5-letter words containing b, e, l
- caleb — a masculine name
- celeb — A celeb is the same as a celebrity.
- coble — a small single-masted flat-bottomed fishing boat
- debel — to overcome or beat (an opponent) in combat
- eblis — the chief evil jinni in Islamic mythology
- ebola — Also called Ebola fever, Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Ebola virus disease. a usually fatal disease, a type of hemorrhagic fever, caused by the Ebola virus and marked by high fever, severe gastrointestinal distress, and bleeding.
- elbow — The joint between the forearm and the upper arm.
- erbil — a city in N Iraq: important in Assyrian times. Pop: 870 000 (2005 est)
- fable — a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue: the fable of the tortoise and the hare; Aesop's fables.
- gabel — (UK, legal, obsolete) A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.
- gable — (William) Clark, 1901–60, U.S. film actor.
- gibel — a carp of Europe and N Asia
- gleba — the sporogenous tissue forming the central part of the sporophore in certain fungi, as in puffballs and stinkhorns.
- glebe — Also called glebe land. Chiefly British. the cultivable land owned by a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.
- gleby — clod-like
- globe — the planet Earth (usually preceded by the).
- hable — Obsolete form of habile.
- haleb — Aleppo
- hubel — David, 1926–2013, U.S. neuroscientist, born in Canada: Nobel Prize 1981.
- jebel — (chiefly in Arabic-speaking countries) a mountain: often used as part of a placename to indicate that the place is situated on or near a mountain: the Djebel Druze of southern Syria.
- keble — John, 1792–1866, English clergyman and poet.
- klebs — Edwin [ed-win;; German et-veen] /ˈɛd wɪn;; German ˈɛt vin/ (Show IPA), 1834–1913, German pathologist and bacteriologist.
- kolbe — Georg [gey-awrk] /geɪˈɔrk/ (Show IPA), 1877–1947, German sculptor.
- label — a slip of paper, cloth, or other material, marked or inscribed, for attachment to something to indicate its manufacturer, nature, ownership, destination, etc.
- leban — Coagulated sour milk diluted with water.
- leben — a semiliquid food made from curdled milk in N Africa and the Levant
- lebes — a wine bowl having an oval body without handles and a rounded base.
- lebni — A yoghurt-like dairy dish from the eastern Mediterranean region.
- lesbo — a contemptuous term used to refer to a lesbian.
- libel — the false accusation that Jews murder Christian children to use their blood in religious rituals: blood libels that spread throughout Europe in the Middle Ages.
- liber — an ancient Italian god of wine and vineyards, in later times identified with Bacchus.
- libre — (free software movement) With very few limitations on distribution or improvement; including source code.
- lobed — having a lobe or lobes; lobate.
- lobes — Plural form of lobe.
- lubed — Simple past tense and past participle of lube.
- lubes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lube.
- lubke — Heinrich [hahyn-rikh] /ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1894–1972, German statesman: president of West Germany 1959–69.
- mabel — a female given name.
- mable — a female given name.
- melba — (Dame) Nellie (Helen Porter Mitchell Armstrong) 1861–1931, Australian operatic soprano.
- moble — to wrap the head of, as in a hood.
- nebel — a Hebrew harp-like instrument
- nobel — Alfred Bernhard [ahl-fred ber-nahrd] /ˈɑl frɛd ˈbɛr nɑrd/ (Show IPA), 1833–96, Swedish engineer, manufacturer, and philanthropist.
- noble — distinguished by rank or title.
- obeli — a mark (− or ÷) used in ancient manuscripts to point out spurious, corrupt, doubtful, or superfluous words or passages.
- obole — a silver-alloy coin of France issued during the Middle Ages, the 24th part of a sol, or one-half denier.
- 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.
- rebel — a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of his or her country.
- roble — a Californian white oak, Quercus lobata, having a short trunk and large, spreading branches.