English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 490 of 931
A locality in Eastry parish, Dover district, Kent, England, at the north end of the village (OS grid ref TR3055).
European hemlock Conium maculatum, an extremely poisonous plant in the carrot family, Apiaceae.
A message that causes processing to fail, and thus remains in the message queue and prevents processing of further messages.
Any of the species of Toxicodendron with compound leaves having three oak-like leaflets, native to North America.
A manner, means, or tone of expression had by a written work, characterized by spitefulness, defamation, and/or intimidation directed toward a person, organization, or point of view.
Any strategy designed to produce negative results for an entity carrying out a takeover.
A woody vine plant in the family Anacardiaceae (Toxicodendron radicans or Rhus toxicodendron), well-known for its ability to produce urushiol, a skin irritant that causes an itching rash for most people.
A missive which is malicious, insulting, and/or defamatory toward a person, organization, or point of view, especially one which is unsigned.
Something which is initially regarded as advantageous but which is later recognized to be disadvantageous or harmful; an apparently beneficial or benign instrument or scheme for causing death or harm.
Metopium toxiferum, a species of tree found in the American neotropics known for producing the irritant urushiol.
A fishwife, especially in France; specifically, any of the Parisian fishwives or market-women who led riots during the French Revolution.
Any of a class of discrete probability distributions that express the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed time interval, where the events occur independently and at a constant average rate; describable as a limit case of either binomial or negative binomial distributions.
The tendency of a material to deform in the directions perpendicular to that of an applied force. The effect is quantified by a material's Poisson's ratio.
A stochastic process in which events occur continually and independently of one another.
Of a material in tension or compression, the ratio of the strain in the direction of the applied load to the strain normal to the load, abbreviated ν (nu).
Analysis of a multivariate combinatorial distribution by turning interdependent variables into independent Poisson distributions.
In a large commercial kitchen, a cook tasked with preparing and cooking (and possibly selecting) fish and fish dishes.
A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing copper, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, sulfur, and zinc.
A geographic region and former province of France, whose capital was Poitiers; now split between the administrative regions of Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Pays de la Loire.
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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 490. 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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