Vocabulary : Pliers to Pliocene

Pliers : A kind of small pinchers with long jaws, -- used for bending or cutting metal rods or wire, for handling small objects such as the parts of a watch, etc.
Pliform : In the form of a ply, fold, or doubling.
Plight : imp. & p. p. of Plight, to pledge. ;; imp. & p. p. of Pluck. ;; To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait. ;; A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment. ;; That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge. ;; Condition; state; -- risk, or exposure to danger, often being implied; as, a luckless plight. ;; To pledge; to give as a pledge for the performance of some act; as, to plight faith, honor, word; -- never applied to property or goods. ;; To promise; to engage; to betroth.
Plighted : of Plight
Plighter : One who, or that which, plights.

Plighting : of Plight
Plim : To swell, as grain or wood with water.
Plimsoll's mark : A mark conspicuously painted on the port side of all British sea-going merchant vessels, to indicate the limit of submergence allowed by law; -- so called from Samuel Plimsoll, by whose efforts the act of Parliament to prevent overloading was procured.
Plinth : In classical architecture, a vertically faced member immediately below the circular base of a column; also, the lowest member of a pedestal; hence, in general, the lowest member of a base; a sub-base; a block upon which the moldings of an architrave or trim are stopped at the bottom. See Illust. of Column.
Pliocene : Of, pertaining to, or characterizing, the most recent division of the Tertiary age. ;; The Pliocene period or deposits.

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