13-letter words containing pl
- flower people — (esp during the 1960s) young people whose behaviour, dress, use of drugs, etc implied a rejection of conventional values, and who used flowers to symbolize peace and naturalness
- fluoroplastic — any of the plastics, as Teflon, in which hydrogen atoms of the hydrocarbon chains are replaced by fluorine atoms.
- foliage plant — any plant grown chiefly for its attractive leaves.
- food supplies — food obtained for a household or for a country, an expedition, etc
- freight plane — an aeroplane used to transport goods
- funemployment — the condition of a person who enjoys being out of work
- futtock plate — a metal plate placed perpendicular to the top of a ship's lower mast to hold the futtock shrouds.
- galvanoplasty — electrotypy.
- gas explosion — an explosion caused by a gas leak in the presence of an ignition source
- gene splicing — recombinant DNA technology.
- gene-splicing — recombinant DNA technology.
- golden plover — either of two plovers of the genus Pluvialis, having the back marked with golden-yellow spots, P. apricaria, of Europe, or P. dominica, of America.
- golgi complex — an organelle, consisting of layers of flattened sacs, that takes up and processes secretory and synthetic products from the endoplasmic reticulum and then either releases the finished products into various parts of the cell cytoplasm or secretes them to the outside of the cell.
- golgi-complex — an organelle, consisting of layers of flattened sacs, that takes up and processes secretory and synthetic products from the endoplasmic reticulum and then either releases the finished products into various parts of the cell cytoplasm or secretes them to the outside of the cell.
- goose pimples — Goose pimples are the same as goose bumps.
- graph plotter — plotter
- grapple plant — a procumbent, thorny plant, Harpagophytum procumbens, of southern Africa.
- grease nipple — a metal nipple designed to engage with a grease gun for injecting grease into a bearing, etc
- guilt complex — If you say that someone has a guilt complex about something, you mean that they feel very guilty about it, in a way that you consider is exaggerated, unreasonable, or unnecessary.
- hairsplitting — the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
- half coupling — a flange fixed at the end of each of the two shafts that are connected in a flange coupling
- hanging plant — a plant that grows downwards or hangs, often from a hanging basket or a high surface
- heating plant — a building or facility containing a boiler or furnace that provides heat to a building or a number of buildings
- heteroplastic — the repair of lesions with tissue from another individual or species.
- hip dysplasia — a genetic disorder, typically affecting young dogs of medium- to large-sized breeds, characterized by alteration and malformation of the hip joint.
- hockey player — sportsperson: plays hockey
- hydroairplane — a hydroplane.
- hypersplenism — an abnormal condition characterized by an enlarged spleen that prematurely destroys red blood cells or platelets.
- if you please — expressing mild outrage
- implacability — not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified; inexorable: an implacable enemy.
- implantations — Plural form of implantation.
- implementable — any article used in some activity, especially an instrument, tool, or utensil: agricultural implements.
- implicational — something implied or suggested as naturally to be inferred or understood: to resent an implication of dishonesty.
- implicatively — In an implicative way.
- in sb's place — If you say what you would have done in someone else's place, you say what you would have done if you had been in their situation and had been experiencing what they were experiencing.
- in triplicate — in three copies, times three
- in-completion — the state of being incomplete; incompleteness.
- indisciplined — Alternative form of undisciplined.
- inexplainable — not explainable; incapable of being explained; inexplicable.
- interpleaders — Plural form of interpleader.
- interpleading — to litigate with each other in order to determine which of two parties is the rightful claimant against a third party.
- iris explorer — (mathematics, tool) Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG)'s tool for developing visualisation applications via a visual programming environment. IRIS Explorer has a range of visualisation techniques, from simple graphs to multidimensional animation, that can help show trends and relationships in data. IRIS Explorer uses standard Open Inventor, ImageVision and OpenGL libraries as well as NAG's own numerical libraries. It is available for Windows, Unix and Linux. It has a point-and-click interface and a library of "modules" (software routines).
- irreplaceable — incapable of being replaced; unique: an irreplaceable vase.
- irreplaceably — In an irreplaceable manner; (frequently) uniquely, singularly.
- irrepleviable — not replevisable; not capable of being replevied.
- japanese plum — a small tree, Prunus salicina, native to China, bearing edible yellowish fruit.
- job applicant — candidate for an advertised post
- jointer plane — a plane for truing the edges of boards, planing large surfaces, etc.
- jovian planet — any of the four large outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
- kepler's laws — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)