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.