| abdominoplasty | (noun) cosmetic surgery of the abdomen to remove wrinkles and tighten the skin over the stomach | Synonyms: tummy tuck |
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| achondroplasia | (noun) an inherited skeletal disorder beginning before birth; cartilage is converted to bone resulting in dwarfism | Synonyms: achondroplasty, chondrodystrophy, osteosclerosis congenita |
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| achondroplasty | (noun) an inherited skeletal disorder beginning before birth; cartilage is converted to bone resulting in dwarfism | Synonyms: achondroplasia, chondrodystrophy, osteosclerosis congenita |
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| aeroplane | (noun) an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets | Synonyms: airplane, plane |
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| airplane | (noun) an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets | Synonyms: aeroplane, plane |
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| aminoplast | (noun) a plastic (synthetic resin) made from amino compounds; used as an adhesive and as a coating for paper and textiles | Synonyms: amino plastic, amino resin |
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| anaplasia | (noun) loss of structural differentiation within a cell or group of cells often with increased capacity for multiplication, as in a malignant tumor | - |
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| anaplasmosis | (noun) a disease of cattle that is transmitted by cattle ticks; similar to Texas fever | - |
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| anaplasty | (noun) surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue | Synonyms: plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery |
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| angioplasty | (noun) an operation to repair a damaged blood vessel or unblock a coronary artery | - |
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| antineoplastic | (noun) any of several drugs that control or kill neoplastic cells; used in chemotherapy to kill cancer cells; all have unpleasant side effects that may include nausea and vomiting and hair loss and suppression of bone marrow function | Synonyms: antineoplastic drug, cancer drug |
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| aplacophoran | (noun) deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle | Synonyms: solenogaster |
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| aplasia | (noun) failure of some tissue or organ to develop | - |
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| applauder | (noun) someone who applauds | Synonyms: clapper |
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| applause | (noun) a demonstration of approval by clapping the hands together | Synonyms: clapping, hand clapping |
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| aquaplane | (noun) a board that is pulled by a speedboat as a person stands on it and skims over the top of the water | - |
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| arthroplasty | (noun) surgical reconstruction or replacement of a malformed or degenerated joint | - |
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| autoplasty | (noun) surgical repair by using tissue from another part of the patient's own body | - |
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| (noun) tissue that is taken from one site and grafted to another site on the same person | Synonyms: autograft |
| backplate | (noun) plate armor protecting the back; worn as part of a cuirass | - |
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| ballplayer | (noun) an athlete who plays baseball | Synonyms: baseball player |
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| biplane | (noun) old fashioned airplane; has two wings one above the other | - |
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| birthplace | (noun) the place where someone was born | Synonyms: place of birth |
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| (noun) where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence | Synonyms: cradle, place of origin, provenance, provenience |
| biteplate | (noun) a removable dental appliance that is worn in the palate for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes | Synonyms: bite plate |
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| boilerplate | (noun) thick plate iron used in the production of boilers | - |
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| (noun) standard formulations uniformly found in certain types of legal documents or news stories | - |
| bookplate | (noun) a label identifying the owner of a book in which it is pasted | Synonyms: ex libris |
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| breastplate | (noun) armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass | Synonyms: aegis, egis |
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| byplay | (noun) incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect | Synonyms: business, stage business |
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| cataplasia | (noun) (biology) degenerative reversion of cells or tissue to a less differentiated or more primitive form | - |
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| cataplasm | (noun) a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc. | Synonyms: plaster, poultice |
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| ceroplastics | (noun) the art of modeling in wax. | - |
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| chaplain | (noun) a clergyman ministering to some institution | - |
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| chaplaincy | (noun) the position of chaplain | Synonyms: chaplainship |
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| chaplainship | (noun) the position of chaplain | Synonyms: chaplaincy |
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| chloroplast | (noun) plastid containing chlorophyll and other pigments; in plants that carry out photosynthesis | - |
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| chloroplatinate | (noun) any salt of chloroplatinic acid. | - |
