English Words: P

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politruknoun

A supervisory political officer responsible for ideological education and organization; political commissar

politurenoun

polish; gloss

politynoun

Organizational structure and governance, especially of a state or a religion.

Politzer bagnoun

A soft rubber bulb used to inflate the middle ear by increasing air pressure in the nasopharynx.

politzerizationnoun

The inflation of the middle ear by blowing air up the nose during the act of swallowing.

politzerizeverb

To carry out politzerization on.

Polivkaname

A surname from Czech.

Poliwesname

A barangay of Baguio, Benguet, Philippines.

poljenoun

An extensive depression having a flat floor and steep walls but no outflowing surface stream and found in a region having karst topography (as in parts of Yugoslavia).

Polkname

A surname.

Polk Countyname

One of 75 counties in Arkansas, United States. County seat: Mena.

polkanoun

A lively dance originating in Bohemia.

polka dotnoun

Any of a number of uniform round dots, repeated to make a regular geometric pattern on a fabric.

polka jacketnoun

A tight-fitting knitted jacket worn by women. It was fashionable in the 19th century.

polka-dottedadj

Having a regular pattern of round dots (polka dots).

polka-likeadj

Similar to polka.

polkabillynoun

A music genre that combines polka with punk, rockabilly and other genres of rock music.

polkadotnoun

Alternative form of polka dot.

polkalikeadj

Alternative spelling of polka-like.

polkamanianoun

Enthusiasm for the polka dance.

polkanovitenoun

A hexagonal-dipyramidal gray mineral containing arsenic and rhodium.

polkiadj

Of diamonds: unfaceted.

polkistnoun

A polka-dancer.

polkovicitenoun

An isometric-hexoctahedral brownish gray mineral containing germanium, iron, lead, and sulfur.

Polkowicename

A town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.

pollnoun

A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.

poll parrotnoun

A tame parrot.

poll taxnoun

A tax determined as a uniform, fixed amount per individual.

poll workernoun

A volunteer who oversees ballot polling during an election.

pollableadj

Capable of being polled.

Pollackesqueadj

Resembling the paintings of Jackson Pollack.

Pollaczek-Khinchine formulaname

A formula that states a relationship between the queue length and service time distribution Laplace transforms for an M/G/1 queue.

pollagenoun

A poll tax, one charged for each person.

pollakiurianoun

Abnormally frequent passage of relatively small quantities of urine.

pollamnoun

A district in India held in feudal tenure by a poligar.

pollannoun

A freshwater fish, Coregonus pollan, resembling a herring

pollarchynoun

government by the mob or masses; mobocracy

Pollardname

A surname transferred from the nickname.

Pollard scriptnoun

An abugida loosely based on the Latin alphabet, designed for use with the Miao language A-Hmao.

Pollard's rho algorithmname

A general-purpose integer factorization algorithm, particularly effective at splitting composite numbers with small factors.

pollardingverb

present participle and gerund of pollard

pollbooknoun

A book in which the results of a poll are written down.

Polle syndromenoun

Münchausen syndrome by proxy

polledverb

simple past and past participle of poll

pollednessnoun

The quality of being polled; absence of horns in an animal.

polleenoun

Someone who participates in a poll.

pollennoun

A fine, granular substance produced in flowers.

pollen basketnoun

An arrangement of hairs on part of the tibia on the hind legs of certain species of bees used in transporting pollen.

pollen vortexnoun

An unusually high concentration of pollen in the air over a relatively short period of time.

pollenariousadj

Consisting of meal or pollen.

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 501. 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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