English Words: P
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Synonym of Paralympic Games (“an international sports competition participated in by sportspeople with physical disabilities, which is held every four years as a counterpart of the Olympic Games and nowadays at the same venue”).
The complete loss of voluntary control of part of a person's body, such as one or more limbs.
A person trained to medically stabilize people through various interventions for victims of trauma or medical events outside of a hospital setting and prepare them for transport to a medical facility.
A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation, or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc.
Of, relating to, or defined using parameters. In mathematics, this typically means related to parametrization / parametric equation.
A group of civilians trained and organized in a military fashion, but which do not represent the formal forces of a sovereign power.
A person who is the object of one's love, especially in an affair or romance; a lover; also, a sexual partner.
A psychotic disorder, now called delusional disorder, often (in one of six subtypes) characterized by delusions of persecution and a perceived threat against the individual affected with the disorder, and often associated with false accusations and a general mistrust of others.
Of events, experiences, or phenomenona, that cannot be explained by current scientific understanding or natural laws.
Miscellaneous items, especially the set of equipment required for a particular activity.
A restatement of a text in different words, often to clarify meaning or from memory rather than verbatim.
Of, related to, or suffering from paraplegia. Paralyzed from the lower half of the body down.
The study of alleged paranormal phenomena; psychic or occult phenomena, such as telepathy and ghosts.
An organism that lives on or in another organism of a different species, deriving benefit from living on or in that other organism, while not contributing towards that other organism sufficiently to cover the cost to that other organism.
Interaction between two organisms, in which one organism (the parasite) benefits and the other (the host) is harmed.
Of or relating to the part of the autonomic nervous system that inhibits or opposes the effects of the sympathetic nervous system. It consists of nerves arising from the brain and the lower end of the spinal cord and supplying the internal organs, blood vessels, and glands.
an Indian bread with a texture somewhat resembling puff pastry; sometimes stuffed with vegetables etc.
An auxiliary transit service without fixed routes or schedules, usually serving the disabled on demand.
Material, made from the polished skin of a calf, sheep, goat or other animal, used like paper for writing.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter P contains 4,417 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 89 pages, and you are currently viewing page 9. 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.