Index of English words, starting with "pl"

(1) - Plunderer (n.) One who plunders or pillages.

(1) - Plunge (n.) Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
(2) - Plunge (n.) The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
(3) - Plunge (n.) Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties.
(4) - Plunge (n.) The act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into, or as into, water; as, to take the water with a plunge.
(5) - Plunge (v. i.) To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations.
(6) - Plunge (v. i.) To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
(7) - Plunge (v. i.) To thrust or cast one's self into water or other fluid; to submerge one's self; to dive, or to rush in; as, he plunged into the river. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge into debt.
(8) - Plunge (v. t.) To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome.
(9) - Plunge (v. t.) To baptize by immersion.
(10) - Plunge (v. t.) To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to plunge the body into water; to plunge a dagger into the breast. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge a nation into war.

(1) - Plunger (n.) The firing pin of a breechloader.
(2) - Plunger (n.) A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistence.
(3) - Plunger (n.) One who bets heavily and recklessly on a race; a reckless speculator.
(4) - Plunger (n.) A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps.
(5) - Plunger (n.) One who, or that which, plunges; a diver.