English Words: P

46,516 words · Page 493 of 931

Pol Potistadj

Of or pertaining to Pol Potism.

polaadj

Polarizing.

Polabianname

A West Slavic language, extinct in the 18th century.

Polabiansnoun

plural of Polabian

polacnoun

A road-traffic accident that occurs due to presence of a police vehicle.

polacanthidnoun

Any ankylosaurian of the nodosaurid or ankylosaurid subfamily Polacanthinae.

polaccanoun

Alternative form of polacre.

Polacekname

A surname from Czech.

Polacknoun

A Pole, or person of Polish descent.

polacrenoun

A 17th-century three-masted merchant ship.

Polakowskiname

A surname from Polish.

Polanname

A surname.

Polanconame

A surname from Spanish.

Polandname

A country in Central Europe. Official name: Republic of Poland. Capital and largest city: Warsaw.

Poland Is Not Yet Lostname

Mazurek Dąbrowskiego (the national anthem of Poland)

Poland syndromenoun

A rare birth defect characterized by underdevelopment or absence of the pectoralis on one side of the body, and usually also webbing of the fingers of the hand on the same side.

Polandballnoun

Poland as a countryball.

Polandernoun

An inhabitant of Poland, a person native to Poland, or a person of Polish origin.

Polandishadj

Polish.

Polanskiname

A surname from Polish.

Polanskianadj

Of or relating to Roman Polanski (born 1933), French-Polish film director, producer, writer, and actor.

Polanskyname

A surname.

Polanyianadj

Of or relating to Michael Polanyi (1891–1976), Hungarian polymath who made important theoretical contributions to physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy.

polaradj

Of or having a pole or polarity, as:

polar bearnoun

A white, semi-aquatic, hypercarnivorous species of bear, Ursus maritimus, whose native range lies largely within the Arctic Circle.

polar bear dipnoun

Synonym of polar bear plunge.

polar bear plungenoun

An outdoor plunge or swim in the middle of winter, often through ice.

polar bear swimnoun

Synonym of polar bear plunge.

polar capnoun

A high-latitude region of a celestial body that is covered by ice.

polar conenoun

Relative to a set S in Rⁿ, the set of points y such that the inner product of x and y is not positive for any point x in S.

polar oppositenoun

The complete opposite, opposite in every way.

polar vortexnoun

A large-scale cyclone located in the middle and upper troposphere and stratosphere that surround the polar highs and lay in the wake of the polar front.

polar wandernoun

The motion of a pole in relation to a fixed frame of reference.

polar willownoun

A willow of species Salix polaris, of circumpolar distribution.

polar wolfnoun

Synonym of Arctic wolf (“Canis lupus arctos”).

Polariname

A cant used in the London fishmarkets, in the British theatre, and by the gay community in Britain, attested since at least the 19th century and popularised in the 1950s and 1960s by the camp characters Julian and Sandy in the popular BBC radio show Round the Horne.

polaricadj

polar

polarigenicadj

That generates polarization

polarilyadv

In a polary manner; with polarity.

polarimetricadj

Of or pertaining to polarimetry, or measured using a polarimeter

polarimetricallyadv

In a polarimetric manner

Polarisname

α Ursae Minoris, a trinary star in the constellation Ursa Minor located near the north celestial pole for the last 1500 years.

polarisationnoun

Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of polarization.

polariscopenoun

A polarimeter.

polariscopicadj

polarimetric

polariscopicallyadv

By means of polariscopy.

polariscopistnoun

One who uses a polariscope.

polariseverb

Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of polarize.

polarisernoun

Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of polarizer.

polarisomaladj

Relating to polarisomes

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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 493. 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.

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