5-letter words containing p, l, a
- leapt — a simple past tense and past participle of leap.
- lempa — a river rising in NW El Salvador, flowing E and then S to the Pacific Ocean. About 200 miles (320 km) long.
- lepal — (botany, obsolete) A sterile transformed stamen.
- lepas — (zoology) Any of the genus Lepas of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, etc.; a goose barnacle.
- lepra — Leprosy Relief Association
- lepta — an aluminum coin of modern Greece until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a drachma.
- limpa — a rye bread made using brown sugar or molasses
- lipan — a member of a group of Apache Indians who lived in the U.S. east of the Rio Grande.
- maple — any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer, species of which are grown as shade or ornamental trees, for timber, or for sap. Compare maple family.
- milpa — (in certain tropical regions) a tract of land cleared from the jungle, usually by burning, farmed for a few seasons, and then abandoned.
- nepal — a constitutional monarchy in the Himalayas between N India and Tibet. About 56,830 sq. mi. (147,190 sq. km). Capital: Kathmandu.
- nopal — any of several cacti of the genus Nopalea, resembling the prickly pear.
- onlap — the advance of a sea beyond its former shore.
- opals — Plural form of opal.
- pablo — a male given name, Spanish form of Paul.
- palas — an East Indian tree
- palau — country consisting of a group of islands in the W Pacific Ocean: formerly part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the island group became an independent republic in 1994: 630 sq mi (1,632 sq km); pop. 15,000; cap. Koror
- palay — a widely cultivated tropical vine
- pale- — paleo-
- palea — a chafflike scale or bract.
- paled — light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
- paler — light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
- pales — light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
- paley — Grace, 1922–2007, U.S. short-story writer and poet.
- palki — a palanquin; sedan chair.
- palla — a voluminous square of cloth draped around the body as a mantle or wrap, worn by women of ancient Rome.
- palls — a cloth, often of velvet, for spreading over a coffin, bier, or tomb.
- pally — friendly; comradely: old friends being pally at a class reunion.
- palma — Brian, born 1940, U.S. film director.
- palme — (Sven) Olof (Joachim) [sven oo-lawf yoo-ah-kim] /svɛn ˈu lɔf ˈyu ɑ kɪm/ (Show IPA), 1927–86, Swedish political leader: prime minister 1969–76, 1982–86; assassinated.
- palmy — glorious, prosperous, or flourishing: the palmy days of yesteryear.
- palos — a seaport in SW Spain: starting point of Columbus's first voyage westward.
- palpi — plural of palpus.
- palsa — a mound of earth pushed up by or formed near the edge of a glacier, found in alpine and arctic areas.
- palsy — any of a variety of atonal muscular conditions characterized by tremors of the body parts, as the hands, arms, or legs, or of the entire body.
- 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.
- paoli — Pasquale di, 1725–1807, Corsican military leader, statesman, and patriot.
- paolo — an obsolete Italian silver coin
- papal — of or relating to the pope or the papacy: a papal visit to Canada.
- parle — talk; parley.
- parly — a small gingerbread biscuit
- parol — something stated or declared.
- patly — in an appropriate manner; fitly
- paula — a female given name: derived from Paul.
- pauli — Wolfgang [woo lf-gang;; German vawlf-gahng] /ˈwʊlf gæŋ;; German ˈvɔlf gɑŋ/ (Show IPA), 1900–58, Austrian physicist in the U.S.: Nobel prize 1945.
- peale — Charles Willson [wil-suh n] /ˈwɪl sən/ (Show IPA), 1741–1827, and his brother James, 1749–1831, U.S. painters.
- pearl — a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle. Compare knit (def 11).
- pedal — a foot-operated lever used to control certain mechanisms, as automobiles, or to play or modify the sounds of certain musical instruments, as pianos, organs, or harps.
- pella — a ruined city in N Greece, NW of Salonika: the capital of ancient Macedonia; birthplace of Alexander the Great.
- pelma — the sole of the foot