6-letter words containing a, o, l
- oorial — a wild, horned Himalayan sheep, a subspecies of Ovis orientalis, with a red coat
- opaled — made like an opal, in terms of iridescence
- oracle — Oracle Corporation
- orally — uttered by the mouth; spoken: oral testimony.
- ordeal — any extremely severe or trying test, experience, or trial.
- oscula — a small mouthlike aperture, as of a sponge.
- osteal — osseous.
- ostial — relating to an ostium
- oswald — Lee Harvey, 1939–63, designated by a presidential commission to be the lone assassin of John F. Kennedy.
- ourali — a plant from which curare comes
- outlaw — a lawless person or habitual criminal, especially one who is a fugitive from the law.
- outlay — an expending or spending, as of money.
- ovalle — a city in central Chile.
- ovally — In an oval shape.
- ovular — pertaining to or of the nature of an ovule.
- oxalic — of or derived from oxalic acid.
- oxalis — any plant of the genus Oxalis, comprising the wood sorrels.
- oxtail — the skinned tail of an ox or steer, used as an ingredient in soup, stew, etc.
- ozalid — (sometimes lowercase) a reproduction made by this process.
- pagnol — Marcel [mar-sel] /marˈsɛl/ (Show IPA), 1895–1974, French playwright.
- paleo- — the Old World
- pallor — unusual or extreme paleness, as from fear, ill health, or death; wanness.
- palolo — palolo worm.
- paloma — a female given name.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- pedalo — pedal boat
- pelota — a Basque and Spanish game from which jai alai was developed.
- 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.”.
- pimola — an olive stuffed with red sweet pepper; stuffed olive.
- plano- — indicating flatness or planeness
- planos — a town in N Texas.
- platon — Distributed language based on asynchronous message passing.
- plokta — /plok't*/ Press Lots Of Keys To Abort. To press random keys in an attempt to get some response from the system. One might plokta when the abort procedure for a program is not known, or when trying to figure out if the system is just sluggish or really hung. Plokta can also be used while trying to figure out any unknown key sequence for a particular operation. Someone going into "plokta mode" usually places both hands flat on the keyboard and mashes them down, hoping for some useful response. A slightly more directed form of plokta can often be seen in mail messages or Usenet articles from new users - the text might end with ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ? help as the user vainly tries to find the right exit sequence, with the incorrect tries piling up at the end of the message.
- podial — relating to a podium or foot
- polack — Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a Pole or person of Polish descent.
- poland — a republic in E central Europe, on the Baltic Sea. About 121,000 sq. mi. (313,400 sq. km). Capital: Warsaw.
- polari — a distinctive English argot in use since at least the 18th century among groups of theatrical and circus performers and in certain homosexual communities, derived largely from Italian, directly or through Lingua Franca.
- poleax — a medieval shafted weapon with blade combining ax, hammer, and apical spike, used for fighting on foot.
- pollan — any of several varieties of the whitefish Coregonus pollan that occur in lakes in Northern Ireland
- polska — Polish name of Poland.
- pombal — Marquês de (mərkeʃ ˈdəː). title of Sebastiâo José de Carvalho e Mello. 1699–1782, Portuguese statesman, who dominated Portuguese government from 1750 to 1777 and instituted many administrative and economic reforms
- pontal — relating to a bridge
- poplar — any of the rapidly growing, salicaceous trees of the genus Populus, usually characterized by the columnar or spirelike manner of growth of its branches.