5-letter words containing t, e, l
- latex — a milky liquid in certain plants, as milkweeds, euphorbias, poppies, or the plants yielding India rubber, that coagulates on exposure to air.
- lathe — a machine for use in working wood, metal, etc., that holds the material and rotates it about a horizontal axis against a tool that shapes it.
- latke — a pancake, especially one made of grated potato.
- latte — Also called caffè latte [kaf-ey lah-tey; Italian kahf-fe laht-te] /ˈkæf eɪ ˈlɑ teɪ; Italian ˈkɑf fɛ ˈlɑt tɛ/ (Show IPA). hot espresso with steamed milk, usually topped with foamed milk.
- leant — a past participle and simple past tense of lean1 .
- leapt — a simple past tense and past participle of leap.
- least — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
- leats — Plural form of leat.
- lects — Plural form of lect.
- leets — Plural form of leet.
- lefte — (obsolete) Simple past tense and past participle of leave.
- lefts — Plural form of left.
- lefty — a left-handed person.
- legit — legitimate.
- leith — a seaport in SE Scotland, on the Firth of Forth: now part of Edinburgh.
- lento — slow.
- 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.
- lepta — an aluminum coin of modern Greece until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a drachma.
- lepto — leptospirosis.
- let's — Archaic. to hinder, prevent, or obstruct.
- letch — a lecherous desire or craving.
- letha — a female given name.
- lethe — Classical Mythology. a river in Hades whose water caused forgetfulness of the past in those who drank of it.
- letup — cessation; pause; relief.
- levet — (obsolete) A trumpet call for rousing soldiers; a reveille.
- leyte — an island in the E central Philippines: focal point of the U.S. invasion of the Philippines 1944. 3085 sq. mi. (7990 sq. km).
- liest — (archaic) Second-person singular present simple form of 'lie'.
- lieth — Archaic third-person singular form of lie.
- liter — light2 (def 36).
- lithe — bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible: the lithe body of a ballerina.
- litre — a unit of capacity redefined in 1964 by a reduction of 28 parts in a million to be exactly equal to one cubic decimeter. It is equivalent to 1.0567 U.S. liquid quarts and is equal to the volume of one kilogram of distilled water at 4°C. Abbreviation: l.
- lotte — angler (def 3).
- lotze — Rudolf Hermann [roo-dolf hur-muh n;; German roo-dawlf her-mahn] /ˈru dɒlf ˈhɜr mən;; German ˈru dɔlf ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1817–81, German philosopher.
- lunet — a small moon or satellite
- lutea — yellow
- luted — Simple past tense and past participle of lute.
- luter — One who applies lute.
- lutes — Plural form of lute.
- lyeth — Archaic third-person singular form of lye.
- lythe — (obsolete) soft; flexible.
- melts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of melt.
- melty — Having a high tendency to melt.
- metal — any of a class of elementary substances, as gold, silver, or copper, all of which are crystalline when solid and many of which are characterized by opacity, ductility, conductivity, and a unique luster when freshly fractured.
- metol — a colourless soluble organic substance used, in the form of its sulphate, as a photographic developer; p-methylaminophenol
- molet — mullet2 .
- motel — a hotel providing travelers with lodging and free parking facilities, typically a roadside hotel having rooms adjacent to an outside parking area or an urban hotel offering parking within the building.
- ocelt — Old Celtic
- oftel — Office of Telecommunications: a government body set up in 1984 to supervise telecommunications activities in the UK, and to protect the interests of the consumers. Superseded in 2003 by Ofcom
- olent — having or giving out a smell
- owlet — a young owl.