5-letter words containing p, l, i
- paoli — Pasquale di, 1725–1807, Corsican military leader, statesman, and patriot.
- 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.
- peril — exposure to injury, loss, or destruction; grave risk; jeopardy; danger: They faced the peril of falling rocks.
- phial — vial.
- phil- — philo-
- phil. — philosophy
- philo — Philo Judaeus
- 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
- picul — (in China and southeast Asia) a weight equal to 100 catties, or from about 133 to about 143 pounds avoirdupois (60–64 kg).
- 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.
- pilch — an infant's wrapper worn over a diaper.
- pilea — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Pilea, of the nettle family, many species of which are cultivated for their ornamental foliage.
- piled — having a pile, as velvet and other fabrics.
- piler — someone who makes a pile or places things on a pile
- piles — a hemorrhoid.
- pili- — hair
- pills — a small globular or rounded mass of medicinal substance, usually covered with a hard coating, that is to be swallowed whole.
- pilon — something extra; lagniappe.
- pilos — Greek name of Navarino.
- pilot — a person duly qualified to steer ships into or out of a harbor or through certain difficult waters.
- pilum — a javelin used in ancient Rome by legionaries, consisting of a three-foot-long shaft with an iron head of the same length.
- pilus — a hair or hairlike structure.
- pinel — Phillippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), 1745–1826, French physician: reformer in the treatment and care of the mentally ill.
- pipal — a fig tree, Ficus religiosa, of India, somewhat resembling the banyan.
- pixel — picture element
- 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.
- plica — Zoology, Anatomy. a fold or folding.
- plied — British Dialect. to bend, fold, or mold.
- plier — pliers, (sometimes used with a singular verb) small pincers with long jaws, for bending wire, holding small objects, etc. (usually used with pair of).
- plies — a movement in which the knees are bent while the back is held straight.
- pling — (character) exclamation mark.
- plink — to shoot, as with a rifle, at targets selected at whim: to plink at coins tossed in the air.
- pliny — ("the Elder"; Gaius Plinius Secundus) a.d. 23–79, Roman naturalist, encyclopedist, and writer.
- plio- — greater in size, extent, degree, etc; more
- 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.
- poilu — a French common soldier.
- polio — poliomyelitis.
- polis — an ancient Greek city-state.
- polit — political
- prial — (in cards) a pair-royal
- prill — to convert (a material) into a granular free-flowing form
- pugil — a pinch or small handful
- pulci — Luigi (ˈlwiːdʒi). 1432–84, Italian poet. His masterpiece is the comic epic poem Morgante (1483)