5-letter words containing e, a
- lease — a system for keeping the warp in position and under control by alternately crossing the warp yarn over and under the lease rods.
- leash — a chain, strap, etc., for controlling or leading a dog or other animal; lead.
- least — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
- leats — Plural form of leat.
- leaue — Obsolete spelling of leave.
- leave — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
- leavy — leafy.
- leaze — Alternative form of lease (to glean, or pick up grain).
- leban — Coagulated sour milk diluted with water.
- legal — permitted by law; lawful: Such acts are not legal.
- lehar — Franz [frahnts] /frɑnts/ (Show IPA), 1870–1948, Hungarian composer of operettas.
- lehua — Also called ohia lehua. a tree, Metrosideros villosa, of the Hawaiian islands, yielding a hard wood.
- leila — a female given name.
- leman — Lake. Geneva, Lake of.
- lemay — Curtis (Emerson) 1906–90, U.S. Air Force officer: chief of the Strategic Air Command 1948–61; Chief of Staff of the Air Force 1961–65.
- lemma — a subsidiary proposition introduced in proving some other proposition; a helping theorem.
- lempa — a river rising in NW El Salvador, flowing E and then S to the Pacific Ocean. About 200 miles (320 km) long.
- lenca — a member of an Indian people of El Salvador and central Honduras.
- lenya — Lotte [lot-ee;; German law-tuh] /ˈlɒt i;; German ˈlɔ tə/ (Show IPA), (Karoline Blamauer) 1900–81, Austrian actress and singer, in the U.S. after 1935 (wife of Kurt Weill).
- leona — a female given name.
- lepal — (botany, obsolete) A sterile transformed stamen.
- lepas — (zoology) Any of the genus Lepas of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, etc.; a goose barnacle.
- lepra — Leprosy Relief Association
- lepta — an aluminum coin of modern Greece until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a drachma.
- lerna — a marshy region near Argos, Greece: the legendary abode of the Hydra slain by Hercules.
- lesya — any of six possible colors given to the monad, or individual soul, by its karma and being lighter or darker according to the proportion of good or evil included in the karma.
- letha — a female given name.
- lexan — a polycarbonate resin, used in molded products, as a substitute for glass, etc.
- lezza — Alternative form of lezzer.
- liane — Archaic form of liana.
- liase — Misspelling of liaise.
- linea — a seaport in S Spain, near Gibraltar.
- loave — Alternative form of lofe.
- lulea — a seaport in NE Sweden, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- lutea — yellow
- lyase — any of various enzymes, as decarboxylase, that catalyze reactions involving the formation of or addition to a double bond.
- mabel — a female given name.
- mabey — Misspelling of maybe.
- mable — a female given name.
- mabye — Misspelling of maybe.
- maced — Simple past tense and past participle of mace.
- macer — macebearer.
- maces — a spice ground from the layer between a nutmeg shell and its outer husk, resembling nutmeg in flavor.
- mache — corn salad.
- macke — August [ou-goo st] /ˈaʊ gʊst/ (Show IPA), 1887–1914, German painter.
- macle — chiastolite.
- madge — a female given name, form of Margaret.
- madre — mother1 .
- maera — Hecuba, after being changed into a dog for blinding Polymestor.
- maerl — an accumulation of red coralline algae