English Words: P

46,516 words · Page 548 of 931

Pop IIname

Clipped compound of Population II.

Pop IIIname

Clipped compound of Population III.

pop inverb

To pay a visit in an impromptu manner.

pop musicnoun

Music intended for or accepted by a wide audience, usually with a commercial basis and distinguished from other genres such as classical music and folk music, and nowadays also from rock music.

pop offverb

To leave and return in a short time.

pop onverb

To turn on.

pop one's clogsverb

To die.

pop one's corkverb

To become explosively angry.

pop one's wadverb

To ejaculate; to cum.

pop outverb

To leave a room or building with the expectation of returning soon.

pop punknoun

A genre that combines elements of punk rock with elements of pop music.

pop rivetnoun

A blind rivet; a rivet which can be fixed with access only to the factory head end; after passing the bucktail through the items to be secured, the rivet gun is attached to a frangible mandrel through the centre of the rivet, which upsets the bucktail to form the field head and breaks off when the correct pressure has been achieved.

pop shopnoun

Synonym of malt shop.

pop shotnoun

A quickly aimed or haphazard shot with a firearm.

pop socknoun

A type of short, knee-high stocking with an elasticated top.

pop tagsverb

To go shopping, especially for clothing, especially on a spree.

pop tartnoun

A toaster pastry.

pop the questionverb

To propose marriage.

pop'nnoun

Abbreviation of population.

pop-cornnoun

Archaic form of popcorn.

pop-culturaladj

Pertaining to pop culture.

pop-eyenoun

Alternative form of popeye.

pop-out cakenoun

Alternative form of pop out cake.

pop-popnoun

One's grandfather.

pop-scinoun

Clipping of popular science.

pop-upadj

Coming into view suddenly from a concealed position.

pop-up storenoun

A store, often portable, existing in one place for a short time only.

popadelicadj

Having the coolness or style of pop music or pop stars.

Popasnaname

A city, the administrative centre of Popasna urban hromada, Siverskodonetsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine, founded as a railway station in 1878, occupied by Russian forces since May 2022, heavily damaged during the war in Donbas and then razed to the ground during the Battle of Popasna.

Popasnayaname

Russian form of Popasna (“city in Popasna, Siverskodonetsk, Luhansk, Ukraine”).

popcornnoun

A snack food made from corn or maize kernels popped by dry heating.

popcorn ceilingnoun

A ceiling having a type of waterbased spray-on treatment characterized by a rough, lumpy texture.

popcorn lungnoun

Bronchiolitis obliterans.

popcorn movienoun

A motion picture without serious dramatic content, a weighty message, or intellectual depth, which serves simply as enjoyable entertainment.

popcorn pissernoun

One who pisses in the popcorn (posts in a thread containing ongoing drama due to reading about it on another subreddit).

popcorn snownoun

Graupel.

popcorn teanoun

genmaicha

popcorningnoun

A sporadic pronking behaviour in guinea pigs.

popcornlessadj

Without popcorn.

popcornlikeadj

Resembling or characteristic of popcorn.

popcornyadj

Resembling or characteristic of popcorn.

popcraftnoun

The art of composing or performing pop music

popcretenoun

A genre of concrete poems assembled from images rather than words.

popcultnoun

Pop culture.

popdocknoun

foxglove

popdogsnoun

The combination of popcorn and hotdogs.

popenoun

An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.

Pope Dayname

Synonym of Gunpowder Treason Day (now Guy Fawkes Day).

pope hatnoun

The mitre worn by popes.

Pope Joannoun

A card game played on a round board with compartments.

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 548. 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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