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| chromoplast | (noun) plastid containing pigments other than chlorophyll usually yellow or orange carotenoids | - |
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| commonplace | (noun) a trite or obvious remark | Synonyms: banality, bromide, cliche, platitude |
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| commonplaceness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace | Synonyms: commonness, everydayness |
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| complacence | (noun) the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself | Synonyms: complacency, self-complacency, self-satisfaction |
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| complacency | (noun) the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself | Synonyms: complacence, self-complacency, self-satisfaction |
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| complainant | (noun) a person who brings an action in a court of law | Synonyms: plaintiff |
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| complainer | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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| complaint | (noun) an expression of grievance or resentment | - |
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| (noun) (formerly) a loud cry (or repeated cries) of pain or rage or sorrow | - |
| (noun) (civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based | - |
| (noun) (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense | Synonyms: charge |
| (noun) an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining | Synonyms: ailment, ill |
| complaisance | (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: compliance, compliancy, deference, obligingness |
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| contemplation | (noun) a long and thoughtful observation | - |
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| (noun) a calm, lengthy, intent consideration | Synonyms: musing, reflection, reflexion, rumination, thoughtfulness |
| contemplative | (noun) a person devoted to the contemplative life | - |
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| contemplativeness | (noun) deep serious thoughtfulness | Synonyms: meditativeness, pensiveness |
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| copperplate | (noun) an engraving consisting of a smooth plate of copper that has been etched or engraved | Synonyms: copperplate engraving |
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| (noun) a print made from an engraved copperplate | - |
| (noun) a graceful style of handwriting based on the writing used on copperplate engravings | - |
| cosplayer | (noun) Someone who wears a costume from a comic book or similar media | - |
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| cothromboplastin | (noun) a coagulation factor formed in the kidney under the influence of vitamin K | Synonyms: factor VII, proconvertin, stable factor |
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| counterplan | (noun) a plot intended to subvert another plot | Synonyms: counterplot |
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| counterplay | (noun) (chess) an attack that is intended to counter the opponent's advantage in another part of the board | Synonyms: counterattack |
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| cytoplasm | (noun) the protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus; is full of proteins that control cell metabolism | Synonyms: cytol |
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| cytoplast | (noun) the intact cytoplasmic content of a cell | - |
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| displacement | (noun) act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics | Synonyms: supplanting |
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| (noun) act of removing from office or employment | - |
| (noun) the act of uniform movement | Synonyms: translation |
| (noun) to move something from its natural environment | Synonyms: deracination |
| (noun) an event in which something is displaced without rotation | Synonyms: shift |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one | - |
| (noun) (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound | Synonyms: displacement reaction |
| display | (noun) something shown to the public | Synonyms: exhibit, showing |
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| (noun) a visual representation of something | Synonyms: presentation |
| (noun) an electronic device that represents information in visual form | Synonyms: video display |
| (noun) exhibiting openly in public view | - |
| (noun) something intended to communicate a particular impression | Synonyms: show |
| (noun) behavior that makes your feelings public | - |
| doorplate | (noun) a nameplate fastened to a door; indicates the person who works or lives there | - |
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| dysplasia | (noun) abnormal development (of organs or cells) or an abnormal structure resulting from such growth | - |
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| ectoplasm | (noun) the outer granule-free layer of cytoplasm | - |
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| (noun) (spiritualism) a substance supposed to emanate from the body of the medium during a trance | - |
| eggplant | (noun) egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow | Synonyms: aubergine, mad apple |
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| (noun) hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable | Synonyms: aubergine, brinjal, eggplant bush, garden egg, mad apple, Solanum melongena |
| electroplate | (noun) any artifact that has been plated with a thin coat of metal by electrolysis | - |
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| electroplater | (noun) a plater who uses electrolysis | - |
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| emplacement | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: locating, location, placement, position, positioning |
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| (noun) military installation consisting of a prepared position for siting a weapon | - |
| endoplasm | (noun) the inner portion of the cytoplasm of a cell | - |
