10-letter words containing pla
- playground — an area used for outdoor play or recreation, especially by children, and often containing recreational equipment such as slides and swings.
- playleader — a person who leads or assists with organized children's play
- playmaking — the initiating of offensive plays in sports
- playreader — a person who reads and evaluates plays, as for a publisher, producer, or theatrical company.
- playschool — preschool, nursery school
- playscript — the manuscript of a play, especially as prepared for use by actors in rehearsals.
- playstreet — an urban street closed to traffic during specified times and sometimes equipped with recreational facilities, for use by children as a play area.
- playwright — a writer of plays; dramatist.
- pole plate — (in a trussed roof) a plate resting upon the beams and supporting common rafters near their lower ends.
- power play — Football. an aggressive running play in which numerous offensive players converge and forge ahead to block and clear a path for the ball carrier.
- powerplant — a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
- preplanned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- proplastid — a plant cell organelle that a plastid develops from
- protoplasm — Biology. (no longer in technical use) the colloidal and liquid substance of which cells are formed, excluding horny, chitinous, and other structural material; the cytoplasm and nucleus.
- protoplast — Biology. the contents of a cell within the cell membrane, considered as a fundamental entity. the primordial living unit or cell.
- push plate — a rectangular protective plate of metal, plastic, ceramic, or other material applied vertically to the lock stile of a door.
- race plate — a metallic, plastic, or wooden strip directly in front of the reed on the lay of a loom, along which the shuttle travels in its passage through the shed.
- radio play — a play written for broadcasting on radio
- re-explain — to explain again or in a different way
- re-planned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- replanning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- replanting — to plant again.
- rhizoplane — the part of the root of a plant that is near the soil surface
- rhodoplast — a plastid found in red algae, containing red pigment as well as chlorophyll
- rock plant — a plant found among rocks or in rock gardens.
- sailplaner — a person who flies sailplanes
- sarcoplasm — the cytoplasm of a striated muscle fiber.
- satyr play — a burlesque or ribald drama having a chorus of satyrs, usually written by a poet to follow the poet's trilogy of tragedies presented at the Dionysian festival in ancient Greece.
- screenplay — a motion-picture or television scenario.
- screwplate — a metal plate having threaded holes, used for cutting screw threads by hand.
- seed plant — a seed-bearing plant; spermatophyte.
- shiplapped — of, related to, or resembling shiplap
- show-place — an estate, mansion, or the like, usually open to the public, renowned for its beauty, excellent design and workmanship, historical interest, etc.
- side plate — a small plate used for bread or other accompaniments to a meal
- snow plant — a leafless, parasitic plant, Sarcodes sanguinea, of the pine forests of the Sierra Nevada in California, having a stout spike of bright red flowers, a thickly scaled stem, and a corallike mass of roots.
- soap plant — a Californian plant, Chlorogalum pomeridianum, of the lily family, the bulb of which was used by the Indians as a soap.
- someplaces — somewhere
- soup plate — a deep, concave plate used especially for serving soup.
- splanchnic — of or relating to the viscera or entrails; visceral.
- splanchno- — the viscera
- splash dam — a flood dam built to contain water that is released for driving logs.
- splash out — If you splash out on something, especially on a luxury, you buy it even though it costs a lot of money.
- splashback — a sheet of glass, plastic, etc, attached to a wall above a basin to protect the wall against splashing
- splashdown — the landing of a space vehicle in a body of water, especially the ocean.
- splay-feet — a broad, flat foot, especially one turned outward.
- splay-foot — a broad, flat foot, especially one turned outward.
- sporoplasm — the protoplasm within a spore that is injected into a host cell by various parasitic organisms.
- spot plate — a flat ceramic or plastic plate containing small wells on which spot tests are made.
- stepladder — a ladder having flat steps or treads in place of rungs.
- stop plank — a board or boarding that is placed along the top of a dam to increase its height and capacity