English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 494 of 931
An opaque, yellow-white mineral with a metallic lustre, having the chemical formula (Pd,(Bi,Pb)).
Any of a class of quasiparticles comprising elements of electromagnetic waves and excited states of matter.
The relative tendency of a system of electric charges to become polarized in the presence of an external electric field.
One of a set of three spacelike (and possibly also one timelike) four-dimensional vectors which are orthonormal within some inertial reference frame.
The object (a quasiparticle) that results when an electron (or hole) in the conduction band of a crystalline insulator or semiconductor polarizes the lattice in its vicinity.
An organelle, in microsporidians, that swells with water, and exerts pressure to rupture the polar cap and evert the polar tube through which the sporoplasm escapes to infect the host.
A fire fighting hand tool consisting of ax or adz head on a wooden handle, used to dig a fireline.
A Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans, syn. Sciuropterus volans), native to much of boreal Eurasia, from Finland east.
A potential paradox serving as a comment on the Novikov self-consistency principle, in which a billiard ball, sent back in time through a wormhole, is launched at such an angle that, upon exiting the wormhole in the past, it collides with its earlier self, knocking it off course and preventing it from entering the wormhole in the first place.
A form of consensus decision-making characterised by cooperation despite significant differences among parties.
An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.
Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
A horizontal timber resting on the tiebeams of a roof and receiving the ends of the rafters, differing from the plate in that it is not resting on the wall.
The top qualifying position for a race, on the inside of the front row at the starting line.
The star visible to the naked eye which was in the past, is now, or will be in the future nearest a celestial pole of a planet.
A close-quarter combat weapon with the main fighting part of the weapon placed on the end of a long shaft, typically of wood.
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 494. 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.