English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 443 of 931
A perfect, idealized notion of something, taken to exist beyond the physical world.
One twelfth of a Great Year, corresponding to one of the zodiacal ages (roughly 2000 years).
Any of five convex polyhedra with congruent regular polygonal faces, which have a high degree of symmetry and have been studied since antiquity.
A member of the philosophical school of thought established by Plato; a believer in Platonism.
A unit of thirty to forty soldiers typically commanded by a lieutenant and forming part of a company.
A technique for transforming the outputs of a classification model into a probability distribution over classes, based on a logistic regression model.
A United States media market found in northern New York and northern Vermont, where advertising prices also include the broadcast reach into Canada for those stations, especially the metropolis of Montreal, found just to the north following the Richelieu River running out of Lake Champlain.
Flat at the anterior and concave at the posterior end; said of the centra of the vertebrae of some dinosaurs.
Certain fish of the genus Xiphophorus lacking a sword-like extension of the lower tailfin.
Of a distribution: having kurtosis less than that of a normal distribution; equivalently, having negative excess kurtosis.
The property of having kurtosis less than that of a normal distribution; equivalently, having negative excess kurtosis.
An apparatus for measuring the capacity of condensers, or the inductive capacity of dielectrics.
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 443. 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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