Words Starting PL & Ending A

• A small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin, etc.

• A projection of bone or other stiff tissue, such as the ridges in some insects' stridulatory organs.

• the colorless watery fluid of the blood and lymph that contains no cells, but in which the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended

• a green slightly translucent variety of chalcedony used as a gemstone

• (physical chemistry) a fourth state of matter distinct from solid or liquid or gas and present in stars and fusion reactors; a gas becomes a plasma when it is heated until the atoms lose all their electrons, leaving a highly electrified collection of nuclei and free electrons

• A level area which habitually fills with water that evaporates entirely.

• A dude (an informal term of address or general term to describe a person, typically male).

• A player (someone who plays the field, or has prowess in gaining romantic and sexual relationships).

• Undeclared or illicit publicity or product promotion, especially on radio or television.

• a folded part (as in skin or muscle)

• the flat ciliated free-swimming larva of hydrozoan coelenterates

• the thin serous membrane around the lungs and inner walls of the chest