English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 85 of 931
Lateral to the colon, usually with reference to the ascending colon and descending colon and the compartments of the peritoneal cavity.
An extension of the paralinearization of non-smooth functions, used to flatten pairs of surfaces by changing variables.
An enhanced conductivity induced in a material by a nearby superconductive field
A type of unconformity in which strata are parallel; there is no apparent erosion and the unconformity surface resembles a simple bedding plane.
A conglomerate in which large fragments are separated by abundant fine-grained matrix.
A carboxylic acid 5-oxotetrahydro-3-furancarboxylic acid that is isomeric with itaconic acid, citraconic acid, and mesaconic acid
A base resembling and isomeric with conine, obtained from butyric aldehyde and ammonia.
Dealing with contradictions in a discriminating way, in order to avoid acceptance of one from entailing acceptance of all contradictions.
Having the property that every open cover has an open refinement that is locally finite.
A visual phenomenon where the perceived brightness of a stimulus is reduced when it is preceded by an adjacent visual stimulus.
Designating female animal behaviour that stimulates a male to initiate sexual intercourse.
A trigonal-rhombohedral light violet mineral containing hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and sulfur.
Describing any device, implanted in the heart, that transfers oxygenated blood from the left atrium
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 85. 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.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "P" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.