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placidement: placidly
placidité: placidity, placidness
placier: canvasser; rep
placoplâtre: plasterboard
placoter: to chat, chatter
plafond: ceiling; maximum; credit limit, withdrawal limit, ceiling (maximum permitted level in a financial transaction)
plafond de verre: glass ceiling
plafonnement: cap, capping, setting an upper limit
plafonner: to cap (put an upper limit on); to reach one's upper limit
plafonnier: light (ceiling light)
plagal: plagal
plage: beach; range
plagiaire: plagiarist
plagiat: plagiarism
plagier: to plagiarize
plagioclase: plagioclase
plagiocéphale: plagiocephalic
plagiocéphalie: plagiocephaly
plagiotropisme: plagiotropism
plagiste: beachgoer (someone who goes to the beach)
plaid: placitum (kind of medieval council)
plaid: plaid; small blanket to sit on or to warm one’s legs
plaider: to plead
plaideur: litigant
plaidoirie: oral argument (in court)
plaidoyer: speech for the defence; plea
plaie: open wound; scourge
plaignant: prosecuting
plaignant: plaintiff; prosecutor
plain: plane
plain-chant: plainsong
plain-pied: single-storey building; same-level apartment; one-floor residence; ground floor
plaindre: to pity; to complain
plaine: plain
plaine de jeu: alternative spelling of plaine de jeux
plaine de jeux: playground
plainte: complaint; moan, groan; (criminal) complaint
plaintif: plaintive, doleful
plaintivement: plaintively
plaire: to please, to appeal to (usually translated into English as like with exchange of subject and object); to enjoy (oneself)
plaisamment: pleasantly; pleasingly; jokingly, jestingly
plaisance: pleasure
plaisancier: boater, amateur sailor
plaisant: pleasing; pleasant
plaisanter: to joke (make a joke)
plaisanterie: joke; jest; fun; pleasantry; joking; jesting; kidding
plaisantin: joker, wag; wiseass, smart aleck
plaisard: people pleaser
plaisir: pleasure
plaisirois: of Plaisir
plait: post-1990 spelling of plaît (third-person singular present indicative of plaire)
plait-il: alternative spelling of plaît-il
plan: map (schematic maps of streets, subways, etc.); plane (flat surface); plane; shot; plan
plan: planar
plan américain: a shot in which a character or a group is framed from the mid thigh up
plan comptable: chart of accounts
plan cul: hookup; fuck buddy (sexual relationship without further emotional attachment)
plan d'accès: access map
plan d'action: action plan, game plan, agenda
plan d'eau: lake, pond, stretch of smooth water