5-letter words containing l, e, n
- galen — Latin Galenus [guh-lee-nuh s] /gəˈli nəs/ (Show IPA). Claudius, a.d. c130–c200, Greek physician and writer on medicine.
- genal — the cheek or side region of the head.
- glean — to gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit.
- gleen — (obsolete) To glisten; to gleam.
- glenn — John (Herschel, Jr.) born 1921, U.S. astronaut and politician: first U.S. orbital space flight 1962; U.S. senator 1975–99.
- glens — Plural form of glen.
- helen — Also called Helen of Troy. Classical Mythology. the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda and wife of Menelaus whose abduction by Paris was the cause of the Trojan War.
- holen — Past participle of hele.
- incel — (neologism) A person who is celibate against their wishes.
- incle — Alternative form of inkle.
- indel — (genetics) Either an insertion or deletion mutation in the genetic code.
- ingle — a fire burning in a hearth.
- inkle — a linen tape used for trimmings.
- inlet — an indentation of a shoreline, usually long and narrow; small bay or arm.
- intel — Intel Corporation
- klein — Felix [fee-liks;; German fey-liks] /ˈfi lɪks;; German ˈfeɪ lɪks/ (Show IPA), 1849–1925, German mathematician.
- kline — one of a series of lines (K-series) in the x-ray spectrum of an atom corresponding to radiation (K-radiation) produced by the transition of an electron to the K-shell.
- klone — /klohn/ clone.
- kneel — to go down or rest on the knees or a knee.
- knell — the sound made by a bell rung slowly, especially for a death or a funeral.
- knelt — a simple past tense and past participle of kneel.
- knole — a mansion in Sevenoaks in Kent: built (1454) for Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury; later granted to the Sackville family, who made major alterations (1603–08)
- laden — burdened; loaded down.
- lagen — Usually, laggins. the staves at the bottom of a barrel, cask, or other hooped vessel.
- laine — (Sussex) an area of arable land at the foot of a hill.
- lamen — Alternative form of ramen.
- lance — a male given name.
- lande — a type of moorland in SW France
- laned — Divided into lanes, as with a road.
- laner — lone.
- lanes — Plural form of lane.
- lange — Christian Louis [kris-tyahn loo-ee,, -is] /ˈkrɪs tyɑn ˈlu i,, -ɪs/ (Show IPA), 1869–1938, Norwegian historian: Nobel Peace Prize 1921.
- larne — a district of NE Northern Ireland, in Co Antrim. Pop: 30 948 (2003 est). Area: 336 sq km (130 sq miles)
- laten — to (cause to) become late
- leane — Obsolete form of lean.
- leans — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lean.
- leant — a past participle and simple past tense of lean1 .
- leany — (obsolete) lean.
- learn — to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, or experience: to learn French; to learn to ski.
- leban — Coagulated sour milk diluted with water.
- leben — a semiliquid food made from curdled milk in N Africa and the Levant
- lebni — A yoghurt-like dairy dish from the eastern Mediterranean region.
- lefun — Logic, Equations and Functions. An integration of logic programming and functional programming by H. Ait-Kaci et al of MCC, Austin TX.
- leman — Lake. Geneva, Lake of.
- lemen — a sweetheart; lover; beloved.
- lemon — the yellowish, acid fruit of a subtropical citrus tree, Citrus limon.
- lenca — a member of an Indian people of El Salvador and central Honduras.
- lendl — Ivan, born 1960, U.S. tennis player, born in the former Czechoslovakia.
- lends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lend.
- lenes — pronounced with relatively weak muscular tension and breath pressure, resulting in weak sound effect: in stressed or unstressed position, (b, d, g, j, v, th̸, z, and zh) are lenis in English, as compared with (p, t, k, ch, f, th, s, and sh), which are fortis. Compare fortis (def 1).