6-letter words containing a, t, o, p
- paxton — Sir Joseph, 1801–65, English horticulturist and architect.
- payout — an act or instance of paying, expending, or disbursing.
- payton — Walter ("Sweetness") 1954–99, U.S. football player.
- pelota — a Basque and Spanish game from which jai alai was developed.
- 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.
- pomato — a hybrid between a tomato and a potato
- pontal — relating to a bridge
- popart — A grammar-driven programming environment generator. Uses Paddle.
- porta- — portable
- portal — portal vein.
- portia — the heroine of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, who, in one scene, disguises herself as a lawyer.
- postal — of or relating to the post office or mail service: postal delivery; postal employees.
- potage — soup, especially any thick soup made with cream.
- potale — residue from a grain distillery, used as animal feed
- potaro — a river in central Guyana: (Kaieteur Falls) one of highest waterfalls in the world at 741 feet (226 meters). 100 miles (161 km) long.
- potash — potassium carbonate, especially the crude impure form obtained from wood ashes.
- potass — potash.
- potato — Also called Irish potato, white potato. the edible tuber of a cultivated plant, Solanum tuberosum, of the nightshade family.
- protea — any shrub or small tree of the genus Protea, of tropical and southern Africa, having flowers with coloured bracts arranged in showy heads: family Proteaceae
- ragtop — an automobile having a folding canvas top; convertible.
- raptor — a raptorial bird.
- sapota — sapote.
- sapote — Also called marmalade tree. a tree, Pouteria sapota, of the sapodilla family, native to Mexico and Central America, having large leaves and sweet, edible fruit.
- sproat — a fishhook having a circular bend.
- tacpol — (language) A PL/I-like language used by the US Army for command and control.
- tampon — a plug of cotton or the like for insertion into an orifice, wound, etc., chiefly for absorbing blood or stopping hemorrhages.
- tapalo — a Latin American scarf or shawl, often patterned and brightly coloured
- tarpon — a large, powerful game fish, Megalops atlantica, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean, having a compressed body and large, silvery scales.
- teapot — a container with a lid, spout, and handle, in which tea is made and from which it is poured.
- teapoy — a small three-legged table or stand.
- teopan — a Mexican temple
- toecap — a piece of leather or other material covering the toe of a shoe.
- topeka — a state in the central United States: a part of the Midwest. 82,276 sq. mi. (213,094 sq. km). Capital: Topeka. Abbreviation: KS (for use with zip code), Kans., Kan., Kas.
- topman — a person stationed for duty in a top.
- utopia — an imaginary island described in Sir Thomas More's Utopia (1516) as enjoying perfection in law, politics, etc.