| 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 |