5-letter words containing t, a, l
- notal — Of or pertaining to the back; dorsal.
- ntalk — (chat) ("new talk") An update of the Unix "talk" program, old versions of "talk" being referred to as "old talk". New talk and old talk are generally incompatible, and attempts to get them to communicate result in entirely unhelpful error messages. On most modern Unix systems, the program "talk" is new talk, with some SunOS versions being a notable and annoying exception to this.
- octal — Also, octonary. of or relating to the number system with base 8, employing the numerals 0 through 7.
- patly — in an appropriate manner; fitly
- pelta — a small shield, usually crescent shaped, used in ancient times
- petal — one of the often colored segments of the corolla of a flower.
- plait — a braid, especially of hair or straw.
- plant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- plat- — platy-
- plata — a seaport in E Argentina.
- plate — the base at which the batter stands and which a base runner must reach safely in order to score a run, typically a five-sided slab of whitened rubber set at ground level at the front corner of the diamond.
- plath — Sylvia, 1932–63, U.S. poet.
- plato — 427–347 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- platy — (of an igneous rock) split into thin, flat sheets, often resembling strata, as a result of uneven cooling.
- pleat — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
- ploat — to thrash; beat soundly
- ratal — the amount on which rates or taxes are assessed.
- ratel — a badgerlike carnivore, Mellivora capensis, of Africa and India.
- rotal — relating to wheels or rotation
- salat — prayers, said five times a day: the second of the Pillars of Islam.
- salta — a city in NW Argentina.
- salto — a city in NW Uruguay, on the Uruguay River.
- salts — Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.
- salty — tasting of or containing salt; saline.
- sault — a waterfall or rapid.
- setal — a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- shalt — 2nd person singular of shall.
- slant — to veer or angle away from a given level or line, especially from a horizontal; slope.
- slart — to spill (something)
- slate — a fine-grained rock formed by the metamorphosis of clay, shale, etc., that tends to split along parallel cleavage planes, usually at an angle to the planes of stratification.
- slaty — consisting of, resembling, or pertaining to slate.
- smalt — a coloring agent made of blue glass produced by fusing silica, potassium carbonate, and cobalt oxide, used in powdered form to add color to vitreous materials.
- spalt — a silly person
- splat — a sound made by splattering or slapping.
- stael — Madame de (Baronne de Staël-Holstein) 1766–1817, French novelist, essayist, poet, and philosopher.
- stahl — Georg Ernst [gey-ork ernst] /geɪˈɒrk ɛrnst/ (Show IPA), 1660–1734, German chemist and physician.
- stale — not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread.
- stalk — an act or course of stalking quarry, prey, or the like: We shot the mountain goat after a five-hour stalk.
- stall — a pretext, as a ruse, trick, or the like, used to delay or deceive.
- steal — to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force: A pickpocket stole his watch.
- stela — stele (defs 1–3).
- stola — a long, loose tunic or robe, with or without sleeves, worn by women of ancient Rome.
- tabla — a small drum or pair of drums of India tuned to different pitches and played with the hands.
- table — an article of furniture consisting of a flat, slablike top supported on one or more legs or other supports: a kitchen table; an operating table; a pool table.
- tails — the limitation of an estate to a person and the person’s heirs or some particular class of such heirs.
- talaq — a form of divorce under Islamic law in which the husband repudiates the marriage by saying 'talaq' three times
- talar — an ankle-length robe
- talca — a city in central Chile.
- talcy — resembling, containing, or covered in talc or talcum powder
- talea — a rhythmic pattern in certain mediaeval choral compositions