| plateful | (noun) the quantity contained in a plate | Synonyms: plate |
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| platelayer | (noun) a workman who lays and repairs railroad tracks | Synonyms: tracklayer |
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| platelet | (noun) tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood; essential for blood clotting | Synonyms: blood platelet, thrombocyte |
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| plateletpheresis | (noun) platelets are separated from whole blood and the rest is returned to the donor | - |
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| platen | (noun) the roller on a typewriter against which the keys strike | - |
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| (noun) the flat plate of a printing press that presses the paper against the type | - |
| (noun) work table of a machine tool | - |
| plater | (noun) a skilled worker who coats articles with a film of metal (usually silver or gold) | - |
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| platform | (noun) a raised horizontal surface | - |
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| (noun) any military structure or vehicle bearing weapons | Synonyms: weapons platform |
| (noun) a woman's shoe with a very high thick sole | Synonyms: chopine |
| (noun) the combination of a particular computer and a particular operating system | - |
| (noun) a long, flat raised structure of a railway station, where people get on and off of trains | - |
| (noun) a document stating the aims and principles of a political party | Synonyms: political platform, political program, program |
| plating | (noun) the application of a thin coat of metal (as by electrolysis) | - |
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| (noun) a thin coating of metal deposited on a surface | Synonyms: metal plating |
| platinum | (noun) a heavy precious metallic element; grey-white and resistant to corroding; occurs in some nickel and copper ores and is also found native in some deposits | Synonyms: atomic number 78, Pt |
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| platitude | (noun) a trite or obvious remark | Synonyms: banality, bromide, cliche, commonplace |
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| platitudinarian | (noun) a bore who makes excessive use of platitudes | - |
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| platoon | (noun) a military unit that is a subdivision of a company; usually has a headquarters and two or more squads; usually commanded by a lieutenant | - |
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| (noun) a team of policemen working under the military platoon system | - |
| (noun) a group of persons who are engaged in a common activity | - |
| platter | (noun) a large shallow dish used for serving food | - |
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| (noun) sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove | Synonyms: disc, disk, phonograph record, phonograph recording, record |
| platy | (noun) small stocky Mexican fish; popular aquarium fish | Synonyms: Platypoecilus maculatus |
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| platyctenean | (noun) ctenophore have long tentacles and flattened body | - |
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| platyhelminth | (noun) parasitic or free-living worms having a flattened body | Synonyms: flatworm |
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| platypus | (noun) small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae | Synonyms: duck-billed platypus, duckbill, duckbilled platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus |
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| platyrrhine | (noun) hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails | Synonyms: New World monkey, platyrrhinian |
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| platyrrhinian | (noun) hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails | Synonyms: New World monkey, platyrrhine |
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| platysma | (noun) either of two broad muscles located on either side of the neck and innervated by the facial nerve; extends from lower jaw to clavicle and is involved in moving the mouth and jaw | - |
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| plaudit | (noun) enthusiastic approval | Synonyms: acclaim, acclamation, eclat, plaudits |
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| plaudits | (noun) enthusiastic approval | Synonyms: acclaim, acclamation, eclat, plaudit |
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| plausibility | (noun) apparent validity | Synonyms: plausibleness |
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| plausibleness | (noun) apparent validity | Synonyms: plausibility |
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| play | (noun) gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement | Synonyms: caper, frolic, gambol, romp |
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| (noun) (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession | Synonyms: turn |
| (noun) the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize) | Synonyms: gambling, gaming |
| (noun) an attempt to get something | Synonyms: bid |
| (noun) a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuvre |
| (noun) a preset plan of action in team sports | - |
| (noun) activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules | Synonyms: child's play |
| (noun) the act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully | Synonyms: swordplay |
| (noun) utilization or exercise | - |
| (noun) movement or space for movement | Synonyms: looseness |
| (noun) a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage | Synonyms: drama, dramatic play |
| (noun) verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously) | Synonyms: fun, sport |
| (noun) a theatrical performance of a drama | - |
| (noun) a weak and tremulous light | Synonyms: shimmer |
| (noun) a state in which action is feasible | - |
| (noun) the removal of constraints | Synonyms: free rein |
| (noun) (in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds | Synonyms: period of play, playing period |
| playacting | (noun) the performance of a part or role in a drama | Synonyms: acting, performing, playing |
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| playactor | (noun) an actor who travels around the country presenting plays | Synonyms: barnstormer, play-actor, trouper |
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| playback | (noun) the act of reproducing recorded sound | - |
