Reverse Dictionary: PLA – PLAR

PLACARD – nouns
– PANCART † a placard bearing a public notification …1656
placard – person 
– WALL-OBSERVER † one who is addicted to reading placards …1673
 
PLACATED – adjectives
– PACABLE † capable of being pacified, placated, or appeased …a1834
 
PLACE – adjectives
– EEVER of places: upper, higher …Bk1900 Sc.
– GOOFY of a place: bizarre …1910s sl.
– HAGASTED familiar with a place through long residence there …1866 Sc.
– LAID OUT of a place: smart, neat …1960s US Black sl.
– RACKETTY of places: low, shady …c1840 sl.
– RACKETY of places: low, shady …c1840 sl.
– SALT-AND-PEPPER of a place: frequented by both Blacks and Whites …1950s US sl.
– TIN-POT of a place: small, insignificant …L19 NZ sl.
– TOPIC † pert. to a particular place or locality; local …1610
– UNCOUTH of places: not commonly known or frequented; solitary, desolate, wild, ragged, rough …a1542
– WANDERING †* of places: out-of-the-way, inaccessible, remote …1600
place – adverbs
– AT-AFTER of place: at the rear, after …1879 Eng. dial.
– ONEWHERE * in one place, as opposed to another; in one place only …1611
– SUNDRYWHERE † in various places; here and there …1548
– TOPICALLY * in respect to place; locally …1648
place – prepositions 
– AT-AFTER of place: behind, after …1883 Eng. dial.
place – verbs  (includes PLACE UPON)
– BESTOW to place, to locate; to put in a position or situation …c1374 arch.
– IMMOTE †* to convey or put upon something; to place upon …c1420
– IMPONE † to place or set upon something; to impose …1529
– IMPOSE to lay on or set on; to place or set in a position; to put, to place, to deposit …1597 arch.
– LAU to place …1967 UK sl.
– MEET † to place, to put …1846 Eng. dial.
– PAMP to place or put something somewhere …1990 Sc. sl.
– PARK to place, to put down …1910s sl.
– SITUATE * to give a site to; to place, to locate …c1532
– YARK † to put in position, to set, to place …a1300
– YAT to put or place in a hurried, throwing manner; to shove, to stuff in hurriedly …1962 Sc.
 
