plumbate /plumˈbāt/ noun

A salt of plumbic acid

plumbeous /plumˈbi-əs/ adjective

1. Leaden
2. Lead-coloured
3. Lead-glazed

plumber /plumˈər/ noun

1. Orig a worker in lead
2. Now someone who installs and mends pipes, cisterns, and other fittings for the supply of water and gas and for household drainage

plumbˈery noun

1. Plumber-work
2. A plumber's workshop

plumbic /plumˈbik/ adjective

1. Due to lead
2. Of quadrivalent lead

plumbiferous /-bifˈ/ adjective

Yielding or containing lead

plumbing /plumˈing/ noun

1. The operation of making plumb
2. The craft of working in lead
3. The work of a plumber
4. The system of pipes in a building for gas, water and drainage
5. (the design, style, working, etc of) lavatories (euphemistic)
6. The urinary system or tract (facetious)

plumˈbism /-bizm/ noun

Lead poisoning

plumbisolˈvency or (non-standard) plumbosolˈvency noun

plumbisolˈvent or plumbosolˈvent adjective

Able to dissolve lead

plumˈbite /-bīt/ noun

A salt of the weak acid lead hydroxide

plumbˈless adjective

Incapable of being sounded

plumbous /plumˈbəs/ adjective

Of bivalent lead

plumbum /plumˈbəm/ noun (obsolete)

Lead

plumb bob noun

A weight at the end of a plumb line

plumbˈer-block same as plummer-block

plumber's snake see snake

plumbˈer-work noun

The work of a plumber

plumbic acid noun

An acid of which lead dioxide is the anhydride

plumb line noun

1. A line to which a bob is attached to show the vertical line
2. A vertical line
3. A plummet

plumb rule noun

A board with plumb line and bob, for testing the verticality of walls, etc