English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 96 of 931
A type of elaborate robe especially as worn by someone in power or a religious official.
One of the symmetrical halves of any one of the radii, or spheromeres, of a radiate animal, such as a starfish
In Ancient Greek musical theory, the lowest-pitched fixed note in the farther tetrachord on a lyre, always pitched a perfect fourth below the nete, with two movable notes between them, the trite (lower in pitch) and the paranete (higher in pitch). The paramese was higher-pitched than the mese (the highest-pitched fixed note in the nearer tetrachord on a lyre) by a ratio of 9:8.
A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation, or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc.
The representation of physical characteristics or properties by parameters rather than as sui generis instances; usually and especially
Of, relating to, or defined using parameters. In mathematics, this typically means related to parametrization / parametric equation.
An avant-garde, computer-aided style of architecture and urban planning in which (the functions of) spaces are considered parametrically variable (dynamic) rather than static.
The quality or state of being parametric: parametric nature (of a design or concept), whether through parameterization applied retroactively or as an inherently native property.
Furnished with, or described in terms of, parameters; using parametrization, or having had it applied.
A group of civilians trained and organized in a military fashion, but which do not represent the formal forces of a sovereign power.
An organic compound with the chemical formula H₂NC₆H₄OH, used as a developer for black-and-white film.
A treeless grassland ecosystem covering extensive high areas of equatorial mountains, especially in South America.
Pertaining to a pair (a, b) of set functions where a is supermodular, b is submodular, and they always satisfy the cross-inequality b(X) - a(Y) > b(X-Y) -a(Y-X) for all X, Y.
A technique for reasoning on sets of clauses where the predicate symbol is equality.
A kind of pseudomorph in which there has been a change of physical characteristics without alteration of chemical composition, as in the change of aragonite to calcite.
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 96. 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.