5-letter words containing l, e
- bible — The Bible is the holy book on which the Jewish and Christian religions are based.
- bield — a shelter; house
- biles — Physiology. a bitter, alkaline, yellow or greenish liquid, secreted by the liver, that aids in absorption and digestion, especially of fats.
- bilge — The bilge or the bilges are the flat bottom part of a ship or boat.
- birle — to pour (a drink) or ply with drink
- 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.
- bleed — When you bleed, you lose blood from your body as a result of injury or illness.
- bleep — A bleep is a short, high-pitched sound, usually one of a series, that is made by an electrical device.
- blend — If you blend substances together or if they blend, you mix them together so that they become one substance.
- blent — blend
- blert — a fool
- bless — When someone such as a priest blesses people or things, he asks for God's favour and protection for them.
- blest — bless
- bleve — A BLEVE is an explosion caused by a liquid which is boiling and continuing to produce a flammable vapor.
- blite — any of a variety of plants in the family Chenopodiaceae, esp Amaranthus blitum
- bloke — A bloke is a man.
- blore — a strong blast of wind
- blued — the pure color of a clear sky; the primary color between green and violet in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 450 and 500 nm.
- bluer — the pure color of a clear sky; the primary color between green and violet in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 450 and 500 nm.
- blues — a feeling of depression or deep unhappiness
- bluet — a North American rubiaceous plant, Houstonia caerulea, with small four-petalled blue flowers
- bluey — a blanket
- blume — Judy, born 1938, U.S. novelist.
- blype — a small piece of skin, particularly one which has peeled off following sunburn
- bodle — a Scottish coin issued under Charles II, worth two Scots pennies or approximately one sixth of an English penny
- bogle — a scarecrow
- boles — any of a variety of soft, unctuous clays of various colors, used as pigments.
- boole — George. 1815–64, English mathematician. In Mathematical Analysis of Logic (1847) and An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (1854), he applied mathematical formulae to logic, creating Boolean algebra
- borel — rustic, rude
- botel — a waterside hotel with dock space for persons who travel by boat.
- boule — the parliament in modern Greece
- bowel — Your bowels are the tubes in your body through which digested food passes from your stomach to your anus.
- boyle — Robert. 1627–91, Irish scientist who helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy. He established that air has weight and studied the behaviour of gases; author of The Sceptical Chymist (1661)
- brule — (in the Pacific Northwest) an area of forest destroyed by fire.
- buell — Don Carlos [kahr-lohs] /ˈkɑr loʊs/ (Show IPA), 1818–98, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
- bugle — A bugle is a simple brass musical instrument that looks like a small trumpet. Bugles are often used in the army to announce when activities such as meals are about to begin.
- bulge — If something such as a person's stomach bulges, it sticks out.
- bulse — a purse or bag for diamonds