4-letter words containing p, l
- lapd — 1. Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. Los Angeles Police Department.
- lapm — Link Access Protocol for Modems
- lapp — Also called Laplander [lap-lan-der, -luh n-] /ˈlæpˌlæn dər, -lən-/ (Show IPA). a member of a Finnic people of northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and adjacent regions.
- laps — the act of lapping liquid.
- larp — a type of role-playing game in which each participant assumes a particular character and acts out various scenarios at events which last for a predetermined time
- ldap — Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
- ldp. — Ladyship
- ldpe — low-density polyethylene
- leap — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
- leep — to boil or scald
- leps — Plural form of lep.
- lept — (archaic) Simple past form of leap.
- lerp — (uncountable) A sweet secretion, produced by the larvae of the family Psyllidae, that forms scales on eucalyptus leaves.
- limp — to walk with a labored, jerky movement, as when lame.
- lipa — a monetary unit of Croatia.
- lipe — a lurching or jerking movement
- lipl — Linear IPL. A linearised (i.e. horizontal format) version of IPL-V.
- lipo — a.d. 701?–762, Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty.
- lips — Plural form of lip.
- lisp — a high-level programming language that processes data in the form of lists: widely used in artificial intelligence applications.
- lmtp — Local Mail Transfer Protocol
- loop — a hot bloom of pasty consistency, to be worked under a hammer or in rolls.
- lope — to move or run with bounding steps, as a quadruped, or with a long, easy stride, as a person.
- lops — Plural form of lop.
- loup — a cloth mask, often of silk or velvet, that covers only half the face.
- lpac — 1. (audio, compression) Lossless Predictive Audio Compression. 2. London Parallel Applications Centre.
- lpga — Ladies Professional Golf Association
- lrcp — Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians
- lump — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
- lupe — a female given name.
- mpla — Movimento Popular de Libertacão de Angola: a political party that has ruled Mozambique since the country gained independence from Portugal in 1975
- mpls — Multiprotocol Label Switching
- mppl — (language) An early possible name for PL/I.
- nlsp — NetWare Link State Protocol
- nppl — Network Picture Processing Language. An interactive language for manipulation of digraphs.
- olap — On-Line Analytical Processing
- olpe — a form of the oinochoe.
- oltp — On-Line Transaction Processing
- opal — a female given name.
- paal — a stake driven into the ground
- pail — bucket.
- pale — 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.
- pali — the Prakrit language of the Buddhist scriptures.
- pall — a cloth, often of velvet, for spreading over a coffin, bier, or tomb.
- palm — any of numerous plants of the family Palmae, most species being tall, unbranched trees surmounted by a crown of large pinnate or palmately cleft leaves. Compare palm family.
- palp — a palpus.
- paly — pale.
- parl — Parliament
- paul — Paul (Johann von) [poul yoh-hahn fuh n] /paʊl ˈyoʊ hɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, German playwright, novelist, poet, and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1910.
- pawl — a pivoted bar adapted to engage with the teeth of a ratchet wheel or the like so as to prevent movement or to impart motion.