6-letter words containing p, l, a
- keypal — The e-mail equivalent of a penpal; someone with whom to exchange e-mail for the simple joy of communicating.
- l-dopa — Pharmacology. levodopa.
- la paz — a city in and the administrative capital of Bolivia, in the W part; Sucre is the official capital. About 12,000 feet (3660 meters) above sea level.
- laipse — to beat soundly
- lampad — lamp or candlestick.
- lampas — congestion of the mucous membrane of the hard palate of horses.
- lamper — One who takes part in lamping, or hunting with bright lights.
- lap up — (of water) to wash against or beat upon (something) with a light, slapping or splashing sound: Waves lapped the shoreline.
- lapdog — a small pet dog that can easily be held in the lap.
- lapels — Plural form of lapel.
- laperm — a breed of medium-sized curly-haired cat with large ears
- lapful — as much as the lap can hold.
- lapith — a member of a people in Thessaly who at the wedding of their king, Pirithoüs, fought the drunken centaurs
- lappas — Plural form of lappa.
- lapped — (of water) to wash against or beat upon (something) with a light, slapping or splashing sound: Waves lapped the shoreline.
- lapper — a person or thing that laps liquid.
- lappet — a small lap, flap, or loosely hanging part, especially of a garment or headdress.
- lappie — a rag or cloth
- lapsed — expired; voided; terminated: a lapsed insurance policy.
- lapser — One who lapses.
- lapses — an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
- lapsus — a slip of the tongue.
- laptop — portable computer
- laputa — an imaginary flying island in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, the inhabitants of which engaged in a variety of ridiculous projects and pseudoscientific experiments.
- larrup — to beat or thrash.
- lashup — a hastily made or arranged device, organization, etc.
- lay up — the manner, relative position, or direction in which something lies: the lie of the patio, facing the water. Synonyms: place, location, site.
- lay-up — Basketball. a shot with one hand from a point close to the basket, in which a player shoots the ball toward the basket, often off the backboard.
- le cap — a port in N Haiti: capital during the French colonial period. Pop: 134 000 (2005 est)
- leaped — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
- leaper — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
- leipoa — mallee fowl.
- lenape — Delaware (defs 5, 6).
- lepcha — a member of a people of Sikkim and adjacent areas of Nepal, Bhutan, and India.
- lipase — any of a class of enzymes that break down fats, produced by the liver, pancreas, and other digestive organs or by certain plants.
- lipoma — a benign tumor consisting of fat tissue.
- lisp a — "LISP A: A LISP-like System for Incremental Computing", E.J. Sandewall, Proc SJCC 32 (1968).
- lupoma — any of the tubercles occurring in lupus vulgaris.
- lyapas — (Russian acronym for "Logical Language for the Representation of Synthesis Algorithms") A language for the URAL-1 computer. It was coded in octal!
- magilp — Alternative form of megilp.
- maples — Plural form of maple.
- milpas — Plural form of milpa.
- napalm — a highly incendiary jellylike substance used in fire bombs, flamethrowers, etc.
- naples — a region in SW Italy. 5214 sq. mi. (13,505 sq. km). Capital: Naples.
- naplps — North American Presentation-Level-Protocol Syntax. Format for sending text and graphics over communication lines. Used by videotex systems.
- napoli — Italian name of Naples.
- nepali — Also, Nepalese. an Indic language spoken in Nepal.
- nopals — Plural form of nopal.
- offlap — the retreat of a sea from its shore.
- oopsla — Conference on Object-oriented Programming Systems, Languages and Applications.