English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 5 of 931
Any of a group of herbivorous dinosaurs, of the genus Pachycephalosaurus from the late Cretaceous period.
Abnormal thickening of the skull, especially that produced by synostosis of the parietal bone with the occipital bone.
A compound belonging to a class of neuromuscular-blocking agents that are structurally bulky and usually associated with nondepolarising activity.
A member of the obsolete taxonomic order Pachydermata, grouping of thick-skinned, hoofed animals such as the rhinoceros, hippopotamus, elephant and tapir.
A rare genetic disorder characterized mainly by pachydermia, periostosis, and finger clubbing (swelling of tissue with loss of normal angle between nail and nail bed).
congenital malformation of the cerebral hemisphere, resulting in unusually thick convolutions of the cerebral cortex and typically causing developmental delay and seizures
Pertaining to an abnormal or pathological thickening or hardening of a part; increasing the thickness; relating to pachynsis.
Any of the dinosaurs of the tribe †Pachyrhinosaurini, a clade of centrosaurine ceratopsids.
A genus, Pachysandra, of four or five species of evergreen shrubs or subshrubs, belonging to the boxwood family, Buxaceae, used ornamentally as groundcover.
The third stage of prophase 1 of meiosis, during which the chromosomes shorten and divide into four chromatids.
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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 5. 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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