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13-letter words containing pl

  • la plata peak — a mountain in central Colorado, in the Sawatch Range. 14,361 feet (4377 meters).
  • labour supply — the total number of hours that workers are willing and able to be paid wages to work for
  • leucodepleted — of or denoting blood from which the white cells have been removed
  • license plate — a plate or tag, usually of metal, bearing evidence of official registration and permission, as for the use of a motor vehicle.
  • lickety-split — at great speed; rapidly: to travel lickety-split.
  • little people — small supernatural beings, such as elves, pixies, or leprechauns
  • locking plate — a narrow wheel geared to a striking train or other mechanism and having a notched rim engaging with another mechanism permitting it to rotate through a specific arc.
  • lose the plot — go insane
  • low explosive — a relatively slow-burning explosive, usually set off by heat or friction, used for propelling charges in guns or for ordinary blasting.
  • lumbar plexus — a network of nerves originating in the spinal nerves of the midback region and innervating the pelvic area, the front of the legs, and part of the feet.
  • macroplankton — planktonic organisms of about 1 mm in length.
  • mail exploder — (messaging)   Part of an electronic mail delivery system which allows a message to be delivered to a list of addresses. Mail exploders are used to implement mailing lists. Users send messages to a single address and the mail exploder takes care of delivery to the individual mailboxes in the list.
  • make a splash — If you make a splash, you become noticed or become popular because of something that you have done.
  • maldeployment — the inefficient use of resources or an instance of such
  • mammoplasties — Plural form of mammoplasty.
  • mansplanation — Also called mansplanation [man-spluh-ney-shuh n] /ˌmæn spləˈneɪ ʃən/ (Show IPA). such an explanation given to someone, usually a woman.
  • maple heights — a city in NE Ohio.
  • mar del plata — a city in E Argentina: seaside resort.
  • marshall plan — European Recovery Program.
  • meeting place — A meeting place is a place where people meet.
  • mexican apple — a tropical American tree, Casimiroa edulis, of the rue family, having greenish, inconspicuous flowers and tomatolike fleshy fruit that is yellow on the inside and gray or yellowish-green on the outside.
  • microplankton — plankton visible as individual organisms only with the aid of a microscope, which excludes most animal plankton.
  • middle temple — an edifice or place dedicated to the service or worship of a deity or deities.
  • mis-explained — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
  • mise en place — (in a restaurant kitchen) the preparation of equipment and food before service begins
  • misemployment — Wrong or mistaken employment.
  • molding plane — a plane having a blade or a number of blades profiled to form moldings.
  • morality play — an allegorical form of the drama current from the 14th to 16th centuries and employing such personified abstractions as Virtue, Vice, Greed, Gluttony, etc.
  • multiemployer — Of or pertaining to more than one employer.
  • multiplatform — Compatible with or involving more than one type of computer or operating system.
  • multiplatinum — Denoting or relating to a musical recording that has sold more than two million copies.
  • multiple boot — dual boot
  • multiple shop — chain store.
  • multiple star — three or more stars lying close together in the celestial sphere and usually united in a single gravitational system.
  • multiplicable — capable of being multiplied.
  • multiplicands — Plural form of multiplicand.
  • multiplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of multiplicate.
  • mycoplasmosis — a disease in animals and humans caused by mycoplasma
  • myringoplasty — (surgery) The closure of the perforation of pars tensa of the tympanic membrane.
  • nannoplankton — the smallest of the microplankton; the aquatic organisms that can pass through fine mesh plankton nets.
  • naples yellow — a yellow pigment, used by artists; lead antimonate
  • nativity play — A nativity play is a play about the birth of Jesus, usually one performed by children at Christmas time.
  • ne plus ultra — the highest point; acme.
  • neo-platonism — a philosophical system which was first developed in the 3rd century ad as a synthesis of Platonic, Pythagorean, and Aristotelian elements, and which, although originally opposed to Christianity, later incorporated it. It dominated European thought until the 13th century and re-emerged during the Renaissance
  • neoplasticism — the theory and practice of the de Stijl school, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art, and restriction of spatial or linear relations to vertical and horizontal movements as well as restriction of the artist's palette to black, white, and the primary colors.
  • nickel-plated — covered with a thin layer of nickel, deposited usually by electrolysis
  • non-compliant — failure or refusal to comply, as with a law, regulation, or term of a contract.
  • non-complying — failure or refusal to comply, as with a law, regulation, or term of a contract.
  • non-depletion — to decrease seriously or exhaust the abundance or supply of: The fire had depleted the game in the forest. Extravagant spending soon depleted his funds.
  • non-implement — any article used in some activity, especially an instrument, tool, or utensil: agricultural implements.
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