PLACE (locality) – nouns
– ACHE a large comfortable room or place …1895 Eng. dial.
– ANKLE a rough place, a ‘dive’ …Brit. sl.
– ARMPIT a highly undesirable town or place …1968 US sl.
– ARMPIT OF THE NATION the least appetizing, poorest, most run-down and potentially dangerous area of a city or town …1960s sl., orig. US
– ARMPIT OF THE UNIVERSE the worst place …1968 US sl.
– ARMPIT OF THE WORLD the worst place …1968 US sl.
– ARSEHOLE the least appetizing, poorest, most run-down and potentially dangerous area of a city, town, or place …1930s sl., orig. US
– ARSE-HOLE OF CREATION a detestable place …1926 Amer. sl.
– ARSEHOLE OF THE UNIVERSE an unpleasant place …1950 sl.
– ARSEHOLE OF THE WORLD any particularly unpleasant place  
– ASS-END OF CREATION the most remote or hateful place or position …1972  Amer. sl.
– ASS-END OF NOWHERE nowhere; a very out-of-the-way place …1920s US sl.
– ASS-END OF THE WORLD the most remote or hateful place or position …1960 Amer. sl.
– ASSHOLE the most detestable spot in a given area; a detestable place …1859 Amer. sl.
– ASSHOLE OF CREATION a detestable place …1926 Amer. sl.
– ASSHOLE OF THE LAND a detestable place …1927 Amer. sl.
– ASSHOLE OF THE UNIVERSE a detestable place …1950 sl.
– ASSHOLE OF THE WORLD a detestable place …1959 Amer. sl.
– ASS-KICKER an unpleasant place; a challenging situation …1960s US sl.
– BACK O’ BEYOND a remote, obscure place …1816 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– BACK OF NOWHERE an out of the way place; a very unimportant place …1967 Amer. dial.
– BACKSIDE OF NOWHERE an out of the way place; a very unimportant place …1967 Amer. dial.
– BAD PLACE IN THE ROAD a small, unimportant, or out-of-the-way settlement …1967 Amer. dial.
– BAD SPOT IN THE ROAD a small, unimportant, or out-of-the-way settlement …1967 Amer. dial.
– BAFUFF a fictitious place, remote and unspecified …1897 Sc.
– BALFUFF a fictitious place, remote and unspecified …1933 Sc.
– BALLFUFF a fictitious place, remote and unspecified …1912 Sc.
– BELFUFF a fictitious place, remote and unspecified …1932 Sc.
– BEYOND THE BEYOND a very out-of-the-way place …Bk1898 N. Ireland
– BILLY HELL a desolate place; hell …1903 Amer. dial.
– BOONDOCKS rough or wild country; rural backcountry; the sticks; an out-of-the-way place …1944 Amer. dial.
– BOONIES the backwoods, an out-of-the-way or a very unimportant place …1956 Amer. dial.
– BRO a place for which one feels great affinity because of birth, upbringing, long residence, etc. there …Welsh
– BUGGER’S WOODS an out-of-the-way place, or a very unimportant place …1970 Amer. dial.
– BUSHES, THE an insignificant or unimportant place; an out-of-the-way place …1965 Amer. dial.
– BUZZARD ROOST a disreputable gathering place or ramshackle building; a dilapidated building …1889 Amer. sl.
– BUZZARD’S ROOST a disreputable gathering place or ramshackle building; a dilapidated building …1889 Amer. sl.
– CABBAGE PATCH a place or thing of little importance; an out-of-the-way place …1862 Amer. sl.
– CACTUS a remote place, the backblocks …1944 Aust. sl.
– CALF-COUNTRY the place where one spent one’s youth …Sc. 
– CALF-GROUND the place where one spent one’s youth …Sc. 
– CHICKEN COOP any small place …1900s US sl.
– COW PATCH a remote place, or a very small or unimportant place …1965 Amer. dial.
– CUBESVILLE a conventional place or institution …1959 sl., orig. US
– DIDDY-WAH-DIDDY used as a substitute for a word or name one does not want to use; hence, the name of an imaginary place, often conceived of as fabulous and far-off …1929 Amer. dial.
– DIGGINGS a place, locality, neighbourhood, region; premises …1834 Amer. dial.
– DOGPATCH a remote place, or a very small or unimportant place …1965 Amer. dial.
– DOO-WAH-DIDDY used as a substitute for a word or name one does not want to use; hence, the name of an imaginary place, often conceived of as fabulous and far-off …1988 Amer. dial.
– DULLSVILLE, OHIO anywhere other than Las Vegas …1985 US sl.
– DUMP an unpleasant place …1915 sl., orig. US
– EAST JABIB an imaginary, extremely remote place …1984 Amer. dial.
– EAST JESUS, ARKANSAS a fictitious place, difficult to find, and peopled with uneducated and poor people …1994 US sl.
