English Words: P

46,516 words · Page 497 of 931

Policespeakname

A constructed language for police and emergency service cooperation at the Channel Tunnel, using a limited vocabulary drawn from French and English.

policewarenoun

Synonym of govware.

policewearnoun

Clothing to be worn by police officers.

policewomannoun

A female police officer.

policialadj

Relating to the police.

policiaryadj

policial (of or relating to the police)

policidenoun

The intentional destruction of a nation.

policiedadj

prudent; wise

policiernoun

A film telling the fictional story of a police investigation, particularly such a film based on a novel.

policiesnoun

plural of policy

policificationnoun

The act or process of subjecting to police and policing.

policifyverb

To subject to policification.

policingverb

present participle and gerund of police

policinglyadv

In a policing manner; in a way that polices.

policismnoun

Alternative form of policeism.

policlinicnoun

An outpatient clinic, especially of a hospital.

policlinicaladj

Of or relating to a policlinic.

policynoun

A principle of behaviour, conduct which an entity (government, organization, etc.) applies or seeks to follow, especially as formally expressed by an authoritative body.

policy keyboardnoun

A range of potential policies from which options can be chosen.

policy makernoun

Alternative form of policymaker.

policy ratenoun

An interest rate set by a central bank to conduct monetary policy (often implemented as the bank's discount rate/bank rate or its repurchase agreement rate).

policy shopnoun

A gambling place where punters could bet on the numbers which would be drawn in lotteries.

policy wonknoun

A person who studies or develops strategies and policies, especially one who has a keen interest in and aptitude for technical details.

policy-makingadj

That formulates policies.

policyholdernoun

The party to an insurance contract who owns the policy and thus transfers a risk to an insurer (i.e., pays the insurer to take the risk).

policyholdingnoun

The holding of an insurance policy.

policylessadj

Without a policy or policies.

policylessnessnoun

Absence of a policy.

policymakernoun

One involved in the formulation of policies, especially politicians, lobbyists, and activists.

policymakingnoun

The formulation of policies.

policyownernoun

Synonym of policyholder.

policyscapenoun

A "landscape" of political (and other) policies

policywiseadv

In terms of policy.

Polidoraname

A female given name.

Polidoroname

A surname from Italian.

Polienoun

A worker stationed at the South Pole.

Poliesponame

An international auxiliary language created by Billy Ray Waldon in the second half of the 20th-century.

poligarnoun

A territorial administrative and military governor appointed by the Nayaka rulers of South India during the 16th–18th centuries.

poligarshipnoun

The state or business of a poligar.

Polignac's conjecturename

The conjecture that, for any positive even number n, there are infinitely many prime gaps of size n.

polimyelitiesnoun

Misspelling of poliomyelitis.

polingnoun

The act of supporting or of propelling by means of a pole or poles.

Polingaysiname

A female given name from Hopi.

Polingyumptewaname

A surname from Hopi.

polinknoun

One of several stockaded mountain farms established, after the invasion of Jamaica by England in the late 17th century, by people of colour who had lived on the island under Spanish rule.

Polinskiname

A surname from Polish.

Polinskyname

A surname from Polish.

polionoun

Abbreviation of poliomyelitis.

polioencephalitisnoun

Any encephalitis that is restricted to the gray matter.

polioencephalomalacianoun

Laminar cortical necrosis, a disease of cattle, sheep and goats, characterized by softening of the cerebrocortical grey matter in a layered pattern.

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 497. 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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