English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 426 of 931
The act of taking illegitimately-obtained (typically downloaded) musical content and using it in new works.
Copying of another person's ideas, text, or other creative work, and presenting it as one's own, especially without permission; plagiarizing.
One who plagiarizes; or lifts the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his or her own, thus engaging in plagiarism; a literary thief.
To use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing, speech, ideas, or other intellectual or creative work, especially in an academic context; to commit plagiarism.
Having an oblique spiral arrangement of planes, as in levogyrate and dextrogyrate crystals.
Any of a group of aluminum silicate feldspathic minerals ranging in their ratio of calcium to sodium.
Assuming an oblique position with respect to the rays of light, like the leaflets of Robinia or Tropaeolum.
Any of the superfamily Plagiosauroidea of stereospondyl temnospondyls that lived during the Triassic period.
Of or pertaining to fish of the former order Plagiostomi, generally corresponding to the sharks, rays, and skates.
An adaptation in which the mouth is diminished, firmly closed, and located on the ventral side protected deeply within a carapace.
The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.
Experiencing an epidemic or epidemics of bubonic plague or another illness. (of a place or community)
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 426. 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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