9-letter words starting with pl
- plug into — If you plug into a computer system, you are able to use it or see the information stored on it.
- plug-ugly — a ruffian; rowdy; tough.
- plugboard — Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
- pluggable — a piece of wood or other material used to stop up a hole or aperture, to fill a gap, or to act as a wedge.
- plum duff — a duff containing raisins.
- plumb bob — plummet (def 1).
- plumb-bob — plummet (def 1).
- plumbeous — resembling or containing lead; leaden.
- plumbicon — a development of the vidicon television camera tube in which the photosensitive material is lead oxide
- plumbless — incapable of being sounded
- plumbness — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
- plumdamas — a damson plum or prune
- plummeted — Also called plumb bob. a piece of lead or some other weight attached to a line, used for determining perpendicularity, for sounding, etc.; the bob of a plumb line.
- plump for — to drop or fall heavily or suddenly; come down abruptly or with direct impact.
- plumpness — well filled out or rounded in form; somewhat fleshy or fat.
- plumulate — covered with soft fine feathers
- plumulose — shaped like a downy feather or plumule.
- plunderer — to rob of goods or valuables by open force, as in war, hostile raids, brigandage, etc.: to plunder a town.
- pluralism — 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.
- pluralist — 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.
- plurality — the excess of votes received by the leading candidate, in an election in which there are three or more candidates, over those received by the next candidate (distinguished from majority).
- pluralize — to express in the plural form; make plural: to pluralize a noun.
- pluripara — a woman or other mammal who has borne more than one child
- plus sign — the symbol (+) indicating summation or a positive quality.
- plus size — an extra-large size category of clothing, especially for women.
- plus tick — uptick (def 2).
- plus-size — an extra-large size category of clothing, especially for women.
- plutocrat — a member of a plutocracy.
- plutology — the study of wealth
- plutonian — Also, Plutonic [ploo-ton-ik] /pluˈtɒn ɪk/ (Show IPA). of, relating to, or resembling Pluto or the lower world; infernal.
- plutonism — the intrusion of magma and associated deep-seated processes within the earth's crust.
- plutonium — a transuranic element with a fissile isotope of mass number 239 (plutonium 239) that can be produced from non-fissile uranium 238, as in a breeder reactor. Symbol: Pu; atomic number: 94.
- plutonomy — the study of economics or the production of wealth
- ply metal — a composition of dissimilar metals bonded together in sheet form.