6-letter words containing a, t, l
- pastel — the woad plant.
- pastil — a flavored or medicated lozenge; troche.
- 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.
- pattle — paddle1 (def 11).
- pelota — a Basque and Spanish game from which jai alai was developed.
- pilate — Pontius [pon-shuh s,, -tee-uh s] /ˈpɒn ʃəs,, -ti əs/ (Show IPA), flourished early 1st century a.d, Roman procurator of Judea a.d. 26–36?: the final authority concerned in the condemnation and execution of Jesus Christ.
- placet — (especially in a church or university assembly) an expression or vote of dissent or disapproval.
- plaint — a complaint.
- planet — Astronomy. Also called major planet. any of the eight large heavenly bodies revolving about the sun and shining by reflected light: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune, in the order of their proximity to the sun. Until 2006, Pluto was classified as a planet ninth in order from the sun; it has been reclassified as a dwarf planet. a similar body revolving about a star other than the sun. (formerly) a celestial body moving in the sky, as distinguished from a fixed star, applied also to the sun and moon.
- planit — Programming LANguage for Interaction and Teaching. CAI language. "PLANIT - A Flexible Language Designed for Computer-Human Interaction", S.L. Feingold, Proc FJCC 31, AFIPS (Fall 1967) Sammet 1969, p.706.
- planta — the sole of the foot
- plante — Jacques [zhahk] /ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), 1929–86, Canadian ice-hockey player.
- plants — ["The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants", Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Aristid Lindenmayer. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1990. 3-54097297-8].
- platan — plane4
- plated — coated with a thin film of gold, silver, etc., as for ornamental purposes.
- platen — a flat plate in a printing press for pressing the paper against the inked type or plate to produce an impression.
- plater — a person or thing that plates.
- platon — Distributed language based on asynchronous message passing.
- platte — a river flowing E from the junction of the North and South Platte rivers in central Nebraska to the Missouri River S of Omaha. 310 miles (500 km) long.
- platy- — indicating something flat
- playte — (data, jargon) /playt/ 16 bits, by analogy with byte. Usage: rare and extremely silly. See also dynner, crumb.
- pliant — bending readily; flexible; supple; adaptable: She manipulated the pliant clay.
- 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.
- pontal — relating to a bridge
- portal — portal vein.
- postal — of or relating to the post office or mail service: postal delivery; postal employees.
- potale — residue from a grain distillery, used as animal feed
- pultan — (in India) an infantry regiment
- puteal — an enclosure around a well
- ramtil — Niger seed.
- raptly — deeply engrossed or absorbed: a rapt listener.
- rattle — to give out or cause a rapid succession of short, sharp sounds, as in consequence of agitation and repeated concussions: The windows rattled in their frames.
- rattly — tending to rattle; making or having a rattling sound.
- raylet — a small ray
- realty — real property or real estate.
- rectal — of, relating to, or for the rectum.
- relate — to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
- rental — an amount received or paid as rent.
- retail — the sale of goods to ultimate consumers, usually in small quantities (opposed to wholesale).
- retial — a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- retral — at or toward the back; posterior.
- rialto — an exchange or mart.
- ritual — an established or prescribed procedure for a religious or other rite.
- rotula — the kneecap
- sallet — a light medieval helmet, usually with a vision slit or a movable visor.
- salt i — either of two preliminary five-year agreements between the U.S. and the Soviet Union for the control of certain nuclear weapons, the first concluded in 1972 (SALT I) and the second drafted in 1979 (SALT II) but not ratified.
- salted — containing salt; having the taste of salt: salt water.
- salten — Felix [fee-liks;; German fey-liks] /ˈfi lɪks;; German ˈfeɪ lɪks/ (Show IPA), (Siegmund Salzman) 1869–1945, Austrian novelist, in Switzerland after 1938.
- salter — a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, a constituent of seawater, etc., and used for seasoning food, as a preservative, etc.