6-letter words containing a, l, p, e
- leaped — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
- leaper — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
- leipoa — mallee fowl.
- lenape — Delaware (defs 5, 6).
- lepcha — a member of a people of Sikkim and adjacent areas of Nepal, Bhutan, and India.
- lipase — any of a class of enzymes that break down fats, produced by the liver, pancreas, and other digestive organs or by certain plants.
- maples — Plural form of maple.
- naples — a region in SW Italy. 5214 sq. mi. (13,505 sq. km). Capital: Naples.
- nepali — Also, Nepalese. an Indic language spoken in Nepal.
- opaled — made like an opal, in terms of iridescence
- 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.
- pairle — a device representing the front of an ecclesiastical pallium, consisting of a broad Y -shaped form covered with crosses.
- 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.
- 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.
- palkee — a palanquin
- 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.
- 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
- palter — to talk or act insincerely or deceitfully; lie or use trickery.
- pamela — (or Virtue Rewarded) an epistolary novel (1740) by Samuel Richardson.
- papule — a small, somewhat pointed elevation of the skin, usually inflammatory but nonsuppurative.
- parcel — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- parled — talk; parley.
- parley — a discussion or conference.
- 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.
- passel — a group or lot of indeterminate number: a passel of dignitaries.
- pastel — the woad plant.
- pattle — paddle1 (def 11).
- 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