5-letter words containing lan
- planh — a Provençal elegiac poem.
- plank — a long, flat piece of timber, thicker than a board.
- plano — pertaining to eyeglasses that do not contain a curvature for correcting vision defects: plano sunglasses.
- plans — Programming Language for Allocation and Network Scheduling. A PL/I preprocessor, used for developing scheduling algorithms. "A User's Guide to the Programming Language for Allocation and Network Scheduling", H.R. Ramsey et al, TR SAI-77-068-DEN, Science Applications Inc (Jun 1977).
- 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.
- slane — a spade for cutting turf
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- slank — simple past tense of slink.
- slant — to veer or angle away from a given level or line, especially from a horizontal; slope.
- solan — a gannet.
- tolan — a crystalline, water-insoluble, solid, unsaturated compound, C 14 H 10 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- uhlan — one of a group of lancers in a light-cavalry unit, first appearing in Europe in the Polish army.
- wilan — wireless local area network
- xylan — A polysaccharide found in plant cell walls that hydrolyzes to xylose.
- yulan — a magnolia tree, Magnolia heptapeta, native to China, having large, fragrant white flowers and cylindrical brownish fruit.