6-letter words containing e, l, p
- pedler — peddler.
- peeler — a police officer.
- peepul — pipal.
- pegler — (James) Westbrook, 1894–1969, U.S. journalist.
- pelage — the hair, fur, wool, or other soft covering of a mammal.
- peleus — a king of the Myrmidons, the son of Aeacus and father of Achilles.
- pelham — a bit that is used with two pairs of reins, designed to serve the purpose of a full bridle.
- pelias — a son of Poseidon and Tyro. He feared his nephew Jason and sent him to recover the Golden Fleece, hoping he would not return
- pelike — a storage jar with two handles extending from the lip to the shoulder, characterized by an oval body that is wider at the base than at the neck and rests on a foot.
- pelion — Mount, a mountain near the E coast of Greece, in Thessaly. 5252 feet (1600 meters).
- pelite — any clayey rock, as mudstone or shale.
- pellan — Alfred [French al-fred] /French alˈfrɛd/ (Show IPA), 1906–1988, Canadian painter.
- pelles — (in Arthurian legend) the father of Elaine and one of the searchers for the Holy Grail
- pellet — a small, rounded or spherical body, as of food or medicine.
- pellum — dust
- pelmet — a decorative cornice or valance at the head of a window or doorway, used to cover the fastenings from which curtains are hung.
- peloid — mud used therapeutically.
- pelops — Classical Mythology. a son of Tantalus and Dione, slaughtered by his father and served to the Olympians as food; Hermes restored him to life and he later ruled over southern Greece, which was called Peloponnesus after him.
- pelory — floral mutation
- pelota — a Basque and Spanish game from which jai alai was developed.
- pelted — to attack or assail with repeated blows or with missiles.
- pelter — a person or thing that pelts.
- peltry — fur skins; pelts collectively.
- pelvic — of or relating to the pelvis.
- pelvis — the basinlike cavity in the lower part of the trunk of many vertebrates, formed in humans by the innominate bones, sacrum, etc.
- pencel — a small pennon, as at the head of a lance.
- pencil — a slender tube of wood, metal, plastic, etc., containing a core or strip of graphite, a solid coloring material, or the like, used for writing or drawing.
- penful — the volume of ink held by a pen; the quantity a pen will hold
- penial — the male organ of copulation and, in mammals, of urinary excretion.
- penile — the male organ of copulation and, in mammals, of urinary excretion.
- pennal — a first-year student of a German Protestant university
- pensil — a small pennon, as at the head of a lance.
- pentel — a ballpoint pen with free-flowing ink in the manner of a felt-tip pen
- pentyl — containing a pentyl group; amyl.
- penult — the next to the last syllable in a word.
- people — persons indefinitely or collectively; persons in general: to find it easy to talk to people; What will people think?
- pepful — full of vitality
- peplos — a loose-fitting outer garment worn, draped in folds, by women in ancient Greece.
- peplum — a short full flounce or an extension of a garment below the waist, covering the hips.
- peplus — peplos.
- perlea — Jonel [zhoh-nel] /ˈʒoʊ nɛl/ (Show IPA), 1900–70, U.S. conductor and composer, born in Romania.
- perlis — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 310 sq. mi. (803 sq. km). Capital: Kangar.
- pertly — boldly forward in speech or behavior; impertinent; saucy.
- pestle — a tool for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar.
- petrel — any of numerous tube-nosed seabirds of the families Procellariidae, Hydrobatidae, and Pelecanoididae.
- petrol — British. gasoline.
- pettle — to caress or cuddle
- phelps — William Lyon [lahy-uh n] /ˈlaɪ ən/ (Show IPA), 1865–1943, U.S. educator and literary critic.
- phenol — Also called carbolic acid, hydroxybenzene, oxybenzene, phenylic acid. a white, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous mass, C 6 H 5 OH, obtained from coal tar, or a hydroxyl derivative of benzene: used chiefly as a disinfectant, as an antiseptic, and in organic synthesis.
- phenyl — containing the phenyl group.