5-letter words containing e, b, a
- haleb — Aleppo
- hejab — Alternative spelling of hijab.
- jambe — Architecture, Building Trades. either of the vertical sides of a doorway, arch, window, or other opening. either of two stones, timbers, etc., forming the sidepieces for the frame of an opening.
- jerba — an island off the SE coast of Tunisia: Roman ruins. 197 sq. mi. (510 sq. km).
- kabwe — a city in central Zambia: oldest mining town; cave site where the fossil skull of Rhodesian man was found.
- kebab — Usually, kebabs. small pieces of meat or seafood seasoned or marinated and broiled, often with tomatoes, green peppers, onions, or other vegetables, usually on a skewer.
- kebap — Alternative spelling of kebab.
- label — a slip of paper, cloth, or other material, marked or inscribed, for attachment to something to indicate its manufacturer, nature, ownership, destination, etc.
- leban — Coagulated sour milk diluted with water.
- mabel — a female given name.
- mabey — Misspelling of maybe.
- mable — a female given name.
- mabye — Misspelling of maybe.
- maneb — a carbamate fungicide, C 4 H 6 MnN 2 S 4 , used for control of numerous crop diseases.
- maybe — perhaps; possibly: Maybe I'll go too.
- melba — (Dame) Nellie (Helen Porter Mitchell Armstrong) 1861–1931, Australian operatic soprano.
- nabes — a neighborhood movie theater.
- obeah — a form of belief involving sorcery, practiced in parts of the West Indies, South America, the southern U.S., and Africa.
- pemba — an island near the E coast of equatorial Africa: formerly part of Zanzibar protectorate; now a part of Tanzania. 164,321; 380 sq. mi. (984 sq. km).
- pheba — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- rabes — Plural form of rabe.
- rebab — a Near Eastern fiddle having one to three strings and played with a bow.
- rebar — a steel bar or rod used to reinforce concrete.
- rehab — rehabilitation, especially a program or facility for treating persons addicted to drugs or alcohol or recovering from certain medical conditions: He's been sober since coming out of rehab. She checked into rehab after suffering a stroke.
- saber — a heavy, one-edged sword, usually slightly curved, used especially by cavalry.
- sable — an Old World weasellike mammal, Mustela zibellina, of cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.
- sabre — to strike, wound, or kill with a saber.
- sheba — Queen of, the queen who visited Solomon to test his wisdom. I Kings 10:1–13.
- taber — a small drum formerly used to accompany oneself on a pipe or fife.
- tabes — a gradually progressive emaciation.
- table — an article of furniture consisting of a flat, slablike top supported on one or more legs or other supports: a kitchen table; an operating table; a pool table.
- taleb — (in Afghanistan) a member of the Taliban
- taube — an early German monoplane
- tubae — Music. a valved, brass wind instrument having a low range. an organ reed stop of large scale with tones of exceptional power. an ancient Roman trumpet.
- xbase — Generic term for the dBASE family of database languages. Coined in response to threatened litigation over use of the copyrighted trademark "dBASE."
- yerba — Ilex paraguariensis, a species of holly native to southern South America; or the dried leaves and twigs of this plant, used to make the caffeine-rich beverage mate.
- zebra — any of several horselike African mammals of the genus Equus, each species having a characteristic pattern of black or dark-brown stripes on a whitish background: all zebra species are threatened or endangered.