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16-letter words containing pl

  • morris plan bank — a private banking organization, formerly common in the U.S., designed primarily to grant small loans to industrial workers.
  • multi-discipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
  • multidisciplined — composed of or combining several usually separate branches of learning or fields of expertise: a multidisciplinary study of the 18th century.
  • multiple alleles — any one of a series of three or more alternative or allelic forms of a gene, only two of which can exist in any normal, diploid individual.
  • multiple factors — polygene.
  • multiple fission — fission into more than two new organisms.
  • multiple listing — the listing of a home for sale with a number of real-estate brokers who participate in a shared listing service.
  • multiple myeloma — a malignant plasma cell tumor of the bone marrow that destroys bone tissue.
  • multiplepoinding — an action to determine the division of a property or fund between several claimants, brought by or on behalf of the present holder
  • multiplicatively — tending to multiply or increase.
  • nasal applicator — A nasal applicator is a device for administering medication through the nose.
  • north plainfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • organ transplant — an operation in which an organ is transplanted from a donor
  • osculating plane — the plane containing the circle of curvature of a point on a given curve.
  • over-application — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
  • over-explanation — the act or process of explaining.
  • overcomplicating — Present participle of overcomplicate.
  • overexploitation — use or utilization, especially for profit: the exploitation of newly discovered oil fields.
  • panama hat plant — jipijapa (sense 1)
  • panama-hat plant — jipijapa (def 1).
  • parallel sysplex — (operating system)   A Sysplex that uses one or more coupling facilities.
  • people smuggling — People smuggling or people trafficking is the practice of bringing immigrants into a country illegally.
  • people's charter — the principles or movement of a party of political reformers, chiefly workingmen, in England from 1838 to 1848: so called from the document (People's Charter or National Charter) that contained a statement of their principles and demands.
  • people's commune — a usually rural, Communist Chinese social and administrative unit of from 2000 to 4000 families combined for collective farming, fishing, mining, or industrial projects.
  • place in the sun — (often initial capital letter) the star that is the central body of the solar system, around which the planets revolve and from which they receive light and heat: its mean distance from the earth is about 93 million miles (150 million km), its diameter about 864,000 miles (1.4 million km), and its mass about 330,000 times that of the earth; its period of surface rotation is about 26 days at its equator but longer at higher latitudes.
  • place of worship — religious house: church, temple
  • placement office — an office in a university that offers students careers advice and help to find employment
  • plain-spokenness — the quality or characteristic of being plain-spoken
  • plainclothes man — a detective or police officer who wears civilian clothes while on duty
  • planetary nebula — an expanding shell of thin ionized gas that is ejected from and surrounds a hot, dying star of about the same mass as the sun; the gas absorbs ultraviolet radiation from the central star and reemits it as visible light by the process of fluorescence.
  • plant bargaining — a form of bargaining within industry, involving either informal small groups of employees or collective agreements at plant level
  • plaster of paris — calcined gypsum in white, powdery form, used as a base for gypsum plasters, as an additive of lime plasters, and as a material for making fine and ornamental casts: characterized by its ability to set rapidly when mixed with water.
  • platform-balance — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • platinum-iridium — (standard)   A standard, against which all others of the same category are measured. Usage: silly. The notion is that one of whatever it is has actually been cast in platinum-iridium alloy and placed in the vault beside the Standard Kilogram at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris, as the bar defining the standard metre once was. "This garbage collection algorithm has been tested against the platinum-iridium cons cell in Paris." Compare golden.
  • platoon sergeant — the senior noncommissioned officer in a platoon, equivalent to sergeant first class.
  • play a lone hand — to operate without assistance
  • play off against — If you play people off against each other, you make them compete or argue, so that you gain some advantage.
  • play one's cards — to carry out one's plans; take action (esp in the phrase play one's cards right)
  • play-action pass — a pass play designed to deceive the defense by appearing to be a running play, in which the quarterback fakes a hand-off to a back before throwing a forward pass.
  • player character — a character in a role-playing game or video game who is controlled by the person playing the game. Abbreviation: PC. Compare nonplayer character.
  • pleased as punch — the chief male character in a Punch-and-Judy show.
  • pleasure steamer — a boat powered by steam, used for recreational purposes
  • pleasure-seeking — always looking for pleasure
  • pledged delegate — (in the US) a delegate at a national party convention who is mandated to vote for a particular candidate
  • plumber's helper — plunger (def 3).
  • plutarch's lives — (Parallel Lives) a collection (a.d. 105–15) by Plutarch of short biographies of the leading political figures of ancient Greece and Rome.
  • plymouth company — a company, formed in England in 1606 to establish colonies in America and that founded a colony in Maine in 1607.
  • pneumonic plague — a form of plague characterized by lung involvement.
  • post-pleistocene — noting or pertaining to the epoch forming the earlier half of the Quaternary Period, beginning about two million years ago and ending 10,000 years ago, characterized by widespread glacial ice and the advent of modern humans.
  • powerpc platform — (architecture, standard)   (PPCP, PReP - PowerPC Reference Platform, formerly CHRP - Common Hardware Reference Platform) An open system standard, designed by IBM, intended to ensure compatibility among PowerPC-based systems built by different companies. The PReP standard specifies the PCI bus, but will also support ISA, MicroChannel and PCMCIA. PReP-compliant systems will be able to run the Macintosh OS, OS/2, WorkplaceOS, AIX, Solaris, Taligent and Windows NT. IBM systems will (of course) be PReP-compliant. Apple's first PowerPC Macintoshes will not be compliant, but future ones may be.
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