– EAST JESUS NOWHERE the outback …1961 US sl.
– EAST PASTURE a distant place …1967 Amer. dial.
– EL DORADO an ideal place …1596
– END place, position, situation …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– END OF COMEBACK an out-of-the-way place, or a very unimportant place …1966 Amer. dial.
– END OF NOWHERE an out-of-the-way place, or a very unimportant place …1965 Amer. dial.
– FALL-OFF an out-of-the-way place, or a very unimportant place …1967 Amer. dial.
– FLEA-BAG an unpleasant place …1941 sl.
– GAFF a place, an area, such as a street …L19 sl.
– GOBBLER HILL a nickname for an out-of-the-way or remote place …1968 Amer. dial.
– GOBBLER’S KNOB a nickname for an out-of-the-way or remote place …1935 Amer. dial.
– GRUNGEHOLE a filthy or disreputable place …1986 Amer. sl.
– GUTBUCKET a low place or dive …1944 US Black sl.
– HACKLEBARNEY a non-existent town you try to get to that is forever just around the next curve or just over the next hill, a town you believe in but never get to …1950 Amer. sl.
– HADES a place between or behind hills and out of sight …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– HAKE a large comfortable room or place …1895 Eng. dial.
– HALE † a corner, a nook; a secret place …c897
– HEAVEN a place of supreme bliss …1377
– HECKER a remote or out-of-the-way place …1967 Amer. dial.
– HELL-FOR-CERTAIN a nickname for some out-of-the-way or rundown place; a seedy place …1931 Amer. dial.
– HELL-HOLE an unpleasant place …1866 sl.
– HELL’S BOTTOM a remote, disreputable, or undesirable place …1966 Amer. dial.  
– HELL’S HALF-ACRE a small, remote, disreputable or otherwise undesirable place; a low-class barroom or dive …1874 Amer. dial.
– HELL’S HOLLER a remote, disreputable, or undesirable place …1954 Amer. dial.  
– HELL’S HOLLOW a remote, disreputable, or undesirable place …1966 Amer. dial.  
– HELL’S POINT a remote, disreputable, or undesirable place …1966 Amer. dial.  
– HELLTOWN a rundown or disreputable place …1966 Amer. dial.
– HENPECK a small, unimportant, or out-of-the-way place …1967 Amer. dial.
– HOBOKEN an insignificant, out-of-the-way place …20C US sl.
– HOLE an unpleasant place …1876 sl.
– HOLE IN THE ROAD a small, insignificant, remote place …M19 US sl.
– HOLE IN THE WALL a small, insignificant, remote place …M19 US sl.
– JERICHO a place of retirement or concealment, or a place far distant and out of the way; a secluded place …1635
– JOINT a place or establishment, as a hotel, restaurant. etc. …sl.
– JUNKYARD a place which is untidy, dirty, or cluttered with objects or refuse; also, a notional place to which something that is disused, forgotten, or past is consigned …1885
– KENNING-PLACE † a place prominently in sight …1610
– LAND’S END an out-of-the-way place or an unimportant village …1950 Amer. dial.
– LAST CHANCE an out-of-the-way or unimportant place …1968 Amer. dial. jocular
– LAYOUT an apartment, a house, or any place …M19 US sl.
– MANOR the area where you are born, or where you live and/or are well known …1962 Brit. sl.
– MIDDLE-ERD the nether regions; the lowest or furthest parts of a place …1897 Sc.
– MUCKHOLE a filthy, unappetizing place or room …1900s sl.
– NATIVE † a native place or country …1604 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– NEST a place; a place of residence …1596 sl.
– NESTERSVILLE an out-of-the-way place; a very small or unimportant place …1967 Amer. dial.
– NEVER-HEED-UM-STREET an unknown place; nowhere …1891 Eng. dial.
– NOPLACEVILLE a dull or boring place or town; a small town; a jerkwater town …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
– OFFICE any place where one does work or spends a great deal of time …L17 sl.
– ONE-HORSE TOWN a small or unimportant place; an out-of-the-way place …1965 Amer. dial.
– OPTIMACY †* the best or highest place …1651
– OTHER SIDE OF BOURKE a long way away, a place far away …20C sl.
– OUT BACK O’ SUNSET a long way away, a place far away …20C sl.
– PAD a place, house, or apartment; a room, esp. a bedroom …1938  sl.
– PALTOCK’S INN †* a mean or inhospitable place …1579
– PATCH a remote place, or a very small or unimportant place …1965 Amer. dial.
– PEA HILL a remote, small, or poor place …1851 Amer. dial.
