| 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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| 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 |
| 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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| 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 |
| 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 | - |
| 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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| irreplaceableness | (noun) the quality of being irreplaceable | - |
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| marketplace | (noun) the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold | Synonyms: market, market place |
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| (noun) an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up | Synonyms: market, market place, mart |
| misplacement | (noun) faulty position | Synonyms: malposition |
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| placard | (noun) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement | Synonyms: bill, card, notice, poster, posting |
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| placation | (noun) the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity | Synonyms: conciliation, propitiation |
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| place | (noun) a job in an organization | Synonyms: berth, office, position, post, situation |
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| (noun) the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another | Synonyms: lieu, position, stead |
| (noun) an abstract mental location | - |
| (noun) the passage that is being read | - |
| (noun) a blank area | Synonyms: blank space, space |
| (noun) an item on a list or in a sequence | Synonyms: position |
| (noun) a point located with respect to surface features of some region | Synonyms: spot, topographic point |
| (noun) a general vicinity | - |
| (noun) a public square with room for pedestrians | Synonyms: piazza, plaza |
| (noun) a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane) | Synonyms: seat |
| (noun) any area set aside for a particular purpose | Synonyms: property |
| (noun) the particular portion of space occupied by something | Synonyms: position |
| (noun) where you live at a particular time | Synonyms: home |
| (noun) proper or designated social situation | Synonyms: station |
| (noun) a particular situation | Synonyms: shoes |
| (noun) proper or appropriate position or location | - |
| placebo | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) vespers of the office for the dead | - |
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| (noun) an innocuous or inert medication; given as a pacifier or to the control group in experiments on the efficacy of a drug | - |
| placeholder | (noun) a symbol in a logical or mathematical expression that can be replaced by the name of any member of specified set | - |
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| (noun) a person authorized to act for another | Synonyms: procurator, proxy |
| placekicker | (noun) (football) a kicker who makes a place kick for a goal | Synonyms: place-kicker |
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| placeman | (noun) a disparaging term for an appointee | Synonyms: placeseeker |
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| placement | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, locating, location, position, positioning |
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| (noun) contact established between applicants and prospective employees | - |
| (noun) the spatial property of the way in which something is placed | Synonyms: arrangement |
| placenta | (noun) the vascular structure in the uterus of most mammals providing oxygen and nutrients for and transferring wastes from the developing fetus | - |
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| (noun) that part of the ovary of a flowering plant where the ovules form | - |
| placental | (noun) mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials | Synonyms: eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental mammal |
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| placentation | (noun) arrangement of the ovules in the placenta and of the placentas in the ovary | - |
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| (noun) the formation of the placenta in the uterus | - |
| placer | (noun) an alluvial deposit that contains particles of some valuable mineral | - |
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| placeseeker | (noun) a disparaging term for an appointee | Synonyms: placeman |
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| placidity | (noun) a disposition free from stress or emotion | Synonyms: quiet, repose, serenity, tranquility, tranquillity |
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| (noun) a feeling of calmness; a quiet and undisturbed feeling | Synonyms: placidness |
| placidness | (noun) a feeling of calmness; a quiet and undisturbed feeling | Synonyms: placidity |
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| placket | (noun) a piece of cloth sewn under an opening | - |
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| placoderm | (noun) fish-like vertebrate with bony plates on head and upper body; dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian; considered the earliest vertebrate with jaws | - |
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| polyplacophore | (noun) primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates | Synonyms: chiton, coat-of-mail shell, sea cradle |
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| replaceability | (noun) exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable | Synonyms: commutability, substitutability |
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| replacement | (noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another | Synonyms: replacing |
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| (noun) a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another | Synonyms: substitute |
| (noun) an event in which one thing is substituted for another | Synonyms: permutation, substitution, switch, transposition |
| (noun) a person who follows next in order | Synonyms: successor |
| (noun) someone who takes the place of another person | Synonyms: alternate, surrogate |
| (noun) filling again by supplying what has been used up | Synonyms: refilling, renewal, replenishment |
| replacing | (noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another | Synonyms: replacement |
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| showplace | (noun) a place that is frequently exhibited and visited for its historical interest or natural beauty | - |
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| workplace | (noun) a place where work is done | Synonyms: work |
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