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11-letter words containing pl

  • outerplanar — (mathematics) Describing a graph having a planar embedding such that the vertices lie on a circle and the edges lie inside that circle.
  • overcomplex — composed of many interconnected parts; compound; composite: a complex highway system.
  • overexplain — to explain in too much detail
  • overexploit — to use (natural resources etc) excessively, causing a reduction
  • overplaided — (of a garment) covered with a design consisting of an overplaid
  • overplanned — resulting from overplanning
  • overplotted — relating to an excessively elaborate plot
  • panda plant — a succulent perennial shrub, Kalanchoe tomentosa, of Madagascar, having oblate leaves with gray fuzz and brown blotches on the edges.
  • paper plate — a disposable plate made from paper and used for eating from
  • par exemple — for example
  • paraplanner — a person who assists a financial planner, esp in compiling reports and conducting research
  • pascal plus — (language)   Pascal with extensions for object-oriented multiprogramming by Jim Welsh and D. Bustard of Queens University, Belfast, UK. Pascal Plus uses an "envelope" construct for both packages and classes.
  • pentaploidy — the condition of being pentaploid
  • peoplemover — any of various forms of mass transit, as moving sidewalks or automated driverless vehicles, used for transporting people along limited, fixed routes, as around airports or congested urban areas.
  • perplexedly — in a puzzled way
  • petri plate — a petri dish containing culture medium
  • phainopepla — a crested passerine bird, Phainopepla nitens, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
  • phylloplane — the surface of a leaf considered as a habitat, esp for microorganisms
  • pilot plant — an experimental industrial plant in which processes or techniques planned for use in full-scale operation are tested in advance.
  • pinch pleat — a narrow pleat that is usually part of a series at the top of curtains.
  • pitch plane — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
  • placatingly — in a placating manner
  • place value — the value of the place, or position, of a digit in a number or series: In the number 794, the location of the digit 4 has a place value of one.
  • place-value — the value of the place, or position, of a digit in a number or series: In the number 794, the location of the digit 4 has a place value of one.
  • placeholder — Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
  • placekicker — a player who takes place kicks
  • placelessly — in a placeless manner
  • placerville — a town in central California; 19th-century gold-mining center.
  • plagiarised — to take and use by plagiarism.
  • plagiarizer — to take and use by plagiarism.
  • plagioclase — any of the feldspar minerals varying in composition from acidic albite, NaAlSi 3 O 8 , to basic anorthite, CaAl 2 Si 2 O 8 , found in most igneous rocks: shows twinning striations on good cleavage surfaces.
  • plagiostome — (of fish) belonging to the genus Plagiostomi, which includes sharks and rays, characterized by a transverse mouth with the jaw suspended from the skull
  • plaid cymru — the Welsh nationalist party
  • plain ascii — /playn-as'kee/ flat ASCII.
  • plain flour — ground wheat with no raising agent
  • plain tripe — the fatty, inner lining of the first stomach (the rumen) of a steer, calf, hog, or sheep, having a bland taste and used as a food, especially in the preparation of such dishes as haggis, head cheese, etc.
  • plain weave — the most common and tightest of basic weave structures in which the filling threads pass over and under successive warp threads and repeat the same pattern with alternate threads in the following row, producing a checkered surface.
  • plainstanes — the pavement or a paved area in a town or city
  • plainstones — the pavement or a paved area in a town or city
  • plane angle — an angle between two intersecting lines.
  • plane chart — a chart used in plane sailing, in which the lines of latitude and longitude are straight and parallel
  • plane crash — an accident in which an aircraft hits land or water and is damaged or destroyed
  • plane table — a surveying instrument consisting of a drawing board mounted on adjustable legs, and used in the field for plotting measurements directly
  • plane-table — a drawing board mounted on a tripod, used in the field, with an alidade, for surveying tracts of land.
  • planer tree — a small tree, Planera aquatica, of the elm family, growing in moist ground in the southern U.S., bearing a small, ovoid, nutlike fruit and yielding a compact light-brown wood.
  • planet gear — any of the gears in an epicyclic train surrounding and engaging with the sun gear.
  • planetarian — a staff member at a planetarium.
  • planetarium — an apparatus or model representing the planetary system.
  • 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.
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