13-letter words containing pla
- raising plate — wall plate (def 1).
- record player — phonograph.
- resting place — grave
- reverse plate — a plate for printing a reverse.
- route planner — a book of road maps
- scotch plains — a township in NE New Jersey.
- seaplane base — a base for seaplanes
- silver poplar — white poplar (def 1).
- silver-plated — Something that is silver-plated is covered with a very thin layer of silver.
- soccer player — A soccer player is a person who plays soccer, especially as a profession.
- splanchnocele — a primitive embryonic body cavity
- splanchnology — the visceral system
- splatter film — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
- spotter plane — an aircraft used in observing enemy movements or the accuracy of fire on a target
- squash player — a person who plays squash
- state of play — current situation
- stomatoplasty — plastic surgery of the mouth or the cervix.
- string player — a person who plays an instrument of the violin family.
- supplantation — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- surface plate — Machinery. a flat plate used by machinists for testing surfaces that are to be made perfectly flat.
- tangent plane — tangent (def 4).
- tapioca-plant — the cassava, Manihot esculenta.
- tennis player — sportsperson who plays tennis
- thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- thoracoplasty — the operation removing selected portions of the ribs to collapse part of the underlying lung or an abnormal pleural space, usually in the treatment of tuberculosis.
- to play cupid — If you say that someone is playing cupid, you mean that they are trying to bring two people together to start a romantic relationship.
- to play havoc — If one thing plays havoc with another or wreaks havoc on it, it prevents it from continuing or functioning as normal, or damages it.
- to play hooky — If a child plays hooky, they stay away from school without permission.
- tobacco plant — any of numerous solanaceous plants of the genus Nicotiana, having mildly narcotic properties, tapering hairy leaves, and tubular or funnel-shaped fragrant flowers. The species N. tabacum is cultivated as the chief source of commercial tobacco
- town planning — city planning.
- townsend plan — a pension plan, proposed in the U.S. in 1934 but never passed by Congress, that would have awarded $200 monthly to persons over 60 who were no longer gainfully employed, provided that such allowance was spent in the U.S. within 30 days.
- toxoplasmosis — infection with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, transmitted to humans by consumption of insufficiently cooked meat containing the parasite or by contact with contaminated cats or their feces: the illness produced is usually mild, but in pregnant women may damage the fetus.
- trigger plant — any of several small grasslike plants of the genus Stylidium, having sensitive stamens that are erected when disturbed: family Stylidiaceae
- tympanoplasty — reconstruction of the eardrum and the bones of the middle ear.
- uncomplaining — to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault: He complained constantly about the noise in the corridor.
- uncomplaisant — not eager to please; not compliant or obliging
- under-planned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- unexplainable — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
- unexplainably — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
- unexplanatory — serving to explain: an explanatory footnote.
- unicorn plant — a North American plant, Proboscidea (Martynia) louisianica, having creamy-white to red flowers blotched with purple, and a woody capsule with a long, curved beak.
- unplagiarized — to take and use by plagiarism.
- unplasticized — not made plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer
- unreplaceable — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- upland cotton — a plant, Gossypium hirsutum, of warm regions of the New World, that is the chief commercial cotton crop in the U.S.
- upland plover — a large, field-inhabiting sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda, of eastern North America, resembling a plover: now protected and increasing in numbers.
- urban planner — a person who plans and designs urban areas
- vanilla plant — a composite plant, Trilisa odoratissima (or Carphephorus odoratissimus), of the southeastern U.S., having purplish flower heads and vanilla-scented leaves used to flavor tobacco.
- vanity plates — a vehicle license plate bearing a combination of letters or numbers requested by the licensee, as a name or occupation.
- vinyl plastic — any of various plastics made from polymerized vinyl compounds or copolymers of vinyl and other resins, used in various molded or extruded products, coatings, adhesives, sizes, etc.