5-letter words containing p, l
- ploce — the repetition of a word or phrase to gain special emphasis or to indicate an extension of meaning, as in Ex. 3:14: “I am that I am.”.
- plock — a city in central Poland, on the Vistula River.
- plomb — any inert material inserted into a body cavity for therapeutic purposes.
- plonk — inferior or cheap wine.
- plotz — to collapse or faint, as from surprise, excitement, or exhaustion.
- plouk — a pimple
- ploys — a maneuver or stratagem, as in conversation, to gain the advantage.
- pluck — to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.: to pluck feathers from a chicken.
- pluff — a blowpipe or popgun
- plugh — (games) /ploogh/ A magic word from the ADVENT game.
- plumb — J(ohn) H(arold) 1911–2001, British historian.
- plume — a feather.
- plump — direct; downright; blunt.
- plumy — having plumes or feathers.
- plunk — to pluck (a stringed instrument or its strings); twang: to plunk a guitar.
- pluot — plumcot.
- plur. — plural
- plush — a fabric, as of silk, cotton, or wool, whose pile is more than ⅛ inch (0.3 cm) high.
- pluss — Proposition of a Language Useable for Structured Specifications
- pluto — Classical Mythology. a name given to Hades, under which he is identified by the Romans with Orcus.
- plyer — pliers, (sometimes used with a singular verb) small pincers with long jaws, for bending wire, holding small objects, etc. (usually used with pair of).
- plzen — a city in Bohemia, in the W Czech Republic.
- pocal — PETRA Operator's CommAnd Language.
- podal — relating to feet
- poilu — a French common soldier.
- pokal — a large German standing cup of silver, glass, or other material.
- polar — of or relating to the North or South Pole.
- poled — a long, cylindrical, often slender piece of wood, metal, etc.: a telephone pole; a fishing pole.
- poler — a person or thing that poles.
- poley — (of cattle) hornless or polled
- polio — poliomyelitis.
- polis — an ancient Greek city-state.
- polit — political
- polje — a large elliptical depression in karst regions, sometimes containing a marsh or small lake
- polka — a lively couple dance of Bohemian origin, with music in duple meter.
- pollo — chicken.
- polly — a tame parrot.
- polos — a tall, cylindrical headdress represented, especially on statutes, as worn by women in ancient Greece.
- poly- — Poly- is used to form adjectives and nouns which indicate that many things or types of something are involved in something. For example, a polysyllabic word contains many syllables.
- polyp — Zoology. a sedentary type of animal form characterized by a more or less fixed base, columnar body, and free end with mouth and tentacles, especially as applied to coelenterates. an individual zooid of a compound or colonial organism.
- pool2 — Parallel Object-Oriented Language 2. Philips Research Labs, 1987. Strongly typed, synchronous message passing, designed to run on DOOM (DOOM = Decentralised Object-Oriented Machine).
- poole — a port in Dorset, in S England.
- pools — Also called pocket billiards. any of various games played on a pool table with a cue ball and 15 other balls that are usually numbered, in which the object is to drive all the balls into the pockets with the cue ball.
- poral — of or relating to pores
- poule — a chicken suitable for slow stewing; a stewing-hen
- poulp — a cephalopod such as an octopus, cuttlefish or squid
- poult — a young fowl, as of the turkey, the pheasant, or a similar bird.
- pregl — Fritz [frits] /frɪts/ (Show IPA), 1869–1930, Austrian chemist: Nobel prize 1923.
- prial — (in cards) a pair-royal
- prill — to convert (a material) into a granular free-flowing form