5-letter words containing l, e, a
- clave — one of a pair of hardwood sticks struck together to make a hollow sound, esp to mark the beat of Latin-American dance music
- clean — Something that is clean is free from dirt or unwanted marks.
- clear — Something that is clear is easy to understand, see, or hear.
- cleat — A cleat is a kind of hook with two ends which is used to hold ropes, especially on sailing boats.
- dalek — any of a set of fictional robot-like creations that are aggressive, mobile, and produce rasping staccato speech
- dalen — Nils Gustaf. 1869–1937, Swedish engineer, inventor of an automatic light-controlled valve known as 'Solventil'. Nobel prize for physics 1912
- dales — a strong working breed of pony, originating from Yorkshire and Durham
- dalet — The fourth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- daley — Richard J(oseph) 1902–76, U.S. politician: mayor of Chicago 1955–76.
- datel — a British Telecom service providing for the direct transmission of data from one computer to another
- deale — Archaic spelling of deal.
- deals — Plural form of deal.
- dealt — Dealt is the past tense and past participle of deal2.
- dealy — (US, slang) An object, especially a gadget, whose name the speaker currently cannot recall.
- decal — Decals are pieces of paper with a design on one side. The design can be transferred onto a surface by heating it, soaking it in water, or pressing it hard.
- dedal — daedal.
- delay — If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
- delia — the recipes or style of cooking of British cookery writer Delia Smith (born 1941)
- della — a female given name, form of Delia.
- delta — A delta is an area of low, flat land shaped like a triangle, where a river splits and spreads out into several branches before entering the sea.
- dwale — Deadly nightshade or belladonna.
- eagle — any of several large, soaring birds of prey belonging to the hawk family Accipitridae, noted for their size, strength, and powers of flight and vision: formerly widespread in North America, eagles are mostly confined to Alaska and a few isolated populations. Compare bald eagle, golden eagle.
- earle — a male given name: from the old English word meaning “noble.”.
- earls — Plural form of earl.
- early — in or during the first part of a period of time, a course of action, a series of events, etc.: early in the year.
- easel — a stand or frame for supporting or displaying at an angle an artist's canvas, a blackboard, a china plate, etc.
- easle — a quantity of hot embers or ashes
- ebola — Also called Ebola fever, Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Ebola virus disease. a usually fatal disease, a type of hemorrhagic fever, caused by the Ebola virus and marked by high fever, severe gastrointestinal distress, and bleeding.
- eclat — brilliance of success, reputation, etc.: the éclat of a great achievement.
- ectal — external; outer; on the surface of.
- eilat — a port in S Israel, on the Gulf of Aqaba: Israel's only outlet to the Red Sea. Pop: 43 500 (2003 est)
- eland — A spiral-horned African antelope that lives in open woodland and grassland. It is the largest of the antelopes.
- elara — a small satellite of Jupiter in an intermediate orbit
- elate — Make (someone) ecstatically happy.
- elgar — Sir Edward (William). 1857–1934, English composer, whose works include the Enigma Variations (1899), the oratorio The Dream of Gerontius (1900), two symphonies, a cello concerto, and a violin concerto
- 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.
- elman — ˈMischa (ˈmɪʃə ) ; mishˈə) 1891-1967; U.S. violinist, born in Russia
- elsan — a type of portable lavatory in which chemicals are used to kill bacteria and deodorize the sludge
- elvan — Pertaining to elves; elvish; elven.
- 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.
- enlay — Archaic form of inlay.
- equal — Being the same in quantity, size, degree, or value.
- ethal — (chemistry, dated) cetyl alcohol.
- exalt — Hold (someone or something) in very high regard; think or speak very highly of.
- fable — a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue: the fable of the tortoise and the hare; Aesop's fables.
- faile — Archaic spelling of fail.
- false — not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
- farle — a thin, circular cake of flour or oatmeal.