| pleurisy | (noun) inflammation of the pleura of the lungs (especially the parietal layer) | - |
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| pleurocarp | (noun) a moss having the archegonium or antheridium on a short side branch rather than the main stalk | Synonyms: pleurocarpous moss |
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| pleurodont | (noun) an animal having teeth fused with the inner surface of the alveolar ridge without sockets | - |
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| pleurodynia | (noun) pain in the chest caused by inflammation of the muscles between the ribs | Synonyms: costalgia, pleuralgia |
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| pleuropneumonia | (noun) pleurisy and pneumonia | - |
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| pleurothallis | (noun) any of numerous small tufted orchids of the genus Pleurothallis having leathery to fleshy leaves and racemes of 1 to many small flowers | - |
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| plexiglass | (noun) a light transparent weather resistant thermoplastic | Synonyms: Plexiglas |
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| pleximeter | (noun) a small thin metal plate held against the body and struck with a plexor in percussive examinations | Synonyms: plessimeter |
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| pleximetry | (noun) tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes | Synonyms: percussion |
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| plexor | (noun) (medicine) a small hammer with a rubber head used in percussive examinations of the chest and in testing reflexes | Synonyms: percussor, plessor |
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| plexus | (noun) a network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels | Synonyms: rete |
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| pliability | (noun) adaptability of mind or character | Synonyms: pliancy, pliantness, suppleness |
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| (noun) the property of being easily bent without breaking | Synonyms: bendability |
| pliancy | (noun) adaptability of mind or character | Synonyms: pliability, pliantness, suppleness |
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| (noun) the property of being pliant and flexible | Synonyms: pliantness, suppleness |
| pliantness | (noun) adaptability of mind or character | Synonyms: pliability, pliancy, suppleness |
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| (noun) the property of being pliant and flexible | Synonyms: pliancy, suppleness |
| plica | (noun) a folded part (as in skin or muscle) | Synonyms: fold |
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| plication | (noun) the act of folding in parallel folds | Synonyms: pleating |
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| (noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding | Synonyms: bend, crease, crimp, flexure, fold |
| plier | (noun) someone who plies a trade | Synonyms: plyer |
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| pliers | (noun) a gripping hand tool with two hinged arms and (usually) serrated jaws | Synonyms: pair of pliers, plyers |
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| plight | (noun) a solemn pledge of fidelity | Synonyms: troth |
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| (noun) a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one | Synonyms: predicament, quandary |
| plimsoll | (noun) a light gym shoe with a rubber sole and a canvas top | - |
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| plinth | (noun) an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue) | Synonyms: footstall, pedestal |
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| ploce | (noun) (rhetoric) repetition to gain special emphasis or extend meaning | - |
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| plod | (noun) the act of walking with a slow heavy gait | Synonyms: plodding |
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| plodder | (noun) someone who moves slowly | Synonyms: slowcoach, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud |
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| (noun) someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours | Synonyms: slogger |
| (noun) someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner | Synonyms: slogger, trudger |
| plodding | (noun) hard monotonous routine work | Synonyms: donkeywork, drudgery, grind |
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| (noun) the act of walking with a slow heavy gait | Synonyms: plod |
| plonk | (noun) the noise of something dropping (as into liquid) | - |
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| (noun) a cheap wine of inferior quality | - |
| plop | (noun) the noise of a rounded object dropping into a liquid without a splash | - |
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| plosion | (noun) the terminal forced release of pressure built up during the occlusive phase of a stop consonant | Synonyms: explosion |
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| plosive | (noun) a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it | Synonyms: occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, stop, stop consonant |
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| plot | (noun) a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal) | Synonyms: game, secret plan |
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| (noun) the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc. | - |
| (noun) a chart or graph showing the movements or progress of an object | - |
| (noun) a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation | Synonyms: patch, plot of ground, plot of land |
| plotter | (noun) an instrument (usually driven by a computer) for drawing graphs or pictures | - |
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| (noun) a member of a conspiracy | Synonyms: coconspirator, conspirator, machinator |
| (noun) a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action | Synonyms: schemer |
| (noun) a clerk who marks data on a chart | Synonyms: mapper |
