5-letter words containing e, a
- crake — any of several rails that occur in the Old World, such as the corncrake and the spotted crake
- crame — a merchant's booth or stall at a market
- crane — A crane is a large machine that moves heavy things by lifting them in the air.
- crape — crepe, esp when used for mourning clothes
- crare — (formerly) a small and unwieldy trading vessel
- crase — (obsolete) To break in pieces; to crack.
- crate — A crate is a large box used for transporting or storing things.
- crave — If you crave something, you want to have it very much.
- craze — If there is a craze for something, it is very popular for a short time.
- creak — If something creaks, it makes a short, high-pitched sound when it moves.
- cream — Cream is a thick yellowish-white liquid taken from milk. You can use it in cooking or put it on fruit or desserts.
- creat — An usher to a riding master.
- crema — A brownish foam that forms on the top of freshly made espresso.
- crena — a notch or indentation
- cumae — the oldest Greek colony in Italy, founded about 750 bc near Naples
- daces — Plural form of dace.
- dache — Lilly, 1914?–1989, U.S. hat designer, born in France.
- daesh — a name used to refer to ISIS/ISIL, the radical Sunni Muslim organization: use of this name is said to delegitimize the group's claim to be an "Islamic state.".
- daker — a unit of commodities equivalent to ten
- dalek — any of a set of fictional robot-like creations that are aggressive, mobile, and produce rasping staccato speech
- dalen — Nils Gustaf. 1869–1937, Swedish engineer, inventor of an automatic light-controlled valve known as 'Solventil'. Nobel prize for physics 1912
- dales — a strong working breed of pony, originating from Yorkshire and Durham
- dalet — The fourth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- daley — Richard J(oseph) 1902–76, U.S. politician: mayor of Chicago 1955–76.
- dames — Plural form of dame.
- damme — an exclamation of surprise or annoyance
- danae — the mother of Perseus by Zeus, who visits her in the form of a shower of gold
- dance — If you dance a particular kind of dance, you do it or perform it.
- dante — full name Dante Alighieri (Italian aliˈɡjɛːri). 1265–1321, Italian poet famous for La Divina Commedia (?1309–?1320), an allegorical account of his journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, guided by Virgil and his idealized love Beatrice. His other works include La Vita Nuova (?1292), in which he celebrates his love for Beatrice
- dared — an act of daring or defiance; challenge.
- darer — an act of daring or defiance; challenge.
- dares — Plural form of dare.
- darke — Obsolete spelling of dark.
- dated — Dated things seem old-fashioned, although they may once have been fashionable or modern.
- datel — a British Telecom service providing for the direct transmission of data from one computer to another
- dater — a person who marks something with a date
- dates — the years of a person's birth and death
- daube — a braised meat stew
- dauer — (nematology) A developmental stage of certain nematode larvae in which they exhibit increased durability.
- daven — to pray
- davie — a town in SE Florida.
- dawed — Simple past tense and past participle of daw.
- dawes — Charles Gates. 1865–1951, US financier, diplomat, and statesman, who devised the Dawes Plan for German reparations payments after World War I; vice president of the US (1925–29); Nobel peace prize 1925
- dayer — (in combination) Something lasting a specified number of days.
- dazed — If someone is dazed, they are confused and unable to think clearly, often because of shock or a blow to the head.
- dazer — a device that dazes or stuns, esp one which stops dogs barking
- dazes — Plural form of daze.
- dbase — (tool, product, language) An interactive DBMS, originally from Ashton-Tate Corporation, and the language used by it. dBASE evolved from Vulcan by Wayne Ratliffe, which came out in around 1980 and ran on CP/M. It was called dBaseII when sold to Ashton-Tate Corporation. The first release was dBASE II, ca 1980. There never was a "dBASE I". Later versions included: dBASE III, dBASE III+, and dBASE IV. Ashton-Tate was taken over in the early 1990s by what became Borland Software Corporation who sold dBase in March(?) 1999 to the newly formed dBase Inc. dBase Inc's first release was Visual dBASE 5.7, a Y2K upgrade to Visual dBASE 5.x. Current version, as of 2003-11-24: dBASE PLUS 2.0x build 1703.
- deade — Obsolete spelling of dead.
- deads — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dead.