English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 523 of 931
A continental region of Oceania, including Easter Island, Hawaii, New Zealand, and most of the islands between them.
A member of a proposed subrace associated with Pacific Islanders that originated in Southeast Asia and spread throughout the Pacific in ancient times.
The son of Oedipus and either Jocasta or Euryganeia, and the older brother of Eteocles.
Any of several unstable allotropes of nitrogen that have more than two atoms in each molecule
An expression consisting of a sum of a finite number of terms, each term being the product of a constant coefficient and one or more variables raised to a non-negative integer power, such as a_nxⁿ+a_n-1xⁿ⁻¹+...+a_0x⁰.
A basis of a polynomial ring (said ring being viewed either as a vector space over the field of coefficients or as a free module over the ring of coefficients).
A ring (which is also a commutative algebra), denoted K[X], formed from the set of polynomials (usually of one variable, in a given set, X), with coefficients in a given ring (often a field), K.
An iterative process used to create two-dimensional coloured images (polynomiographs) that are the representations of polynomials
Such that its closure under conjugation by any element of the parent group can also be achieved via closure by conjugation by some element in the subgroup generated.
Any of several enzymes which catalyze the hydrolysis of polynucleotides to form oligonucleotides and eventually simple nucleotides.
A polymeric macromolecule composed of many nucleotides; examples include DNA and RNA
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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 523. 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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