| 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 |
| (verb) pull or pull out sharply | Synonyms: pick off, pull off, tweak |
| (verb) look for and gather | Synonyms: cull, pick |
| (verb) pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion | Synonyms: pick, plunk |
| (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, displume, pull, tear |
| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, plume, rob, soak, surcharge |
| (verb) sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity | Synonyms: hustle, roll |
| plucked | (adjective) of a stringed instrument; sounded with the fingers or a plectrum | - |
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| (adjective) having the feathers removed, as from a pelt or a fowl | - |
| pluckily | (adverb) in a plucky manner | - |
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| pluckiness | (noun) the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury | Synonyms: gutsiness, pluck |
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| plucky | (adjective) marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger; robust and uninhibited | Synonyms: gutsy |
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| (adjective) showing courage | Synonyms: feisty, spunky |
| 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 |
| (verb) persist in working hard | Synonyms: plug away |
| (verb) insert as a plug | - |
| (verb) insert a plug into | - |
| (verb) replace the center of a coin with a baser metal | - |
| (verb) make a plug for; praise the qualities or in order to sell or promote | - |
| (verb) deliver a quick blow to | Synonyms: punch |
| (verb) fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug | Synonyms: secure, stop up |
| plugboard | (noun) telephone central where circuits are completed with patchcords | Synonyms: patchboard, switchboard |
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| plugged | (adjective) (of a coin) altered by the insertion of a plug of base metal | - |
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| (adjective) completely obstructed or closed off | Synonyms: blocked |
| 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 |
| (adverb) exactly | Synonyms: plumb |
| (adverb) completely; used as intensifiers | Synonyms: clean, plumb |
| plumage | (noun) the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds | Synonyms: plume |
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| plumaged | (adjective) having or covered in plumage; often used as a combining form | - |
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| plumate | (adjective) having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft | Synonyms: plumed, plumose |
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| plumb | (adjective) exactly vertical | - |
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| (noun) the metal bob of a plumb line | Synonyms: plumb bob, plummet |
| (adverb) conforming to the direction of a plumb line | - |
| (adverb) exactly | Synonyms: plum |
| (adverb) completely; used as intensifiers | Synonyms: clean, plum |
| (verb) adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical | - |
| (verb) measure the depth of something | - |
| (verb) examine thoroughly and in great depth | - |
| (verb) weight with lead | - |
| plumbable | (adjective) (of depth) capable of being sounded or measured for depth | Synonyms: fathomable, soundable |
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| plumbaginaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Plumbaginaceae | - |
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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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| plumbic | (adjective) relating to or consisting of lead | Synonyms: plumbous |
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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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| plumbous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of lead | Synonyms: plumbic |
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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 | - |
| (verb) dress or groom with elaborate care | Synonyms: dress, preen, primp |
| (verb) form a plume | - |
| (verb) clean with one's bill | Synonyms: preen |
| (verb) deck with a plume | - |
| (verb) be proud of | Synonyms: congratulate, pride |
| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, rob, soak, surcharge |
| plumed | (adjective) (of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume | Synonyms: crested |
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| (adjective) having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft | Synonyms: plumate, plumose |
| (adjective) having or covered with or abounding in plumes | Synonyms: plumy |
| plumelike | (adjective) resembling a plume | Synonyms: plumy |
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| plumlike | (adjective) resembling a plum fruit | - |
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| plummet | (noun) the metal bob of a plumb line | Synonyms: plumb, plumb bob |
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| (verb) drop sharply | Synonyms: plump |
| plummy | (adjective) (of a voice) affectedly mellow and rich | - |
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| (adjective) very desirable | - |
| plumose | (adjective) having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft | Synonyms: plumate, plumed |
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| plump | (adjective) sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure | Synonyms: chubby, embonpoint |
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| (noun) the sound of a sudden heavy fall | - |
| (adverb) straight down especially heavily or abruptly | - |
| (verb) give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) make fat or plump | Synonyms: fat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump out |
| (verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise | Synonyms: flump, plank, plonk, plop, plump down, plunk, plunk down |
| (verb) drop sharply | Synonyms: plummet |
| plumping | (adjective) very large; of exceptional size for its kind | - |
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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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| plumy | (adjective) adorned with feathers or plumes | Synonyms: feathered, feathery |
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| (adjective) having or covered with or abounding in plumes | Synonyms: plumed |
| (adjective) resembling a plume | Synonyms: plumelike |
| plunder | (noun) goods or money obtained illegally | Synonyms: booty, dirty money, loot, pillage, prize, swag |
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| (verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: despoil, rape, spoil, violate |
| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
| (verb) plunder (a town) after capture | Synonyms: sack |
| (verb) take illegally; of intellectual property | Synonyms: loot |
| plunderage | (noun) the act of plundering (especially the embezzlement of goods on shipboard) | - |
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| plundered | (adjective) wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value | Synonyms: looted, pillaged, ransacked |
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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 | (adjective) given to taking by force what is desired | - |
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| (noun) the act of stealing valuable things from a place | Synonyms: pillage, pillaging |
| plunge | (noun) a brief swim in water | Synonyms: dip |
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| (noun) a steep and rapid fall | - |
| (verb) begin with vigor | Synonyms: launch |
| (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engross, engulf, immerse, soak up, steep |
| (verb) cause to be immersed | Synonyms: immerse |
| (verb) immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate | Synonyms: dip, douse, dunk, souse |
| (verb) thrust or throw into | Synonyms: immerse |
| (verb) fall abruptly | Synonyms: dump |
| (verb) drop steeply | Synonyms: dive, plunk |
| (verb) dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity | - |
| 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 | - |
| (adverb) with a short hollow thud | Synonyms: plop |
| (verb) pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion | Synonyms: pick, pluck |
| (verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise | Synonyms: flump, plank, plonk, plop, plump, plump down, plunk down |
| (verb) drop steeply | Synonyms: dive, plunge |
| (verb) make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground | Synonyms: clop, clump, clunk |
| plunker | (noun) (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly | Synonyms: plunk |
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| pluperfect | (adjective) more than perfect | - |
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| (noun) a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past | Synonyms: past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect tense |
| plural | (adjective) grammatical number category referring to two or more items or units | - |
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| (adjective) composed of more than one member, set, or kind | - |
| (noun) the form of a word that is used to denote more than one | Synonyms: plural form |
| pluralisation | (noun) the act of pluralizing or attributing plurality to | Synonyms: pluralization |
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| pluralise | (verb) mark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural | Synonyms: pluralize |
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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 | - |
| pluralistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of pluralism | - |
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| 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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| pluralize | (verb) mark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural | Synonyms: pluralise |
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| plus | (adjective) on the positive side or higher end of a scale | - |
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| (adjective) involving advantage or good | Synonyms: positive |
| (noun) the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers | Synonyms: addition, summation |
| (noun) a useful or valuable quality | Synonyms: asset |
| plush | (adjective) characterized by extravagance and profusion | Synonyms: lavish, lucullan, plushy |
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| (noun) a fabric with a nap that is longer and softer than velvet | - |
| plushy | (adjective) (of textures) resembling plush | Synonyms: plush-like |
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| (adjective) characterized by extravagance and profusion | Synonyms: lavish, lucullan, plush |
| 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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| plutocratic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a plutocrat | Synonyms: plutocratical |
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| plutocratical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a plutocrat | Synonyms: plutocratic |
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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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| plutonic | (adjective) of igneous rock that has solidified beneath the earth's surface; granite or diorite or gabbro | Synonyms: irruptive |
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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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