12-letter words containing pla
- desmoplastic — (pathology) That produces adhesions.
- dinner plate — a plate for holding an individual serving of the main course of a meal.
- displaceable — Capable of being displaced.
- displacement — the act of displacing.
- display case — glass box, cabinet
- display hack — (graphics) A program with the same approximate purpose as a kaleidoscope: to make pretty pictures. Famous display hacks include munching squares, smoking clover, the BSD Unix "rain(6)" program, "worms(6)" on miscellaneous Unixes, and the X "kaleid(1)" program. Display hacks can also be implemented without programming by creating text files containing numerous escape sequences for interpretation by a video terminal; one notable example displayed, on any VT100, a Christmas tree with twinkling lights and a toy train circling its base. The hack value of a display hack is proportional to the aesthetic value of the images times the cleverness of the algorithm divided by the size of the code. Synonym psychedelicware.
- display pack — an empty box, etc, on a shop shelf, advertising a piece of merchandise that, due to its value or size, is not stored on the shelf. The display pack is normally taken to the till and there exchanged, on payment, for the actual item
- display type — type larger than body type, used in headings, advertisements, etc.
- dwarf planet — a spherical celestial body revolving about the sun, similar to a planet but not large enough to gravitationally clear its orbital region of most or all other celestial bodies. Pluto is a dwarf planet.
- electroplate — Coat (a metal object) by electrolytic deposition with chromium, silver, or another metal.
- emplacements — Plural form of emplacement.
- entoplastral — relating to an entoplastron
- entoplastron — the median plate of a turtle's plastron
- ergastoplasm — endoplasm that is associated with protein synthesis
- explain away — If someone explains away a mistake or a bad situation they are responsible for, they try to indicate that it is unimportant or that it is not really their fault.
- explanations — Plural form of explanation.
- explantation — The act of explanting.
- foam plastic — a kind of light cellular plastic made by creating bubbles of gas in the liquid material and solidifying it: often used as an insulator
- footplateman — a member of a locomotive crew who stands on the footplate to operate the controls
- funeral plan — A funeral plan is a basic life insurance policy that provides money to pay for the policyholder's funeral expenses when they die.
- gastroplasty — any plastic surgery on the stomach.
- get anyplace — to have any success
- giant planet — any of the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, characterized by large mass, low density, and an extensive atmosphere
- glacis plate — the frontal plate armour on a tank
- gold-plating — the incorporation of costly and unnecessary features or refinements into a product or structure.
- great plague — the bubonic plague that occurred in London in 1665 and killed about 15 percent of the city's population.
- great plains — a semiarid region E of the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. and Canada.
- ground plane — (in perspective drawing) the theoretical horizontal plane receding from the picture plane to the horizon, beginning at the level of the base line.
- ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
- hair implant — the insertion of synthetic fibers or human hair into the scalp to cover baldness.
- haliplankton — plankton living in sea water
- hemiplankton — plankton that spend part of their life cycle in a vegetative state on the sea bottom, riverbed, etc. (opposed to holoplankton).
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- heteroplasia — the replacement of normal cells by abnormal cells, as in cancer.
- heteroplasty — the repair of lesions with tissue from another individual or species.
- hiding place — location where sb is concealed
- holoplankton — plankton that spend their entire life cycle as free-swimming organisms (opposed to hemiplankton).
- horseplayers — Plural form of horseplayer.
- humble plant — sensitive plant (def 1).
- hydroplaning — a seaplane.
- hymenoplasty — (medicine) Plastic surgery affecting a woman's hymen, usually involving reconstruction to the unbroken condition ordinarily characteristic of virginity.
- hyperplastic — Of, or relating to hyperplasia.
- hypoplastron — the third lateral plate in the plastron of turtles
- implantation — the act of implanting.
- implantology — the branch of dentistry dealing with the permanent implantation or attachment of artificial teeth in the jaw.
- inner planet — any of the four planets closest to the sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, or Mars.
- interplaying — Present participle of interplay.
- irreplacable — Misspelling of irreplaceable.
- jet airplane — jet plane.
- keratoplasty — plastic surgery performed upon the cornea, especially a corneal transplantation.