English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 431 of 931
A display museum in which images of stars and other astronomical phenomena are projected onto a domed ceiling.
A system of gears that has a central gear wheel (sun gear) around which others (planet gears) rotate, often within an outer ring.
A nebulosity surrounding a dying red giant, consisting of material expelled by the star.
The remnant hot luminous core of the stellar progenitor of the planetary nebula, which ionizes the surrounding planetary nebula.
Any of many small, solid astronomical objects that orbit a star and form protoplanets through mutual gravitational attraction.
Someone who studies planetography ("the branch of astronomy concerned with the description of the physical features of planets").
The branch of astronomy concerned with the description of the physical features of planets
The branch of astrophysics dealing with planets and planetary systems; planetology
The unnamed fictional planet which serves as the setting for the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and its television adaptation Game of Thrones.
The event in which two planets are in a position in their orbits that they're next to each other, and being on one's perspective the other planet will seem to rise in the sky.
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 431. 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.