– PEANUT ROW (derogatory) a small, unimportant, or out-of-the-way place …1968 Amer. dial.
– PEANUTSVILLE (derogatory) a small, unimportant, or out-of-the-way place …1968 Amer. dial.
– PEA RIDGE a remote, small, or poor place …1851 Amer. dial.
– PEA STICKS a remote, small, or poor place …1851 Amer. dial.
– PIGSTY a dirty or untidy place …1820 sl.
– PISS-HOLE an unpleasant place …1973 sl.
– PLUMB NEARLY a name for an out-of-the-way place …1942 Amer. dial.
– POCHUCK a small, out-of-the-way, or unimportant place …1968 Amer. dial.
– PODOCK a small, out-of-the-way, or unimportant place …1971 Amer. dial.
– PODUNK a nickname for a small, unimportant, remote, or backward place …1840 Amer. dial.
– PODUNK CENTRE a nickname for a small, unimportant, remote, or backward place …1901 Amer. dial.
– PODUNK HOLLOW a nickname for a small, unimportant, remote, or backward place …1986 Amer. dial.
– PODUNKIA a nickname for a small, unimportant, remote, or backward place …1916 Amer. dial.
– PODUNK JUNCTION a nickname for a small, unimportant, remote, or backward place …1986 Amer. dial.
– PODUNKVILLE a nickname for a small, unimportant, remote, or backward place …1916Amer. dial.
– PUKA any small, private place, such as a pigeonhole in a desk, a safe, a purse, a small suitcase, or the like …WWII US Navy use
– PUKE HOLE a shabby. shoddy, dirty place …1973 US sl.
– QUARE PLACE somewhere unpleasant …1960s Irish sl.
– QUATERVOIS †* a place where four ways meet …1646
– RABBIT PATCH a remote place, or a very small or unimportant place …1965 Amer. dial.
– SACRED SITE a place one holds in reverence …1987 Aust. sl.
– SCRATCH-ANKLE an out-of-the-way place, or a very small or unimportant place …1965 Amer. dial.
– SCRATCH-ANKLE HOLLER an out-of-the-way place, or a very small or unimportant place …1965 Amer. dial.
– SHIT-CHUTE a disgusting, filthy place …2000s sl.
– SHIT-HOLE an unpleasant place …1969 sl.
– SIBERIA a place of abandonment or being ignored or sent to Coventry …1930s US prison sl.
– SKANK-PIT an unpleasant, distasteful place …1999 US sl.
– SKUNK CITY a name or nickname for an unimportant or out-of-the-way place …1965 Amer. dial.
– SKUNK HOLLOW a name or nickname for an unimportant or out-of-the-way place …1965 Amer. dial.
– SKUNK’S MISERY a name or nickname for an unimportant or out-of-the-way place …1847 Amer. dial.
– SKUNK’S NECK a name or nickname for an unimportant or out-of-the-way place …1965 Amer. dial.
– SKUNKTOWN a name or nickname for an unimportant or out-of-the-way place …1875 Amer. dial.
– SKUNK VALLEY a name or nickname for an unimportant or out-of-the-way place …1965 Amer. dial.
– SQUARESVILLE a conventional place or institution …1956 sl., orig. US
– SQUAREVILLE a conventional place or institution …1956 sl., orig. US
– TANK TOWN a small or insignificant community, an out-of-the-way place; orig. one whose main function was to supply water for trains; also used as a nickname for such a community …1895 Amer. dial.
– TO-DRAUGHT † a place that people draw to; a resort …a1300
– TOPOLATRY excessive reverence for a place …a1800
– TOPONYMY the place names of a country or district as a subject of study …1876
– TOPOPHOBIA a morbid dread of certain places …1899
– TURKEY RUN a remote or insignificant place …1906 Amer. dial.
– TURKEY TOWN a remote or insignificant place …1966 Amer. dial.
– TURKEY TROT a remote or insignificant place …1905 Amer. dial.
– UBI † 1. place, position; location …1614
† 2. present place or position; whereabouts …1778
– UBIATION † the act of occupying a new place …1624
– UBICATION the condition of being in or occupying a certain place or position; location …1644
– UBIETY condition in respect of place or location; whereness …1674
– UBITY †* place, locality …1624
– UP-PUTTING a place, situation …Bk1905 Sc.
– VALHALLA a place or sphere assigned to persons, etc., worthy of special honour …c1845
place (locality) – person
– POLYTOPIAN † one who visits many places …1611 nonce word
– REVENANT one who returns to a place after prolonged absence …1886
– SUITOR †* a frequenter of a place …c1290
place (locality) – verbs 
– COME TO THE SEAM-NEEDLE to reach a good stopping place …1944 Amer. dial.
 
