9-letter words starting with PL
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter PL. This section showcases how PL at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with PL, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| plaintiff | 17 | a person who brings an action in a court of law | - |
| plutonium | 13 | a solid silvery grey radioactive transuranic element whose atoms can be split when bombarded with neutrons; found in minute quantities in uranium ores but is usually synthesized in nuclear reactors; 13 isotopes are known with the most important being plutonium 239 | - |
| placement | 15 | the spatial property of the way in which something is placed | the placement of the chairs |
| planetary | 14 | of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets | planetary motion |
| plastered | 12 | very drunk | - |
| plausible | 13 | apparently reasonable and credible, and therefore convincing | a plausible excuse |
| plentiful | 14 | producing in abundance | a plentiful year |
| playhouse | 17 | plaything consisting of a small model of a house that children can play inside of | - |
| plundered | 13 | wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value | people returned to the plundered village |
| plaything | 18 | an artifact designed to be played with | - |
| ploughing | 16 | tilling the land with a plow | - |
| playfully | 20 | in a playful manner | she loosened the half-hoop of diamonds on her left hand third finger and held it out to him playfully |
| plaintive | 14 | expressing sorrow | - |
| plastique | 20 | an explosive material that is easily molded around the object it is intended to destroy | - |
| playmaker | 20 | a player in a team sport who leads attacks or maneuvers in such a way that a teammate can score | - |
| pleasured | 12 | - | - |
| ploughman | 17 | a man who plows | - |
| placating | 14 | intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | placating (or placative) gestures |
| plasterer | 11 | a worker skilled in applying plaster | - |
| pleadings | 13 | - | - |
| plainness | 11 | an appearance that is not attractive or beautiful | - |
| plurality | 14 | (in an election with more than 2 options) the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number (but less that half of the votes) | - |
| pluralism | 13 | a social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated | - |
| platitude | 12 | a trite or obvious remark | - |
| plenitude | 12 | a full supply | - |
| pluralize | 20 | mark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural | How do speakers pluralize nouns in Japanese? |
| placental | 13 | mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials | - |
| plainsong | 12 | (Roman Catholic Church) a liturgical chant consisting of a single, unaccompanied melodic line | - |
| planetoid | 12 | any of numerous small celestial bodies that move around the sun | - |
| plausibly | 16 | easy to believe on the basis of available evidence | he talked plausibly before the committee |
| placarded | 15 | - | - |
| placaters | 13 | - | - |
| placation | 13 | the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity | - |
| placative | 16 | intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | placating (or placative) gestures |
| placatory | 16 | intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | an astonishingly placatory speech |
| placcates | 15 | - | - |
| placeable | 15 | capable of being recognized | - |
| placeboes | 15 | - | - |
| placekick | 23 | - | - |
| placeless | 13 | - | - |
| placemats | 15 | - | - |
| placentae | 13 | - | - |
| placentas | 13 | - | - |
| placidest | 14 | - | - |
| placidity | 17 | a feeling of calmness; a quiet and undisturbed feeling | - |
| placitory | 16 | - | - |
| plackless | 17 | - | - |
| placoderm | 16 | fish-like vertebrate with bony plates on head and upper body; dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian; considered the earliest vertebrate with jaws | - |
