13-letter words starting with pl
- place of arms — an area in a fortress or a fortified town where troops could assemble for defense.
- place pigalle — a square in Paris, France: noted for its night clubs.
- place setting — the group of dishes, silverware, glasses, etc., set at the place of each person at a meal.
- place-setting — the group of dishes, silverware, glasses, etc., set at the place of each person at a meal.
- placentia bay — a bay of the Atlantic Ocean on the SE coast of Newfoundland, Canada, W of the Avalon Peninsula. About 100 miles (160 km) long and 80 miles (129 km) wide.
- placer mining — mining of placer deposits by washing, dredging, or other hydraulic methods
- plagiocephaly — a deformity of the skull in which one side is more developed in the front, and the other side is more developed in the rear.
- plagiostomous — plagiostome
- plagiotropism — plagiotropic tendency or growth.
- plague-ridden — afflicted by the plague or a plague
- plain bearing — any of various bearings, not containing rolling elements, that present to the shaft or axle they support broad areas of corresponding form, usually segments of a cylinder.
- plain dealing — direct and honest conduct in one's relations and transactions with others.
- plain sailing — Navigation. sailing on waters that are free of hazards or obstructions. Compare plane sailing.
- plain vanilla — having no embellishments, extra equipment, elaborate packaging, etc.; plain; simple; down-to-earth: I want a plain-vanilla car without a lot of chrome trim.
- plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
- plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- plain-vanilla — having no embellishments, extra equipment, elaborate packaging, etc.; plain; simple; down-to-earth: I want a plain-vanilla car without a lot of chrome trim.
- plains indian — a member of any of the North American Indian peoples formerly living in the Great Plains of the US and Canada
- plane journey — a journey made by flying in an aeroplane
- plane sailing — sailing on a course plotted without reference to the curvature of the earth.
- plane spotter — a person who observes, photographs, and catalogues aircraft as a hobby
- planet-struck — affected adversely by the supposed influence of a planet.
- planetologist — the branch of astronomy that deals with the physical features of the planets.
- plano-concave — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and concave on the other.
- plant breeder — a botanist concerned with the origin and evolution of plants
- plant hormone — an organic chemical, as auxin, produced by plant cells and functioning at various sites to regulate growth, turning, metabolic processes, etc.
- plant kingdom — the plants of the world collectively.
- plantain lily — any Japanese or Chinese plant of the genus Hosta, of the lily family, having large leaves and spikes or one-sided clusters of white, lilac, or blue flowers.
- plasma engine — an engine that generates thrust by reaction to the emission of a jet of plasma
- plasma screen — A plasma screen is a type of thin television screen or computer screen that produces high-quality images.
- plasmodesmata — any of many minute strands of cytoplasm that extend through plant cell walls and connect adjoining cells.
- plasmodiocarp — a fruiting body of certain myxomycetes.
- plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
- plastic paddy — a person who, although not born in Ireland, is of Irish descent and places great importance on Irishness
- plastoquinone — a quinone that occurs in the chloroplasts of plants and functions as an electron carrier during photosynthesis.
- platform game — a type of computer game that is played by moving a figure on the screen through a series of obstacles and problems
- platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
- platinic acid — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, H 2 PtO 3 , used chiefly in platinization.
- platiniferous — platinum-bearing
- platiniridium — a natural alloy composed chiefly of platinum and iridium.
- platinocyanic — of or derived from platinocyanic acid.
- platinum disc — (in Britain) an album certified to have sold 300 000 copies or a single certified to have sold 600 000 copies
- platitudinize — to utter platitudes.
- platitudinous — characterized by or given to platitudes.
- platonic love — Platonism. love of the Idea of beauty, seen as terminating an evolution from the desire for an individual and the love of physical beauty to the love and contemplation of spiritual or ideal beauty.
- platonic year — a period of about 26,000 years, equal to the time required for a complete revolution of the equinoxes.
- platycephalic — having a head whose cranial vault is broad or flat.
- platyhelminth — any worm of the phylum Platyhelminthes; a flatworm.
- platykurtosis — the state of being platykurtic.
- play catch up — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
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