9-letter words containing pla
- displaced — lacking a home, country, etc.
- displacer — a person or thing that displaces.
- displaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of displace.
- displayed — (of a bird) represented with wings and legs spread: an eagle displayed.
- displayer — One who, or that which, displays.
- doorplate — a small identification plate on the outside door of a house or room, bearing the occupant's name, the apartment or house number, or the like.
- downplays — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downplay.
- draw play — draw (def 54).
- drawplate — A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.
- dry plate — a glass photographic plate coated with a sensitive emulsion of silver bromide and silver iodide in gelatin.
- duplation — multiplication by two; doubling.
- dysplasia — abnormal growth or development of cells, tissue, bone, or an organ.
- ectoplasm — Biology. the outer portion of the cytoplasm of a cell. Compare endoplasm.
- eggplants — Plural form of eggplant.
- emplacing — Present participle of emplace.
- emplaster — a plaster
- emplastic — adhesive
- end plate — the area of specialized tissue that forms the junction between an individual muscle fiber and its motor nerve
- endoplasm — The more fluid, granular inner layer of the cytoplasm in ameboid cells.
- enplaning — Present participle of enplane.
- esemplasy — unification
- esplanade — A long, open, level area, typically beside the sea, along which people may walk for pleasure.
- etioplast — (biology) A chloroplast that has never been exposed to light.
- euplastic — healing quickly and well
- examplary — Obsolete form of exemplary.
- exemplars — Plural form of exemplar.
- exemplary — Serving as a desirable model; representing the best of its kind.
- exoplanet — A planet that orbits a star outside the solar system.
- explained — Simple past tense and past participle of explain.
- explainer — Agent noun of explain; one who explains.
- explanans — A collection of propositions that, taken together, explain another proposition (the 'explanandum').
- explanted — Simple past tense and past participle of explant.
- faceplant — (informal) The act of landing face first, as a result of an accident or error.
- faceplate — (on a lathe) a perforated plate, mounted on the live spindle, to which the work is attached.
- fair play — just and honorable treatment, action, or conduct: The political campaign was notably lacking in fair play.
- fireplace — the part of a chimney that opens into a room and in which fuel is burned; hearth.
- fishplate — a metal or wooden plate or slab, bolted to each of two members that have been butted or lapped together.
- floorplan — Alternative spelling of floor plan.
- footplate — Carpentry. a plate running beneath and supporting a row of studs; mudsill.
- foreplane — (nautical, aeronautics) A relatively flat surface located well forward of a vehicle's center of gravity used for stability and, when movable, used for steering and attitude control; common on submarines, also used on surface ships and aircraft.
- foul play — any treacherous or unfair dealing, especially involving murder: We feared that he had met with foul play.
- game plan — a carefully thought-out strategy or course of action, as in politics, business, or one's personal affairs.
- gangplank — a flat plank or small, movable, bridgelike structure for use by persons boarding or leaving a ship at a pier.
- gas plant — a plant, Dictamnus albus, of the rue family, native to Eurasia, having clusters of white or reddish flowers and strong-smelling foliage that emits a flammable vapor.
- germplasm — Alternative spelling of germ plasm.
- go places — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- gum plant — gumweed.
- gyroplane — autogiro.
- hand-play — the practice of fighting with fists
- handplant — (skateboarding) A move in which the skater balances on his hand after skating up to the top of a halfpipe.