4-letter words containing l, e
- kelp — any large, brown, cold-water seaweed of the family Laminariaceae, used as food and in various manufacturing processes.
- kelt — Celt.
- kerl — Alternative form of carl.
- kewl — (Internet slang) alternative spelling of cool.
- kiel — two contiguous duchies of Denmark that were a center of international tension in the 19th century: Prussia annexed Schleswig 1864 and Holstein 1866.
- kile — An ulcer; sore.
- klee — Paul [poul;; English pawl] /paʊl;; English pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1879–1940, Swiss painter and etcher.
- koel — any of several cuckoos of the genus Eudynamys, of India, the Malay Archipelago, and Australia.
- kyle — a male or female given name.
- labe — a river in central Europe, flowing from the W Czech Republic NW through Germany to the North Sea. 725 miles (1165 km) long.
- lace — a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
- lade — to put (something) on or in, as a burden, load, or cargo; load.
- lake — Simon, 1866–1945, U.S. engineer and naval architect.
- lame — an ornamental fabric in which metallic threads, as of gold or silver, are woven with silk, wool, rayon, or cotton.
- lane — a male given name.
- lare — (obsolete) lore; learning.
- lase — to give off coherent light, as in a laser.
- late — occurring, coming, or being after the usual or proper time: late frosts; a late spring.
- laue — Max Theodor Felix von [mahks tey-oh-dohr fey-liks fuh n] /mɑks ˈteɪ oʊˌdoʊr ˈfeɪ lɪks fən/ (Show IPA), 1879–1960, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1914.
- lave — to wash; bathe.
- lawe — Obsolete spelling of law.
- laye — Obsolete spelling of lay.
- laze — to idle or lounge lazily (often followed by around): I was too tired to do anything but laze around this weekend.
- ldpe — low-density polyethylene
- lead — to cover, line, weight, treat, or impregnate with lead or one of its compounds.
- leaf — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
- leag — Archaic spelling of league.
- leah — the first wife of Jacob. Gen. 29:23–26.
- leak — an unintended hole, crack, or the like, through which liquid, gas, light, etc., enters or escapes: a leak in the roof.
- leal — loyal; true.
- leam — (intransitive, UK, dialectal) To gleam; shine; glow.
- lean — to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window.
- leap — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
- lear — Edward, 1812–88, English writer of humorous verse and landscape painter.
- leas — Plural form of lea.
- leat — An artificial watercourse, canal or aqueduct, but especially a millrace.
- lech — to behave like a lecher (often followed by for or after).
- lect — (linguistics, sociolinguistics) A specific form of a language or language cluster: a language or a dialect.
- leda — Library of Efficient Data types and Algorithms
- lede — (Now chiefly UK dialectal, singular) A man; person.
- leed — (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Language; tongue.
- leek — a plant, Allium ampeloprasum, of the amaryllis family, allied to the onion, having a cylindrical bulb and leaves used in cookery.
- leep — to boil or scald
- leer — to look with a sideways or oblique glance, especially suggestive of lascivious interest or sly and malicious intention: I can't concentrate with you leering at me.
- lees — Ann, 1736–84, British mystic: founder of Shaker sect in U.S.
- leet — elite
- left — of, relating to, or located on or near the side of a person or thing that is turned toward the west when the subject is facing north (opposed to right).
- lege — by virtue of law.
- lego — one of these blocks, usually as part of a set.
- legs — either of the two lower limbs of a biped, as a human being, or any of the paired limbs of an animal, arthropod, etc., that support and move the body.