English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 557 of 931
The process of reducing a person or group of people to mere flesh, stripped of personhood and made into the object of violent and sexual impulses.
Graphic written or audiovisual depictions of violence intended to appeal to a prurient audience interest.
Psychologically damaged, sadistic, misogynistic, etc. as a result of excessive viewing of pornography.
A moustache that resembles one worn by an adult film actor, especially associated with the 1970s.
A parasitic infection by species in the closely related genera Porocephalus and Armillifer and other tongue worms in order Porocephalida.
The secretion of neurotransmitters through an array of docked vesicle/secretory pore complexes
The property of having the pollen tube in a seed plant enter the ovule by way of the micropyle.
Any of a mass of particles, of a specified shape and size, used to make pores in moulded structures used for tissue engineering (they are dissolved away after the structure has set)
A disorder of keratinization that is characterized by the presence of a cornoid lamella, a thin column of closely stacked, parakeratotic cells extending through the stratum corneum with a thin or absent granular layer.
A kind of artificial leather made from a plastic coating (usually a polyurethane) on a fibrous base layer (typically a polyester).
A tidal flood, especially at the mouth of the Amazon River, that rushes with a roaring noise into the river and proceeds in one or more waves that often present a very abrupt front of considerable height.
Any of many cup-shaped structures in the cell membranes of eukaryotic cells where vesicles dock in the process of vesicle fusion and secretion.
A copy of a print or document made by placing it upon a chemically prepared paper which is acted upon by a gas that permeates the original.
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 557. 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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