6-letter words containing l, a, p
- opaled — made like an opal, in terms of iridescence
- p-mail — Physical mail, as opposed to e-mail. Synonymous with snail-mail.
- pablum — (lowercase) trite, naive, or simplistic ideas or writings; intellectual pap.
- paddle — a short, flat bladed oar for propelling and steering a canoe or small boat, usually held by both hands and moved more or less through a vertical arc.
- paella — a Spanish dish prepared by simmering together chicken, seafood, rice, vegetables, and saffron and other seasonings.
- paglia — Camille. born 1947, US writer and academic, noted for provocative cultural studies such as Sexual Personae (1990) and Vamps and Tramps (1995)
- pagnol — Marcel [mar-sel] /marˈsɛl/ (Show IPA), 1895–1974, French playwright.
- pairle — a device representing the front of an ecclesiastical pallium, consisting of a broad Y -shaped form covered with crosses.
- pal up — to become friends (with)
- palace — the official residence of a king, queen, bishop, or other sovereign or exalted personage.
- palade — George Emil, 1912–2008, U.S. biologist, born in Romania: Nobel Prize in medicine 1974.
- palais — French. a palace, especially a French government or municipal building.
- palama — the webbing on a bird's feet
- palapa — a simple, thatched-roof dwelling, usually open on the sides.
- palate — Anatomy. the roof of the mouth, consisting of an anterior bony portion (hard palate) and a posterior muscular portion (soft palate) that separate the oral cavity from the nasal cavity.
- paleal — pertaining to the palea
- palely — light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
- paleo- — the Old World
- palest — light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
- palila — a stout Hawaiian honeycreeper, Loxioides bailleui, having a thick, stubby bill, yellow head and breast, and gray back: an endangered species.
- paling — a stake or picket, as of a fence.
- palish — somewhat pale.
- palkee — a palanquin
- pallah — an impala
- pallas — Also called Pallas Athena. Classical Mythology. Athena (def 1).
- palled — a cloth, often of velvet, for spreading over a coffin, bier, or tomb.
- pallet — a small, low, portable platform on which goods are placed for storage or moving, as in a warehouse or vehicle.
- pallia — a large, rectangular mantle worn by men in ancient Greece and Rome.
- pallid — pale; faint or deficient in color; wan: a pallid countenance.
- pallor — unusual or extreme paleness, as from fear, ill health, or death; wanness.
- palmar — of, relating to, or located in or on the palm of the hand or to the corresponding part of the forefoot of an animal.
- palmas — a seaport on NE Gran Canaria, in the central Canary Islands.
- palmed — having a palm or palms of a specified kind (often used in combination): a wide-palmed hand.
- palmer — Alice Elvira, 1855–1902, U.S. educator.
- palmie — a palmtop computer
- palolo — palolo worm.
- paloma — a female given name.
- palpal — of or related to a palpus.
- palpus — an appendage attached to an oral part and serving as an organ of sense in insects, crustaceans, etc.
- palter — to talk or act insincerely or deceitfully; lie or use trickery.
- paltry — ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
- pamela — (or Virtue Rewarded) an epistolary novel (1740) by Samuel Richardson.
- pandal — (in India) a temporary shed, especially one used for public meetings.
- panful — the amount a pan can hold.
- pansil — Pancha Sila.
- papula — one of the small, ciliated projections of the body wall of an echinoderm, serving for respiration and excretion.
- papule — a small, somewhat pointed elevation of the skin, usually inflammatory but nonsuppurative.
- paraml — An extension of Standard ML which supports coarse-grained parallelism. Peter Bailey, while at the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre at University of Edinburgh, has implemented of Murray Cole's original four skeletons in paraML. See also Skel-ML.
- parcel — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- parial — belonging to a pair