Words starting with P that are validated

• planchette — Noun – English ～ a triangular board supported on casters; when lightly touched with the fingertips it is supposed to spell out supernatural (or unconscious) messages
• plancheudstilling — Noun – Danish
• Planck — Noun – English ～ German physicist whose explanation of blackbody radiation in the context of quantized energy emissions initiated quantum theory (1858-1947)
• Planck — Last name – Danish
• Planck's law — Noun – English ～ (physics) the basis of quantum theory; the energy of electromagnetic waves is contained in indivisible quanta that have to be radiated or absorbed as a whole; the magnitude is proportional to frequency where the constant of proportionality is given by Planck's constant
• Planck's constant — Noun – English ～ the constant of proportionality relating the energy of a photon to its frequency; approximately 6.626 x 10^-34 joule-second
• Plander — Last name – Danish
• plane — Noun – English ～ an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets; "the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane"
• plane — Noun – English ～ (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape; "we will refer to the plane of the graph as the X-Y plane"; "any line joining two points on a plane lies wholly on that plane"
• plane geometry — Noun – English ～ the geometry of 2-dimensional figures
• plane — Noun – English ～ a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood
• plane figure — Noun – English ～ a two-dimensional shape
• plane — Noun – English ～ a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood; "the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work"
• plane — Noun – English ～ a level of existence or development; "he lived on a worldly plane"
• plane angle — Noun – English ～ an angle formed by two straight lines (in the same plane)
• picture plane — Noun – English ～ the plane that is in the foreground of a drawing or painting; coextensive with but different from the objective surface of the work
• plane — Verb – English ～ travel on the surface of water
• plane — Verb – English ～ make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane; "plane the top of the door"
• plane — Verb – English ～ cut or remove with or as if with a plane; "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood"
• plane — Adjective – English ～ having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface"; "skirts sewn with fine flat seams"

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