| 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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