15-letter words containing pla
- rendering plant — a factory where waste products and livestock carcasses are converted into industrial fats and oils (such as tallow, used to make soap) and other products (such as fertilizer)
- retirement plan — a systematic plan made and kept by an individual for setting aside income for his or her future retirement.
- río de la plata — Rí·o de la [ree-aw th e lah] /ˈri ɔ ðɛ lɑ/ (Show IPA) an estuary on the SE coast of South America between Argentina and Uruguay, formed by the Uruguay and Paraná rivers, about 185 miles (290 km) long.
- rocket airplane — an airplane propelled wholly or mainly by a rocket engine.
- s'il vous plait — if you please; please
- salisbury plain — a plateau in S England, N of Salisbury: the site of Stonehenge.
- schlieffen plan — a plan intended to ensure German victory over a Franco-Russian alliance by holding off Russia with minimal strength and swiftly defeating France by a massive flanking movement through the Low Countries, devised by Alfred, Count von Schlieffen (1833–1913) in 1905
- seafood platter — a plate of assorted seafood, served in a restaurant
- self-complacent — pleased with oneself; self-satisfied; smug.
- sensitive plant — Also called humble plant. a tropical American plant, Mimosa pudica, cultivated in greenhouses, having bipinnate leaves whose leaflets fold together when touched.
- sheffield plate — sheet copper with a cladding of silver.
- slab plastering — coarse plastering, as between the studs in a half-timbered wall.
- splanchnopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the lower layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the underlying entoderm, which develops into the embryonic viscera.
- superior planet — any of the five planets whose orbits are outside the orbit of the earth, namely, the planets Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
- superplasticity — the phenomenon, exhibited by certain metals and alloys usually at high temperatures, of stretching to extreme lengths without breaking
- telegraph plant — a tick trefoil, Desmodium motorium, of the legume family, native to tropical Asia, noted for the spontaneous, jerking, signallike motions of its leaflets.
- the jos plateau — a plateau in Nigeria with an average altitude of 1280 metres
- the other place — (at Oxford University) Cambridge University
- to play footsie — If someone plays footsie with you, they touch your feet with their own feet, for example under a table, often as a playful way of expressing their romantic or sexual feelings towards you.
- tobacco planter — a tool that was formerly used by tobacco farmers to plant tobacco with
- transplantation — to remove (a plant) from one place and plant it in another.
- uncomplainingly — in an unresentful or resigned manner
- uncomplaisantly — in an uncomplaisant manner
- utopia planitia — Astronomy. a plain in the northern hemisphere of Mars that was the landing site of the Viking II space probe on September 3, 1976.
- wedding planner — sb hired to organize a marriage day
- whiplash injury — the lash of a whip.
- xenotransplants — Plural form of xenotransplant.