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| endplate | (noun) the flattened end of a motor neuron that transmits neural impulses to a muscle | Synonyms: end-plate, motor end plate |
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| esplanade | (noun) a long stretch of open level ground (paved or grassy) for walking beside the seashore | - |
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| exemplar | (noun) something to be imitated | Synonyms: example, good example, model |
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| exemplariness | (noun) The state or condition of being exemplary, serving as a shining example. | - |
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| exoplanet | (noun) A planet which exists outside Earth's solar system | - |
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| explanandum | (noun) (logic) a statement of something (a fact or thing or expression) to be explained | Synonyms: explicandum |
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| explanans | (noun) (logic) statements that explain the explicandum; the explanatory premises | - |
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| explanation | (noun) thought that makes something comprehensible | - |
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| (noun) a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc. | Synonyms: account |
| (noun) the act of explaining; making something plain or intelligible | - |
| faceplate | (noun) a protective covering for the front of a machine or device (as a door lock or computer component) | - |
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| farmplace | (noun) a farm together with its buildings | Synonyms: farm-place, farmstead |
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| fireplace | (noun) an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built | Synonyms: hearth, open fireplace |
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| fishplate | (noun) metal plate bolted along sides of two rails or beams | - |
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| floatplane | (noun) a seaplane equipped with pontoons for landing or taking off from water | Synonyms: pontoon plane |
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| floodplain | (noun) a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding | Synonyms: flood plain |
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| footplate | (noun) the platform in the cab of a locomotive on which the engineer stands to operate the controls | - |
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| foreplay | (noun) mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse | Synonyms: arousal, stimulation |
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| gangplank | (noun) a temporary bridge for getting on and off a vessel at dockside | Synonyms: gangboard, gangway |
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| gunplay | (noun) a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten | Synonyms: gunfight, shootout |
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| gyroplane | (noun) an aircraft that is supported in flight by unpowered rotating horizontal wings (or blades); forward propulsion is provided by a conventional propeller | Synonyms: autogiro, autogyro |
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| hoopla | (noun) blatant or sensational promotion | Synonyms: ballyhoo, hype, plug |
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| horseplay | (noun) rowdy or boisterous play | - |
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| hotplate | (noun) a portable electric appliance for heating or cooking or keeping food warm | Synonyms: hot plate |
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| houseplant | (noun) any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposes | - |
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| hyaloplasm | (noun) the clear nongranular portion of the cytoplasm of a cell | Synonyms: ground substance |
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| hydroplane | (noun) an airplane that can land on or take off from water | Synonyms: seaplane |
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| (noun) a speedboat that is equipped with winglike structures that lift it so that it skims the water at high speeds | Synonyms: hydrofoil |
| hyperplasia | (noun) abnormal increase in number of cells | - |
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| hypoplasia | (noun) underdevelopment of an organ because of a decrease in the number of cells | - |
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| implant | (noun) a prosthesis placed permanently in tissue | - |
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| implantation | (noun) the act of planting or setting in the ground | - |
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| (noun) a surgical procedure that places something in the human body | - |
| (noun) (embryology) the organic process whereby a fertilized egg becomes implanted in the lining of the uterus of placental mammals | Synonyms: nidation |
| implausibility | (noun) the quality of provoking disbelief | Synonyms: implausibleness |
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| implausibleness | (noun) the quality of provoking disbelief | Synonyms: implausibility |
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| interplay | (noun) reciprocal action and reaction | - |
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| irreplaceableness | (noun) the quality of being irreplaceable | - |
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| karyoplasm | (noun) the protoplasm that constitutes the nucleus of a cell | Synonyms: nucleoplasm |
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| keratoplasty | (noun) a surgical procedure in which part or all of a damaged or diseased cornea is replaced by healthy corneal tissue from a donor | Synonyms: corneal graft, corneal transplant |
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| leadplant | (noun) shrub of sandy woodlands and stream banks of western United States having hoary pinnate flowers and dull-colored racemose flowers; thought to indicate the presence of lead ore | Synonyms: Amorpha canescens, lead plant |
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