phosphorus
phosphorus is a 10-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The morning star; Phosphor. Face value is 20 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The morning star; Phosphor.
- noun. A poisonous nonmetallic element of the nitrogen group, obtained as a white, or yellowish, translucent waxy substance, having a characteristic disagreeable smell. It is very active chemically, must be preserved under water, and unites with oxygen even at ordinary temperatures, giving a faint glow, -- whence its name. It always occurs compined, usually in phosphates, as in the mineral apatite, in bones, etc. It is used in the composition on the tips of friction matches, and for many other purposes. The molecule contains four atoms. Symbol P. Atomic weight 31.0.
- noun. Hence, any substance which shines in the dark like phosphorus, as certain phosphorescent bodies.
- noun. a planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky
- noun. a multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as organic phosphates in all living cells; is highly reactive and occurs in several allotropic forms
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