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| (noun) electronic equipment comprising the part of a tape recorder that reproduces the recorded material | - |
| playbill | (noun) a theatrical program | - |
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| playbook | (noun) a scheme or set of strategies for conducting a business campaign or a political campaign | - |
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| (noun) a book containing the scripts of one or more dramatic plays | - |
| (noun) a notebook containing descriptions and diagrams of the plays that a team has practiced (especially an American football team) | - |
| playbox | (noun) a box for a child's toys and personal things (especially at a boarding school) | Synonyms: play-box |
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| playboy | (noun) a man devoted to the pursuit of pleasure | Synonyms: Corinthian, man-about-town |
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| playday | (noun) time for play or diversion | Synonyms: playtime |
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| player | (noun) a theatrical performer | Synonyms: actor, histrion, role player, thespian |
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| (noun) a person who participates in or is skilled at some game | Synonyms: participant |
| (noun) someone who plays a music as a profession | Synonyms: instrumentalist, musician |
| (noun) a person who pursues a number of different social and sexual partners simultaneously | - |
| (noun) someone who takes part in an activity | Synonyms: participant |
| playfellow | (noun) a companion at play | Synonyms: playmate |
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| playfulness | (noun) activities that are enjoyable or amusing | Synonyms: fun, merriment |
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| (noun) a disposition to find (or make) causes for amusement | Synonyms: fun |
| (noun) a festive merry feeling | Synonyms: gaiety |
| playgoer | (noun) someone who attends the theater | Synonyms: theatergoer, theatregoer |
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| playground | (noun) yard consisting of an outdoor area for children's play | - |
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| (noun) an area where many people go for recreation, holidays or other purposes | Synonyms: resort area, vacation spot |
| playhouse | (noun) plaything consisting of a small model of a house that children can play inside of | Synonyms: wendy house |
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| playing | (noun) the action of taking part in a game or sport or other recreation | - |
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| (noun) the act of playing a musical instrument | - |
| (noun) the performance of a part or role in a drama | Synonyms: acting, performing, playacting |
| playlet | (noun) a short play | - |
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| playlist | (noun) a list of musical selections for performance or for broadcast by radio | Synonyms: play list |
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| playmaker | (noun) a player in a team sport who leads attacks or maneuvers in such a way that a teammate can score | - |
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| playmate | (noun) a companion at play | Synonyms: playfellow |
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| playoff | (noun) any final competition to determine a championship | - |
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| playpen | (noun) a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play | Synonyms: pen |
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| playroom | (noun) a recreation room for noisy activities (parties or children's play etc) | Synonyms: game room, rumpus room |
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| playschool | (noun) a small informal nursery group meeting for half-day sessions | Synonyms: play group |
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| playscript | (noun) a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance | Synonyms: book, script |
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| playsuit | (noun) a sports outfit for women or children; usually consists of shorts and a blouse | - |
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| plaything | (noun) an artifact designed to be played with | Synonyms: toy |
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| playtime | (noun) time for play or diversion | Synonyms: playday |
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| playwright | (noun) someone who writes plays | Synonyms: dramatist |
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| plaza | (noun) mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace | Synonyms: center, centre, mall, shopping center, shopping centre, shopping mall |
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| (noun) a public square with room for pedestrians | Synonyms: piazza, place |
| plea | (noun) an answer indicating why a suit should be dismissed | - |
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| (noun) a humble request for help from someone in authority | Synonyms: supplication |
| (noun) (law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer) | - |
| pleader | (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsel, counsellor, counselor-at-law, counselor |
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| pleading | (noun) (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding | - |
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| pleasance | (noun) a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience | Synonyms: pleasure |
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| (noun) a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion | - |
| pleasantness | (noun) the quality of giving pleasure | Synonyms: sweetness |
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| (noun) the feeling caused by agreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling | - |
| pleasantry | (noun) an agreeable or amusing remark | - |
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| pleaser | (noun) a pleasing entertainer | - |
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| pleasing | (noun) the act of one who pleases | - |
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| pleasingness | (noun) the quality of giving pleasure to the senses | - |
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| pleasure | (noun) sexual gratification | - |
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| (noun) an activity that affords enjoyment | - |
| (noun) something or someone that provides a source of happiness | Synonyms: delight, joy |
| (noun) a formal expression | - |