| plaguiest | 12 | - | - |
| plaidings | 13 | - | - |
| plainants | 11 | - | - |
| plainings | 12 | - | - |
| plainsman | 13 | an inhabitant of a plains region (especially the Great Plains of North America) | - |
| plainsmen | 13 | - | - |
| plaintext | 18 | - | - |
| plaintful | 14 | - | - |
| plainwork | 18 | - | - |
| plaisters | 11 | - | - |
| plaitings | 12 | - | - |
| planarian | 11 | free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms; popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts | - |
| planarias | 11 | - | - |
| planarity | 14 | - | - |
| planation | 11 | the process of erosion whereby a level surface is produced | - |
| planchets | 16 | - | - |
| planching | 17 | - | - |
| planeload | 12 | - | - |
| planeness | 11 | the property of having two dimensions | - |
| planeside | 12 | - | - |
| planforms | 16 | - | - |
| plangency | 17 | having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | - |
| planigram | 14 | - | - |
| planished | 15 | - | - |
| planisher | 14 | - | - |
| planishes | 14 | - | - |
| plankings | 16 | - | - |
| planklike | 19 | - | - |
| plankters | 15 | - | - |
| planktons | 15 | - | - |
| plannings | 12 | - | - |
| planogram | 14 | - | - |
| planosols | 11 | - | - |
| plantable | 13 | - | - |
| plantages | 12 | - | - |
| plantains | 11 | - | - |
| plantings | 12 | - | - |
| plantless | 11 | - | - |
| plantlets | 11 | - | - |
| plantlike | 15 | - | - |
| plantling | 12 | - | - |
| plantsman | 13 | an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants) | - |
| plantsmen | 13 | - | - |
| plantules | 11 | - | - |
| planulate | 11 | - | - |
| planuloid | 12 | - | - |
| planurias | 11 | - | - |
| planuries | 11 | - | - |
| planxties | 18 | - | - |
| plaquette | 20 | - | - |
| plashiest | 14 | - | - |
| plashings | 15 | - | - |
| plasmagel | 14 | - | - |
| plasmasol | 13 | - | - |
| plasmatic | 15 | - | - |
| plasmodia | 14 | - | - |
| plasmoids | 14 | - | - |
| plasticky | 20 | - | - |
| plasticly | 16 | - | - |
| plastisol | 11 | - | - |
| plastrons | 11 | - | - |
| plastrums | 13 | - | - |
| platannas | 11 | - | - |
| platbands | 14 | - | - |
| plateasms | 13 | - | - |
| plateaued | 12 | - | - |
| platefuls | 14 | - | - |
| plateless | 11 | - | - |
| platelets | 11 | - | - |
| platelike | 15 | as the hard flattened scales of e.g. sharks | - |
| platemark | 17 | - | - |
| platesful | 14 | - | - |
| platforms | 16 | - | - |
| platinise | 11 | - | - |
| platinize | 20 | coat with metallic platinum | - |
| platinoid | 12 | - | - |
| platinous | 11 | - | - |
| platinums | 13 | - | - |
| platonics | 13 | - | - |
| platonism | 13 | (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that abstract concepts exist independent of their names | - |
| platooned | 12 | - | - |
| plattings | 12 | - | - |
| platyfish | 20 | - | - |
| platysmas | 16 | - | - |
| plaustral | 11 | - | - |
| playacted | 17 | - | - |
| playactor | 16 | an actor who travels around the country presenting plays | - |
| playbacks | 22 | - | - |
| playbills | 16 | - | - |
| playbooks | 20 | - | - |
| playbuses | 16 | - | - |
| playdates | 15 | - | - |
| playdough | 19 | - | - |
| playdowns | 18 | - | - |
| playfield | 18 | - | - |
| playgirls | 15 | - | - |
| playgoers | 15 | - | - |
| playgoing | 16 | - | - |
| playgroup | 17 | - | - |
| playlands | 15 | - | - |
| playlists | 14 | - | - |
| playmates | 16 | - | - |
| playrooms | 16 | - | - |
| playslips | 16 | - | - |
| playsuits | 14 | - | - |
| playtimes | 16 | - | - |
| playwears | 17 | - | - |
| pleaching | 17 | - | - |
| pleadable | 14 | - | - |
| pleasable | 13 | - | - |
| pleasance | 13 | a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience | - |
| pleasedly | 15 | - | - |
| pleaseman | 13 | - | - |
| pleasemen | 13 | - | - |
| pleasings | 12 | - | - |
| pleasurer | 11 | - | - |
| pleasures | 11 | - | - |
| pleathers | 14 | - | - |
| pleatings | 12 | - | - |
| pleatless | 11 | - | - |
| plebbiest | 15 | - | - |
