17-letter words containing pla
- according to plan — If something happens according to plan, it happens in exactly the way that it was intended to happen.
- basketball player — someone who plays basketball
- bitmapped display — bitmap display
- body center plate — one of a pair of plates that fit together and support the body of a car on a truck, while allowing the truck to rotate with respect to the body. One plate (body center plate) is attached to the underside of the car body and the other (truck center plate) is part of the car truck.
- commuter airplane — air taxi.
- contemplativeness — The state or quality of being contemplative.
- counter-complaint — an expression of discontent, regret, pain, censure, resentment, or grief; lament; faultfinding: his complaint about poor schools.
- courtship display — behaviour that is aimed at attracting a mate
- disaster planning — disaster recovery
- displacement hull — a hull that displaces a significant volume of water when under way.
- display standards — display standard
- drilling platform — a structure, either fixed to the sea bed or mobile, which supports the machinery and equipment (the drilling rig), together with the stores, required for digging an offshore oil well
- exemplary damages — law: fine imposed as a deterrent
- extrasolar planet — any other celestial body revolving around a star, illuminated by light from that star
- financial planner — a person whose business is advising individuals in the management of their financial affairs
- front-line player — a regular player on a sports team or one who plays in the farthest forward position
- half-breadth plan — a diagrammatic plan of one half of the hull of a vessel divided lengthwise amidships, showing water lines, stations, diagonals, and bow and buttock lines.
- hardware platform — a group of compatible computers that can run the same software.
- inertial platform — self-contained navigational devices used in inertial guidance, along with their mounting.
- jumping-off place — a place for use as a starting point: Paris was the jumping-off place for our tour of Europe.
- kidney transplant — surgery to replace a kidney
- language planning — the development of policies or programs designed to direct or change language use, as through the establishment of an official language, the standardization or modernization of a language, or the development or alteration of a writing system.
- laplace transform — a map of a function, as a signal, defined especially for positive real values, as time greater than zero, into another domain where the function is represented as a sum of exponentials.
- load displacement — the weight, in long tons, of a cargo vessel loaded so that the summer load line touches the surface of the water.
- manpower planning — a procedure used in organizations to balance future requirements for all levels of employee with the availability of such employees
- midsagittal plane — a plane passing through the nasion when the skull is oriented in the Frankfurt horizontal.
- non-thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- parcplace systems — (company) A company spun-off from Xerox PARC that developed the original version of VisualWorks.
- plains of abraham — a high plain adjoining the city of Quebec, Canada: battlefield where the English under Wolfe defeated the French under Montcalm in 1759.
- planck's constant — the fundamental constant of quantum mechanics, expressing the ratio of the energy of one quantum of radiation to the frequency of the radiation and approximately equal to 6.624 × 10− 27 erg-seconds. Symbol: h.
- plastic explosive — a puttylike substance that contains an explosive charge, and is detonated by fuse or by remote control: used especially by terrorists and in guerrilla warfare.
- plastics industry — the industry that makes plastics
- plateau's problem — the problem in the calculus of variations of finding the surface with the least area bounded by a given closed curve in space.
- platinic chloride — chloroplatinic acid.
- play along (with) — to join in or cooperate (with)
- play with oneself — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- private placement — a sale of an issue of securities by the issuing company directly to a limited number of investors, often only one or two large institutional investors, such as a bank or an insurance company (opposed to public offering): required to be cleared but not registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- product placement — Product placement is a form of advertising in which a company has its product placed where it can be clearly seen during a film or television programme.
- programme planner — someone who creates plans or schedules in regards to their line of work or occupation
- replacement value — insurance: sum required to replace sth
- role-playing game — a game in which participants adopt the roles of imaginary characters in an adventure under the direction of a Game Master.
- rubber plantation — an estate in a tropical country where rubber trees are grown on a large scale
- school playground — school's outdoor recreation area
- septicemic plague — an especially dangerous form of plague in which the infecting organisms invade the bloodstream. Compare plague (def 2).
- software platform — a major piece of software, as an operating system, an operating environment, or a database, under which various smaller application programs can be designed to run.
- swash plate motor — a collar or face plate on a shaft that is inclined at an oblique angle to the axis of rotation and converts reciprocating motion to rotation
- take second place — If one thing takes second place to another, it is considered to be less important and is given less attention than the other thing.
- take the place of — replace, be a substitute for
- terminal platform — (in the oil industry) an offshore platform from which oil or gas is pumped ashore through a pipeline
- thousandths-place — last in order of a series of a thousand.
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