5-letter words containing l, p, s
- pills — a small globular or rounded mass of medicinal substance, usually covered with a hard coating, that is to be swallowed whole.
- pilos — Greek name of Navarino.
- pilus — a hair or hairlike structure.
- plaas — a farm
- plans — Programming Language for Allocation and Network Scheduling. A PL/I preprocessor, used for developing scheduling algorithms. "A User's Guide to the Programming Language for Allocation and Network Scheduling", H.R. Ramsey et al, TR SAI-77-068-DEN, Science Applications Inc (Jun 1977).
- plash — a gentle splash.
- plasm — Anatomy, Physiology. the liquid part of blood or lymph, as distinguished from the suspended elements.
- plays — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- pleas — an appeal or entreaty: a plea for mercy.
- plebs — a member of the plebs; a plebeian or commoner.
- plies — a movement in which the knees are bent while the back is held straight.
- plisp — 1. PostScript Lisp? A Common Lisp translator and programming environment in PostScript by John Peterson <[email protected]>. 2. Pattern LISP. 1990. A pattern-matching rewrite-rule language, optimised for describing syntax translation rules. (See LISP70).
- plits — Programming Language In The Sky. A computational model for concurrency with communication via asynchronous message-passing.
- ploys — a maneuver or stratagem, as in conversation, to gain the advantage.
- plush — a fabric, as of silk, cotton, or wool, whose pile is more than ⅛ inch (0.3 cm) high.
- pluss — Proposition of a Language Useable for Structured Specifications
- polis — an ancient Greek city-state.
- polos — a tall, cylindrical headdress represented, especially on statutes, as worn by women in ancient Greece.
- pools — 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.
- psalm — a sacred song or hymn.
- pules — to cry in a thin voice; whine; whimper.
- pulse — the edible seeds of certain leguminous plants, as peas, beans, or lentils.
- pulus — a soft, elastic vegetable fiber of yellow-brown hue obtained from the young fronds of Hawaiian tree ferns, used for mattress and pillow stuffing.
- pylos — Greek name of Navarino.
- qlisp — 1. SRI 1973. General problem solving, influenced by PLANNER. QA4 features merged with INTERLISP. 2. A parallel LISP.
- salep — a starchy, demulcent drug or foodstuff consisting of the dried tubers of certain orchids.
- salop — a county in W England. 1348 sq. mi. (3490 sq. km).
- salpa — any free-swimming, oceanic tunicate of the genus Salpa, having a transparent, more or less fusiform body.
- scalp — the integument of the upper part of the head, usually including the associated subcutaneous structures.
- scelp — to slap, smack, or strike (someone), especially on the buttocks; spank.
- sculp — to sculpture; carve or model.
- sepal — one of the individual leaves or parts of the calyx of a flower.
- shlep — to carry; lug: to schlep an umbrella on a sunny day.
- simpl — Simulation language, descendant of OPS-4, compiled into PL/I on Multics. "The SIMPL Primer", M.W. Jones et al, Oct 1971.
- siple — Mount, a mountain in Antarctica, on the E coast of Marie Byrd Land. 15,000 feet (4570 meters).
- skelp — metal in strip form that is fed into various rolls and welded to form tubing.
- slapp — Also called SLAPP suit. a civil lawsuit brought as an intimidation measure against an activist.
- sleep — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
- slept — simple past tense and past participle of sleep.
- slipe — a sledge, drag, or sleigh.
- slips — "An Interpreter for SLIPS - An Applicative Language Based on Lambda-Calculus", V. Gehot et al, Comp Langs 11(1):1-14 (1986).
- slipt — simple past tense of slip1 .
- slirp — (networking, tool) A SLIP emulator by Danny Gasparovski, faster than TIA. Version: 0.95H 12 Sep 95.
- sloop — a single-masted, fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessel, with or without a bowsprit, having a jib-headed or gaff mainsail, the latter sometimes with a gaff topsail, and one or more headsails. Compare cutter (def 3), knockabout (def 1).
- slope — to have or take an inclined or oblique direction or angle considered with reference to a vertical or horizontal plane; slant.
- slops — to spill or splash (liquid).
- slopy — sloping; slanting
- slump — to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.
- slurp — to ingest (food or drink) with loud sucking noises: He slurped his coffee.
- slype — a covered passage, especially one from the transept of a cathedral to the chapter house.