5-letter words containing a, t, e
- dealt — Dealt is the past tense and past participle of deal2.
- death — Death is the permanent end of the life of a person or animal.
- defat — to remove the fat from (a substance)
- delta — A delta is an area of low, flat land shaped like a triangle, where a river splits and spreads out into several branches before entering the sea.
- derat — (transitive) To remove the rats from something.
- detab — DEcision TABle. A decision table COBOL preprocessor written by A. Chapman in 1964. Versions: DETAB 65, DETAB X.
- drate — Simple past form of drite.
- earnt — (chiefly British) Simple past tense and past participle of earn.
- earth — (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
- easts — Plural form of east.
- eated — (nonstandard) Simple past tense and past participle of eat.
- eaten — a past participle of eat.
- eater — to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).
- eaton — Theophilus, 1590–1658, English colonist and colonial administrator in America.
- eclat — brilliance of success, reputation, etc.: the éclat of a great achievement.
- ectad — outward.
- ectal — external; outer; on the surface of.
- efate — a volcanic island in the Vanuatu island chain, in the South Pacific. 300 sq. mi. (780 sq. km).
- eilat — a port in S Israel, on the Gulf of Aqaba: Israel's only outlet to the Red Sea. Pop: 43 500 (2003 est)
- elate — Make (someone) ecstatically happy.
- enact — Make (a bill or other proposal) law.
- enate — A relative whose relation is traced only through female members of the family.
- epact — The number of days by which the solar year differs from the lunar year.
- erato — the Muse of love poetry
- étage — a floor in a multi-storey building
- étape — a storehouse
- ethal — (chemistry, dated) cetyl alcohol.
- ethan — a masculine name
- etyma — Plural form of etymon.
- evatt — Herbert Vere. 1894–1965, Australian jurist and Labor political leader, president of the General Assembly of the United Nations 1948–49
- ewart — Gavin (Buchanan). 1916–95, British poet, noted for his light satirical verse
- exact — Not approximated in any way; precise.
- exalt — Hold (someone or something) in very high regard; think or speak very highly of.
- exapt — EXtended APT.
- exeat — A license or permit for absence from a college or a religious house (such as a monastery).
- expat — An expatriate; a person who lives outside his or her own country.
- extra — Added to an existing or usual amount or number.
- facet — one of the small, polished plane surfaces of a cut gem.
- fated — subject to, guided by, or predetermined by fate; destined.
- fates — something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune; lot: It is always his fate to be left behind.
- feart — afraid
- feast — any rich or abundant meal: The steak dinner was a feast.
- feats — Plural form of feat.
- festa — a feast, festival, or holiday.
- fetal — of, relating to, or having the character of a fetus.
- fetas — Plural form of feta.
- fetta — Alternative spelling of feta.
- flate — (intransitive, obsolete) To feel nausea.
- frate — a monk or friar
- freat — Alternative form of freet.