5-letter words starting with pl
- pl-11 — (language) A high-level machine-oriented language for the PDP-11 developed by R.D. Russell of CERN in Nov 1971. It is similar to PL360 and is written in Fortran IV and cross-compiled on other machines.
- pl360 — Structured assembly language for the IBM 360 and IBM 370, with a few high-level constructs. Syntactically it resembles ALGOL 60. Its grammar is defined entirely by operator precedence.
- pl516 — An ALGOL-like assembly language for the DDP-516, similar to PL360.
- plaas — a farm
- place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- plack — a very small copper coin used in Scotland in the 15th and 16th centuries as a four-penny piece.
- plage — a sandy bathing beach at a seashore resort.
- plago — A translator-interpreter for a PL/I subset. "PLAGO/360 User's Manual, Poly Inst Brooklyn.
- plaid — any fabric woven of differently colored yarns in a crossbarred pattern.
- plain — clear or distinct to the eye or ear: a plain trail to the river; to stand in plain view.
- plait — a braid, especially of hair or straw.
- plan- — plano- (sense 1)
- plane — plane tree.
- 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.
- plash — a gentle splash.
- plasm — Anatomy, Physiology. the liquid part of blood or lymph, as distinguished from the suspended elements.
- 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.
- playa — Western U.S. the sandy, salty, or mud-caked flat floor of a desert basin having interior drainage, usually occupied by a shallow lake during or after prolonged, heavy rains.
- plays — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- plaza — a public square or open space in a city or town.
- plead — to appeal or entreat earnestly: to plead for time.
- pleas — an appeal or entreaty: a plea for mercy.
- 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.
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