5-letter words containing s, e
- losel — a worthless person; scoundrel.
- loser — a person, team, nation, etc., that loses: The visiting team was the loser in the series.
- loses — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
- losey — Joseph. 1909–84, US film director, in Britain from 1952. His films include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), and Don Giovanni (1979)
- loues — Plural form of loue.
- louse — any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura (sucking louse) parasitic on humans and other mammals and having mouthparts adapted for sucking, as Pediculus humanus (body louse or head louse) and Phthirius pubis (crab louse or pubic louse)
- loves — Plural form of love.
- lowes — John Livingston, 1867–1945, U.S. scholar, critic, and teacher.
- lowse — loose
- lubes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lube.
- luces — a pike, especially when fully grown.
- ludes — Quaalude.
- luges — Plural form of luge.
- lunes — a line for securing a hawk.
- lures — Plural form of lure.
- luser — (jargon, abuse) /loo'zr/ A user; especially one who is also a loser. (luser and loser are pronounced identically.) This word was coined around 1975 at MIT. Under ITS, when you first walked up to a terminal at MIT and typed Control-Z to get the computer's attention, it printed out some status information, including how many people were already using the computer; it might print "14 users", for example. Someone thought it would be a great joke to patch the system to print "14 losers" instead. There ensued a great controversy, as some of the users didn't particularly want to be called losers to their faces every time they used the computer. For a while several hackers struggled covertly, each changing the message behind the back of the others; any time you logged into the computer it was even money whether it would say "users" or "losers". Finally, someone tried the compromise "lusers", and it stuck. Later one of the ITS machines supported "luser" as a request-for-help command. ITS died the death in mid-1990, except as a museum piece; the usage lives on, however, and the term "luser" is often seen in program comments. See: also LART. Compare: tourist, weenie.
- lutes — Plural form of lute.
- lweis — Plural form of lwei.
- lyase — any of various enzymes, as decarboxylase, that catalyze reactions involving the formation of or addition to a double bond.
- lykes — Plural form of lyke.
- lyres — Plural form of lyre.
- lysed — to cause dissolution or destruction of cells by lysins.
- lyses — a river in W Europe, in N France and W Belgium, flowing NE into the Scheldt River at Ghent. 120 miles (195 km) long.
- maces — a spice ground from the layer between a nutmeg shell and its outer husk, resembling nutmeg in flavor.
- maise — a measure of herring
- makes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of make.
- males — Plural form of male.
- manes — the long hair growing on the back of or around the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse or lion.
- manse — the house and land occupied by a minister or parson.
- mapes — Walter, c1140–1209? Welsh ecclesiastic, poet, and satirist.
- mares — Plural form of mare.
- marse — (used chiefly in representation of southern black speech) master.
- maser — a device for amplifying electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission of radiation.
- masse — a stroke made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held almost or quite perpendicular to the table.
- mates — Plural form of mate.
- maxes — a male given name, form of Maximilian.
- mazes — Plural form of maze.
- meads — George Herbert, 1863–1931, U.S. philosopher and author.
- meals — a coarse, unsifted powder ground from the edible seeds of any grain: wheat meal; cornmeal.
- means — to have in mind as one's purpose or intention; intend: I meant to compliment you on your work. Synonyms: contemplate.
- mears — a boundary or boundary marker.
- mease — (UK, dialect, dated) five hundred.
- meats — Plural form of meat.
- mebos — a confection made from salted and sugared dried apricots
- medes — a native or inhabitant of Media.
- meeds — Plural form of meed.
- meeks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of meek.
- meese — (chiefly, humorous) Plural form of moose.
- meets — An organized event at which a number of races or other sporting contests are held.
- meges — a nephew of Odysseus who commanded the Epeans in the Trojan War.