5-letter words containing l, e
- easle — a quantity of hot embers or ashes
- eblis — the chief evil jinni in Islamic mythology
- 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.
- eccl. — ecclesiastic(al)
- eccle — Alternative form of eckle.
- eckle — (dialectal) An icicle.
- eclat — brilliance of success, reputation, etc.: the éclat of a great achievement.
- ecol. — ecological
- ecole — school1 .
- ecssl — Formerly APSE. An equation-oriented specification language for continuous simulations. The compiler outputs HYTRAN, which must be run on an analog processor.
- ectal — external; outer; on the surface of.
- edile — one of a board of magistrates in charge of public buildings, streets, markets, games, etc.
- edsel — a male given name: from Old English words meaning “rich” and “hall.”.
- eeled — Simple past tense and past participle of eel.
- eeler — A fisherman who catches eels.
- eifel — a plateau region in W Germany, between the River Moselle and the Belgian frontier: quarrying
- eilat — a port in S Israel, on the Gulf of Aqaba: Israel's only outlet to the Red Sea. Pop: 43 500 (2003 est)
- eisel — (obsolete) vinegar, verjuice.
- 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.
- elbow — The joint between the forearm and the upper arm.
- elche — a town in S Spain, in Valencia: noted for Iberian and Roman archaeological finds and the medieval religious drama performed there annually: fruit growing, esp dates, pomegranates, figs. Pop: 207 163 (2003 est)
- elden — (obsolete) to age, grow older.
- elder — (of one or more out of a group of related or otherwise associated people) of a greater age.
- eldin — fuel or firewood
- eldon — Earl of, title of John Scott. 1751–1838, British statesman and jurist; Lord Chancellor (1801–06, 1807–27): an inflexible opponent of parliamentary reform, Catholic emancipation, and the abolition of slavery
- elect — Choose (someone) to hold public office or some other position by voting.
- eleet — (internet slang, leet, dated) alternative spelling of leet (
- elegy — A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
- elemi — An oleoresin obtained from a tropical tree and used in varnishes, ointments, and aromatherapy.
- elfin — (with reference to a person) small and delicate, typically with an attractively mischievous or strange charm.
- 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
- elgin — a market town in NE Scotland, the administrative centre of Moray, on the River Lossie: ruined 13th-century cathedral: distilling, engineering. Pop: 20 829 (2001)
- elgon — Mountextinct volcano on the Kenyan-Ugandan border: 14,178 ft (4,321 m): crater, 5 mi (8 km) wide
- elias — Elijah
- elide — Omit (a sound or syllable) when speaking.
- elihu — one of Job's visitors in his affliction: Job 32-37
- elint — intelligence gathered by using electronic sensors to intercept electromagnetic signals, such as radio signals, from other countries
- eliot — George, real name Mary Ann Evans. 1819–80, English novelist, noted for her analysis of provincial Victorian society. Her best-known novels include Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), and Middlemarch (1872)
- elisa — enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay: an immunological technique for accurately measuring the amount of a substance, for example in a blood sample
- elisp — 1. (language) A Lisp variant originally implemented for DEC-20s by Chuck Hedrick of Rutgers. 2. (language) A common abbreviation for Emacs Lisp. Use of this abbreviation is discouraged because "Elisp" is or was a trademark.
- elite — A group of people considered to be the best in a particular society or category, esp. because of their power, talent, or wealth.
- 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.
- elkes — Plural form of elke.
- ellen — (obsolete) Zeal.
- ellie — (language) An object-oriented language with fine-grained parallelism for distributed computing. Ellie is based on BETA, Smalltalk, and others. Parallelism is supported by unbounded RPC and "future" objects. Synchronisation is by dynamic interfaces. Classes, methods, blocks, and objects are all modelled by first-class "Ellie objects". It supports genericity, polymorphism, and delegation/inheritance.
- ellis — EuLisp LInda System. An object-oriented Linda system written for EuLisp. "Using Object-Oriented Mechanisms to Describe Linda", P. Broadbery <[email protected]> et al, in Linda-Like Systems and Their Implementation, G. Wilson ed, U Edinburgh TR 91-13, 1991.
- elman — ˈMischa (ˈmɪʃə ) ; mishˈə) 1891-1967; U.S. violinist, born in Russia
- elmen — (rare, dialectal, or, archaic) Of or pertaining to an elm tree.