4-letter words containing l, e
- fule — (dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) fool.
- fyle — (Scotland, transitive) Alternative form of file.
- gael — a Scottish Celt or Highlander.
- gale — Zona [zoh-nuh] /ˈzoʊ nə/ (Show IPA), 1874–1938, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and poet.
- geal — (obsolete, or, Scotland) To congeal.
- gela — a city in S Sicily, Italy, on the Mediterranean Sea.
- geld — to castrate (an animal, especially a horse).
- gell — Eye dialect of girl.
- gels — Plural form of gel.
- gelt — a simple past tense and past participle of geld1 .
- genl — General or general
- glee — a squint.
- gleg — quick; keen.
- glen — a male or female given name.
- glew — Obsolete form of glue.
- gley — a mottled soil in which iron compounds have been oxidized and reduced by intermittent water saturation.
- glue — a hard, impure, protein gelatin, obtained by boiling skins, hoofs, and other animal substances in water, that when melted or diluted is a strong adhesive.
- goel — (obsolete) yellow.
- gule — (obsolete) The throat; the gullet.
- gyle — Fermented wort used for making vinegar.
- hale — free from disease or infirmity; robust; vigorous: hale and hearty men in the prime of life.
- heal — to make healthy, whole, or sound; restore to health; free from ailment.
- heel — a contemptibly dishonorable or irresponsible person: We all feel like heels for ducking out on you like this.
- heil — To greet with a Sieg Heil.
- held — simple past tense and a past participle of hold1 .
- hele — Alternative form of heal.
- hell — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
- helm — Also, heaume. Also called great helm. a medieval helmet, typically formed as a single cylindrical piece with a flat or raised top, completely enclosing the head.
- helo — helicopter.
- help — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
- herl — a barb of a feather, used especially in dressing anglers' flies.
- hile — (botany) hilum.
- hole — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- hyle — (obsolete, philosophy) matter.
- idle — not working or active; unemployed; doing nothing: idle workers.
- ilea — Anatomy. the third and lowest division of the small intestine, extending from the jejunum to the cecum.
- ilex — any tree or shrub of the genus Ilex.
- ille — a river in Ille-et-Vilaine in W France, flowing S to Rennes.
- ilse — a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- isle — a small island.
- jael — a woman who killed Sisera by hammering a tent pin into his head as he slept. Judges 4:17–22.
- jeel — (of jelly, jam, etc) to congeal or become firm
- jell — to congeal; become jellylike in consistency.
- jelq — A penis enlargement technique in which the thumb and index finger are wrapped around the penis and repeatedly drawn away from the body in order to force blood into the glans and encourage vascularity.
- joel — a Minor Prophet of the postexilic period.
- jole — jowl2 .
- kael — Pauline, 1919–2001, U.S. film critic.
- kale — Also called borecole. a cabbagelike cultivated plant, Brassica oleracea acephala, of the mustard family, having curled or wrinkled leaves: used as a vegetable.
- keel — a red ocher stain used for marking sheep, lumber, etc.; ruddle.
- kell — (obsolete) The caul.