Words starting with pla

Words and definitions

Placability means: The quality or state of being placable or appeasable; placable disposition.

Placable means: Capable of being appeased or pacified; ready or willing to be pacified; willing to forgive or condone.

Placableness means: The quality of being placable.

Placard means: A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority.

Placard means: Permission given by authority; a license; as, to give a placard to do something.

Placard means: A written or printed paper, as an advertisement or a declaration, posted, or to be posted, in a public place; a poster.

Placard means: An extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or backplate.

Placard means: A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later.

Placarded means: of Placard

Placarding means: of Placard

Words and definitions

Zythum means: A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat.

Zythepsary means: A brewery.

Zythem means: See Zythum.

Zymotic means: Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.

Zymotic means: Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.

Zymosis means: A zymotic disease.

Zymosis means: A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.

Zymose means: Invertin.

Zymophyte means: A bacteroid ferment.

Zymosimeter means: An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.