PLACED – adjectives
– BESTEAD † placed, located, situated …a1300
– BESTED † placed, located, situated …a1300
– MALPOSED wrongly placed …1900
 
PLACID – adjectives
– EASYFUL placid, indolent, easygoing, complacent …1864 Eng. dial.
– PLACIDIOUS †* gentle, placid …1607
 
PLACING – nouns
– IMPOSITION * the act of putting, placing, or laying on; also, a layer over something …1597
 
PLAGIARISM – nouns
– PAPER-STEALTH † literary piracy, plagiarism …1647
 
PLAGIARIST – person
– BITER a plagiarist, esp. in rap/hip-hop, etc. …1987 US sl.
– PLAGIATOR * ​a plagiarist; one who plagiarizes the ideas, work, etc. of another…1889 
– SPONGE-WIT a plagiarist …B1900 sl.
– TAKER a literary plunderer, a plagiarist …1687
 
PLAGIARIZE – verbs
– CABBAGE to plagiarize …L19 sl.
– LIFT to steal, to rob; to plagiarize …1526 sl.
 
PLAGUE – nouns
– BAD YELLOW the plague …1856 Eng. dial.
– CANACIN † the plague …1673
– CANAKIN † the plague …1673
– CANNIKIN the plague …1688 sl.
– GARGET  a distemper, plague …1615
– MALISON the plague, the devil …1898 Sc.
– MANQUALM † plague, pestilence …a900
– ONFALL † an attack or access of disease, plague, or calamity; an assault, on onset …c1000 obs. exc. Sc.
– TOKEN † a spot on the body indicating disease, esp. the plague …1634 now rare or obs.
plague – verbs 
– BEPESTER to pester greatly, to plague, to vex, to harass …1600
– DUN to pester or plague a person with something unpleasant, esp. repeated arguments or unwanted comments; to assail constantly …1659
– TARVEAL † to drive a person hard at work, to harass, to fatigue; to vex, to plague …1768 Sc.
– URBISH to plague, to tease, to harass …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
PLAID – nouns
– FAIK a plaid …1714 Sc.
 
PLAIN – adjectives
– DILUCIDATE † made clear, plain, or lucid …1651
– EVEN-DOWN direct, plain, without reserve or qualification …1838 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– FAMILIAR † homely, plain; hence, easily understood …1529
– HOMELY AS A BASKET OF CHIPS, AS plain …1827 Amer. dial.
– LEVEL * plain, point-blank …1820
– MEESE plain …2003 UK homosexual sl.
– NAKED * free from concealment or reserve; plain, straightforward; outspoken, free …a1225
– OFF-HAND plain, honest, blunt; free-spoken …Bk1905 Sc.
– ORDINARY physically plain; commonplace; unattractive …M19
– ORNERY ordinary, commonplace, plain …1838 Amer. dial.
– PALPABLE easily perceived; open to recognition; plain, evident, apparent, obvious, manifest …1545
– PLAIN AS A PACKSTAFF, AS † a plain as a pikestaff, quite obvious and unmistakable …1542
– PLAIN AS PARRITCH of persons: homely, unattractive in appearance; very plain (parritch = porridge) …1899 Sc.
– PLAIN AS THE LETTER S perfectly plain …1873 Eng. dial.
– PLAIN AS THE NOSE ON ONE’S FACE perfectly plain or obvious …1655
– PLAIN VANILLA plain, simple, no frills, esp. used of sexual activity …1970s sl.
– SINGLE † simple, plain; without further qualification or addition …c1421
– THIEF-LIKE plain, ugly; hard-looking …Bk1905 Sc.
– UNARTED † unartificial; plain …1628
– UNBRAW plain, unattractive …1973 Sc.
– UNCOLOURED plain, simple …1845
– UNSONSY ill-looking, plain …1894 Sc.
– VANILLA plain, simple, no frills, esp. used of sexual activity …1970s sl.
plain – person
– CAGMAG a plain or slovenly woman …L18 sl.
– INDIA a plain man, with homely, pleasant features …1950s homosexual sl. 
– RALPH an effeminate, timid, or plain and undistinguished man …1950s homosexual sl.
plain – verbs
– DECLARE † to make clear or plain anything that is obscure or imperfectly understood; to clear up, to explain, to elucidate, to interpret …c1325
– DILUCIDATE † to make clear, plain, or evident; to free from obscurity; to elucidate, to explain …1538
– NOT TO PUT A FEATHEREDGE ON IT to speak plainly …1903 Amer. dial.
 
