6-letter words containing a, p, l
- parkly — of, relating to, or resembling a park
- parlay — to bet or gamble (an original amount and its winnings) on a subsequent race, contest, etc.
- parled — talk; parley.
- parley — a discussion or conference.
- parlog — Clark & Gregory, Imperial College 1983. An AND-parallel Prolog, with guards and committed choice nondeterminism (don't care nondeterminism). Shallow backtracking only. Implementations: MacParlog and PC-Parlog from Parallel Logic Programming Ltd., Box 49 Twickenham TW2 5PH, UK. See also SPM.
- parlor — Older Use. a room for the reception and entertainment of visitors to one's home; living room.
- parole — language as manifested in the actual utterances produced by speakers of a language (contrasted with langue).
- parrel — Nautical. a sliding ring or collar of rope, wood, or metal that confines a yard or the jaws of a gaff to the mast but allows vertical movement.
- partly — in part; to some extent or degree; partially; not wholly: His statement is partly true.
- parula — any of several American wood warblers of the genus Parula, especially P. americana (northern parula) having bluish plumage with a yellow throat and breast.
- pascal — a high-level programming language, a descendant of ALGOL, designed to facilitate structured programming.
- passel — a group or lot of indeterminate number: a passel of dignitaries.
- pastel — the woad plant.
- pastil — a flavored or medicated lozenge; troche.
- pathol — pathological
- patrol — (of a police officer, soldier, etc.) to pass along a road, beat, etc., or around or through a specified area in order to maintain order and security.
- pattle — paddle1 (def 11).
- paucal — a grammatical number occurring in some languages for words in contexts where a few of their referents are described or referred to
- paul i — died a.d. 767, pope 757–767.
- paul v — (Camillo Borghese) 1552–1621, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1605–21.
- paulin — a tarpaulin
- pavlov — Ivan Petrovich [ee-vahn pyi-traw-vyich] /iˈvɑn pyɪˈtrɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1849–1936, Russian physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1904.
- payola — a secret or private payment in return for the promotion of a product, service, etc., through the abuse of one's position, influence, or facilities.
- pdelan — Partial Differential Equation LANguage
- pealed — a loud, prolonged ringing of bells.
- pearls — a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle. Compare knit (def 11).
- pearly — like a pearl, especially in being white or lustrous; nacreous: her pearly teeth.
- pedalo — pedal boat
- pedlar — a person who sells from door to door or in the street.
- pelage — the hair, fur, wool, or other soft covering of a mammal.
- pelham — a bit that is used with two pairs of reins, designed to serve the purpose of a full bridle.
- pelias — a son of Poseidon and Tyro. He feared his nephew Jason and sent him to recover the Golden Fleece, hoping he would not return
- pellan — Alfred [French al-fred] /French alˈfrɛd/ (Show IPA), 1906–1988, Canadian painter.
- pelota — a Basque and Spanish game from which jai alai was developed.
- penial — the male organ of copulation and, in mammals, of urinary excretion.
- pennal — a first-year student of a German Protestant university
- perlea — Jonel [zhoh-nel] /ˈʒoʊ nɛl/ (Show IPA), 1900–70, U.S. conductor and composer, born in Romania.
- phalli — an image of the male reproductive organ, especially that carried in procession in ancient festivals of Dionysus, or Bacchus, symbolizing the generative power in nature.
- phiale — a shallow cup resembling a saucer, having a central boss and sometimes set upon a foot, used as a drinking vessel or to pour libations.
- philae — an island in the Nile, in Upper Egypt: the site of ancient temples; now submerged by the waters of Lake Nasser.
- pholas — a type of bivalve mollusc that is a member of the genus Pholas and family Pholadidae
- phonal — a speech sound: There are three phonetically different “t” phones in an utterance of “titillate,” and two in an utterance of “tattletale.”.
- phylar — of or relating to a major taxonomic division of living organisms that contain one or more classes
- pilate — Pontius [pon-shuh s,, -tee-uh s] /ˈpɒn ʃəs,, -ti əs/ (Show IPA), flourished early 1st century a.d, Roman procurator of Judea a.d. 26–36?: the final authority concerned in the condemnation and execution of Jesus Christ.
- pillar — an upright shaft or structure, of stone, brick, or other material, relatively slender in proportion to its height, and of any shape in section, used as a building support, or standing alone, as for a monument: Gothic pillars; a pillar to commemorate Columbus.
- pilula — pill
- pimola — an olive stuffed with red sweet pepper; stuffed olive.
- pineal — resembling a pine cone in shape.
- pinnal — Botany. one of the primary divisions of a pinnate leaf.
- placed — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.