5-letter words containing e, a
- lapse — an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
- laree — lari.
- lares — (initial capital letter) Roman Religion. any of the Lares.
- large — of more than average size, quantity, degree, etc.; exceeding that which is common to a kind or class; big; great: a large house; a large number; in large measure; to a large extent.
- larne — a district of NE Northern Ireland, in Co Antrim. Pop: 30 948 (2003 est). Area: 336 sq km (130 sq miles)
- larve — Dated form of larva.
- lased — Simple past tense and past participle of lase.
- laser — a device that produces a nearly parallel, nearly monochromatic, and coherent beam of light by exciting atoms to a higher energy level and causing them to radiate their energy in phase.
- lases — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lase.
- lated — belated.
- laten — to (cause to) become late
- later — occurring, coming, or being after the usual or proper time: late frosts; a late spring.
- lates — Plural form of late.
- latex — a milky liquid in certain plants, as milkweeds, euphorbias, poppies, or the plants yielding India rubber, that coagulates on exposure to air.
- lathe — a machine for use in working wood, metal, etc., that holds the material and rotates it about a horizontal axis against a tool that shapes it.
- latke — a pancake, especially one made of grated potato.
- latte — Also called caffè latte [kaf-ey lah-tey; Italian kahf-fe laht-te] /ˈkæf eɪ ˈlɑ teɪ; Italian ˈkɑf fɛ ˈlɑt tɛ/ (Show IPA). hot espresso with steamed milk, usually topped with foamed milk.
- laure — (language) A language for knowledge representation combining object-oriented features and logic programming. It has set operations, object-oriented exception handling and a polymorphic type system.
- laved — to wash; bathe.
- laver — Rod(ney George) born 1938, Australian tennis player.
- laves — to wash; bathe.
- lawed — the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision.
- lawer — Obsolete form of lawyer.
- lawes — Henry ("Harry") 1596–1662, English composer.
- laxed — (phonetics) Of a vowel: made lax.
- laxer — Comparative form of lax.
- layed — (archaic) Simple past tense and past participle of lay.
- layer — protocol layer
- lazed — Simple past tense and past participle of laze.
- lazer — Misspelling of laser.
- lazes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of laze.
- leach — to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation.
- leade — That portion of a firearm's barrel immediately in front of the chamber where the bullet travels prior to contacting the rifling.
- leads — Plural form of lead.
- leady — like lead; leaden.
- leafs — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
- leafy — having, abounding in, or covered with leaves or foliage: the leafy woods.
- leahy — William Daniel, 1875–1959, U.S. admiral and diplomat.
- leaks — Plural form of leak.
- leaky — allowing liquid, gas, etc., to enter or escape: a leaky boat; a leaky container.
- leams — Plural form of leam.
- leane — Obsolete form of lean.
- leans — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lean.
- leant — a past participle and simple past tense of lean1 .
- leany — (obsolete) lean.
- leaps — Plural form of leap.
- leapt — a simple past tense and past participle of leap.
- learn — to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, or experience: to learn French; to learn to ski.
- lears — Edward, 1812–88, English writer of humorous verse and landscape painter.
- leary — leery1 .