6-letter words containing a, s, p
- lampas — congestion of the mucous membrane of the hard palate of horses.
- lapels — Plural form of lapel.
- lappas — Plural form of lappa.
- lapsed — expired; voided; terminated: a lapsed insurance policy.
- lapser — One who lapses.
- 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.
- lashup — a hastily made or arranged device, organization, etc.
- lipase — any of a class of enzymes that break down fats, produced by the liver, pancreas, and other digestive organs or by certain plants.
- lisp a — "LISP A: A LISP-like System for Incremental Computing", E.J. Sandewall, Proc SJCC 32 (1968).
- lyapas — (Russian acronym for "Logical Language for the Representation of Synthesis Algorithms") A language for the URAL-1 computer. It was coded in octal!
- maples — Plural form of maple.
- mashup — Music, Slang. a recording that combines vocal and instrumental tracks from two or more recordings.
- milpas — Plural form of milpa.
- mishap — an unfortunate accident.
- mispay — (transitive) To pay incorrectly, or to the wrong person.
- naples — a region in SW Italy. 5214 sq. mi. (13,505 sq. km). Capital: Naples.
- naplps — North American Presentation-Level-Protocol Syntax. Format for sending text and graphics over communication lines. Used by videotex systems.
- nappes — Plural form of nappe.
- nopals — Plural form of nopal.
- okapis — Plural form of okapi.
- onpass — (transitive) To pass along or hand over.
- oopsla — Conference on Object-oriented Programming Systems, Languages and Applications.
- opacus — (of a cloud) dense enough to obscure the sun or moon.
- operas — Plural form of opera.
- padkos — snacks and provisions for a journey
- padsaw — a small compass saw with a pad.
- paisan — compatriot.
- palais — French. a palace, especially a French government or municipal building.
- 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.
- palish — somewhat pale.
- pallas — Also called Pallas Athena. Classical Mythology. Athena (def 1).
- palmas — a seaport on NE Gran Canaria, in the central Canary Islands.
- palpus — an appendage attached to an oral part and serving as an organ of sense in insects, crustaceans, etc.
- pamirs — the, a mountainous region in central Asia, largely in Tajikistan, where the Hindu Kush, Tien Shan, and Himalaya mountain ranges converge: highest peaks, about 25,000 feet (7600 meters).
- pampas — a city in N Texas.
- panisc — a faun; an attendant of Pan
- pannus — Pathology. an abnormal vascular thickening of the cornea. an ingrowth of synovial material into a joint, as in rheumatoid arthritis.
- pansil — Pancha Sila.
- pansys — a female given name.
- papers — a substance made from wood pulp, rags, straw, or other fibrous material, usually in thin sheets, used to bear writing or printing, for wrapping things, etc.
- paphos — an ancient city in SW Cyprus.
- papish — a Roman Catholic
- papism — Roman Catholicism.
- papist — a Roman Catholic.
- pappus — a downy, bristly, or other tuftlike appendage of the achene of certain plants, as the dandelion and the thistle.
- paries — Usually, parietes. Biology. a wall, as of a hollow organ; an investing part.
- parish — an ecclesiastical district having its own church and member of the clergy.
- parkes — Sir Henry. 1815–96, Australian journalist and politician born in England, five times premier of New South Wales, advocate of free trade and Federation, and a founder of the public education system
- parnis — Mollie (Mollie Parnis Livingston) 1905–1992, U.S. fashion designer.