6-letter words containing l, o, p
- plodge — to wade in water, esp the sea
- ploidy — the number of homologous chromosome sets present in a cell or organism.
- 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.
- 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
- plonko — an alcoholic, esp one who drinks wine
- plotty — characterized by the intricacies or complications of a plot or intrigue: a plotty novel whose narrative is hard to follow.
- plough — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- 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.
- pluton — any body of igneous rock that solidified far below the earth's surface.
- poddle — to move or travel in a leisurely manner; amble
- podial — relating to a podium or foot
- podley — a young coalfish
- podsol — spodosol.
- podzol — spodosol.
- poepol — the anus
- poffle — a small piece of land
- polack — Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a Pole or person of Polish descent.
- poland — a republic in E central Europe, on the Baltic Sea. About 121,000 sq. mi. (313,400 sq. km). Capital: Warsaw.
- polari — a distinctive English argot in use since at least the 18th century among groups of theatrical and circus performers and in certain homosexual communities, derived largely from Italian, directly or through Lingua Franca.
- 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.
- policy — a definite course of action adopted for the sake of expediency, facility, etc.: We have a new company policy.
- poling — a long, cylindrical, often slender piece of wood, metal, etc.: a telephone pole; a fishing pole.
- polish — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.
- polite — showing good manners toward others, as in behavior, speech, etc.; courteous; civil: a polite reply.
- polity — a particular form or system of government: civil polity; ecclesiastical polity.
- pollan — any of several varieties of the whitefish Coregonus pollan that occur in lakes in Northern Ireland
- 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.
- pollux — Greek Polydeuces. Classical Mythology. the brother of Castor. Compare Castor and Pollux.
- pollys — a female given name, form of Mary.
- polska — Polish name of Poland.
- polyol — an alcohol containing three or more hydroxyl groups; a polyhydric alcohol.
- polyps — Zoology. a sedentary type of animal form characterized by a more or less fixed base, columnar body, and free end with mouth and tentacles, especially as applied to coelenterates. an individual zooid of a compound or colonial organism.
- pombal — Marquês de (mərkeʃ ˈdəː). title of Sebastiâo José de Carvalho e Mello. 1699–1782, Portuguese statesman, who dominated Portuguese government from 1750 to 1777 and instituted many administrative and economic reforms
- 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.
- pontal — relating to a bridge
- pontil — punty.
- 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.
- pool-i — One of the POOL languages.