English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 525 of 931
Any polymer composed of perylene moieties either fused together or joined by single bonds
The ability of an animal to eat a variety of food (e.g. several different families of plants)
The presence of multiple pharmacologies (targets, modes of action etc) in a single drug
The use of multiple drugs to treat multiple concurrent disorders in the same (now especially elderly) patient, chiefly with connotations of indiscriminate or excessive prescription (involving overmedication and overprescription).
Of, pertaining to, or involving multiple alternating currents that have the same frequency but differ in phase.
A large, green saturniid caterpillar with a red head; the larval form of the Polyphemus moth.
A tan-coloured North American moth of species Antheraea polyphemus (family Saturniidae), with large, purplish eyespots on the hind wings.
Having multiple phenotypes that can arise as a result of differing environmental conditions.
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 525. 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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