| 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) | - |
| pleach | (verb) interlace the shoots of | Synonyms: plash |
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| (verb) form or weave into a braid or braids | Synonyms: braid |
| plead | (verb) appeal or request earnestly | - |
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| (verb) enter a plea, as in courts of law | - |
| (verb) offer as an excuse or plea | - |
| (verb) make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts | - |
| pleader | (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsel, counsellor, counselor-at-law, counselor |
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| pleading | (adjective) begging | Synonyms: beseeching, imploring |
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| (noun) (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding | - |
| pleadingly | (adverb) in a beseeching manner | Synonyms: beseechingly, entreatingly, imploringly, importunately |
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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 | - |
| pleasant | (adjective) affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings | - |
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| (adjective) (of persons) having pleasing manners or behavior | - |
| pleasantly | (adverb) in an enjoyable manner | Synonyms: agreeably, enjoyably |
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| (adverb) in a good-humoured manner | Synonyms: cheerily, sunnily |
| 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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| please | (adverb) used in polite request | - |
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| (verb) give pleasure to or be pleasing to | Synonyms: delight |
| (verb) be the will of or have the will (to) | - |
| (verb) give satisfaction | - |
| pleased | (adjective) experiencing or manifesting pleasure | - |
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| (adjective) feeling pleasurable satisfaction over something by which you measures your self-worth | Synonyms: proud of |
| pleaser | (noun) a pleasing entertainer | - |
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| pleasing | (adjective) giving pleasure and satisfaction | - |
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| (adjective) pleasant or agreeable to the senses | - |
| (noun) the act of one who pleases | - |
| pleasingly | (adverb) in a pleasing manner | - |
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| pleasingness | (noun) the quality of giving pleasure to the senses | - |
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| pleasurable | (adjective) affording satisfaction or pleasure | Synonyms: enjoyable, gratifying |
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| pleasurably | (adverb) in a very pleasurable manner | Synonyms: deliciously |
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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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| (verb) pleat or gather into a ruffle | Synonyms: ruffle |
| (verb) fold into pleats | Synonyms: plicate |
| 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 | (adjective) of or associated with the great masses of people | Synonyms: common, unwashed, vulgar |
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| (noun) one of the common people | Synonyms: pleb |
| 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 | - |
| (verb) promise solemnly and formally | Synonyms: plight |
| (verb) bind or secure by a pledge | - |
| (verb) give as a guarantee | - |
| (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: drink, salute, toast, wassail |
| (verb) pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals | Synonyms: subscribe |
| pledged | (adjective) bound by or as if by an oath | Synonyms: sworn |
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| 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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| plenarily | (adverb) in a plenary manner | - |
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| plenary | (adjective) full in all respects | - |
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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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| plenteous | (adjective) affording an abundant supply | Synonyms: ample, copious, plentiful, rich |
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| plenteously | (adverb) in a bountiful manner | Synonyms: bounteously, bountifully, plentifully |
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| plenteousness | (noun) a full supply | Synonyms: plenitude, plentifulness, plentitude, plenty |
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| plentiful | (adjective) producing in abundance | Synonyms: bountiful |
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| (adjective) affording an abundant supply | Synonyms: ample, copious, plenteous, rich |
| (adjective) existing in great number or quantity | - |
| plentifully | (adverb) in a bountiful manner | Synonyms: bounteously, bountifully, plenteously |
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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 |
| (adverb) as much as necessary | Synonyms: enough |
| 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 | - |
| pleochroic | (adjective) of or relating to or having pleochroism | - |
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| pleochroism | (noun) the phenomenon of different colors appearing when certain crystals are viewed from different directions | - |
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| pleomorphic | (adjective) relating to or characterized by pleomorphism | - |
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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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| pleonastic | (adjective) repetition of same and identical sense with different and non-identical words | Synonyms: redundant, tautologic, tautological |
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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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| plethoric | (adjective) excessively abundant | Synonyms: overabundant, rife |
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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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| pleural | (adjective) of or relating to the pleura or the walls of the thorax | - |
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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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| 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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| pleurocarpous | (adjective) (of mosses) having the archegonia on short lateral branches | - |
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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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