| plebeians | 13 | - | - |
| plebified | 17 | - | - |
| plebifies | 16 | - | - |
| plectrons | 13 | - | - |
| plectrums | 15 | - | - |
| pledgable | 15 | - | - |
| pledgeors | 13 | - | - |
| pleiocene | 13 | - | - |
| pleiomery | 16 | - | - |
| pleiotaxy | 21 | - | - |
| plenaries | 11 | - | - |
| plenarily | 14 | in a plenary manner | an empire destined to enter the Commonwealth plenarily |
| plenilune | 11 | - | - |
| plenipoes | 13 | - | - |
| plenished | 15 | - | - |
| plenisher | 14 | - | - |
| plenishes | 14 | - | - |
| plenteous | 11 | affording an abundant supply | a plenteous grape harvest |
| pleonasms | 13 | - | - |
| pleonaste | 11 | a dark-colored spinel containing iron | - |
| pleonasts | 11 | - | - |
| pleonexia | 18 | - | - |
| plethoras | 14 | - | - |
| plethoric | 16 | excessively abundant | - |
| pleuching | 17 | - | - |
| pleughing | 16 | - | - |
| pleuritic | 13 | - | - |
| pleuritis | 11 | - | - |
| pleuronia | 11 | - | - |
| pleustons | 11 | - | - |
| plexiform | 23 | - | - |
| pliancies | 13 | - | - |
| plicately | 16 | - | - |
| plicating | 14 | - | - |
| plication | 13 | an angular or rounded shape made by folding | a plication on her blouse |
| plicature | 13 | - | - |
| plighters | 15 | - | - |
| plightful | 18 | - | - |
| plighting | 16 | - | - |
| plimsoles | 13 | - | - |
| plimsolls | 13 | - | - |
| plinkiest | 15 | - | - |
| plinkings | 16 | - | - |
| pliofilms | 16 | - | - |
| pliosaurs | 11 | - | - |
| pliotrons | 11 | - | - |
| pliskiest | 15 | - | - |
| ploddings | 14 | - | - |
| ploggings | 14 | - | - |
| plonkiest | 15 | - | - |
| plonkings | 16 | - | - |
| plookiest | 15 | - | - |
| plotlines | 11 | - | - |
| plottages | 12 | - | - |
| plottered | 12 | - | - |
| plottiest | 11 | - | - |
| plottings | 12 | - | - |
| ploughboy | 20 | a boy who leads the animals that draw a plow | - |
| ploughers | 15 | - | - |
| ploughmen | 17 | - | - |
| ploukiest | 15 | - | - |
| ploutered | 12 | - | - |
| ploverier | 14 | - | - |
| plowbacks | 22 | - | - |
| plowheads | 18 | - | - |
| plowlands | 15 | - | - |
| plowshare | 17 | a sharp steel wedge that cuts loose the top layer of soil | - |
| plowstaff | 20 | - | - |
| plowtails | 14 | - | - |
| plowtered | 15 | - | - |
| pluckiest | 17 | - | - |
| pluffiest | 17 | - | - |
| plugboard | 15 | telephone central where circuits are completed with patchcords | - |
| pluggings | 14 | - | - |
| plugholes | 15 | - | - |
| plumbable | 17 | (of depth) capable of being sounded or measured for depth | - |
| plumbagos | 16 | - | - |
| plumbates | 15 | - | - |
| plumbeous | 15 | - | - |
| plumbings | 16 | - | - |
| plumbisms | 17 | - | - |
| plumbites | 15 | - | - |
| plumbless | 15 | - | - |
| plumbness | 15 | - | - |
| plumcakes | 19 | - | - |
| plumdamas | 16 | - | - |
| plumeless | 13 | - | - |
| plumelets | 13 | - | - |
| plumelike | 17 | resembling a plume | - |
| plumerias | 13 | - | - |
| plumeries | 13 | - | - |
| plumipeds | 16 | - | - |
| plummeted | 16 | - | - |
| plummiest | 15 | - | - |
| plumosely | 16 | - | - |
| plumosity | 16 | - | - |
| plumpened | 16 | - | - |
| plumpiest | 15 | - | - |
| plumpness | 15 | the bodily property of being well rounded | - |
| plumulate | 13 | - | - |
| plumulose | 13 | - | - |
| plunderer | 12 | someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | - |
| plungings | 13 | - | - |
| plunkiest | 15 | - | - |
| pluralise | 11 | mark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural | - |
| pluralist | 11 | a cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time | - |
| pluripara | 13 | - | - |
| plurisies | 11 | - | - |
| plushiest | 14 | - | - |
| plushness | 14 | - | - |
| plussages | 12 | - | - |
| pluteuses | 11 | - | - |
| plutocrat | 13 | someone who exercises power by virtue of wealth | - |
| plutology | 15 | - | - |
| plutonian | 11 | of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus | - |
| plutonism | 13 | - | - |
| plutonomy | 16 | - | - |
