9-letter words containing p, l, a, y
- pivotally — of, relating to, or serving as a pivot.
- placatory — serving, tending, or intended to placate: a placatory reply.
- placidity — pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed: placid waters.
- placitory — of or relating to pleas made to support a claim or a defence
- planarity — of or relating to a geometric plane.
- planetary — of, relating to, or resembling a planet or the planets.
- plasticky — made of or resembling plastic
- platyfish — any of several small, yellow-gray freshwater fishes of the genus Xiphophorus, especially X. variatus, of Mexico: popular in home aquariums, in which the color varies widely.
- plausibly — having an appearance of truth or reason; seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible; believable: a plausible excuse; a plausible plot.
- play back — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- play ball — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
- play date — an appointment made by several parents to have their young children play together.
- play down — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- play fair — games: be sporting
- play hell — To play hell with something means to have a bad effect on it or cause great confusion. In British English, you can also say that one person or thing plays merry hell with another.
- play park — A play park is a children's playground.
- play safe — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- play upon — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- play with — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- play-bill — a program or announcement of a play.
- play-list — a list of the recordings to be played on the radio during a particular program or time period, often including their sequence, duration, etc.
- play-time — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- playdough — children's modelling clay
- playfield — a field for sports or public festivities
- playfully — full of play or fun; sportive; frolicsome.
- playgoing — the activity of attending the theatre
- playgroup — a group of small children, especially preschoolers, organized for play or play activities and supervised by adult volunteers.
- playhouse — a theater.
- playmaker — an offensive player, as in basketball or ice hockey, who executes plays designed to put one or more teammates in a position to score.
- plaything — a thing to play with; toy.
- pleiotaxy — an increase in the normal number of parts.
- plug away — keep working on sth
- plurality — the excess of votes received by the leading candidate, in an election in which there are three or more candidates, over those received by the next candidate (distinguished from majority).
- ply metal — a composition of dissimilar metals bonded together in sheet form.
- pollyanna — an excessively or blindly optimistic person.
- polyamide — a polymer in which the monomer units are linked together by the amide group –CONH–.
- polyamine — a compound containing more than one amino group.
- 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.
- polyandry — the practice or condition of having more than one husband at one time. Compare monandry (def 1).
- polyantha — a type of clustering flower
- polyanthi — hybrid garden primroses
- polyarchy — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- polyaxial — having more than one axis
- polybasic — (of an acid) having two or more atoms of replaceable hydrogen.
- polygamic — polygamous.
- polygonal — a figure, especially a closed plane figure, having three or more, usually straight, sides.
- polygraph — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- polylemma — a debate forcing a choice between contradictory positions
- polymathy — learning in many fields; encyclopedic knowledge.
- polynesia — one of the three principal divisions of Oceania, comprising those island groups in the Pacific lying E of Melanesia and Micronesia and extending from the Hawaiian Islands S to New Zealand.