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11-letter words containing p, o, l

  • plainstones — the pavement or a paved area in a town or city
  • planetology — the branch of astronomy that deals with the physical features of the planets.
  • plank floor — a floor made from sawed, straight-grained timber.
  • planoconvex — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and convex on the other.
  • planogamete — a motile gamete.
  • planography — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
  • plant louse — aphid.
  • planthopper — any member of a large and varied group of homopterous insects that are related to the leafhoppers and the spittlebugs but rarely damage cultivated plants.
  • plantocracy — government by plantation owners.
  • plantswoman — a nurserywoman.
  • planuliform — resembling a planula
  • plasmalogen — any of the class of phosphatides that contain an aldehyde of a fatty acid, found in heart and skeletal muscle, the brain, the liver, and in eggs.
  • plasminogen — the blood substance that when activated forms plasmin.
  • plasmodesma — any of many minute strands of cytoplasm that extend through plant cell walls and connect adjoining cells.
  • plasmolysis — contraction of the protoplasm in a living cell when water is removed by exosmosis.
  • plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
  • plastometer — an instrument for measuring the plasticity of a substance.
  • plate armor — armor made of thin, flat, shaped pieces of wrought iron or steel.
  • plate block — a block of four or more stamps containing the number or numbers of the printing plate or plates in the margin of the sheet.
  • plate proof — proof taken from a plate ready for printing.
  • plateholder — a lightproof container for a photographic plate, loaded into the camera with the plate and having a slide that is removed before exposing.
  • 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.
  • play around — 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.
  • 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.
  • plaza lasso — Galo [gah-law] /ˈgɑ lɔ/ (Show IPA), 1906–87, Ecuadorian statesman and diplomat, born in the U.S.: president 1948–52.
  • plecopteran — Also, plecopterous. belonging or pertaining to the insect order Plecoptera, comprising the stoneflies.
  • plectognath — belonging to the Plectognathi, a group or order of fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick, often spiny, scaleless skin, and including the filefish, globefish, puffer, and triggerfish.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • plott hound — an American hound having a brindled coat, used especially in hunting bears and wild boars.
  • plough back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
  • plough into — If something, for example a car, ploughs into something else, it goes out of control and crashes violently into it.
  • ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
  • ploughstaff — one of the handles of a plough
  • plum tomato — an egg-shaped or oblong variety of tomato.
  • plumb joint — (in sheet metal work) a soldered lap joint.
  • plumigerous — wearing or possessing feathers
  • plunge pool — the water in a plunge basin.
  • 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.
  • plutocratic — of, relating to, or characterized by a plutocracy or plutocrats.
  • plutologist — a person who has expertise in plutology
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