English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 91 of 931
The writing of paragraphs, especially (dated) the writing of sensational or tawdry short pieces in a newspaper.
In Ancient Greek papyri, anything written beside the main text, such as a marginal note or sign to mark the close or beginning of a sentence, or (in a drama) to indicate a change of speaker.
A lightning conductor erected, as in a vineyard, for drawing off the electricity in the atmosphere in order to prevent hailstorms.
A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral mineral containing bismuth, selenium, and sulfur.
A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Paraguay. Capital and largest city: Asunción.
Describing a male diploid organism whose parental genes are inactivated by heterochromatization
An activity that combines paragliding with falconry, and in which birds of prey are trained to fly with paragliders, guiding them to thermals
The form of the helium atom in which the spins of the two electrons form a singlet state (a state with zero total spin)
The hypothetical study of historical evidence or artifacts obtained through unconventional means, such as time travel.
A triclinic-pinacoidal colorless mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and zinc.
A substance that is a product of ordinary metabolism and not produced for a specific purpose, but acts like a hormone in modifying the activity of some distant organ, as in the case of carbon dioxide acting on the respiratory centre.
The form of the hydrogen molecule (H₂) in which the two nuclei have antiparallel spin; about 25% of hydrogen at room temperature.
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 91. 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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