PLAIN (land) – nouns
– CAMPAIGN † a tract of open country; a plain …1628
– CAMPANIA † a  large open level tract of ground without hills; a plain …1647
plain (land) – person
– PEDIONOMITE * one who lives on a plain; a dweller in a plain …1876
 
PLAINLY – adverbs
– FAIR † plainly, easily, clearly, distinctly; frankly, downright …1393 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– FAIR AND CLEAR plainly, clearly …1860 Eng. dial.
– IN SHORT AND PLAIN † briefly and plainly …c1386
– NATIVELY † naturally, without disguise, plainly, straightforwardly …a1564
– UNCURIOUSLY † in a plain or unelaborate manner …1490
– YARE † well, thoroughly; certainly, plainly, without doubt …a900
 
PLAINNESS – nouns
– DILUCIDITY † lucidness; clearness; plainness …1603
 
PLAIN-SPEAKING – adjectives
– PLANILOQUENT †* plain-speaking; speaking without reserve …1656
 
PLAINTIFF – person
– ACCUSATOR † an accuser; spec. a plaintiff, a prosecutor …1382
– ACTOR † in law: a person who instigates or is involved in a legal action; a plaintiff or complainant; in Roman History: a public prosecutor; an advocate in civil cases …a1325
– ORATRESS † a female pleader, petitioner, or plaintiff …1586
– ORATRICE † a female pleader, plaintiff, petitioner, or offerer of prayers …1432
– ORATRIX † a female petitioner or plaintiff …1464
– QUERENT * a complainant, a plaintiff …1727
– RAPPER a plaintiff, a prosecutor …1900s US sl.
– SUIT-MAKER † one who institutes a suit; a plaintiff …1469
 
PLAINTIVE – verbs
– TOOT to make a plaintive noise, as when a child cries loudly or mournfully; to howl; to whine or cry …1808
 
