| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| plucked | imp. & past participle | of Pluck, Having courage and spirit. |
| plucker | noun | One who, or that which, plucks., A machine for straightening and cleaning wool. |
| plugged | imp. & past participle | of Plug |
| plugger | noun | One who, or that which, plugs. |
| plumage | noun | The entire clothing of a bird. |
| plumbed | imp. & past participle | of Plumb |
| plumber | noun | One who works in lead; esp., one who furnishes, fits, and repairs lead, iron, or glass pipes, and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage in buildings. |
| plumbic | adjective | Of, pertaining to, resembling, or containing, lead; — used specifically to designate those compounds in which it has a higher valence as contrasted with plumbous compounds; as, plumbic oxide. |
| plumbum | noun | The technical name of lead. See Lead. |
| pluming | present participle & vb. noun | of Plume |
| plumery | noun | Plumes, collectively or in general; plumage. |
| plummet | noun | A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water., A plumb bob or a plumb line. See under Plumb, n., Hence, any weight., A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing. |
| plumose | adjective | Alt. of Plumous |
| plumous | adjective | Having feathers or plumes., Having hairs, or other parts, arranged along an axis like a feather; feathery; plumelike; as, a plumose leaf; plumose tentacles. |
| plumped | imp. & past participle | of Plump |
| plumper | noun | One who, or that which, plumps or swells out something else; hence, something carried in the mouth to distend the cheeks., A vote given to one candidate only, when two or more are to be elected, thus giving him the advantage over the others. A person who gives his vote thus is said to plump, or to plump his vote., A voter who plumps his vote., A downright, unqualified lie. |
| plumply | adverb | Fully; roundly; plainly; without reserve. |
| plumule | plural | of Plumula, The first bud, or gemmule, of a young plant; the bud, or growing point, of the embryo, above the cotyledons. See Illust. of Radicle., A down feather., The aftershaft of a feather. See Illust. under Feather., One of the featherlike scales of certain male butterflies. |
| plumula | noun | A plumule., A down feather. |
| plunder | verb t. | To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers., To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy plundered all the goods they found., The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of Pillage., That which is taken by open force from an enemy; pillage; spoil; booty; also, that which is taken by theft or fraud., Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage. |
| plunged | imp. & past participle | of Plunge |
| plunger | noun | One who, or that which, plunges; a diver., A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps., One who bets heavily and recklessly on a race; a reckless speculator., A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistence., The firing pin of a breechloader. |
| plunket | noun | A kind of blue color; also, anciently, a kind of cloth, generally blue. |
| pluries | noun | A writ issued in the third place, after two former writs have been disregarded. |
| plurisy | noun | Superabundance; excess; plethora. |
| pluteal | adjective | Of or pertaining to a pluteus. |
| pluteus | noun | The free-swimming larva of sea urchins and ophiurans, having several long stiff processes inclosing calcareous rods. |
| pluvial | adjective | Of or pertaining to rain; rainy., Produced by the action of rain., A priest’s cope. |
| pluvian | noun | The crocodile bird. |