| plough | (noun) a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing | Synonyms: plow |
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| ploughboy | (noun) a boy who leads the animals that draw a plow | Synonyms: plowboy |
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| ploughing | (noun) tilling the land with a plow | Synonyms: plowing |
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| ploughland | (noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, farmland, plowland, tillage, tilled land, tilth |
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| ploughman | (noun) a man who plows | Synonyms: plower, plowman |
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| ploughshare | (noun) a sharp steel wedge that cuts loose the top layer of soil | Synonyms: plowshare, share |
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| ploughwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs plows | Synonyms: plowwright |
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| plover | (noun) any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers | - |
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| plow | (noun) a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing | Synonyms: plough |
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| plowboy | (noun) a boy who leads the animals that draw a plow | Synonyms: ploughboy |
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| plower | (noun) a man who plows | Synonyms: ploughman, plowman |
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| plowing | (noun) tilling the land with a plow | Synonyms: ploughing |
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| plowland | (noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, farmland, ploughland, tillage, tilled land, tilth |
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| plowman | (noun) a man who plows | Synonyms: ploughman, plower |
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| plowshare | (noun) a sharp steel wedge that cuts loose the top layer of soil | Synonyms: ploughshare, share |
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| plowwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs plows | Synonyms: ploughwright |
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| ploy | (noun) a maneuver in a game or conversation | Synonyms: gambit, stratagem |
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| (noun) an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker | Synonyms: gambit |
| pluck | (noun) the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord | - |
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| (noun) the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury | Synonyms: gutsiness, pluckiness |
| pluckiness | (noun) the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury | Synonyms: gutsiness, pluck |
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| plug | (noun) an old or over-worked horse | Synonyms: hack, jade, nag |
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| (noun) blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly | Synonyms: stopper, stopple |
| (noun) an upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire | Synonyms: fire hydrant, fireplug |
| (noun) electrical device that fits into the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine and ignites the gas by means of an electric spark | Synonyms: spark plug, sparking plug |
| (noun) an electrical device with two or three pins that is inserted in a socket to make an electrical connection | Synonyms: male plug |
| (noun) blatant or sensational promotion | Synonyms: ballyhoo, hoopla, hype |
| (noun) a wad of something chewable as tobacco | Synonyms: chaw, chew, cud, quid, wad |
| plugboard | (noun) telephone central where circuits are completed with patchcords | Synonyms: patchboard, switchboard |
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| plugger | (noun) someone who is an active supporter and advocate | Synonyms: booster, promoter |
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| plughole | (noun) a hole into which a plug fits (especially a hole where water drains away) | - |
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| plum | (noun) a highly desirable position or assignment | - |
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| (noun) any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit | - |
| (noun) any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone | Synonyms: plum tree |
| plumage | (noun) the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds | Synonyms: plume |
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| plumb | (noun) the metal bob of a plumb line | Synonyms: plumb bob, plummet |
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| plumbago | (noun) any plumbaginaceous plant of the genus Plumbago | - |
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| (noun) used as a lubricant and as a moderator in nuclear reactors | Synonyms: black lead, graphite |
| plumber | (noun) a craftsman who installs and repairs pipes and fixtures and appliances | Synonyms: pipe fitter |
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| plumbery | (noun) the occupation of a plumber (installing and repairing pipes and fixtures for water or gas or sewage in a building) | Synonyms: plumbing |
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| plumbing | (noun) measuring the depths of the oceans | Synonyms: bathymetry |
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| (noun) the occupation of a plumber (installing and repairing pipes and fixtures for water or gas or sewage in a building) | Synonyms: plumbery |
| (noun) utility consisting of the pipes and fixtures for the distribution of water or gas in a building and for the disposal of sewage | Synonyms: plumbing system |
| plumbism | (noun) toxic condition produced by the absorption of excessive lead into the system | Synonyms: lead poisoning, saturnism |
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| plumcot | (noun) hybrid between plum and apricot | - |
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| (noun) hybrid produced by crossing Prunus domestica and Prunus armeniaca | Synonyms: plumcot tree |
