5-letter words containing e, a, s
- shear — to cut (something).
- sheba — Queen of, the queen who visited Solomon to test his wisdom. I Kings 10:1–13.
- shema — a liturgical prayer, prominent in Jewish history and tradition, that is recited daily at the morning and evening services and expresses the Jewish people's ardent faith in and love of God.
- sheva — a mark placed under a consonant in Hebrew writing to denote an absent vowel sound
- siena — a city in Tuscany, in central Italy, S of Florence: cathedral.
- skate — a person; fellow: He's a good skate.
- skean — a knife or dagger formerly used in Ireland and in the Scottish Highlands.
- skeat — Walter William, 1835–1912, English philologist and lexicographer.
- slade — a sledge
- slake — to allay (thirst, desire, wrath, etc.) by satisfying.
- slane — a spade for cutting turf
- 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.
- slave — a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bond servant.
- smaze — a mixture of haze and smoke.
- smear — to spread or daub (an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance) on or over something: to smear butter on bread.
- snake — any of numerous limbless, scaly, elongate reptiles of the suborder Serpentes, comprising venomous and nonvenomous species inhabiting tropical and temperate areas.
- snare — one of the strings of gut or of tightly spiraled metal stretched across the skin of a snare drum.
- snead — Samuel Jackson ("Slamming Sammy") 1912–2002, U.S. golfer.
- sneak — to go in a stealthy or furtive manner; slink; skulk.
- sneap — to scold or rebuke
- soane — Sir John, 1753–1837, English architect.
- soare — a young hawk
- soave — a dry, white wine from Verona, Italy.
- space — the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
- spade — a black figure shaped like an inverted heart and with a short stem at the cusp opposite the point, used on playing cards.
- spaed — to prophesy; foretell; predict.
- spaer — to prophesy; foretell; predict.
- spake — a simple past tense of speak.
- spane — a chip of wood
- spare — to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.
- spate — a sudden, almost overwhelming, outpouring: a spate of angry words.
- speak — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- spean — to wean.
- spear — a sprout or shoot of a plant, as a blade of grass or an acrospire of grain.
- 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).
- suave — (of persons or their manner, speech, etc.) smoothly agreeable or polite; agreeably or blandly urbane.