5-letter words containing i, e, a
- davie — a town in SE Florida.
- deira — kingdom in present-day NE England in the 6th century a.d., merged with Bernicia to form the kingdom of Northumbria.
- delia — the recipes or style of cooking of British cookery writer Delia Smith (born 1941)
- desai — Morarji (Ranchhodji) (məˈrɑːdʒɪ). 1896–1995, Indian statesman, noted for his asceticism. He founded the Janata party in opposition to Indira Gandhi, whom he defeated in the 1977 election; prime minister of India (1977–79)
- diane — a feminine name: dim. Di; var. Dianne
- easie — Obsolete spelling of easy.
- edina — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- egadi — a group of islands in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of W Sicily. 15 sq. mi. (39 sq. km).
- eilat — a port in S Israel, on the Gulf of Aqaba: Israel's only outlet to the Red Sea. Pop: 43 500 (2003 est)
- elias — Elijah
- elisa — enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay: an immunological technique for accurately measuring the amount of a substance, for example in a blood sample
- eliza — (artificial intelligence) A famous program by Joseph Weizenbaum, which simulated a Rogerian psychoanalyst by rephrasing many of the patient's statements as questions and posing them to the patient. It worked by simple pattern recognition and substitution of key words into canned phrases. It was so convincing, however, that there are many anecdotes about people becoming very emotionally caught up in dealing with ELIZA. All this was due to people's tendency to attach to words meanings which the computer never put there. See also ELIZA effect.
- email — (obsolete, circa 13th century) a raised or embossed image pressed into metal, such as a seal pressed into a foil and attached to a document.
- eniac — Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
- erbia — (inorganic compound) erbium oxide Er2O3; Discovered in 1843, by Carl Gustaf Mosander.
- erica — A plant of the genus Erica (family Ericaceae), esp. (in gardening) heather.
- erisa — law: Employee Retirement Income Security Act
- faile — Archaic spelling of fail.
- faine — Obsolete spelling of fane.
- faire — Obsolete spelling of fair.
- fakie — (in skateboarding or snowboarding) a movement in which the board is ridden backward.
- feria — Ecclesiastical. a weekday on which no feast is celebrated.
- haire — Obsolete spelling of hair.
- heian — of or relating to the period in Japan, a.d. 794–1185, characterized by the modification and naturalization of ideas and institutions that were earlier introduced from China.
- heiau — An ancient Hawaiian temple or sacred site.
- ideal — a standard of perfection or excellence.
- idear — (Appalachian) eye dialect of idea.
- ideas — any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity.
- ikeda — Hayato [hah-yah-taw] /hɑˈyɑ tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1899–1965, Japanese statesman: prime minister 1960–64.
- ikeja — a town in SW Nigeria, capital of Lagos state: residential and industrial suburb of Lagos. Pop (local government area): 313 196 (2006)
- ileac — of or relating to ileus.
- ileal — Anatomy. the third and lowest division of the small intestine, extending from the jejunum to the cecum.
- image — a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- imake — A tool which generates Makefiles from a template, a set of cpp macros, and a per-directory input file called an Imakefile. This allows machine dependencies (such has compiler options, alternate command names, and special make rules) to be kept separate from the descriptions of the various items to be built. imake is distributed with, and used extensively by, the X Window System.
- imare — Institute of Marine Engineers
- imena — a female given name: from an Arabic word meaning “faith.”.
- inane — lacking sense, significance, or ideas; silly: inane questions.
- inate — Misspelling of innate.
- irade — a decree of a Muslim ruler.
- irate — angry; enraged: an irate customer.
- jakie — A South American striped frog, Pseudis paradoxa, remarkable for having a tadpole larger than the adult form.
- jamie — a male given name, form of James.
- janie — a female given name, form of Jane.
- japie — Alternative form of yarpie.
- katie — a female given name, form of Katherine or Catherine.
- keita — Modibo [maw-dee-baw] /mɔˈdi bɔ/ (Show IPA), 1915–77, African statesman: president of Mali 1960–68.
- kesia — a female given name: from an African word meaning “favorite.”.
- kiawe — a thorny tree, Prosopis juliflora, of the legume family, native to South America and widely naturalized in Hawaii.
- ladie — Obsolete spelling of lady.
- laine — (Sussex) an area of arable land at the foot of a hill.