5-letter words containing s, e
- leeds — a city in West Yorkshire, in N England.
- leeks — Plural form of leek.
- leers — 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.
- leese — (obsolete) To lose.
- leets — Plural form of leet.
- lefse — a round Norwegian flatbread resembling a tortilla, made with mashed potatoes and flour.
- lefts — Plural form of left.
- leges — plural of lex.
- legis — legislation
- legos — Plural form of lego.
- leics — Leicestershire
- leish — active or athletic
- lends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lend.
- lenes — pronounced with relatively weak muscular tension and breath pressure, resulting in weak sound effect: in stressed or unstressed position, (b, d, g, j, v, th̸, z, and zh) are lenis in English, as compared with (p, t, k, ch, f, th, s, and sh), which are fortis. Compare fortis (def 1).
- lenis — pronounced with relatively weak muscular tension and breath pressure, resulting in weak sound effect: in stressed or unstressed position, (b, d, g, j, v, th̸, z, and zh) are lenis in English, as compared with (p, t, k, ch, f, th, s, and sh), which are fortis. Compare fortis (def 1).
- lenos — (historical) A trough used in ancient winemaking.
- lense — Misspelling of lens.
- lents — (in the Christian religion) an annual season of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter, beginning on Ash Wednesday and lasting 40 weekdays to Easter, observed by Roman Catholic, Anglican, and certain other churches.
- lepas — (zoology) Any of the genus Lepas of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, etc.; a goose barnacle.
- lepus — a small constellation in the S hemisphere lying between Orion and Columba
- leros — one of the Dodecanese Islands of Greece, off the SW coast of Turkey. 21 sq. mi. (54 sq. km).
- lesbo — a contemptuous term used to refer to a lesbian.
- leshy — (Slavic mythology) A male woodland spirit in Slavic mythology who protects wild animals and forests.
- lesse — Archaic form of less.
- lesya — any of six possible colors given to the monad, or individual soul, by its karma and being lighter or darker according to the proportion of good or evil included in the karma.
- let's — Archaic. to hinder, prevent, or obstruct.
- levis — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, across from Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- lewes — George Henry, 1817–78, English writer and critic.
- lewis — Carl (Frederick Carlton Lewis) born 1961, U.S. track and field athlete.
- lexis — the vocabulary of a language, as distinct from its grammar; the total stock of words and idiomatic combinations of them in a language; lexicon.
- liase — Misspelling of liaise.
- liens — Plural form of lien.
- liers — a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- liest — (archaic) Second-person singular present simple form of 'lie'.
- lieus — place; stead.
- lifes — (obsolete, possibly not standard in any era) Plural form of life.
- likes — Digital Technology. (sometimes initial capital letter) noting or pertaining to a feature used to like specific website content: a Like button; like boxes.
- limes — a boundary, especially the fortified border or frontier of a country.
- lines — a thickness of glue, as between two veneers in a sheet of plywood.
- lisle — Leconte de Lisle.
- lisse — a fine, filmy, lightly crinkled gauze fabric used in strips for making ruching or for finishing garments.
- lives — plural of life.
- lobes — Plural form of lobe.
- lodes — a veinlike deposit, usually metalliferous.
- loess — a loamy deposit formed by wind, usually yellowish and calcareous, common in the Mississippi Valley and in Europe and Asia.
- loges — (in a theater) the front section of the lowest balcony, separated from the back section by an aisle or railing or both.
- loose — free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
- lopes — Plural form of lope.
- lores — the space between the eye and the bill of a bird, or a corresponding space in other animals, as snakes.
- losed — (obsolete) Simple past tense and past participle of lose.