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5-letter words containing n, a, l

  • oland — an island in SE Sweden, separated from the mainland by Kalmar Sound. 26,750; 519 sq. mi. (1345 sq. km).
  • olean — a city in SW New York.
  • onlap — the advance of a sea beyond its former shore.
  • onlay — an overlay, especially one in relief.
  • panel — a distinct portion, section, or division of a wall, wainscot, ceiling, door, shutter, fence, etc., especially of any surface sunk below or raised above the general level or enclosed by a frame or border.
  • penal — of, relating to, or involving punishment, as for crimes or offenses.
  • plain — clear or distinct to the eye or ear: a plain trail to the river; to stand in plain view.
  • plan- — plano- (sense 1)
  • plane — plane tree.
  • planh — a Provençal elegiac poem.
  • plank — a long, flat piece of timber, thicker than a board.
  • plano — pertaining to eyeglasses that do not contain a curvature for correcting vision defects: plano sunglasses.
  • 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).
  • plant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
  • plena — the state or a space in which a gas, usually air, is contained at a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure.
  • renal — of or relating to the kidneys or the surrounding regions.
  • salon — a drawing room or reception room in a large house.
  • sinal — of, relating to, or involving a sinus.
  • slain — past participle of slay.
  • slane — a spade for cutting turf
  • slang — a specialized dictionary covering the words, phrases, and idioms that reflect the least formal speech of a language. These terms are often metaphorical and playful, and are likely to be evanescent as the spoken language changes from one generation to another. Much slang belongs to specific groups, as the jargon of a particular class, profession, or age group. Some is vulgar. Some slang terms have staying power as slang, but others make a transition into common informal speech, and then into the standard language. An online slang dictionary, such as the Dictionary.com Slang Dictionary, provides immediate information about the meaning and history of a queried term and its appropriateness or lack of appropriateness in a range of social and professional circumstances.
  • slank — simple past tense of slink.
  • slant — to veer or angle away from a given level or line, especially from a horizontal; slope.
  • sloan — John, 1871–1951, U.S. painter.
  • snail — any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, having a spirally coiled shell and a ventral muscular foot on which it slowly glides about.
  • snarl — to become tangled; get into a tangle.
  • solan — a gannet.
  • sonal — pertaining to sound; sonic.
  • talon — a claw, especially of a bird of prey.
  • tolan — a crystalline, water-insoluble, solid, unsaturated compound, C 14 H 10 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • tonal — pertaining to or having tonality.
  • uhlan — one of a group of lancers in a light-cavalry unit, first appearing in Europe in the Polish army.
  • ulnad — towards the ulna
  • ulnae — Anatomy. the bone of the forearm on the side opposite to the thumb. Compare radius (def 7).
  • ulnar — Anatomy. the bone of the forearm on the side opposite to the thumb. Compare radius (def 7).
  • ulpan — an institute or school for intensive study of Hebrew, especially by immigrants to Israel.
  • ulsan — a city in SE South Korea.
  • unlaw — to fine (someone) a sum of money
  • unlay — to separate (a strand) from a rope.
  • urnal — of or relating to urns
  • venal — willing to sell one's influence, especially in return for a bribe; open to bribery; mercenary: a venal judge.
  • vinal — a type of manmade fibre partly composed of vinyl alcohol units
  • wanly — of an unnatural or sickly pallor; pallid; lacking color: His wan face suddenly flushed.
  • wilan — wireless local area network
  • xylan — A polysaccharide found in plant cell walls that hydrolyzes to xylose.
  • yulan — a magnolia tree, Magnolia heptapeta, native to China, having large, fragrant white flowers and cylindrical brownish fruit.
  • zonal — of or relating to a zone or zones.
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