PLAN, PLANNING – nouns
– ADVISEMENT † the result of thinking; a thought, opinion, resolution, plan …1535
– CARD † a map or plan …1527
– CARTE † a chart, map, plan, diagram …1502
– CAST † plan, design; shape, conformation, of a building, etc. …a1300
– COLLOGUE a private talk; a secret plan or scheme …E19
– DART a plan, an aim, a scheme, an idea …1887 Aust. sl.
– DICKER a plan, fashion …1904 Amer. dial.
– FIX a well thought-out plan with criminal intent …1975 Aust. sl.
– GAG a plan, a scheme …M19 sl.
– LAY a line or plan of business, occupation, adventure, etc. …1707 sl.
– LAYOUT a plan, a scheme …1867 Amer. dial.
– LURK a scheme, a plan of action, a ruse …1916 Aust. & NZ sl.
– MACHINATION the act or process of contriving or planning; contrivance, intrigue, plotting; an intrigue, plot, scheme …1549
– MAXIM a plan, contrivance; an experiment; a fad; a crotchet …1882 Eng. dial.
– NAVATION †* a contrivance, scheme, plan …1628
– NONSELLER a plan that almost certainly will be rejected …1986 US sl.
– ORDINANCE † the arrangement of plans; devising, contriving, planning; a device, contrivance, plan …a1330
– RACKET a plan, a scheme, a trick …1900s US sl.
– SCAM a plan, a scheme …1940s sl.
– SCAMUS a plan, a scheme …1940s sl.
– TABLE † a sketch, plan, scheme …a1577
– Xs AND Os the basic elements of a plan …1984 US sl.
plan, planning – person
– MODELLER a planner, schemer, contriver …Bk1790
plan, planning – verbs
– BETHINK † to devise, to contrive, to plan, to arrange …a1225
– BLOCK to plan, to devise …Bk1911 Sc.
– CALCILATE to calculate; to plan; to intend …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– CAST † to put into shape, dispose, arrange, or order; to lay out in order, to plan, to devise …a1300
– CHALK OUT to sketch out, to plan …Bk1999 
– CLOCK to plan …1959 Amer. sl.
– CRUMB THE DEAL to spoil a plan or plot …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
– CUT † to make ready, to prepare, to plan …1645
– ETTLE to plan, to arrange for, to contrive to the greatest advantage; to deal out in small quantities, to use sparingly and stingily …1843 Eng. dial.
– FANIGLE to plot and plan; to conspire; to arrange something …Bk2006 US sl.
– FINAGLE to plot and plan; to conspire; to arrange something …Bk2006 US sl.
– GET A FIX ON to make a plan of action …1955 US sl.
– HACK IT OUT to work out a plan …1967 Amer. dial.
– HACK IT OVER to work out a plan …1967 Amer. dial.
– HAMMER † to devise plans laboriously; to ‘cudgel one’s brains; to debate or deliberate earnestly …1591
– HASH UP to work out a plan …1969 Amer. dial.
– IMAGE † to devise, to plan …c1440
– LAY ABOUT † to contrive, to plan, to take measures to do something; to look out or make a search for …a1618
– LAY IT ON THE LINE to organize, to arrange, to plan …c1930 Brit. sl.
– LAY OFF to plan, to intend …1843 Amer. dial.
– LAY OUT to intend, to plan, to arrange …1828 Amer. dial.
– MACHINATE to lay plots; to intrigue; to scheme; to contrive; to plot; to plan …1600
– MAKE ONE to put together plans for a crime, esp. a robbery, and then carry out that crime …1970s UK criminals’ sl.
– MARK to trace out boundaries for; to plot out ground; to set out the ground plan of a building; to plan out, to design …c888 now poetic
– ORDAIN † to plan, to devise, to contrive …1340
– SCHEME to make plans …1960s sl., orig. US Black
– SCHEME ON to make plans …1960s sl., orig. US Black
– SUBTLE † to scheme, to plan craftily …c1380
– THINK UP to arrange, to plan, to originate …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TRIGGER to scheme, to contrive, to lay plans …1888 Amer. dial.
plan, planning – phrases
– IN CAHOOTS WITH conspiring or planning with someone …1829 US sl.
 
PLANE – see AIRCRAFT
 
PLANET – adjectives
– MARS-STARRED † born under the planet Mars …1635
– MARTIGENOUS † Mars-born …1727
planet – nouns 
– MART † the planet Mars …1390
– SATELLITIUM † a company of planets …1669-96
– TONE † the space between planets …1601
planet – person 
– MARTIALIST † in astrology: a person born under the influence of the planet Mars …1569
– MARTICOLIST †* a worshipper of Mars …1727
 
PLANETARIUM – nouns
– HEAVEN † a model showing the motions of the heavenly bodies; an orrery, a planetarium …1600
 
PLANK – nouns
– TABLE † a board or plank …1390
– TABULATION †* a fastening together of planks or boards, a making a floor …1658
– THEAL † a board, a plank, a joist …1609 Eng. dial.
– THEALE † a board, a plank, a joist …1609 Eng. dial.
 
PLANNED – adjectives
– CAST † calculated, planned …c1400
– ON planned; hence, in progress …a1881 colloq.
 
