6-letter words containing l, e, p, o
- piolet — an ice ax used in mountaineering.
- pleio- — pleo-
- plexor — Medicine/Medical. a small hammer with a soft rubber head or the like, used in percussion for diagnostic purposes.
- plodge — to wade in water, esp the sea
- plomer — William (Charles Franklyn). 1903–73, British poet, novelist, and short-story writer, born in South Africa. His novels include Turbott Wolfe (1926) and The Case is Altered (1932)
- plonge — to clean (drains) by action of the tide
- plover — any of various shorebirds of the family Charadriidae. Compare dotterel (def 1), killdeer, lapwing.
- plowed — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- ployed — a maneuver or stratagem, as in conversation, to gain the advantage.
- poddle — to move or travel in a leisurely manner; amble
- podley — a young coalfish
- poepol — the anus
- poffle — a small piece of land
- polder — a tract of low land, especially in the Netherlands, reclaimed from the sea or other body of water and protected by dikes.
- poleax — a medieval shafted weapon with blade combining ax, hammer, and apical spike, used for fighting on foot.
- poleis — an ancient Greek city-state.
- poleyn — a piece for the knee, made of plate or leather.
- police — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- polite — showing good manners toward others, as in behavior, speech, etc.; courteous; civil: a polite reply.
- polled — hornless, especially genetically hornless, as the Aberdeen Angus.
- pollee — a person who is asked questions in a poll.
- pollen — the fertilizing element of flowering plants, consisting of fine, powdery, yellowish grains or spores, sometimes in masses.
- poller — a sampling or collection of opinions on a subject, taken from either a selected or a random group of persons, as for the purpose of analysis.
- pollex — the innermost digit of the forelimb; thumb.
- pomelo — the very large, yellow or orange citrus fruit of a tree, Citrus maxima, of southeastern Asia.
- pommel — a knob, as on the hilt of a sword.
- poodle — one of a breed of very active dogs, probably originating in Germany but regarded as the national dog of France, having long, thick, frizzy or curly hair usually trimmed in standard patterns, occurring in three varieties (standard, miniature, and toy) differing only in size, and originally used as a water retriever.
- pooled — Also called pocket billiards. any of various games played on a pool table with a cue ball and 15 other balls that are usually numbered, in which the object is to drive all the balls into the pockets with the cue ball.
- pooler — a person taking part in a pool game
- pootle — to travel or go in a relaxed or leisurely manner
- popler — A PLANNER-type language for the POP-2 environment.
- popple — to move in a tumbling, irregular manner, as boiling water.
- posole — a thick, stewlike soup of pork or chicken, hominy, mild chili peppers, and coriander leaves: traditionally served at Christmas and often favored as a hangover remedy.
- potale — residue from a grain distillery, used as animal feed
- pottle — a former liquid measure equal to two quarts.
- powell — Adam Clayton, Jr. 1908–72, U.S. clergyman, politician, and civil-rights leader: congressman 1945–67, 1969–71.
- prelog — Vladimir [vlad-uh-meer] /ˈvlæd əˌmɪər/ (Show IPA), 1906–98, Swiss chemist, born in Yugoslavia: Nobel prize 1975.
- proleg — one of the abdominal ambulatory processes of caterpillars and other larvae, as distinct from the true or thoracic legs.
- proler — a prowler
- proles — a member of the proletariat.
- propel — to drive, or cause to move, forward or onward: to propel a boat by rowing.
- pueblo — a communal structure for multiple dwelling and defensive purposes of certain agricultural Indians of the southwestern U.S.: built of adobe or stone, typically many-storied and terraced, the structures were often placed against cliff walls, with entry through the roof by ladder.
- pumelo — pomelo.
- pyelo- — denoting the renal pelvis
- replot — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- replow — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- repoll — to poll or count the votes of (people) again
- sloped — to have or take an inclined or oblique direction or angle considered with reference to a vertical or horizontal plane; slant.
- sloper — a person or thing that slopes.
- souple — silk from which only a portion of the sericin has been removed.