5-letter words containing pl
- pleat — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
- plebe — Also, pleb. (at the U.S. Military and Naval academies) a member of the freshman class.
- plebs — a member of the plebs; a plebeian or commoner.
- plena — the state or a space in which a gas, usually air, is contained at a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure.
- pleo- — more
- pleon — the abdomen of a crustacean.
- plica — Zoology, Anatomy. a fold or folding.
- plied — British Dialect. to bend, fold, or mold.
- plier — pliers, (sometimes used with a singular verb) small pincers with long jaws, for bending wire, holding small objects, etc. (usually used with pair of).
- plies — a movement in which the knees are bent while the back is held straight.
- pling — (character) exclamation mark.
- plink — to shoot, as with a rifle, at targets selected at whim: to plink at coins tossed in the air.
- pliny — ("the Elder"; Gaius Plinius Secundus) a.d. 23–79, Roman naturalist, encyclopedist, and writer.
- plio- — greater in size, extent, degree, etc; more
- plisp — 1. PostScript Lisp? A Common Lisp translator and programming environment in PostScript by John Peterson <[email protected]>. 2. Pattern LISP. 1990. A pattern-matching rewrite-rule language, optimised for describing syntax translation rules. (See LISP70).
- plits — Programming Language In The Sky. A computational model for concurrency with communication via asynchronous message-passing.
- ploat — to thrash; beat soundly
- 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.
- reply — followup
- rpl-1 — Data reduction language. Proc SJCC 30:571-575, AFIPS (Spring 1967).
- simpl — Simulation language, descendant of OPS-4, compiled into PL/I on Multics. "The SIMPL Primer", M.W. Jones et al, Oct 1971.
- siple — Mount, a mountain in Antarctica, on the E coast of Marie Byrd Land. 15,000 feet (4570 meters).
- splad — splat1 (def 1).
- splat — a sound made by splattering or slapping.
- splay — to spread out, expand, or extend.
- split — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- splog — spam that takes the form of a blog
- sympl — (language) SYsteMs Programming Language.
- tplwu — Toronto Public Library Workers Union