5-letter words containing l, e, a
- babel — If there is a babel of voices, you hear a lot of people talking at the same time, so that you cannot understand what they are saying.
- baels — Plural form of bael.
- bagel — A bagel is a ring-shaped bread roll.
- baile — (in the southwestern US and parts of Central and South America) a gathering for dancing.
- baled — Also, bailer. a bucket, dipper, or other container used for bailing.
- baler — an agricultural machine for making bales of hay, etc
- bales — Also, bailer. a bucket, dipper, or other container used for bailing.
- basel — city in NW Switzerland, on the Rhine: pop. 180,000
- basle — a canton of NW Switzerland, divided into the demicantons of Basle-Landschaft and Basle-Stadt. Pops.: 263 200 and 186 900 (2002 est). Areas: 427 sq km (165 sq miles) and 36 sq km (14 sq miles) respectively
- bayle — Pierre (pjɛr). 1647–1706, French philosopher and critic, noted for his Dictionnaire historique et critique (1697), which profoundly influenced Voltaire and the French Encyclopedists
- beale — Dorothea. 1831–1906, British schoolmistress, a champion of women's education and suffrage. As principal of Cheltenham Ladies' College (1858–1906) she introduced important reforms
- befal — (obsolete) befall.
- belah — an Australian casuarina tree, Casuarina cristata, yielding a useful timber
- belau — Palau
- belay — to make fast (a line) by securing to a pin, cleat, or bitt
- belga — a former Belgian monetary unit worth five francs
- bella — a feminine name
- blade — The blade of a knife, axe, or saw is the edge, which is used for cutting.
- blaes — hardened clay or shale, esp when crushed and used to form the top layer of a sports pitch: bluish-grey or reddish in colour
- blaeu — Willem Janszoon [vil-uh m yahn-suh n,, -sohn] /ˈvɪl əm ˈyɑn sən,, -soʊn/ (Show IPA), 1571–1638, Dutch cartographer, geographer, astronomer, and mathematician.
- blake — Sir Peter. born 1932, British painter, a leading exponent of pop art in the 1960s: co-founder of the Brotherhood of Ruralists (1969)
- blame — If you blame a person or thing for something bad, you believe or say that they are responsible for it or that they caused it.
- blare — If something such as a siren or radio blares or if you blare it, it makes a loud, unpleasant noise.
- blase — If you describe someone as blasé, you mean that they are not easily impressed, excited, or worried by things, usually because they have seen or experienced them before.
- blate — exhibiting corpselike qualities, for example a pallid tone, insensibility, or lack of spirits
- blaze — When a fire blazes, it burns strongly and brightly.
- bleak — If a situation is bleak, it is bad, and seems unlikely to improve.
- bleam — (jargon) To transmit or send data. "Bleam that binary to me in an e-mail".
- blear — to make (eyes or sight) dim with or as if with tears; blur
- bleat — When a sheep or goat bleats, it makes the sound that sheep and goats typically make.
- cable — A cable is a thick wire, or a group of wires inside a rubber or plastic covering, which is used to carry electricity or electronic signals.
- cadel — An ornate capital letter used in calligraphy consisting of interlacing pen strokes.
- caleb — a masculine name
- calpe — Rock of Gibraltar
- calve — When a cow calves, it gives birth to a calf.
- camel — A camel is a large animal that lives in deserts and is used for carrying goods and people. Camels have long necks and one or two lumps on their backs called humps.
- capel — A horse.
- caple — a horse
- carle — Scot. a strong, robust fellow, especially a strong manual laborer. a miser; an extremely thrifty person.
- catel — (obsolete) property, as distinguished from rent or income.
- cavel — a drawing of lots among miners for an easy and profitable place at the coalface
- cecal — a cul-de-sac, especially that in which the large intestine begins.
- celan — Paul, real name Paul Antschel. 1920–70, Romanian Jewish poet, writing in German, whose work reflects the experience of Nazi persecution
- celia — a feminine name
- cella — the inner room of a classical temple, esp the room housing the statue of a deity
- chela — a large pincer-like claw of such arthropods as the crab and scorpion
- clade — a group of organisms considered as having evolved from a common ancestor
- claes — (Scotland) clothes.
- clane — Eye dialect of clean.
- clare — a county of W Republic of Ireland, in Munster between Galway Bay and the Shannon estuary. County town: Ennis. Pop: 103 277 (2002). Area: 3188 sq km (1231 sq miles)