5-letter words containing s, e
- sawer — a tool or device for cutting, typically a thin blade of metal with a series of sharp teeth.
- saxes — a short, single-edged sword of ancient Scandinavia.
- sayed — (in Islamic countries) a supposed descendant of Muhammad through his grandson Hussein, the second son of his daughter Fatima.
- sayer — to utter or pronounce; speak: What did you say? I said “Hello!”.
- scale — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
- scape — Botany. a leafless peduncle rising from the ground.
- scare — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
- sceat — a silver Anglo-Saxon coin of the 7th and 8th centuries, sometimes including an amount of gold.
- scelp — to slap, smack, or strike (someone), especially on the buttocks; spank.
- scena — an extended operatic vocal solo, usually including an aria and a recitative.
- scend — to heave in a swell.
- scene — the place where some action or event occurs: He returned to the scene of the murder.
- scent — a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable: the scent of roses.
- scode — The internal representation used by the Liar compiler for MIT Scheme.
- scoke — pokeweed.
- scone — a village in central Scotland: site of coronation of Scottish kings until 1651.
- scope — extent or range of view, outlook, application, operation, effectiveness, etc.: an investigation of wide scope.
- score — the record of points or strokes made by the competitors in a game or match.
- scree — a steep mass of detritus on the side of a mountain.
- screw — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- scute — a dermal bony plate, as on an armadillo, or a large horny plate, as on a turtle.
- seame — grease
- seams — the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- seamy — unpleasant or sordid; low; disagreeable: the seamy side of life.
- seare — dry and withered
- sears — a pivoted piece that holds the hammer at full cock or half cock in the firing mechanism of small arms.
- sease — to seize
- seato — an organization formed in Manila (1954), comprising Australia, Great Britain, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and the United States, for collective defense against aggression in southeastern Asia and the southwestern Pacific: abolished in 1977.
- seaze — to seize
- sebi- — fat or fatty matter
- sebum — the fatty secretion of the sebaceous glands.
- secam — séquentiel couleur à mémoire: a colour-television broadcasting system used in France, the former Soviet Union, and some other countries
- secco — fresco secco.
- secos — sekos.
- sedan — a city in NE France, on the Meuse River: defeat and capture of Napoleon III 1870.
- seder — a ceremonial dinner that commemorates the Exodus from Egypt and includes the reading of the Haggadah and the eating of symbolic foods, generally held on the first night of Passover by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel and on both the first and second nights by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside of Israel.
- sedge — any rushlike or grasslike plant of the genus Carex, growing in wet places. Compare sedge family.
- sedgy — abounding, covered, or bordered with sedge.
- sedna — a red planet-like object, roughly half the size of the Earth's moon, orbiting the sun but considerably beyond Pluto; discovered in 2003
- sedum — any fleshy plant belonging to the genus Sedum, of the stonecrop family, usually having small, overlapping leaves and yellow, white, or pink flowers.
- seedy — abounding in seed.
- seels — Falconry. to sew shut (the eyes of a falcon) during parts of its training.
- seely — insignificant or feeble; poor.
- seepy — (especially of ground, a plot of land, or the like) soaked or oozing with water; not drained.
- sefer — the scrolls of the Law
- segal — George, 1924–2000, U.S. sculptor.
- segar — Elzie (Crisler) [el-zee krahys-ler] /ˈɛl zi ˈkraɪs lər/ (Show IPA), 1894–1938, U.S. comic-strip artist: creator of “Popeye.”.
- segni — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1891–1972, Italian teacher, lawyer, and statesman: president 1962–64.
- segno — a sign.
- segor — Zoar.