15-letter words containing pl
- contemplatively — given to or characterized by contemplation: a contemplative mind.
- counterexamples — Plural form of counterexample.
- counterplotting — Present participle of counterplot.
- couples therapy — a counseling procedure that attempts to improve the adaptation and adjustment of two people who form a conjugal unit.
- courting couple — a pair of lovers
- culture complex — a group of culture traits all interrelated and dominated by one essential trait: Nationalism is a culture complex.
- cytoplasmically — by means of a cytoplasm
- deep-etch plate — an offset printing plate with an intaglio image filled with a substance that attracts ink to make it planographic.
- depletion layer — a region at the interface between dissimilar zones of conductivity in a semiconductor, in which there are few charge carriers
- direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
- disciplinarians — Plural form of disciplinarian.
- display cabinet — a cabinet in a shop, museum, etc, that displays items
- displeasingness — the state of being displeasing
- duplex printing — a feature of some printers allowing them automatically to do double-sided printing
- duplicitousness — The state or condition of being duplicitous.
- e pluribus unum — one out of many: the motto of the USA
- eclipse plumage — the dull plumage developed in some brightly colored birds after the breeding season.
- edwards plateau — a highland area in SW Texas. 2000–5000 feet (600–1500 meters) high.
- electra complex — the sexual attachment of a female child to her father
- elegiac couplet — a couplet composed of a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic pentameter
- engraving plate — a metal, usually steel, plate on which an image is engraved in order to be reproduced
- exemplification — The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
- explain oneself — to make clear what one means
- external spline — any one of a series of narrow keys formed longitudinally around the circumference of a shaft that fit into corresponding grooves (internal splines) in a mating part: used to prevent movement between two parts, esp in transmitting torque
- fair employment — the policy or practice of employing people on the basis of their capabilities only, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability.
- family planning — the concept or a program of limiting the size of families through the spacing or prevention of pregnancies, especially for economic reasons.
- fillister plane — an adjustable plane for cutting rabbets, grooves, etc
- first principle — any axiom, law, or abstraction assumed and regarded as representing the highest possible degree of generalization.
- flange coupling — a driving coupling between rotating shafts that consists of flanges (or half couplings) one of which is fixed at the end of each shaft, the two flanges being bolted together with a ring of bolts to complete the drive
- floating supply — the aggregate supply of ready-to-market goods or securities.
- flowering maple — any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Abutilon, of the mallow family, having large, bright-colored flowers.
- flowering plant — a plant that produces flowers, fruit, and seeds; angiosperm.
- food supplement — a substance designed to make up for a deficiency in one's diet
- football player — sportsperson: plays football
- full employment — all of workforce is employed
- full-moon maple — Japanese maple.
- galvanic couple — voltaic couple.
- gaming platform — a computer system specially made for playing video games; a console: The new gaming platforms have much better graphics resolution than previous generation consoles.
- grandstand play — an ostentatious play, as in a sport, overemphasized deliberately to elicit applause from spectators.
- graphic display — the way in which line drawings and text are displayed
- hair transplant — the surgical transfer of clumps of skin with hair or of viable hair follicles from one site of the body to another, usually performed to correct baldness.
- half-wave plate — a crystal thin enough to cause a phase difference of 180° between the ordinary and extraordinary rays of polarized light, thereby changing the direction of the plane of polarization.
- head-up display — an electronic display of data from instruments or other sources projected at eye level so that a driver or pilot sees it without looking away from the road or course. Abbreviation: HUD.
- high-principled — possessing or displaying very high moral or ethical principles
- hip replacement — a surgical procedure involving replacing the hip joint with an artificial implant
- hundred's place — hundred (def 8).
- implausibleness — The quality of being implausible.
- implementations — Plural form of implementation.
- implicativeness — the state or quality of being implicative
- implied consent — a manifestation of consent to something through conduct, including inaction or silence.