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11-letter words containing p, l, a, y

  • piscatology — the art or science of fishing.
  • placatingly — in a placating manner
  • placelessly — in a placeless manner
  • plaid cymru — the Welsh nationalist party
  • planetology — the branch of astronomy that deals with the physical features of the planets.
  • planigraphy — an x-ray photograph in which a given plane of the body is well defined and those above and below it purposely out of focus.
  • planography — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
  • plantocracy — government by plantation owners.
  • plasmolysis — contraction of the protoplasm in a living cell when water is removed by exosmosis.
  • 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 a part — act
  • play around — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • play by ear — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • play doctor — a person, usually a professional playwright, employed to improve a script, especially shortly before the play's opening.
  • play possum — opossum.
  • play truant — be absent from school without permission
  • play-acting — Play-acting is behaviour where someone pretends to have attitudes or feelings that they do not really have.
  • play-centre — a regular meeting of small children arranged by their parents or a welfare agency to give them an opportunity of supervised creative play
  • 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.
  • playfulness — full of play or fun; sportive; frolicsome.
  • 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.
  • pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
  • plisetskaya — Maya (Mikhailovna) [mah-yuh myi-khahy-luh v-nuh] /ˈmɑ yə myɪˈxaɪ ləv nə/ (Show IPA), 1925–2015, Soviet ballet dancer.
  • poetry slam — a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
  • policy loan — a loan made by a life-insurance company to a policyholder with the cash value of the policy serving as security.
  • policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • politically — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
  • polling day — date of election voting
  • polyactinal — possessing many rays
  • polyalcohol — polyol.
  • polyamorous — noting or relating to polyamory, the practice or condition of participating simultaneously in more than one serious romantic or sexual relationship with the knowledge and consent of all partners.
  • polyandrist — a woman who practices or favors polyandry.
  • polyandrous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polyandry; polyandric.
  • polyangular — multangular; multiangular.
  • polycarpous — producing fruit many times, as a perennial plant.
  • polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.
  • polycrystal — an object composed of randomly oriented crystals, formed by rapid solidification
  • polydactyly — the condition of being polydactyl.
  • polygonatum — a plant of the genus Polygonatum
  • polygrapher — a person who employs a code cipher
  • polygraphic — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
  • polylingual — pertaining to, expressed in, or using several languages; multilingual.
  • polymyalgia — a chronic inflammatory disease, common among older persons, characterized by recurrent episodes of muscle pain and stiffness, sometimes leading to cardiovascular complications or blindness.
  • polynuclear — having many nuclei.
  • polyphagous — Pathology. excessive desire to eat.
  • polysorbate — any of a class of emulsifying and dispersing agents used in various foods and pharmaceutical preparations.
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