11-letter words starting with pl
- pleomorphic — of, relating to, or characterized by pleomorphism; polymorphous.
- plerophoria — full conviction
- pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
- pleximetric — relating to a pleximeter
- plisetskaya — Maya (Mikhailovna) [mah-yuh myi-khahy-luh v-nuh] /ˈmɑ yə myɪˈxaɪ ləv nə/ (Show IPA), 1925–2015, Soviet ballet dancer.
- plott hound — an American hound having a brindled coat, used especially in hunting bears and wild boars.
- plough back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- plough into — If something, for example a car, ploughs into something else, it goes out of control and crashes violently into it.
- ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
- ploughstaff — one of the handles of a plough
- plum tomato — an egg-shaped or oblong variety of tomato.
- plumb joint — (in sheet metal work) a soldered lap joint.
- plumigerous — wearing or possessing feathers
- plumularian — a member of the genus Plumularia
- plunge bath — a bath large enough to immerse the whole body or to dive into
- plunge pool — the water in a plunge basin.
- pluralistic — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
- pluripotent — (of a cell) capable of developing into any type of cell or tissue except those that form a placenta or embryo: pluripotent stem cells.
- pluriserial — having many series or rows
- plutarchian — of or relating to the biographer Plutarch.
- plutocratic — of, relating to, or characterized by a plutocracy or plutocrats.
- plutologist — a person who has expertise in plutology
- plutonomist — a person who studies or has expertise in plutonomy
- pluviometer — rain gauge.
- plyometrics — a system of exercise in which the muscles are repeatedly stretched and suddenly contracted