English Words: P

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Platonic idealnoun

A perfect, idealized notion of something, taken to exist beyond the physical world.

platonic lovenoun

Intimate but non-sexual and non-romantic affection.

Platonic monthnoun

One twelfth of a Great Year, corresponding to one of the zodiacal ages (roughly 2000 years).

Platonic solidnoun

Any of five convex polyhedra with congruent regular polygonal faces, which have a high degree of symmetry and have been studied since antiquity.

Platonicaladj

Pertaining to Plato or his philosophy; Platonic.

platonicallyadv

In a platonic manner.

Platonicsnoun

plural of Platonic

Platonismname

The philosophy of Plato.

Platonistnoun

A member of the philosophical school of thought established by Plato; a believer in Platonism.

platonizeverb

To explain by, or accommodate to, the Platonic philosophy.

platonizernoun

One who platonizes.

platoonnoun

A unit of thirty to forty soldiers typically commanded by a lieutenant and forming part of a company.

platoonernoun

A player who platoons.

platoonmatenoun

A member of the same platoon.

platoonsnoun

plural of platoon

plattnoun

Obsolete spelling of plat (“scheme, plan, design, map”).

Platt scalingnoun

A technique for transforming the outputs of a classification model into a probability distribution over classes, based on a logistic regression model.

Plattdeutschname

Low German

Plattename

A surname from German.

plattelandnoun

The country, the countryside.

Plattenname

A surname from Old French.

platternoun

A tray for serving foods.

platterfulnoun

As much as a platter will hold.

platterlessadj

Without a platter.

platterlikeadj

Having the form of a platter (flat and round)

Plattevillename

A statutory town in Weld County, Colorado, United States.

plattneritenoun

A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing lead and oxygen.

Plattsburgname

A placename

Plattsburghname

A placename:

Plattsburgh-Burlington-Montrealname

A United States media market found in northern New York and northern Vermont, where advertising prices also include the broadcast reach into Canada for those stations, especially the metropolis of Montreal, found just to the north following the Richelieu River running out of Lake Champlain.

Plattsmouthname

A city, the county seat of Cass County, Nebraska, United States.

platyadj

Resembling plates.

platybasicadj

Of or pertaining to platybasia

platycephalicadj

Having a broad head

platycoelousadj

Flat at the anterior and concave at the posterior end; said of the centra of the vertebrae of some dinosaurs.

platyconenoun

An organism or fossil with a platyconic shell, or the shell itself.

platyconicadj

Having a flattened cross-section from its side.

platyfishnoun

Certain fish of the genus Xiphophorus lacking a sword-like extension of the lower tailfin.

platyformadj

Synonym of onisciform.

platygaeanismnoun

The belief that the Earth's shape is a plane or disk.

platygastridnoun

Any wasp in the family Platygastridae.

platyhelminthnoun

Any flatworm of the phylum Platyhelminthes.

platyhelminthicadj

Of or relating to the platyhelminths.

platykurticadj

Of a distribution: having kurtosis less than that of a normal distribution; equivalently, having negative excess kurtosis.

platykurtosisnoun

The property of having kurtosis less than that of a normal distribution; equivalently, having negative excess kurtosis.

platykurtoticadj

Platykurtic.

platymericadj

Having a broad femur

platymeternoun

An apparatus for measuring the capacity of condensers, or the inductive capacity of dielectrics.

platynotannoun

Any anguimorph lizard of the clade Platynota

platynotidnoun

A member of the clade Platynota of anguimorph lizards.

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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 443. 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.

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