playlot
A plot of ground allocated for children's recreation; a playground.

playlots
plural of playlot

playpen
An enclosure in which babies or small children can play.
An area or domain in which a person can exercise their activities or endeavors freely.

playpens
plural of playpen

playplace
A place for recreation and play.
A recreational space for children, often used in the context of indoor playgrounds or jungle gyms with tube mazes.

playplaces
plural of playplace

playroom
A room, allocated as a children's play area, in which noisy or boisterous activities are tolerated.
A room dedicated to sadomasochistic sexual activity.

playrooms
plural of playroom

playschool
a nursery school, kindergarten

playschools
plural of playschool

playshed
A shed used as a playroom.

playsheds
plural of playshed

playshop
An informal workshop (interactive group session).

playshops
plural of playshop

playstead
An area designated for recreation and play; a park.

playsteads
plural of playstead

playstow
A place for play; playground; park.

playstows
plural of playstow.

pleasance
A pleasure ground laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water; a secluded part of a garden.
Willingness to please, or the action of pleasing; courtesy.
The feeling of being pleased; pleasure, delight.

pleasances
plural of pleasance

pleasaunce
Alternative form of pleasance.

pleasaunces
plural of pleasaunce

pleasuredome
A place where one can relax, entertain or recreate.

pleasuredomes
plural of pleasuredome

plebanate
parish (area under the control of a parish church)

plebanates
plural of plebanate

plebiscite
A direct popular vote on an issue of public importance, such as an amendment to the constitution, a change in the sovereignty of the nation, or some government policy.
An expression of the public's views on an issue, whether legally binding or not.
Synonym of plebiscitum (“a law enacted by the common people, under the superintendence of a tribune or some subordinate plebeian magistrate, without the intervention of the senate”).

plebiscites
plural of plebiscite

pleck
A plot of ground.

plecks
plural of pleck

pledgeling
A pledge (“applicant to a college fraternity”).

pledgelings
plural of pledgeling

plenum
A space that is completely filled with matter.
A state of fullness, a great quantity (of something).
A legislative meeting (especially of the Communist Party) in which all members are present.
An enclosed space having greater than atmospheric pressure.
The space above a false ceiling used for cables, ducts etc.
A type of network cabling which satisfies a given plenum rating for the purpose of fire safety.

plenums
plural of plenum

pleometrosis
The establishment of an ant colony by multiple queens.

plerophoria
Alternative form of plerophory.

plerophories
plural of plerophory

plerophory
Fullness, especially of conviction or persuasion; the state of being fully persuaded

plesiomorph
An organism which represents a primitive state of evolution relative to another organism.

plesiomorphies
plural of plesiomorphy

plesiomorphs
plural of plesiomorph

plesiomorphy
A character state that is present in both outgroups and in the ancestors

plestor
An open space in a village where fairs or markets were held; became village greens.

plestors
plural of plestor

pleurant
A weeping figure used as an ornament on a tomb.

pleurants
plural of pleurant

ploughland
Land that has been or is meant to be ploughed.
Synonym of carucate.

ploughlands
plural of ploughland

ploughsoil
The soil down to the level at which it will have been disturbed by ploughing.

ploughsoils
plural of ploughsoil

ploughzone
The upper region of soil that has undergone ploughing.

ploughzones
plural of ploughzone

ploutonia
plural of ploutonion

ploutonion
A sanctuary dedicated to the Ancient Greek and Roman god Pluto, usually at a location producing poisonous emissions, believed to represent an entrance to the underworld.

plowland
Alternative spelling of ploughland.

plowlands
plural of plowland

plowsoil
Alternative form of ploughsoil.

plowsoils
plural of plowsoil

plowzone
Alternative spelling of ploughzone.

plowzones
plural of plowzone

pluricontinentalism
A geopolitical concept according to which Portugal was a unified nation-state spanning multiple continents.

pluriversities
plural of pluriversity

pluriversity
A university, viewed as an institution of tertiary education that is segmented into specialties which do not interact, especially specialties that focus on applications for external organizations.
A multicultural learning environment where one learns from multiple sources of knowledge, such as the scientific, the traditional, and the spiritual.

plutonism
The old geological theory that the rocks forming the Earth were formed in fire by volcanic activity, with a continuing gradual process of weathering and erosion, then deposited on the sea bed, re-formed into layers of sedimentary rock by heat and pressure, and raised again.

plutonisms
plural of plutonism

plutonyl
An oxycation of plutonium in the oxidation state +6.

pneumodermatid
Any sea angel in the family Pneumodermatidae.

pneumodermatids
plural of pneumodermatid

pogey
A poorhouse, workhouse, welfare office, charity hostel, etc.
Government financial assistance, particularly employment insurance.

pogost
A medieval administrative and territorial district in Russia, varying in size from tens to hundreds of villages.

pogosts
plural of pogost

pogy
menhaden (fish)

poignance
Poignancy; the quality or state of being poignant.

poignances
plural of poignance

poissarde
A fishwife, especially in France; specifically, any of the Parisian fishwives or market-women who led riots during the French Revolution.

poissardes
plural of poissarde

pokelogan
A marsh; an area of grassy ground partly covered with (generally stagnant) water adjacent or connected to a stream or lake.

pokelogans
plural of pokelogan

pokeloken
Alternative form of pokelogan.

pokelokens
plural of pokeloken

polarogram
A plot of current against potential produced by polarography.

polarograms
plural of polarogram

polemoney
A poll tax imposed in Scotland by the Edinburgh parliament in 1693, 1695, and 1698.

policide
The intentional destruction of a nation.
The intentional destruction of political activity in a society.

policlinic
An outpatient clinic, especially of a hospital.

policlinics
plural of policlinic

polities
plural of polity

politotdel
A political department of the former Soviet Union.

politotdeli
plural of politotdel

politotdels
plural of politotdel

politotdely
plural of politotdel

polity
Organizational structure and governance, especially of a state or a religion.
A politically organized unit, especially a nation of people, a class or ingroup that governs it, or the state ruled thereby.

polje
An extensive depression having a flat floor and steep walls but no outflowing surface stream and found in a region having karst topography (as in parts of Yugoslavia).

poljes
plural of polje

polotaswarf
The right of the Viking Varangian guard, upon the death of the Byzantine emperor, to remove from the royal palace as much treasure as they could carry in their hands.

polpala
Ouret lanata, mountain knotgrass

polster
A clump of moss; a glacier mouse.

polsters
plural of polster

polyandria
plural of polyandrium

polyandrion
A mass grave or communal tomb.

polyandrium
A polyandrion.

polyandrum
A tomb
A polyandrion

polyandrums
plural of polyandrum

polyare
Any pattern formed from a polyomino by removing half of each square such that the squares are still joined

polyares
plural of polyare

polyceratid
Any sea slug in the family Polyceratidae.

polyceratids
plural of polyceratid

polycerid
Any sea slug in the family Polyceridae.

polycerids
plural of polycerid

polycrotism
That state or condition of the pulse in which the pulse curve, or sphygmogram, shows several secondary crests or elevations.