12-letter words containing pla
- switch plate — a plate, usually of metal, ceramic, or plastic, covering a switch so that the knob or toggle protrudes.
- tenths-place — next after ninth; being the ordinal number for ten.
- to play ball — If someone refuses to play ball, they are unwilling to do what someone wants them to do.
- to play fair — If you say that someone plays fair, you mean that they behave or act in a reasonable and honest way.
- to play host — If a person or country plays host to an event or an important visitor, they host the event or the visit.
- to play safe — If you play safe or play it safe, you do not take any risks.
- transplantee — a person who is undergoing or has undergone an organ transplant.
- trying plane — a plane with a long body for planing the edges of long boards
- unapplausive — not giving applause; not expressing praise
- uncomplacent — pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied: The voters are too complacent to change the government.
- unit's place — unit (def 8).
- vanity plate — a vehicle license plate bearing a combination of letters or numbers requested by the licensee, as a name or occupation.
- velvet plant — a composite plant, Gynura aurantiaca, native to the Old World tropics, having leaves and stems covered with dense, velvety, purple hairs and often cultivated as a houseplant. Compare purple passion.
- video player — VCR: videotape recorder
- viola player — someone who plays the viola
- walled plain — a circular or almost circular area on the moon, sometimes with a floor that is depressed, usually partially enclosed by walls that rise to varying heights and that are usually lower than those of a crater.
- water splash — a place where a stream runs over a road
- well-planned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- white plague — tuberculosis, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.
- white plains — a city in SE New York, near New York City: battle 1776.
- white poplar — Also called abele. an Old World poplar, Populus alba, widely cultivated in the U.S., having the underside of the leaves covered with a dense silvery-white down.
- zinc-plating — the process of covering something with a layer or coating of zinc