9-letter words starting with pl
- playhouse — a theater.
- playmaker — an offensive player, as in basketball or ice hockey, who executes plays designed to put one or more teammates in a position to score.
- plaything — a thing to play with; toy.
- pleadable — capable of being pleaded, as a case in court.
- pleadings — the act of a person who pleads.
- pleasance — a place laid out as a pleasure garden or promenade.
- pleaseman — a person who courts favour
- pleasence — Donald. 1919–95, British actor. His films include Dr Crippen (1962) and Cul de Sac (1966)
- pleasured — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- pleasurer — a person who seeks pleasure
- pleasures — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- pleatless — having no pleats
- plein-air — pertaining to a manner or style of painting developed chiefly in France in the mid-19th century, characterized by the representation of the luminous effects of natural light and atmosphere as contrasted with the artificial light and absence of the sense of air or atmosphere associated with paintings produced in the studio.
- pleiocene — Pliocene
- pleiomery — the state of a flower having more than the normal number of parts
- pleiotaxy — an increase in the normal number of parts.
- plekhanov — Georgi (or Georgy) Valentinovich [gyi-awr-gyee-vuh-lyin-tyee-nuh-vyich] /gyɪˈɔr gyi və lyɪnˈtyi nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1857–1918, Russian philosopher and leader of the Mensheviks.
- plenilune — a full moon
- plenished — to fill up; stock; furnish.
- plenitude — fullness or adequacy in quantity, measure, or degree; abundance: a plenitude of food, air, and sunlight.
- plenteous — plentiful; copious; abundant: a plenteous supply of food.
- plentiful — existing in great plenty: Coal was plentiful, and therefore cheap, in that region.
- pleonaste — a type of blackish mineral
- pleonexia — excessive greed
- pleoptics — the practice of treating the vision defect amblyopia.
- plethoric — overfull; turgid; inflated: a plethoric, pompous speech.
- pleuritic — inflammation of the pleura, with or without a liquid effusion in the pleural cavity, characterized by a dry cough and pain in the affected side.
- pleuritis — an instance of pleurisy
- plexiform — of, relating to, or resembling a plexus.
- plexiglas — material: acrylic glass
- plicating — Also, plicated. folded like a fan; pleated.
- plication — the act or procedure of folding.
- plicature — the act or procedure of folding.
- plightful — filled with distress
- plimsolls — lightweight canvas shoes with rubber soles; sneakers
- plop down — If you plop down or plop yourself down somewhere, you sit down quickly but gently.
- plot line — Usually, plot lines. dialogue that advances the plot, as in a play or motion-picture script.
- plotinian — of, relating to, or in accordance with Plotinus or his philosophy.
- plotinism — the Neoplatonism of Plotinus.
- plough on — If you plough on, you continue moving or trying to complete something, even though it takes a lot of effort to go on.
- plough up — If someone ploughs up an area of land, they plough it, usually in order to turn it into land used for growing crops.
- ploughboy — a boy who guides the animals drawing a plough
- ploughing — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- ploughman — A ploughman is a man whose job it is to plough the land, especially with a plough pulled by horses or oxen.
- plow back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- plow into — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- plow wind — a wind squall with a narrow, straight path of advance.
- plowright — Dame Joan. born 1929, British actress, married to Laurence Olivier (1961–89)
- plowshare — the cutting part of the moldboard of a plow; share.
- plug away — keep working on sth