English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 93 of 931
One who assists a lawyer in routine legal work, but who is without qualified status as a solicitor or barrister (England and Wales), attorney (U.S.), or advocate; known more commonly in the U.S. as a legal assistant.
Describing a sensory pathway, parallel to the lemniscal pathway, that conducts impulses of touch etc to the region of the cortex.
Pertaining to, or communicated through, paralexicon (parallel vocabulary, e.g. ritual or secret cant, formal jargon)
A parallel set of vocabulary within a language, e.g. a formal register, ritual language or secret cant, code switching
Consisting of the linear combination of different rate equations, each of which may or may not be linear.
Of or pertaining to, or communicated through, paralanguage; of or pertaining to paralinguistics.
The different text variants or text witnesses researched when creating a critical edition.
A figure of speech in which one pretends to ignore or omit something by actually mentioning it.
Literature not thought of as literary, usually including comics, most genre fiction (such as fantasy and sci-fi), and pulp fiction.
An apparent shift in the position of two stationary objects relative to each other as viewed by an observer, due to a change in observer position.
A type of computation in which many calculations or processes are carried out simultaneously.
A discipline of alpine snowboarding, a variant of giant slalom. A sport where two snowboarders compete head to head on parallel identical giant slalom courses.
The action of parking a vehicle with its side parallel to the curb or the side of the road and facing in the direction of the traffic in the adjacent lane.
An axiom in Euclidean geometry: given a straight line L and a point p not on L, there exists exactly one straight line parallel to L that passes through p; a variant of this axiom, such that the number of lines parallel to L that pass through p may be zero or more than one.
A discipline of alpine skiing, a variant of slalom. A sport where two skiers compete head to head on parallel identical slalom courses.
A thinking process where focus is split in specific directions, aiming to avoid adversarial debates based on proof and disproof.
A universe that exists separately alongside another universe, as part of a multiverse.
A solid figure, having six faces, all parallelograms, all opposite faces being similar and parallel.
The state or condition of being parallel; agreement in direction, tendency, or character.
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 93. 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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