5-letter words containing e, a
- geyan — somewhat
- glace — frozen.
- glade — an open space in a forest.
- glare — a bright, smooth surface, as of ice.
- glave — glaive.
- glaze — to furnish or fill with glass: to glaze a window.
- glead — (archaic) A live coal.
- gleam — a flash or beam of light: the gleam of a lantern in the dark.
- glean — to gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit.
- gleba — the sporogenous tissue forming the central part of the sporophore in certain fungi, as in puffballs and stinkhorns.
- grace — William Russell, 1832–1904, U.S. financier and shipping magnate, born in Ireland: mayor of New York City 1880–88.
- grade — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
- grame — (obsolete) Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.
- grape — the edible, pulpy, smooth-skinned berry or fruit that grows in clusters on vines of the genus Vitis, and from which wine is made.
- grate — a frame of metal bars for holding fuel when burning, as in a fireplace, furnace, or stove.
- grave — the grave accent.
- graze — to touch or rub something lightly, or so as to produce slight abrasion, in passing: to graze against a rough wall.
- great — unusually or comparatively large in size or dimensions: A great fire destroyed nearly half the city.
- grefa — griefo.
- greta — a female given name, form of Margaret.
- guage — Misspelling of gauge.
- guare — John, born 1938, U.S. playwright.
- gudea — flourished c2250 b.c, Sumerian ruler.
- gynae — gynaecological
- haber — Fritz, 1868–1934, German chemist: Nobel Prize 1918.
- hable — Obsolete form of habile.
- hacek — a diacritical mark (ˇ) placed over a letter in some languages, as Czech and Lithuanian, and in some systems of phonetic transcription, especially to indicate that a sound is palatalized.
- haded — Geology. the angle between a fault plane and the vertical, measured perpendicular to the strike of the fault; complement of the dip.
- haden — Charles (Edward). born 1937, US jazz bassist, esp. noted for his collaborations with Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett
- hades — Geology. the angle between a fault plane and the vertical, measured perpendicular to the strike of the fault; complement of the dip.
- hadje — Archaic form of hajji.
- haemo — (informal) haemodialysis.
- haets — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of haet.
- hagen — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany.
- hague — Cape, a cape in NW France, in the English Channel near Cherbourg: the NW extremity of the Cotentin Peninsula.
- haire — Obsolete spelling of hair.
- hakea — any of various shrubs or trees of the genus Hakea, native to Australia, having evergreen, pinnate leaves and clusters of variously colored flowers.
- hakes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hake.
- haleb — Aleppo
- haled — to compel (someone) to go: to hale a man into court.
- haler — heller2 (def 1).
- hales — to compel (someone) to go: to hale a man into court.
- haley — Alex, 1921–92, U.S. writer.
- halfe — Archaic spelling of half.
- halle — Morris, born 1923, U.S. linguist, born in Latvia.
- halse — to hug or to embrace
- halve — to divide into two equal parts.
- hamer — Fannie Lou, 1917–77, U.S. civil rights activist.
- hames — either of two curved pieces lying upon the collar in the harness of an animal, to which the traces are fastened.
- hance — (transitive, obsolete) To raise, to elevate.