| 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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| (verb) walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud | Synonyms: footslog, pad, slog, tramp, trudge |
| 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 | (adjective) (of movement) slow and laborious | Synonyms: leaden |
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| (noun) hard monotonous routine work | Synonyms: donkeywork, drudgery, grind |
| (noun) the act of walking with a slow heavy gait | Synonyms: plod |
| ploddingly | (adverb) in a plodding manner | - |
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| plonk | (noun) the noise of something dropping (as into liquid) | - |
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| (noun) a cheap wine of inferior quality | - |
| (verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise | Synonyms: flump, plank, plop, plump, plump down, plunk, plunk down |
| plop | (noun) the noise of a rounded object dropping into a liquid without a splash | - |
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| (adverb) with a short hollow thud | Synonyms: plunk |
| (verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise | Synonyms: flump, plank, plonk, plump, plump down, plunk, plunk down |
| (verb) drop with the sound of something falling into water | - |
| (verb) drop something with a plopping sound | - |
| 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 |
| (verb) plan secretly, usually something illegal | - |
| (verb) make a plot of | Synonyms: plat |
| (verb) make a schematic or technical drawing that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed | Synonyms: diagram |
| (verb) devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet) | - |
| plotted | (adjective) with planning and intention | Synonyms: aforethought, planned |
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| 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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| (verb) to break and turn over earth especially with a plow | Synonyms: plow, turn |
| (verb) move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil | Synonyms: plow |
| ploughboy | (noun) a boy who leads the animals that draw a plow | Synonyms: plowboy |
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| ploughed | (adjective) (of farmland) broken and turned over with a plow | Synonyms: plowed |
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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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| (verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: address, cover, deal, handle, treat |
| (verb) to break and turn over earth especially with a plow | Synonyms: plough, turn |
| (verb) move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil | Synonyms: plough |
| plowboy | (noun) a boy who leads the animals that draw a plow | Synonyms: ploughboy |
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| plowed | (adjective) (of farmland) broken and turned over with a plow | Synonyms: ploughed |
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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 |