipidura fuliginosa, a small insectivorous bird of the South Pacific.
A class of genes originally identified as encoding regulatory proteins responsible for maintaining incomplete differentiation in stem cells and maintaining the stability of cell division rates in germline cells.
Pixar Animation Studios, a computer-generated imagery (CGI) company known for its animated films.
A style of digital art drawn at the pixel level, sometimes having the pixels enlarged for a retro appearance.
a search for a small, onscreen, hard-to-find object in a graphic adventure puzzle video game
A person who carefully scrutinizes a magnified digital photograph in order to evaluate resolution and image quality.
A blocky effect caused by enlarging a bitmap so that individual pixels can be distinguished.
For a pixelated source, the ratio of the average distance between adjacent pixel sources to the average width of the pixel sources.
The result of enlarging a digital image further than the resolution of the monitor device, usually 72 dpi (dots per inch), causing the individual pixels making up the image to become more prominent, thus causing a grainy appearance in the image.
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 420. 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.