5-letter words containing a, s, e
- scale — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
- scape — Botany. a leafless peduncle rising from the ground.
- scare — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
- sceat — a silver Anglo-Saxon coin of the 7th and 8th centuries, sometimes including an amount of gold.
- scena — an extended operatic vocal solo, usually including an aria and a recitative.
- seame — grease
- seams — the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- seamy — unpleasant or sordid; low; disagreeable: the seamy side of life.
- seare — dry and withered
- sears — a pivoted piece that holds the hammer at full cock or half cock in the firing mechanism of small arms.
- sease — to seize
- seato — an organization formed in Manila (1954), comprising Australia, Great Britain, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and the United States, for collective defense against aggression in southeastern Asia and the southwestern Pacific: abolished in 1977.
- seaze — to seize
- secam — séquentiel couleur à mémoire: a colour-television broadcasting system used in France, the former Soviet Union, and some other countries
- sedan — a city in NE France, on the Meuse River: defeat and capture of Napoleon III 1870.
- sedna — a red planet-like object, roughly half the size of the Earth's moon, orbiting the sun but considerably beyond Pluto; discovered in 2003
- segal — George, 1924–2000, U.S. sculptor.
- segar — Elzie (Crisler) [el-zee krahys-ler] /ˈɛl zi ˈkraɪs lər/ (Show IPA), 1894–1938, U.S. comic-strip artist: creator of “Popeye.”.
- selah — an expression occurring frequently in the Psalms, thought to be a liturgical or musical direction, probably a direction by the leader to raise the voice or perhaps an indication of a pause.
- sella — Zillah.
- selma — a city in central Alabama, on the Alabama River.
- selva — a tropical rain forest, as that in the Amazon basin of South America.
- senna — any plant, shrub, or tree belonging to the genus Cassia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves and large clusters of flowers.
- sensa — plural of sensum.
- senza — without; omitting
- sepad — to suppose
- sepal — one of the individual leaves or parts of the calyx of a flower.
- sepia — a brown pigment obtained from the inklike secretion of various cuttlefish and used with brush or pen in drawing.
- septa — plural of septum.
- serac — a large irregularity of glacial ice, as a pinnacle found in glacial crevasses and formed by melting or movement of the ice.
- serai — (in Eastern countries) a caravansary.
- seral — of or relating to a sere.
- seram — an island in Indonesia, in the Moluccas, separated from New Guinea by the Ceram Sea: mountainous and densely forested. Area: 17 150 sq km (6622 sq miles)
- serra — a sawlike part or organ
- sessa — an exclamation found in Shakespeare, of unknown meaning; suggestions include 'be gone', 'come', or a woman's name
- setae — a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- setal — a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- sewan — wampum (def 1).
- sewar — a dagger from Sumatra
- shade — the comparative darkness caused by the interception or screening of rays of light from an object, place, or area.
- shaef — Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces
- shake — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
- shale — a rock of fissile or laminated structure formed by the consolidation of clay or argillaceous material.
- shame — the painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper, ridiculous, etc., done by oneself or another: She was overcome with shame.
- shane — a male given name.
- shape — Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe.
- share — a plowshare.
- shave — to remove a growth of beard with a razor.
- sheaf — one of the bundles in which cereal plants, as wheat, rye, etc., are bound after reaping.
- sheal — a shell or pod