5-letter words containing e, a
- beray — to soil, dirty, defile
- berea — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- beria — Lavrenti Pavlovich (laˈvrjentij ˈpavləvitʃ). 1899–1953, Soviet chief of secret police; killed by his associates shortly after Stalin's death
- berra — Lawrence Peter ("Yogi") born 1925, U.S. baseball player and manager.
- betta — any of a genus (Betta) of brightly colored gouramies of Southeast Asia, esp. an aquarium species (B. splendens)
- bevan — a stupid or unfashionable male
- bhave — Vinoba [vee-noh-buh] /viˈnoʊ bə/ (Show IPA), 1895–1982, Indian religious leader and mystic.
- blade — The blade of a knife, axe, or saw is the edge, which is used for cutting.
- blaes — hardened clay or shale, esp when crushed and used to form the top layer of a sports pitch: bluish-grey or reddish in colour
- blaeu — Willem Janszoon [vil-uh m yahn-suh n,, -sohn] /ˈvɪl əm ˈyɑn sən,, -soʊn/ (Show IPA), 1571–1638, Dutch cartographer, geographer, astronomer, and mathematician.
- blake — Sir Peter. born 1932, British painter, a leading exponent of pop art in the 1960s: co-founder of the Brotherhood of Ruralists (1969)
- blame — If you blame a person or thing for something bad, you believe or say that they are responsible for it or that they caused it.
- blare — If something such as a siren or radio blares or if you blare it, it makes a loud, unpleasant noise.
- blase — If you describe someone as blasé, you mean that they are not easily impressed, excited, or worried by things, usually because they have seen or experienced them before.
- blate — exhibiting corpselike qualities, for example a pallid tone, insensibility, or lack of spirits
- blaze — When a fire blazes, it burns strongly and brightly.
- bleak — If a situation is bleak, it is bad, and seems unlikely to improve.
- bleam — (jargon) To transmit or send data. "Bleam that binary to me in an e-mail".
- blear — to make (eyes or sight) dim with or as if with tears; blur
- bleat — When a sheep or goat bleats, it makes the sound that sheep and goats typically make.
- bohea — a black Chinese tea, once regarded as the choicest, but now as an inferior grade
- brace — If you brace yourself for something unpleasant or difficult, you prepare yourself for it.
- braes — an upland area
- brahe — Tycho (ˈtyːço). 1546–1601, Danish astronomer, who designed and constructed instruments that he used to plot accurately the positions of the planets, sun, moon, and stars
- brake — Brakes are devices in a vehicle that make it go slower or stop.
- brame — a fierce passion or vexation
- brane — a hypothetical component of string theory
- brave — Someone who is brave is willing to do things which are dangerous, and does not show fear in difficult or dangerous situations.
- braze — to decorate with, make like, or make of brass
- bread — Bread is a very common food made from flour, water, and yeast.
- break — When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
- bream — any of several Eurasian freshwater cyprinid fishes of the genus Abramis, esp A. brama, having a deep compressed body covered with silvery scales
- breda — a city in the S Netherlands, in North Brabant province: residence of Charles II of England during his exile. Pop: 164 000 (2003 est)
- buaze — a flowering shrub commonly found in savannah woodland areas of Africa
- caber — A caber is a long, heavy, wooden pole. It is thrown into the air as a test of strength in the traditional Scottish sport called 'tossing the caber'.
- cabet — Étienne [ey-tyen] /eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1788–1856, French socialist who established a utopian community in the U.S. (in Illinois) called Icaria: became U.S. citizen 1854.
- cable — A cable is a thick wire, or a group of wires inside a rubber or plastic covering, which is used to carry electricity or electronic signals.
- cabre — heraldic term designating an animal rearing
- cache — A cache is a quantity of things such as weapons that have been hidden.
- cadel — An ornate capital letter used in calligraphy consisting of interlacing pen strokes.
- cader — Eastern New England and British. (of the young of animals) abandoned or left by the mother and raised by humans: a cade lamb.
- cades — Plural form of cade.
- cadet — A cadet is a young man or woman who is being trained in the armed services or the police.
- cadge — If someone cadges food, money, or help from you, they ask you for it and succeed in getting it.
- cadie — a person in a large town or city in the 18th century who was on the lookout for chance employment, for example, as a messenger
- cadre — A cadre is a small group of people who have been specially chosen, trained, and organized for a particular purpose.
- caeca — cecum.
- caese — a Shakespearean interjection of uncertain meaning
- cafes — Plural form of cafe.
- caged — A caged bird or animal is inside a cage.