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11-letter words containing p, i, l

  • plasticware — knives, forks, spoons, cups, etc., made of plastic: a picnic hamper with plasticware for six.
  • plastiqueur — a person, especially a terrorist, who makes, places, or detonates plastic bombs.
  • platemaking — the act of making plates
  • platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst
  • platinotype — a process of printing positives in which a platinum salt is used, rather than the usual silver salts, in order to make a more permanent print.
  • platycnemia — (in the shinbone) the state of being laterally flattened.
  • platykurtic — (of a frequency distribution) less concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
  • platyrrhine — Anthropology. having a broad, flat-bridged nose.
  • play-acting — Play-acting is behaviour where someone pretends to have attitudes or feelings that they do not really have.
  • playability — the quality or state of being playable: The sound and playability of vintage instruments depends on how well they are maintained. Poor graphics and counterintuitive controls negatively affected the playability of the video game.
  • playstation — (games, hardware)   The leading family of games consoles, from Sony Corporation consisting of the original Playstation (PS1) and the Playstation 2 (PS2). The basic Playstations consist of a small box containing the processor and a DVD reader, with video outputs to connect to a TV, sockets for two game controllers, and a socket for one or two memory cards. The PS2 also has USB sockets. The PS2 can run PS1 software because the PS2's I/O processor is the same as the PS1's CPU.
  • playwriting — the art or technique of writing theatrical plays; the work or profession of a playwright.
  • plebeianism — belonging or pertaining to the common people.
  • plebeianize — to make popular or vulgar
  • pleinairism — pertaining to a manner or style of painting developed chiefly in France in the mid-19th century, characterized by the representation of the luminous effects of natural light and atmosphere as contrasted with the artificial light and absence of the sense of air or atmosphere associated with paintings produced in the studio.
  • pleiomerous — (of a flower) having a greater than normal number of parts
  • pleiotropic — the phenomenon of one gene being responsible for or affecting more than one phenotypic characteristic.
  • pleistocene — noting or pertaining to the epoch forming the earlier half of the Quaternary Period, beginning about two million years ago and ending 10,000 years ago, characterized by widespread glacial ice and the advent of modern humans.
  • plenipotent — invested with or possessing full power.
  • plenishings — furnishings or equipment
  • plentifully — existing in great plenty: Coal was plentiful, and therefore cheap, in that region.
  • pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
  • pleomorphic — of, relating to, or characterized by pleomorphism; polymorphous.
  • plerophoria — full conviction
  • pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
  • pleximetric — relating to a pleximeter
  • plisetskaya — Maya (Mikhailovna) [mah-yuh myi-khahy-luh v-nuh] /ˈmɑ yə myɪˈxaɪ ləv nə/ (Show IPA), 1925–2015, Soviet ballet dancer.
  • plough into — If something, for example a car, ploughs into something else, it goes out of control and crashes violently into it.
  • plumb joint — (in sheet metal work) a soldered lap joint.
  • plumigerous — wearing or possessing feathers
  • plumularian — a member of the genus Plumularia
  • pluralistic — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
  • pluripotent — (of a cell) capable of developing into any type of cell or tissue except those that form a placenta or embryo: pluripotent stem cells.
  • pluriserial — having many series or rows
  • plutarchian — of or relating to the biographer Plutarch.
  • plutocratic — of, relating to, or characterized by a plutocracy or plutocrats.
  • plutologist — a person who has expertise in plutology
  • plutonomist — a person who studies or has expertise in plutonomy
  • pluviometer — rain gauge.
  • plyometrics — a system of exercise in which the muscles are repeatedly stretched and suddenly contracted
  • pneudraulic — of or relating to a mechanism involving both pneumatic and hydraulic action.
  • podophyllin — a resin, occurring as a light brown to greenish amorphous powder, obtained from podophyllum, and used in medicine chiefly as a cathartic and, locally, in the treatment of genital warts.
  • poikilocyte — an abnormally shaped red blood cell
  • point-blank — aimed or fired straight at the mark especially from close range; direct.
  • pointillism — a theory and technique developed by the neo-impressionists, based on the principle that juxtaposed dots of pure color, as blue and yellow, are optically mixed into the resulting hue, as green, by the viewer.
  • poison pill — a pellet of a quick-acting poison, as cyanide, for a spy to carry in order to commit suicide when faced with capture or torture.
  • polar orbit — a spacecraft orbit that passes over, or close to, the geographic poles of the earth or some other celestial body.
  • polarimeter — an instrument for measuring the amount of light received from a given source as a function of its state of polarization.
  • polariscope — an instrument for measuring or exhibiting the polarization of light or for examining substances in polarized light, often to determine stress and strain in glass and other substances.
  • polarizable — to cause polarization in.
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