7-letter words containing p, o, l, t
- palmtop — a battery-powered computer small enough to fit in the palm of the hand.
- paltrow — Gwyneth (Kate). born 1972, US film actress; her films include Emma (1996), Sliding Doors (1998), Shakespeare in Love (1998), and Sylvia (2003)
- pelotas — a city in S Brazil.
- peloton — an ornamental glass made in Bohemia in the late 19th century, usually having a striated overlay of glass filaments in a different color.
- petiole — Botany. the slender stalk by which a leaf is attached to the stem; leafstalk.
- piloted — a person duly qualified to steer ships into or out of a harbor or through certain difficult waters.
- pilotis — a column of iron, steel, or reinforced concrete supporting a building above an open ground level.
- pinitol — a white, crystalline, inositol derivative, C 7 H 1 4 O 6 , obtained from the resin of the sugar pine.
- pistole — a former gold coin of Spain, equal to two escudos.
- pivotal — of, relating to, or serving as a pivot.
- platoon — a military unit consisting of two or more squads or sections and a headquarters.
- ploesti — a city in S Romania: center of a rich oil-producing region.
- plotful — characterized by or full of plots
- plotted — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- plotter — a person or thing that plots.
- plottie — a hot, spiced drink
- plotzed — drunk; intoxicated.
- plowter — to work or play in water or mud; dabble
- plumcot — a hybrid tree produced by crossing the apricot and the plum.
- pointal — a pavement of tile mosaic forming an abstract design.
- pointel — a pavement of tile mosaic forming an abstract design.
- poitrel — a breastplate, specifically of horse's armour
- pol pot — (Saloth Sar) 1928–98, Cambodian Khmer Rouge leader and political figure: prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea, 1976–79.
- polatsk — a city in N Belarus, on the Dvina River.
- polecat — a European mammal, Mustela putorius, of the weasel family, having a blackish fur and ejecting a fetid fluid when attacked or disturbed. Compare ferret1 (def 1).
- polenta — (especially in Italian cooking) a thick mush of cornmeal.
- politer — showing good manners toward others, as in behavior, speech, etc.; courteous; civil: a polite reply.
- politic — shrewd or prudent in practical matters; tactful; diplomatic.
- pollent — strong
- pollist — a person who advocates the use of polls
- pollute — to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
- poloist — a person who plays or is devoted to polo
- poltava — a city in E Ukraine, SW of Kharkov: Russian defeat of Swedes 1709.
- polyact — (of a sea creature) having many tentacles or limb-like protrusions
- polycot — a polycotyledon.
- pontile — a metal bar used in glass-making
- poptalk — (language, product) A commercial object-oriented derivative of POP, from Cambridge Consultants, used in the expert system MUSE.
- potable — fit or suitable for drinking: potable water.
- potboil — to create potboilers.
- pothole — a deep hole; pit.
- potlike — resembling a pot, shaped like a pot
- potline — a row of electrolytic cells for reducing certain metals, as aluminum, from fused salts.
- potluck — food or a meal that happens to be available without special preparation or purchase: to take potluck with a friend.
- poulter — a member of staff within e.g. a monastery or royal household, responsible for the supply of poultry
- poultry — domesticated fowl collectively, especially those valued for their meat and eggs, as chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and guinea fowl.
- poutful — tending to pout
- proctal — relating to the rectum
- proglet — /prog'let/ [UK] A short extempore program written to meet an immediate, transient need. Often written in BASIC, rarely more than a dozen lines long and containing no subroutines. The largest amount of code that can be written off the top of one's head, that does not need any editing, and that runs correctly the first time (this amount varies significantly according to one's skill and the language one is using). Compare toy program, noddy, one-liner wars.
- prolate — elongated along the polar diameter, as a spheroid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its longer axis (opposed to oblate).
- protalk — Quintus. An object-oriented Prolog.