7-letter words containing a, l, o, p
- poleaxe — a former naval weapon with an axe blade on one side of the handle and a spike on the other
- polecat — a European mammal, Mustela putorius, of the weasel family, having a blackish fur and ejecting a fetid fluid when attacked or disturbed. Compare ferret1 (def 1).
- polenta — (especially in Italian cooking) a thick mush of cornmeal.
- pollack — a food fish, Pollachius pollachius, of the cod family, inhabiting coastal North Atlantic waters from Scandinavia to northern Africa.
- pollard — a tree cut back nearly to the trunk, so as to produce a dense mass of branches.
- pollera — a gaily colored costume worn by women during fiestas in Latin-American countries.
- pollman — a graduate of Cambridge University who passed without honours
- polonia — the Polish-American community in a given place outside Poland
- poltava — a city in E Ukraine, SW of Kharkov: Russian defeat of Swedes 1709.
- polyact — (of a sea creature) having many tentacles or limb-like protrusions
- polygam — a plant of the Polygamia class
- polynya — an area of unfrozen sea water surrounded by ice.
- polyoma — a type of tumour caused by a virus
- polyzoa — Bryozoa.
- poptalk — (language, product) A commercial object-oriented derivative of POP, from Cambridge Consultants, used in the expert system MUSE.
- popular — regarded with favor, approval, or affection by people in general: a popular preacher.
- posable — to assume a particular attitude or stance, especially with the hope of impressing others: He likes to pose as an authority on literature.
- potable — fit or suitable for drinking: potable water.
- poulard — a hen spayed to improve the flesh for use as food.
- poundal — the foot-pound-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration of one foot per second per second on a mass of one pound. Abbreviation: pdl.
- preload — If someone preloads, they drink a lot of alcohol before they go out for a social occasion.
- preoral — situated in front of or before the mouth.
- proball — believable; probable
- proctal — relating to the rectum
- prolate — elongated along the polar diameter, as a spheroid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its longer axis (opposed to oblate).
- propale — to publish, or disclose (something)
- propyla — plural of propylon.
- protalk — Quintus. An object-oriented Prolog.
- rapallo — a seaport in NW Italy, on the Gulf of Genoa: treaties 1920, 1922.
- raploch — a coarse homespun woollen material
- reposal — the act of reposing.
- ropable — capable of being roped.
- scallop — any of the bivalve mollusks of the genus Argopecten (Pecten) and related genera that swim by rapidly clapping the fluted shell valves together.
- scopula — a dense tuft of hairs, as on the feet of certain spiders.
- shallop — any of various vessels formerly used for sailing or rowing in shallow waters, especially a two-masted, gaff-rigged vessel of the 17th and 18th centuries.
- spalato — a seaport in S Croatia, on the Adriatic: Roman ruins.
- sponsal — relating to marriage
- spousal — Often, spousals. the ceremony of marriage; nuptials.
- tadpole — the aquatic larva or immature form of frogs and toads, especially after the development of the internal gills and before the appearance of the forelimbs and the resorption of the tail.
- talipot — a tall palm, Corypha umbraculifera, of southern India and Ceylon, having large fronds used for making fans and umbrellas, for covering houses, and in place of writing paper: also grown as an ornamental.
- taphole — a hole in a blast furnace, steelmaking furnace, etc., through which molten metal or slag is tapped off.
- topical — pertaining to or dealing with matters of current or local interest: a topical reference.
- topmaul — a heavy hammer with a steel or wooden head, used in shipbuilding.
- toprail — the uppermost rail of the back of a chair or the like; a crest rail.
- topsail — a sail, or either of a pair of sails, set immediately above the lowermost sail of a mast and supported by a topmast.
- vanpool — a group of people who share a van to commute to work
- volapuk — one of the earliest of the artificially constructed international auxiliary languages, invented about 1879.
- voluspa — an Icelandic mythological poem
- wallops — Plural form of wallop.
- walpole — Horace, 4th Earl of Orford [awr-ferd] /ˈɔr fərd/ (Show IPA), (Horatio Walpole) 1717–97, English novelist and essayist (son of Sir Robert Walpole).