| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| placed | imp. & past participle | of Place |
| placer | noun | One who places or sets., A deposit of earth, sand, or gravel, containing valuable mineral in particles, especially by the side of a river, or in the bed of a mountain torrent. |
| placet | noun | A vote of assent, as of the governing body of a university, of an ecclesiastical council, etc., The assent of the civil power to the promulgation of an ecclesiastical ordinance. |
| placid | adjective | Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. |
| placit | noun | A decree or determination; a dictum. |
| plagae | plural | of Plaga |
| plagal | adjective | Having a scale running from the dominant to its octave; — said of certain old church modes or tunes, as opposed to those called authentic, which ran from the tonic to its octave. |
| plague | noun | That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation., An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague., To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any kind., Fig.: To vex; to tease; to harass. |
| plaguy | adjective | Vexatious; troublesome; tormenting; as, a plaguy horse. [Colloq.] Also used adverbially; as, “He is so plaguy proud.” |
| plaice | noun | A European food fish (Pleuronectes platessa), allied to the flounder, and growing to the weight of eight or ten pounds or more., A large American flounder (Paralichthys dentatus; called also brail, puckermouth, and summer flounder. The name is sometimes applied to other allied species. |
| plaint | noun | Audible expression of sorrow; lamentation; complaint; hence, a mournful song; a lament., An accusation or protest on account of an injury., A private memorial tendered to a court, in which a person sets forth his cause of action; the exhibiting of an action in writing. |
| plaise | noun | See Plaice. |
| planch | noun | A plank., To make or cover with planks or boards; to plank. |
| planed | imp. & past participle | of Plane |
| planer | noun | One who, or that which, planes; a planing machine; esp., a machine for planing wood or metals., A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even. |
| planet | noun | A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system., A star, as influencing the fate of a men. |
| plani- | adjective | Alt. of Plano- |
| plano- | adjective | Combining forms signifying flat, level, plane; as planifolious, planimetry, plano-concave., See Plani-. |
| plaque | noun | Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on the person, as a brooch. |
| plashy | adjective | Watery; abounding with puddles; splashy., Specked, as if plashed with color. |
| plasma | noun | A variety of quartz, of a color between grass green and leek green, which is found associated with common chalcedony. It was much esteemed by the ancients for making engraved ornaments., The viscous material of an animal or vegetable cell, out of which the various tissues are formed by a process of differentiation; protoplasm., Unorganized material; elementary matter., A mixture of starch and glycerin, used as a substitute for ointments. |
| platan | noun | The plane tree. |
| plated | imp. & past participle | of Plate |
| platel | noun | A small dish. |
| platen | noun | The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made., Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression., The movable table of a machine tool, as a planer, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool; — also called table. |
| plater | noun | One who plates or coats articles with gold or silver; as, a silver plater., A machine for calendering paper. |
| platin | noun | See Platen. |
| platly | adjective | Flatly. See Plat, a. |
| platy- | A combining form from Gr. platy`s broad, wide, flat; as, platypus, platycephalous. | |
| played | imp. & past participle | of Play |
| player | noun | One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler., One who plays any game., A dramatic actor., One who plays on an instrument of music., A gamester; a gambler. |
| playte | noun | See Pleyt. |