5-letter words containing p, l, a
- pelta — a small shield, usually crescent shaped, used in ancient times
- penal — of, relating to, or involving punishment, as for crimes or offenses.
- pepla — a short full flounce or an extension of a garment below the waist, covering the hips.
- petal — one of the often colored segments of the corolla of a flower.
- pfalz — German name of The Palatinate.
- phial — vial.
- phyla — plural of phylum.
- pibal — the measurement and computation of the speed and direction of winds by theodolitic tracking of a pilot balloon.
- pical — of or relating to pica
- pilaf — a Middle Eastern dish consisting of sautéed, seasoned rice steamed in bouillon, sometimes with poultry, meat or shellfish.
- pilar — of, relating to, or covered with hair.
- pilau — pilaf.
- pilaw — pilaf.
- pilea — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Pilea, of the nettle family, many species of which are cultivated for their ornamental foliage.
- pipal — a fig tree, Ficus religiosa, of India, somewhat resembling the banyan.
- plaas — a farm
- place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- plack — a very small copper coin used in Scotland in the 15th and 16th centuries as a four-penny piece.
- plage — a sandy bathing beach at a seashore resort.
- plago — A translator-interpreter for a PL/I subset. "PLAGO/360 User's Manual, Poly Inst Brooklyn.
- plaid — any fabric woven of differently colored yarns in a crossbarred pattern.
- plain — clear or distinct to the eye or ear: a plain trail to the river; to stand in plain view.
- plait — a braid, especially of hair or straw.
- 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.
- plash — a gentle splash.
- plasm — Anatomy, Physiology. the liquid part of blood or lymph, as distinguished from the suspended elements.
- plat- — platy-
- plata — a seaport in E Argentina.
- plate — the base at which the batter stands and which a base runner must reach safely in order to score a run, typically a five-sided slab of whitened rubber set at ground level at the front corner of the diamond.
- plath — Sylvia, 1932–63, U.S. poet.
- plato — 427–347 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- platy — (of an igneous rock) split into thin, flat sheets, often resembling strata, as a result of uneven cooling.
- playa — Western U.S. the sandy, salty, or mud-caked flat floor of a desert basin having interior drainage, usually occupied by a shallow lake during or after prolonged, heavy rains.
- plays — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- plaza — a public square or open space in a city or town.
- plead — to appeal or entreat earnestly: to plead for time.
- pleas — an appeal or entreaty: a plea for mercy.
- pleat — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
- plena — the state or a space in which a gas, usually air, is contained at a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure.
- plica — Zoology, Anatomy. a fold or folding.
- ploat — to thrash; beat soundly
- pocal — PETRA Operator's CommAnd Language.
- podal — relating to feet
- pokal — a large German standing cup of silver, glass, or other material.