| (noun) a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience | Synonyms: pleasance |
| pleat | (noun) any of various types of fold formed by doubling fabric back upon itself and then pressing or stitching into shape | Synonyms: plait |
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| pleating | (noun) the act of folding in parallel folds | Synonyms: plication |
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| pleb | (noun) one of the common people | Synonyms: plebeian |
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| plebe | (noun) a military trainee (as at a military academy) | Synonyms: cadet |
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| plebeian | (noun) one of the common people | Synonyms: pleb |
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| plebeianism | (noun) The quality or state of being of or pertaining to the common people; of being vulgar, common. | - |
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| plebiscite | (noun) a vote by the electorate determining public opinion on a question of national importance | - |
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| plecopteran | (noun) primitive winged insect with a flattened body; used as bait by fishermen; aquatic gilled larvae are carnivorous and live beneath stones | Synonyms: stone fly, stonefly |
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| plectognath | (noun) tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines | Synonyms: plectognath fish |
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| plectranthus | (noun) any of various ornamental plants of the genus Plectranthus | - |
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| plectron | (noun) a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument | Synonyms: pick, plectrum |
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| plectrum | (noun) a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument | Synonyms: pick, plectron |
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| pledge | (noun) a binding commitment to do or give or refrain from something | Synonyms: assurance |
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| (noun) a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event | Synonyms: toast |
| (noun) someone accepted for membership but not yet fully admitted to the group | - |
| (noun) a deposit of personal property as security for a debt | - |
| pledgee | (noun) someone to whom a pledge is made or someone with whom something is deposited as a pledge | - |
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| pledger | (noun) someone who makes or gives a pledge | - |
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| plenipotentiary | (noun) a diplomat who is fully authorized to represent his or her government | - |
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| plenitude | (noun) a full supply | Synonyms: plenteousness, plentifulness, plentitude, plenty |
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| plenteousness | (noun) a full supply | Synonyms: plenitude, plentifulness, plentitude, plenty |
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| plentifulness | (noun) a full supply | Synonyms: plenitude, plenteousness, plentitude, plenty |
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| plentitude | (noun) a full supply | Synonyms: plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty |
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| plenty | (noun) a full supply | Synonyms: plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plentitude |
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| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| plenum | (noun) an enclosed space in which the air pressure is higher than outside | - |
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| (noun) a meeting of a legislative body at which all members are present | - |
| pleochroism | (noun) the phenomenon of different colors appearing when certain crystals are viewed from different directions | - |
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| pleomorphism | (noun) (biology) the appearance of two or more distinctly different forms in the life cycle of some organisms | - |
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| (noun) (chemistry) the existence of different kinds of crystal of the same chemical compound | Synonyms: polymorphism |
| pleonasm | (noun) using more words than necessary | - |
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| pleonaste | (noun) a dark-colored spinel containing iron | Synonyms: ceylonite |
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| pleopod | (noun) one of the paired abdominal appendages of certain aquatic crustaceans that function primarily for carrying the eggs in females and are usually adapted for swimming | Synonyms: swimmeret |
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| plesiosaur | (noun) extinct marine reptile with a small head on a long neck and a short tail and four paddle-shaped limbs; of the Jurassic and Cretaceous | Synonyms: plesiosaurus |
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| plesiosaurus | (noun) extinct marine reptile with a small head on a long neck and a short tail and four paddle-shaped limbs; of the Jurassic and Cretaceous | Synonyms: plesiosaur |
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| plessimeter | (noun) a small thin metal plate held against the body and struck with a plexor in percussive examinations | Synonyms: pleximeter |
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| plessor | (noun) (medicine) a small hammer with a rubber head used in percussive examinations of the chest and in testing reflexes | Synonyms: percussor, plexor |
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| plethodont | (noun) mostly terrestrial salamanders that breathe through their thin moist skin; lay eggs in moist places on land; rarely enter water | Synonyms: lungless salamander |
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| plethora | (noun) extreme excess | Synonyms: embarrassment, overplus, superfluity |
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| plethysmograph | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring changes in volume of a part or organ or whole body (usually resulting from fluctuations in the amount of blood it contains) | - |
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| pleura | (noun) the thin serous membrane around the lungs and inner walls of the chest | - |
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| pleuralgia | (noun) pain in the chest caused by inflammation of the muscles between the ribs | Synonyms: costalgia, pleurodynia |
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