5-letter words containing s, e
- kemps — Plural form of kemp.
- kepis — Plural form of kepi.
- kerbs — Plural form of kerb.
- keres — a member of any of seven Indian pueblos in N.Mex., mostly on the Rio Grande
- kerfs — Plural form of kerf.
- keris — Alternative spelling of kris.
- kerns — Plural form of kern.
- kerst — Donald William, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- kesey — Ken. 1935–2001, US novelist, best-known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)
- kesha — a female given name: from an African word meaning “favorite.”.
- kesia — a female given name: from an African word meaning “favorite.”.
- kexes — the dry, usually hollow stem or stalk of various plants, especially of large plants belonging to the parsley family, as cow parsnip or wild chervil.
- kiers — Plural form of kier.
- kikes — a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Jewish religion or descent.
- kines — kinescope (defs 1, 2).
- kites — Plural form of kite.
- klebs — Edwin [ed-win;; German et-veen] /ˈɛd wɪn;; German ˈɛt vin/ (Show IPA), 1834–1913, German pathologist and bacteriologist.
- knees — Anatomy. the joint of the leg that allows for movement between the femur and tibia and is protected by the patella; the central area of the leg between the thigh and the lower leg.
- knies — Karl Gustav Adolf [kahrl goo s-tahf ah-dawlf] /kɑrl ˈgʊs tɑf ˈɑ dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1821–98, German statistician and historical economist.
- koses — one of the Greek Dodecanese Islands in the SE Aegean Sea, off the SW coast of Turkey. 111 sq. mi. (287 sq. km).
- krebs — Sir Hans Adolf [hahns ah-dawlf;; English hanz ad-olf,, ey-dolf] /hɑns ˈɑ dɔlf;; English hænz ˈæd ɒlf,, ˈeɪ dɒlf/ (Show IPA), 1900–81, German biochemist in England: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1953.
- krems — a city in NE Austria, on the Danube.
- kyles — Plural form of kyle.
- laces — Plural form of lace.
- lades — to put (something) on or in, as a burden, load, or cargo; load.
- lakes — Plural form of lake.
- lames — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lame.
- lanes — Plural form of lane.
- lapse — an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
- lares — (initial capital letter) Roman Religion. any of the Lares.
- lased — Simple past tense and past participle of lase.
- laser — a device that produces a nearly parallel, nearly monochromatic, and coherent beam of light by exciting atoms to a higher energy level and causing them to radiate their energy in phase.
- lases — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lase.
- lates — Plural form of late.
- laves — to wash; bathe.
- lawes — Henry ("Harry") 1596–1662, English composer.
- lazes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of laze.
- leads — Plural form of lead.
- leafs — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
- leaks — Plural form of leak.
- leams — Plural form of leam.
- leans — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lean.
- leaps — Plural form of leap.
- lears — Edward, 1812–88, English writer of humorous verse and landscape painter.
- lease — a system for keeping the warp in position and under control by alternately crossing the warp yarn over and under the lease rods.
- leash — a chain, strap, etc., for controlling or leading a dog or other animal; lead.
- least — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
- leats — Plural form of leat.
- lebes — a wine bowl having an oval body without handles and a rounded base.
- lects — Plural form of lect.