PLANT – adjectives
– BIRNY of plants: having rough or stunted stems …Bk1898 Sc.
– GREEN-FINGERED skilled at growing plants …1946 sl.
– HUMILE † of a plant: of lowly growth …1567 chiefly Sc.
– LUSHY of plants, etc. esp. of grass: lush, luxuriant in growth …1821
– MIFFEY of plants: apt to fade when transplanted …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– QUICK of plants or their parts: alive, growing…c1000
– RACY † of plants: full of sap, succulent …1675
– RAMPING †* of plants: climbing, clasping …1578
– RANGLING twining, rambling, winding; esp. said of plants …1863 Eng. dial.
– RESP of plants: fresh; full of moisture, juicy …1819 Eng. dial.
– SATORIOUS † belonging to one who sows, sets, or plants …1656
– SAVAGE † of a plant or tree: wild, uncultivated …1422
– SUBAQUANEOUS †* pert. to plants growing under water …1656
– VEGETATIVE †* obtained or derived from vegetables or plants …1662
– VEGETE * of plants or their parts: healthy, vigorous; growing strongly …1651
– VEGETIVE pert. to vegetables or plants …1526
– VEGETIVOROUS feeding on vegetables or plants …1859
plant – nouns
– BELL the blossom of a plant …Bk1911 Sc.
– BIRN the withered stems of garden or other plants …1790 Eng. dial.
– DRILL-DROLLS trailing plants; the wild convolvulus …1895 Eng. dial.
– FERITY of plants: wildness, uncultivated condition …c1534
– GARDEN-STUFF plants grown in a garden; vegetables for the table …a1687
– GREEN FINGERS exceptional skill at growing plants …1934 sl.
– GREEN HAND the ability to grow plants …1944 Amer. dial.
– GREEN THUMB exceptional skill at growing plants …1943 sl., chiefly US
– GROWING HAND an exceptional ability to make plants thrive; a ‘green thumb’ …1930 Amer. dial.
– HARBOUR † a bower or retreat covered with climbing shrubs and plants …1563
– HEADLET † a little or miniature head, as the bud of a plant …1577 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– IMP † a young shoot of a plant or tree; a sapling …c897
– LAUNCH † shoots of a plant …a1400
– PACIFIC STEROID the Southeast Asian plant, taro …2002 NZ sl.
– PLANTAGE 1. † plants in general; anything that is planted; vegetation …1606
2. † the cultivation of plants, planting …1632
– PUMILIO †* a dwarf; a diminutive person or plant …1576
– QUICK 1. living plants …1456-7
2. the growing part of a plant nearest to the roots …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RHODO a rhododendron …E20 colloq.
– RHODY a rhododendron …M19 colloq.
– SIMPLE a plant or herb employed for medical purposes; chiefly used in the plural …1539 now arch.
– TALLY a plant identification label …1822
– TILLER † a plant, a shoot, a twig; a shoot or sucker from the root …a1000
– TOPOLOGY † the department of botany which treats of the localities where plants are found …1659
– UNCLE AND AUNT a plant …1992 UK rhyming sl.
– VEGETAL a plant; a vegetable …1599
– VEGETATION † a plant; a vegetable form or growth …1683
– VEGETATIVE † a vegetable or plant …1634
– VEGETIVE a plant, a vegetable …1602
– WOODMAN’S CHARMIN any of a variety of plants having broad, soft leaves …1966 Amer. dial.
– WOODSMAN’S TOILET PAPER any of a variety of plants having broad, soft leaves …2001 Amer. dial.
plant – person
– GEOBOTANIST an expert or specialist in geobotany (geographical distribution of plants) …1875
plant – verbs
– BOOM of plants: to grow vigorously, to thrive …1966 Amer. dial.
– EFFLOWER †* of a plant: to go out of bloom …c1420
– ENJOY of plants: to thrive, to grow freely …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– MANURE † to cultivate, train or rear a plant …1632
– MIFF OFF of plants: to fade, to lose their strength and beauty …1883 Eng. dial.
– RAMP of plants: to grow luxuriantly …1820 Eng. dial.
– TEAL to dig; to plant in the ground, esp. to set potatoes …1874 Eng. dial.
– TEEL to dig; to plant in the ground, esp. to set potatoes …1874 Eng. dial.
 
PLANTATION – nouns
– BIG HOUSE the main house on a plantation …1811 Amer. dial.
– GREAT HOUSE a manor or the main house on a plantation …1633 Amer. dial.
– WALK a plantation …1793 W. Indian
 
PLANTED – adjectives
– SATIVE † sown or planted; cultivated, not wild …1599
– SATIVOUS † sown or planted; cultivated, not wild …1786
 
PLANTING – nouns
– SATION † a sowing of seed, a planting …c1440
– TABLE †* a plot of ground for planting; a bed …c1440