6-letter words containing l, o, p
- openly — not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night.
- ophuls — Max [maks;; German mahks] /mæks;; German mɑks/ (Show IPA), (Max Oppenheimer) 1902–57, German film director, in Germany, France, and the U.S.
- opilio — The snow crab Chionoecetes opilio.
- opulus — the guelder rose
- pagnol — Marcel [mar-sel] /marˈsɛl/ (Show IPA), 1895–1974, French playwright.
- paleo- — the Old World
- pallor — unusual or extreme paleness, as from fear, ill health, or death; wanness.
- palolo — palolo worm.
- paloma — a female given name.
- parlog — Clark & Gregory, Imperial College 1983. An AND-parallel Prolog, with guards and committed choice nondeterminism (don't care nondeterminism). Shallow backtracking only. Implementations: MacParlog and PC-Parlog from Parallel Logic Programming Ltd., Box 49 Twickenham TW2 5PH, UK. See also SPM.
- parlor — Older Use. a room for the reception and entertainment of visitors to one's home; living room.
- parole — language as manifested in the actual utterances produced by speakers of a language (contrasted with langue).
- 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.
- pavlov — Ivan Petrovich [ee-vahn pyi-traw-vyich] /iˈvɑn pyɪˈtrɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1849–1936, Russian physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1904.
- payola — a secret or private payment in return for the promotion of a product, service, etc., through the abuse of one's position, influence, or facilities.
- pedalo — pedal boat
- pelion — Mount, a mountain near the E coast of Greece, in Thessaly. 5252 feet (1600 meters).
- 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.
- people — persons indefinitely or collectively; persons in general: to find it easy to talk to people; What will people think?
- peplos — a loose-fitting outer garment worn, draped in folds, by women in ancient Greece.
- petrol — British. gasoline.
- 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.
- philo- — indicating a love of
- phloem — the part of a vascular bundle consisting of sieve tubes, companion cells, parenchyma, and fibers and forming the food-conducting tissue of a plant.
- pholas — a type of bivalve mollusc that is a member of the genus Pholas and family Pholadidae
- pholus — a large astronomical object, some 2000 km in diameter, discovered in 1991. Its elliptical orbit around the earth, between the orbits of Neptune and Saturn, has a period of 93 years. It has been classified as an asteroid although it lies outside the main asteroid belt
- phonal — a speech sound: There are three phonetically different “t” phones in an utterance of “titillate,” and two in an utterance of “tattletale.”.
- phyllo — flaky, tissue-thin layers of pastry used in baked desserts and appetizers.
- phylo- — tribe; race; phylum
- phylon — a group that has a genetic relationship or common origin, as a race.
- phytol — a hydrophobic alcohol, C 2 0 H 4 0 O, that occurs esterified as a side chain in the chlorophyll molecule.
- pillow — a bag or case made of cloth that is filled with feathers, down, or other soft material, and is used to cushion the head during sleep or rest.
- pilons — something extra; lagniappe.
- pilose — covered with hair, especially soft hair; furry.
- piloti — a column of iron, steel, or reinforced concrete supporting a building above an open ground level.
- pilous — pilose.
- pimola — an olive stuffed with red sweet pepper; stuffed olive.
- pinbol — (language, games) A decision table language for controlling pinball machines used at Atari. PINBOL included a multitasking executive and an interpreter that worked on data structures compiled from condition:action lists.
- pinole — a town in W California.
- piolet — an ice ax used in mountaineering.
- pistol — a short firearm intended to be held and fired with one hand.
- plano- — indicating flatness or planeness
- planos — a town in N Texas.
- platon — Distributed language based on asynchronous message passing.
- pleio- — pleo-
- plexor — Medicine/Medical. a small hammer with a soft rubber head or the like, used in percussion for diagnostic purposes.