14-letter words containing pla
- platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
- platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
- platform soles — very thick soles on a pair of shoes
- platinocyanide — a salt of platinocyanic acid.
- platinum black — a black powder consisting of very finely divided metallic platinum, used as a catalyst, especially in organic synthesis.
- platinum metal — any of the group of precious metallic elements consisting of ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium, and platinum
- platinum-blond — (of hair) of a pale silver-blond colour
- platonic solid — one of the five regular polyhedrons: tetrahedron, octahedron, hexahedron, icosahedron, or dodecahedron.
- platycephalous — flat-headed
- play for keeps — to do something seriously and without showing any mercy
- play hell with — to throw into confusion and disorder; disrupt
- play it by ear — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- play one's ace — to use one's best weapon or resource
- play the field — an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage.
- play with fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- player-manager — In football and some other sports, a player-manager is a person who plays for a team and also manages the team.
- plaza de toros — a bullring.
- potamoplankton — plankton living in freshwater streams.
- pressing plant — a manufacturing plant where phonograph records are produced by pressing in a mold or by stamping.
- pride of place — the highest or most outstanding position; first place.
- protoplanetary — of or relating to protoplanets
- reflected plan — a plan, as of a room, taken as seen from above but having the outlines of some upper surface, as a vault or compartmented ceiling, projected downward upon it so that a part that would appear at the right when seen from below appears on the plan at the left.
- reimplantation — the surgical restoration of a tooth, organ, limb, or other structure to its original site.
- replaceability — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- reserve player — a member of a sports team who plays in place of another player if they are injured, etc
- reversal plate — a plate developed by the reversal process.
- sales planning — the business activity of estimating future sales of products or services and setting sales targets
- selling plater — a horse that competes in a selling race; an inferior horse.
- selling-plater — a horse that competes in a selling race; an inferior horse.
- shoo-fly plant — apple of Peru.
- shopping plaza — a complex of stores, banks, movie theaters, etc.; shopping center.
- showplace home — a historic house
- space platform — space station.
- specimen plant — a plant grown by itself for ornamental effect, rather than being massed with others in a bed or border.
- splash erosion — erosion caused by the impact of falling raindrops.
- splatter movie — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
- staphyloplasty — plastic surgery or surgical repair involving the soft palate or the uvula
- sticking place — Also called sticking point. the place or point at which something stops and holds firm.
- stopping place — a place where vehicles may stop temporarily
- strip planting — the growing of different crops on alternate strips of ground that usually follow the contour of the land, a recourse to minimize erosion.
- symmetry plane — reflection plane.
- the platteland — (in South Africa) the country districts or rural areas
- three-act play — a dramatic production such as play or film which is divided into three acts or sections
- thromboplastic — causing or accelerating blood-clot formation.
- thromboplastin — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
- to play truant — If a pupil plays truant, he or she stays away from school without permission.
- tortoise plant — elephant's-foot.
- training plane — a plane used for training pilots, esp in the military
- transplacental — across or passing through the placenta.
- transplanetary — farther from the sun than a given planet.