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6-letter words containing a, p

  • lapses — an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
  • lapsus — a slip of the tongue.
  • laptop — portable computer
  • laputa — an imaginary flying island in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, the inhabitants of which engaged in a variety of ridiculous projects and pseudoscientific experiments.
  • larrup — to beat or thrash.
  • lashup — a hastily made or arranged device, organization, etc.
  • lay up — the manner, relative position, or direction in which something lies: the lie of the patio, facing the water. Synonyms: place, location, site.
  • lay-up — Basketball. a shot with one hand from a point close to the basket, in which a player shoots the ball toward the basket, often off the backboard.
  • le cap — a port in N Haiti: capital during the French colonial period. Pop: 134 000 (2005 est)
  • 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.
  • lipoma — a benign tumor consisting of fat tissue.
  • lisp a — "LISP A: A LISP-like System for Incremental Computing", E.J. Sandewall, Proc SJCC 32 (1968).
  • lupoma — any of the tubercles occurring in lupus vulgaris.
  • lyapas — (Russian acronym for "Logical Language for the Representation of Synthesis Algorithms") A language for the URAL-1 computer. It was coded in octal!
  • macapa — a federal territory in N Brazil. 51,177 sq. mi. (132,550 sq. km). Capital: Macapá.
  • macppp — (networking)   An implementation of PPP for the Macintosh developed by Larry J. Blunk and others at Merit Network, Inc. MacPPP was revised in 1993 with the release of MacPPP 2.0.1. The latest incarnation of MacPPP is FreePPP.
  • mactcp — (networking)   Part of earlier versions of MacOS that provided access to TCP/IP services. Apple removed MacTCP from MacOS in revision 7.5.3 in favor of the new OpenTransport (OT) TCP/IP stack. However, MacTCP lives on as a community development effort. See also MacPPP.
  • madcap — wildly or heedlessly impulsive; reckless; rash: a madcap scheme.
  • madnep — (obsolete) The masterwort (Peucedanum ostruthium).
  • magilp — Alternative form of megilp.
  • magpie — either of two corvine birds, Pica pica (black-billed magpie) of Eurasia and North America, or P. nuttalli (yellow-billed magpie) of California, having long, graduated tails, black-and-white plumage, and noisy, mischievous habits.
  • maikop — Official name Adygei Autonomous Region. an autonomous region in the Russian Federation, part of the Krasnodar territory, in the NW Caucasus Mountains. 1505 sq. mi. (3903 sq. km). Capital: Maikop.
  • makeup — facial cosmetics, as eye shadow or lipstick.
  • man up — an adult male person, as distinguished from a boy or a woman.
  • mandap — Alternative spelling of mandapa, a sacred tent used in Hindu wedding ceremonies.
  • maping — former name of Liuzhou.
  • maples — Plural form of maple.
  • mappah — a body of Ashkenazic-oriented commentaries on the Shulhan Arukh, written by the Polish Talmudic scholar Moses Isserles (c1520–72) and incorporated by him into the code.
  • mapped — a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation: a map of Canada.
  • mapper — a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation: a map of Canada.
  • maputo — Formerly Portuguese East Africa. a republic in SE Africa: formerly an overseas province of Portugal; gained independence in 1975. 297,731 sq. mi. (771,123 sq. km). Capital: Maputo.
  • markup — Commerce. the amount added by a seller to the cost of a commodity to cover expenses and profit in fixing the selling price. the difference between the cost price and the selling price, computed as a percentage of either the selling price or the cost price. an increase in price, as of a commodity. the amount by which a price is increased.
  • mashup — Music, Slang. a recording that combines vocal and instrumental tracks from two or more recordings.
  • matipo — any of several shrubs and small trees, native to New Zealand, of the genera Myrsine and Pittosporum
  • mayhap — perhaps.
  • maypop — the edible fruit of the passionflower, Passiflora incarnata, of the southern U.S.
  • mencap — a charity that helps people with learning difficulties and promotes their interests in society
  • metaph — metaphor
  • metepa — a substance, C9H18N3OP, that is used in pest control to sterilize male insects
  • midcap — (of investments) involving a medium amount of capital
  • midpay — (of an occupation, industry, etc) paying or tending to pay more than an unskilled job but less than a high-income one
  • milpas — Plural form of milpa.
  • mishap — an unfortunate accident.
  • mispay — (transitive) To pay incorrectly, or to the wrong person.
  • mobcap — a soft cloth cap with a full crown, fitting down over the ears and frequently tying beneath the chin, formerly worn indoors by women.
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