5-letter words containing e, l, i
- laine — (Sussex) an area of arable land at the foot of a hill.
- lebni — A yoghurt-like dairy dish from the eastern Mediterranean region.
- legis — legislation
- legit — legitimate.
- leics — Leicestershire
- leidy — Joseph, 1823–91, U.S. paleontologist, parasitologist, and anatomist.
- leigh — Vivien (Vivian Mary Hartley) 1913–67, English actress.
- leila — a female given name.
- leish — active or athletic
- leith — a seaport in SE Scotland, on the Firth of Forth: now part of Edinburgh.
- lenin — V(ladimir) I(lyich) [vlad-uh-meer il-yich;; Russian vluh-dyee-myir ee-lyeech] /ˈvlæd əˌmɪər ˈɪl yɪtʃ;; Russian vlʌˈdyi myɪr iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov"N. Lenin") 1870–1924, Russian revolutionary leader: Soviet premier 1918–24.
- lenis — pronounced with relatively weak muscular tension and breath pressure, resulting in weak sound effect: in stressed or unstressed position, (b, d, g, j, v, th̸, z, and zh) are lenis in English, as compared with (p, t, k, ch, f, th, s, and sh), which are fortis. Compare fortis (def 1).
- leo i — Saint ("Leo the Great") a.d. c390–461, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 440–461.
- leoni — Raúl [rah-ool] /rɑˈul/ (Show IPA), 1905–72, Venezuelan statesman: president 1964–69.
- lepid — (obsolete) pleasant; jocose.
- levin — lightning.
- levis — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, across from Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- lewis — Carl (Frederick Carlton Lewis) born 1961, U.S. track and field athlete.
- lexie — (literary theory) A minimal unit of reading, such as a sentence or sentence fragment.
- lexis — the vocabulary of a language, as distinct from its grammar; the total stock of words and idiomatic combinations of them in a language; lexicon.
- liane — Archaic form of liana.
- liase — Misspelling of liaise.
- libel — the false accusation that Jews murder Christian children to use their blood in religious rituals: blood libels that spread throughout Europe in the Middle Ages.
- liber — an ancient Italian god of wine and vineyards, in later times identified with Bacchus.
- libre — (free software movement) With very few limitations on distribution or improvement; including source code.
- licey — Containing lice (the insect).
- liege — a city in E Belgium, on the Meuse River: one of the first cities attacked in World War I.
- liens — Plural form of lien.
- liers — a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- liest — (archaic) Second-person singular present simple form of 'lie'.
- lieth — Archaic third-person singular form of lie.
- lieus — place; stead.
- lieve — lief.
- lifer — a person sentenced to or serving a term of life imprisonment.
- lifes — (obsolete, possibly not standard in any era) Plural form of life.
- liger — the offspring of a male lion and a female tiger.
- ligne — (in Swiss watchmaking) a unit equal to 0.0888 inch or 2.2558 millimeters, divided into 12 douziemes: used mainly to gauge the thickness of a movement.
- liked — to take pleasure in; find agreeable or congenial: We all liked the concert.
- liken — to represent as similar or like; compare: to liken someone to a weasel.
- liker — Digital Technology. (sometimes initial capital letter) noting or pertaining to a feature used to like specific website content: a Like button; like boxes.
- likes — Digital Technology. (sometimes initial capital letter) noting or pertaining to a feature used to like specific website content: a Like button; like boxes.
- likey — Alternative form of like.
- lille — a department in N France. 2229 sq. mi. (5770 sq. km). Capital: Lille.
- limed — Also called burnt lime, calcium oxide, caustic lime, calx, quicklime. a white or grayish-white, odorless, lumpy, very slightly water-soluble solid, CaO, that when combined with water forms calcium hydroxide (slaked lime) obtained from calcium carbonate, limestone, or oyster shells: used chiefly in mortars, plasters, and cements, in bleaching powder, and in the manufacture of steel, paper, glass, and various chemicals of calcium.
- limen — threshold (def 4).
- limer — (obsolete) A kind of dog kept on a lead; a bloodhound; a mongrel.
- limes — a boundary, especially the fortified border or frontier of a country.
- limey — a British sailor.
- linea — a seaport in S Spain, near Gibraltar.
- lined — a thickness of glue, as between two veneers in a sheet of plywood.