5-letter words containing e, l, i
- linen — fabric woven from flax yarns.
- liner — something serving as a lining.
- lines — a thickness of glue, as between two veneers in a sheet of plywood.
- liney — full of or marked with lines.
- linge — (intransitive,UK,dialectal) To work hard; swink; dree.
- linne — (obsolete) flax.
- lippe — a former state in NW Germany: now part of North Rhine-Westphalia.
- lisle — Leconte de Lisle.
- lisse — a fine, filmy, lightly crinkled gauze fabric used in strips for making ruching or for finishing garments.
- liter — light2 (def 36).
- lithe — bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible: the lithe body of a ballerina.
- litre — a unit of capacity redefined in 1964 by a reduction of 28 parts in a million to be exactly equal to one cubic decimeter. It is equivalent to 1.0567 U.S. liquid quarts and is equal to the volume of one kilogram of distilled water at 4°C. Abbreviation: l.
- lived — having life, a life, or lives, as specified (usually used in combination): a many-lived cat.
- liven — to put life into; rouse; enliven; cheer (often followed by up): What can we do to liven up the party?
- liver — a person who lives in a manner specified: an extravagant liver.
- lives — plural of life.
- livre — a former money of account and group of coins of France, issued in coin form first in gold, then in silver, finally in copper, and discontinued in 1794.
- loewi — Otto [ot-oh;; German awt-oh] /ˈɒt oʊ;; German ˈɔt oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1961, German pharmacologist in the U.S.: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1936.
- logie — (in Australia) one of the awards made annually for outstanding television performances
- loipe — a cross-country skiing track
- loire — a river in France, flowing NW and W into the Atlantic: the longest river in France. 625 miles (1005 km) long.
- looie — a lieutenant of the armed forces.
- louie — a lieutenant of the armed forces.
- lurie — Alison. born 1926, US novelist. Her novels include Imaginary Friends (1967), The War Between the Tates (1974), Foreign Affairs (1985), and The Last Resort (1998)
- lweis — Plural form of lwei.
- maile — a vine, Alyxia olivaeformis, of Hawaii, having small yellowish flowers and fragrant foliage: a traditional lei plant of Hawaii.
- melic — intended to be sung.
- meril — a counter used in the game of merils
- miler — a participant in a one-mile race.
- miles — Also called statute mile. a unit of distance on land in English-speaking countries equal to 5280 feet, or 1760 yards (1.609 kilometers).
- milne — A(lan) A(lexander) 1882–1956, English novelist, playwright, and author of prose and verse for children.
- misle — A fine rain or thick mist; mizzle.
- mixel — (geographical sciences) In field-based conceptualisation, a raster cell which indicates elements of mixed or multiple land cover categories.
- moile — A kind of high shoe worn in ancient times.
- neill — A(lexander) S(utherland). 1883–1973, Scottish educationalist and writer, who put his progressive educational theories into practice at Summerhill school (founded 1921)
- nelis — a variety of small, sweet winter pear with yellowish-green freckled skin which becomes golden as it ripens
- nevil — a male given name, form of Neville.
- nifle — (obsolete) A trifle; something small and insignificant.
- nigel — a male given name, form of Neil.
- niles — a river in E Africa, the longest in the world, flowing N from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean. 3473 miles (5592 km) long; from the headwaters of the Kagera River, 4000 miles (6440 km) long.
- obeli — a mark (− or ÷) used in ancient manuscripts to point out spurious, corrupt, doubtful, or superfluous words or passages.
- oiled — pertaining to or resembling oil.
- oiler — any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- oldie — a popular song, joke, movie, etc., that was in vogue at a time in the past.
- oleic — pertaining to or derived from oleic acid.
- olein — Also called glyceryl trioleate, triolein. a colorless to yellowish, oily, water-insoluble liquid, C 5 7 H 1 0 4 O 6 , the triglyceride of oleic acid, present in many vegetable oils.
- olive — a female given name.
- ollie — a male given name, form of Oliver.
- oriel — a bay window, especially one cantilevered or corbeled out from a wall.
- peril — exposure to injury, loss, or destruction; grave risk; jeopardy; danger: They faced the peril of falling rocks.