English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 97 of 931
A poisonous alkaloid, also known as thebaine, obtained from opium; not used in medicine; but used as a precursor for the manufacture of some medicines.
The condition or fact of being paramount; precedence, supremacy; (countable) an instance of this.
A person who is the object of one's love, especially in an affair or romance; a lover; also, a sexual partner.
A mutation in which a heritable change in one allele is induced by another in the same locus
A carbohydrate similar to starch, synthesized along with starch by the chloroplasts found in Euglena.
Any member of the Paramyxoviridae family of negative-sense single-stranded RNA viruses responsible for a number of human and animal diseases.
A latitude where, at some longitude at a given moment in time, two celestial bodies (or mathematical points, or any such bodies'/points' projections onto the ecliptic) were simultaneously one on the horizon and the other at its highest in the sky (culminating) or lowest below the horizon.
Of or relating to the paranasal sinuses, a group of four paired air-filled spaces that surround the nasal cavity.
A monoclinic-domatic mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and sodium.
Describing the production of nematic order in a liquid crystal under the influence of an applied magnetic field
associated with, but only indirectly related to, a tumor, as for example the endocrine or immunologic effects rather than the mass effect.
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 97. 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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