5-letter words containing a, t, e, s
- setal — a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- skate — a person; fellow: He's a good skate.
- skeat — Walter William, 1835–1912, English philologist and lexicographer.
- slate — a fine-grained rock formed by the metamorphosis of clay, shale, etc., that tends to split along parallel cleavage planes, usually at an angle to the planes of stratification.
- spate — a sudden, almost overwhelming, outpouring: a spate of angry words.
- stade — a period of time represented by a glacial deposit.
- stael — Madame de (Baronne de Staël-Holstein) 1766–1817, French novelist, essayist, poet, and philosopher.
- stage — a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
- stake — something that is wagered in a game, race, or contest.
- stale — not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread.
- stane — stone.
- stare — to gaze fixedly and intently, especially with the eyes wide open.
- state — the condition of a person or thing, as with respect to circumstances or attributes: a state of health.
- stave — one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood that form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel.
- stead — the place of a person or thing as occupied by a successor or substitute: The nephew of the queen came in her stead.
- steak — a slice of meat or fish, especially beef, cooked by broiling, frying, etc.
- steal — to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force: A pickpocket stole his watch.
- steam — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- stean — an earthenware vessel made of clay or stone, originally made for holding liquid
- stela — stele (defs 1–3).
- sweat — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
- tabes — a gradually progressive emaciation.
- taces — tasset.
- tales — a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case; story: a tale about Lincoln's dog.
- tames — changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated: a tame bear.
- tares — the weight of the wrapping, receptacle, or conveyance containing goods.
- taser — a brand of weapon that fires electrical probes that give an electric shock, causing temporary paralysis
- tasse — any of a series of jointed, metal plates forming a skirtlike protection of armor for the lower trunk and thighs
- taste — to try or test the flavor or quality of (something) by taking some into the mouth: to taste food.
- tawse — a leather strap having one end cut into thongs, formerly used as an instrument of punishment by a schoolteacher
- taxes — a plural of taxi.
- tears — the act of tearing.
- tease — to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
- teras — a monstrosity
- tesla — Nikola [nik-oh-luh] /ˈnɪk oʊ lə/ (Show IPA), 1856–1943, U.S. physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor, born in Croatia.
- tessa — a female given name, form of Theresa.
- testa — the outer, usually hard, integument or coat of a seed.
- texas — a state in the S United States. 267,339 sq. mi. (692,410 sq. km). Capital: Austin. Abbreviation: Tex., TX (for use with zip code).
- tsade — sadhe.
- vesta — the ancient Roman goddess of the hearth, worshiped in a temple containing an altar on which a sacred fire was kept burning by the vestal virgins: identified with the Greek Hestia.
- waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- wetas — Plural form of weta.
- yates — Plural form of yate.
- yeast — any of various small, single-celled fungi of the phylum Ascomycota that reproduce by fission or budding, the daughter cells often remaining attached, and that are capable of fermenting carbohydrates into alcohol and carbon dioxide.
- yeats — William Butler, 1865–1939, Irish poet, dramatist, and essayist: Nobel prize 1923.
- zetas — Plural form of zeta.