6-letter words containing l
- aortal — the main trunk of the arterial system, conveying blood from the left ventricle of the heart to all of the body except the lungs.
- aparel — A PArse REquest Language
- apical — of, at, or being the apex
- aplgol — (language) An APL variant with ALGOL-like control structure, from Hewlett-Packard(?).
- aplite — a light-coloured fine-grained acid igneous rock with a sugary texture, consisting of quartz and feldspars
- aplomb — If you do something with aplomb, you do it with confidence in a relaxed way.
- aplweb — (text, tool) A Web to APL and Web to TeX translator by Dr. Christoph von Basum of The University of Bielefeld, Germany.
- apodal — (of snakes, eels, etc) without feet; having no obvious hind limbs or pelvic fins
- apollo — a strikingly handsome youth
- appall — If something appalls you, it disgusts you because it seems so bad or unpleasant.
- appals — (British) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of appal.
- appeal — If you appeal to someone to do something, you make a serious and urgent request to them.
- apples — well or fine; under control.
- applet — An applet is a computer program which is contained within a page on the World Wide Web, and which transfers itself to your computer and runs automatically while you are looking at that Web page.
- appley — resembling or tasting like an apple
- applog — (language) A language which unifies logic programming and functional programming.
- aprowl — moving about in stealthy search; covertly stalking or hunting; prowling (usually used predicatively): The sudden silence in the jungle gave warning that some huge carnivore was aprowl.
- apulia — a region of SE Italy, on the Adriatic. Capital: Bari. Pop: 4 023 957 (2003 est). Area: 19 223 sq km (7422 sq miles)
- aqmola — the capital city of Kazakhstan, in the northern part, on the Ishim River.
- aquila — a constellation lying in the Milky Way close to Cygnus and situated on the celestial equator. The brightest star is Altair
- aquilo — the ancient Roman personification of the north wind.
- arabel — a female given name.
- arable — Arable farming involves growing crops such as wheat and barley rather than keeping animals or growing fruit and vegetables. Arable land is land that is used for arable farming.
- aralia — any plant of the genus Aralia of trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants. The greenhouse and house plant generally known as aralia is Schefflera elegantissima of a related genus, grown for its decorative evergreen foliage: family Araliaceae
- arallu — the ancient Babylonian world of the dead.
- arbela — an ancient city in Assyria, near which the Battle of Arbela took place (331 bc), in which Alexander the Great defeated the Persians
- arblay — Madame Frances, Burney, Frances.
- archil — orchil
- archly — in an arch manner; pertly and mischievously
- areola — any small circular area, such as the pigmented ring around the human nipple or the inflamed area surrounding a pimple
- areole — a space outlined on a surface, such as an area between veins on a leaf or on an insect's wing
- argala — the adjutant bird
- argali — a wild sheep, Ovis ammon, inhabiting semidesert regions in central Asia: family Bovidae, order Artiodactyla. It is the largest of the sheep, having massive horns in the male, which may almost form a circle
- argall — Sir Samuel, 1572–1639, British explorer: colonial governor of Virginia 1617–19.
- argyle — made of knitted or woven material with a diamond-shaped pattern of two or more colours
- argyll — former county of W Scotland
- aridly — being without moisture; extremely dry; parched: arid land; an arid climate.
- ariled — (of seeds) having an aril
- arleen — a female given name.
- arlene — a feminine name: var. Arline, Arleen
- arliss — George, 1868–1946, English actor.
- armful — An armful of something is the amount of it that you can carry fairly easily.
- armill — a garment resembling a stole, worn by a British king at his coronation.
- armlet — a small arm, as of a lake, the sea, etc
- arnold — a town in N central England, in S Nottinghamshire. Pop: 37 402 (2001)
- arnulf — a.d. 850?–899, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 887–899: crowned 896.
- arolla — an Arolla pine
- artels — Plural form of artel.
- artful — If you describe someone as artful, you mean that they are clever and skilful at achieving what they want, especially by deceiving people.
- artily — in an affectedly creative or aesthetic manner