Words starting with plan
4 letter words starting with plan
- plan — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- plan 9 — (operating system) (Named after the classically bad, exceptionally low-budget SF film "Plan 9 from Outer Space") An operating system developed at Bell Labs by many researchers previously intimately involved with Unix. Plan 9 is superficially Unix-like but features far finer control over the name-space (on a per-process basis) and is inherently distributed and scalable. Plan 9 is divided according to service functions. CPU servers concentrate computing power into large multiprocessors; file servers provide repositories for storage and terminals give each user of the system a dedicated computer with bitmap screen and mouse on which to run a window system. The sharing of computing and file storage services provides a sense of community for a group of programmers, amortises costs and centralises and hence simplifies management and administration. The pieces communicate by a single protocol, built above a reliable data transport layer offered by an appropriate network, that defines each service as a rooted tree of files. Even for services not usually considered as files, the unified design permits some simplification. Each process has a local file name space that contains attachments to all services the process is using and thereby to the files in those services. One of the most important jobs of a terminal is to support its user's customised view of the entire system as represented by the services visible in the name space.
- plan a — a strategy or plan to be implemented if the original one proves impracticable or unsuccessful.
- plan b — a strategy or plan to be implemented if the original one proves impracticable or unsuccessful.
- plan file — (operating system) On Unix systems that support finger, the ".plan" file in a user's home directory is displayed when the user is fingered. This feature was originally intended to be used to keep potential fingerers apprised of one's location and near-future plans, but has been turned almost universally to humorous and self-expressive purposes (like a sig block). See also Hacking X for Y. A later innovation in plan files was the introduction of "scrolling plan files" which are one-dimensional animations made using only the printable ASCII character set, carriage return and line feed, avoiding terminal specific escape sequences, since the finger command will (for security reasons; see letterbomb) not pass the escape character. Scrolling .plan files have become art forms in miniature, and some sites have started competitions to find who can create the longest running, funniest, and most original animations. A compiler (ASP) is available on Usenet for producing them. Typical animation components include: See also twirling baton.
5 letter words starting with plan
6 letter words starting with plan
- planar — of or relating to a geometric plane.
- planch — a flat piece of metal, stone, or baked clay, used as a tray in an enameling oven.
- planck — Max Karl Ernst [mahks kahrl ernst] /mɑks kɑrl ɛrnst/ (Show IPA), 1858–1947, German physicist: Nobel prize 1918.
- planed — Carpentry. any of various woodworking instruments for paring, truing, or smoothing, or for forming moldings, chamfers, rabbets, grooves, etc., by means of an inclined, adjustable blade moved along and against the piece being worked.
- planer — Carpentry. a power machine for removing the rough or excess surface from a board.
7 letter words starting with plan
- planate — having a plane or flat surface.
- plancer — the soffit of a cornice, especially one of wood.
- planche — a flat piece of metal, stone, or baked clay, used as a tray in an enameling oven.
- planing — Carpentry. any of various woodworking instruments for paring, truing, or smoothing, or for forming moldings, chamfers, rabbets, grooves, etc., by means of an inclined, adjustable blade moved along and against the piece being worked.
- planish — to give a smooth finish to (metal) by striking lightly with a smoothly faced hammer or die.
8 letter words starting with plan
- planaria — freshwater or saltwater flatworms of the family Planariidae, that are widely used in laboratory work because of their ability to regenerate parts of the body easily
- planchet — a flat piece of metal for stamping as a coin; a coin blank.
- planetic — of, relating to, or caused by a planet
- planform — the outline of an object viewed from above.
- plangent — resounding loudly, especially with a plaintive sound, as a bell.
9 letter words starting with plan
- planarian — any of various free-swimming, mostly freshwater flatworms of the class Turbellaria, having an undulating or sluglike motion: popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts.
- planarity — of or relating to a geometric plane.
- planation — the process whereby an irregular land surface is made flat or level by erosion.
- planeload — the amount of people or cargo an airplane can carry.
- planeside — the area on either side of an airplane.
10 letter words starting with plan
- planchette — a small, heart-shaped board supported by two casters and a pencil or stylus that, when moved across a surface by the light, unguided pressure of the fingertips, is supposed to trace meaningful patterns or written messages revealing subconscious thoughts, psychic phenomena, clairvoyant messages, etc.
- planetical — planetary
- planetlike — resembling a planet or planets
- planetwide — relating to or affecting a whole planet
- planigraph — an x-ray photograph in which a given plane of the body is well defined and those above and below it purposely out of focus.
11 letter words starting with plan
- plane-table — a drawing board mounted on a tripod, used in the field, with an alidade, for surveying tracts of land.
- planetarian — a staff member at a planetarium.
- planetarium — an apparatus or model representing the planetary system.
- planetology — the branch of astronomy that deals with the physical features of the planets.
- planigraphy — an x-ray photograph in which a given plane of the body is well defined and those above and below it purposely out of focus.
12 letter words starting with plan
- planetesimal — one of the small celestial bodies that, according to one theory (planetesimal hypothesis) were fused together to form the planets of the solar system.
- planlessness — the state or condition of being planless
- plano-convex — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and convex on the other.
- planoconcave — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and concave on the other.
- planographic — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
13 letter words starting with plan
- 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.
14 letter words starting with plan
- planetological — involving or relating to planetology
- plantain-eater — any of various touracos, erroneously believed to feed chiefly on plantains and bananas.
15 letter words starting with plan
- planet-stricken — believed to be adversely affected mentally or physically by the planets
- planimetrically — in a planimetric manner
- plantaginaceous — relating to or belonging to the family Plantaginaceae
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