| plume | (noun) the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds | Synonyms: plumage |
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| (noun) a feather or cluster of feathers worn as an ornament | - |
| (noun) anything that resembles a feather in shape or lightness | - |
| plummet | (noun) the metal bob of a plumb line | Synonyms: plumb, plumb bob |
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| plump | (noun) the sound of a sudden heavy fall | - |
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| plumpness | (noun) the bodily property of being well rounded | Synonyms: embonpoint, roundness |
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| plumule | (noun) down feather of young birds; persists in some adult birds | - |
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| plunder | (noun) goods or money obtained illegally | Synonyms: booty, dirty money, loot, pillage, prize, swag |
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| plunderage | (noun) the act of plundering (especially the embezzlement of goods on shipboard) | - |
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| plunderer | (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: despoiler, freebooter, looter, pillager, raider, spoiler |
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| plundering | (noun) the act of stealing valuable things from a place | Synonyms: pillage, pillaging |
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| plunge | (noun) a brief swim in water | Synonyms: dip |
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| (noun) a steep and rapid fall | - |
| plunger | (noun) mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion | Synonyms: piston |
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| (noun) hand tool consisting of a stick with a rubber suction cup at one end; used to clean clogged drains | Synonyms: plumber's helper |
| (noun) someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains | Synonyms: speculator |
| (noun) someone who dives (into water) | Synonyms: diver |
| plunk | (noun) (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly | Synonyms: plunker |
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| (noun) a hollow twanging sound | - |
| plunker | (noun) (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly | Synonyms: plunk |
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| pluperfect | (noun) a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past | Synonyms: past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect tense |
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| plural | (noun) the form of a word that is used to denote more than one | Synonyms: plural form |
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| pluralisation | (noun) the act of pluralizing or attributing plurality to | Synonyms: pluralization |
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| pluralism | (noun) the practice of one person holding more than one benefice at a time | - |
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| (noun) the doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements | - |
| (noun) a social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated | - |
| pluralist | (noun) someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society | - |
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| (noun) a philosopher who believes that no single explanation can account for all the phenomena of nature | - |
| (noun) a cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time | - |
| plurality | (noun) (in an election with more than 2 options) the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number (but less than half of the votes) | Synonyms: relative majority |
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| (noun) a large indefinite quantity | Synonyms: battalion, large number, multitude, pack |
| (noun) the state of being plural | - |
| pluralization | (noun) the act of pluralizing or attributing plurality to | Synonyms: pluralisation |
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| plus | (noun) the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers | Synonyms: addition, summation |
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| (noun) a useful or valuable quality | Synonyms: asset |
| plush | (noun) a fabric with a nap that is longer and softer than velvet | - |
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| plutocracy | (noun) a political system governed by the wealthy people | - |
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| plutocrat | (noun) someone who exercises power by virtue of wealth | - |
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| pluton | (noun) large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth | Synonyms: batholite, batholith, plutonic rock |
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| plutonium | (noun) a solid silvery grey radioactive transuranic element whose atoms can be split when bombarded with neutrons; found in minute quantities in uranium ores but is usually synthesized in nuclear reactors; 13 isotopes are known with the most important being plutonium 239 | Synonyms: atomic number 94, Pu |
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| pluviometer | (noun) gauge consisting of an instrument to measure the quantity of precipitation | Synonyms: rain gage, rain gauge, udometer |
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| ply | (noun) (usually in combinations) one of several layers of cloth or paper or wood as in plywood | - |
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| (noun) one of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread; often used in combination | - |
| plyboard | (noun) a laminate made of thin layers of wood | Synonyms: plywood |
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| plyer | (noun) someone who plies a trade | Synonyms: plier |
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| plyers | (noun) a gripping hand tool with two hinged arms and (usually) serrated jaws | Synonyms: pair of pliers, pliers |
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| plywood | (noun) a laminate made of thin layers of wood | Synonyms: plyboard |
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