5-letter words containing a, p, e
- exapt — EXtended APT.
- expat — An expatriate; a person who lives outside his or her own country.
- frape — (obsolete) A crowd, a rabble.
- gaped — to stare with open mouth, as in wonder.
- gaper — a person or thing that gapes.
- gapes — a wide opening; gap; breach.
- gaspe — a town in SE Quebec, in E Canada on the NE end of the Gaspé Peninsula.
- grape — the edible, pulpy, smooth-skinned berry or fruit that grows in clusters on vines of the genus Vitis, and from which wine is made.
- harpe — (Ancient Greece) A type of curved weapon or implement, variously described as a sickle, a pruning hook, or a curved sword like a scimitar. In later depictions it became a combination of a straight sword on one side and a curved blade on the other.
- heaps — a group of things placed, thrown, or lying one on another; pile: a heap of stones.
- heapy — a group of things placed, thrown, or lying one on another; pile: a heap of stones.
- hep a — hepatitis A.
- hepar — a compound containing sulphur
- japed — Simple past tense and past participle of jape.
- japer — to jest; joke; gibe.
- japes — to jest; joke; gibe.
- japie — Alternative form of yarpie.
- jaspe — given a veined and spotted appearance imitating jasper.
- kebap — Alternative spelling of kebab.
- lapel — either of the two parts of a garment folded back on the chest, especially a continuation of a coat collar.
- lapse — an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
- leaps — Plural form of leap.
- leapt — a simple past tense and past participle of leap.
- lempa — a river rising in NW El Salvador, flowing E and then S to the Pacific Ocean. About 200 miles (320 km) long.
- lepal — (botany, obsolete) A sterile transformed stamen.
- lepas — (zoology) Any of the genus Lepas of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, etc.; a goose barnacle.
- lepra — Leprosy Relief Association
- lepta — an aluminum coin of modern Greece until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a drachma.
- mapes — Walter, c1140–1209? Welsh ecclesiastic, poet, and satirist.
- maple — any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer, species of which are grown as shade or ornamental trees, for timber, or for sap. Compare maple family.
- naped — Simple past tense and past participle of nape.
- napes — the back of the neck (usually used in the phrase nape of the neck).
- nappe — Geology. a large mass of rock thrust a considerable distance along a nearly horizontal fault plane or in an overturned anticlinal fold.
- neaps — Plural form of neap.
- nepad — New Partnership for African Development: an economic development organization set up by the African union in 2001
- nepal — a constitutional monarchy in the Himalayas between N India and Tibet. About 56,830 sq. mi. (147,190 sq. km). Capital: Kathmandu.
- oapec — Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries
- opake — Alternative form of opaque.
- opera — a plural of opus.
- paced — having a specified or indicated pace (usually used in combination): fast-paced.
- pacer — a person or thing that paces.
- pacey — fast, full of action
- padre — father (used especially in addressing or referring to a priest or member of the clergy).
- paean — any song of praise, joy, or triumph.
- paeon — Classical Prosody. a foot of one long and three short syllables in any order.
- paged — paging
- pager — beeper (def 3).
- paget — Sir James, 1814–99, English surgeon and pathologist.
- pagne — a garment worn by some African peoples, consisting of a rectangular strip of cloth fashioned into a loincloth or wrapped on the body so as to form a short skirt.
- paige — Leroy Robert ("Satchel") 1906–82, U.S. baseball player.