5-letter words containing l, e, a, s
- lawes — Henry ("Harry") 1596–1662, English composer.
- lazes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of laze.
- leads — Plural form of lead.
- leafs — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
- leaks — Plural form of leak.
- leams — Plural form of leam.
- leans — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lean.
- leaps — Plural form of leap.
- lears — Edward, 1812–88, English writer of humorous verse and landscape painter.
- 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.
- lepas — (zoology) Any of the genus Lepas of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, etc.; a goose barnacle.
- 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.
- liase — Misspelling of liaise.
- lyase — any of various enzymes, as decarboxylase, that catalyze reactions involving the formation of or addition to a double bond.
- males — Plural form of male.
- meals — a coarse, unsifted powder ground from the edible seeds of any grain: wheat meal; cornmeal.
- pales — light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
- pleas — an appeal or entreaty: a plea for mercy.
- rales — an abnormal crackling or rattling sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by disease or congestion of the lungs.
- sable — an Old World weasellike mammal, Mustela zibellina, of cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.
- sahel — the arid area on the S flank of the Sahara desert that stretches across six countries from Senegal to Chad.
- sakel — Manfred (Joshua) 1906–57, U.S. psychiatrist, born in Austria.
- salem — a state in the NW United States, on the Pacific coast. 96,981 sq. mi. (251,180 sq. km). Capital: Salem. Abbreviation: Oreg., Ore., OR (for use with zip code).
- salep — a starchy, demulcent drug or foodstuff consisting of the dried tubers of certain orchids.
- sales — the act of selling.
- salle — a hall
- salse — a volcano expelling mud
- salue — a salute
- salve — a medicinal ointment for healing or relieving wounds and sores.
- samel — (of brick) not sufficiently fired
- scale — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
- segal — George, 1924–2000, U.S. sculptor.
- selah — an expression occurring frequently in the Psalms, thought to be a liturgical or musical direction, probably a direction by the leader to raise the voice or perhaps an indication of a pause.
- sella — Zillah.
- selma — a city in central Alabama, on the Alabama River.
- selva — a tropical rain forest, as that in the Amazon basin of South America.
- sepal — one of the individual leaves or parts of the calyx of a flower.
- seral — of or relating to a sere.
- setal — a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- shale — a rock of fissile or laminated structure formed by the consolidation of clay or argillaceous material.
- sheal — a shell or pod
- slade — a sledge
- slake — to allay (thirst, desire, wrath, etc.) by satisfying.
- slane — a spade for cutting turf
- slate — a fine-grained rock formed by the metamorphosis of clay, shale, etc., that tends to split along parallel cleavage planes, usually at an angle to the planes of stratification.
- slave — a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bond servant.
- stael — Madame de (Baronne de Staël-Holstein) 1766–1817, French novelist, essayist, poet, and philosopher.