5-letter words containing be
- gerbe — (now obsolete) A (wheat) sheaf.
- gibed — Simple past tense and past participle of gibe.
- gibel — a carp of Europe and N Asia
- giber — to utter mocking or scoffing words; jeer.
- gibes — to shift from one side to the other when running before the wind, as a fore-and-aft sail or its boom.
- glebe — Also called glebe land. Chiefly British. the cultivable land owned by a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.
- globe — the planet Earth (usually preceded by the).
- gombe — a state of Nigeria, in the NE. Capital: Gombe. Pop: 2 353 879(2006). Area: 18 768 sq km (7246 sq miles)
- grebe — any diving bird of the family Podicipedidae, related to the loons, but having a rudimentary tail and lobate rather than webbed toes.
- gumbe — A style of music from Guinea-Bissau which is primarily vocal and percussive.
- haber — Fritz, 1868–1934, German chemist: Nobel Prize 1918.
- hebei — a province in NE China. 81,479 sq. mi. (211,031 sq. km). Capital: Shijiazhuang.
- heben — (obsolete) ebony.
- heber — Reginald, 1783–1826, British bishop and hymn writer.
- hubei — a province in central China. 72,394 sq. mi. (187,500 sq. km). Capital: Wuhan.
- hubel — David, 1926–2013, U.S. neuroscientist, born in Canada: Nobel Prize 1981.
- ibert — Jacques François Antoine [zhahk frahn-swa ahn-twan] /ʒɑk frɑ̃ˈswa ɑ̃ˈtwan/ (Show IPA), 1890–1962, French composer.
- imbed — embed.
- jambe — Architecture, Building Trades. either of the vertical sides of a doorway, arch, window, or other opening. either of two stones, timbers, etc., forming the sidepieces for the frame of an opening.
- jebel — (chiefly in Arabic-speaking countries) a mountain: often used as part of a placename to indicate that the place is situated on or near a mountain: the Djebel Druze of southern Syria.
- jembe — Alternative spelling of djembe.
- jibed — to utter mocking or scoffing words; jeer.
- jibes — to utter mocking or scoffing words; jeer.
- jobed — Simple past tense and past participle of jobe.
- jobes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jobe.
- jubes — Plural form of jube.
- kibbe — Alternative spelling of kibbeh.
- kibed — Chapped; cracked with cold; affected with chilblains.
- kibei — a person of Japanese descent, born in the U.S. but educated in Japan.
- kolbe — Georg [gey-awrk] /geɪˈɔrk/ (Show IPA), 1877–1947, German sculptor.
- label — a slip of paper, cloth, or other material, marked or inscribed, for attachment to something to indicate its manufacturer, nature, ownership, destination, etc.
- leben — a semiliquid food made from curdled milk in N Africa and the Levant
- lebes — a wine bowl having an oval body without handles and a rounded base.
- libel — the false accusation that Jews murder Christian children to use their blood in religious rituals: blood libels that spread throughout Europe in the Middle Ages.
- liber — an ancient Italian god of wine and vineyards, in later times identified with Bacchus.
- lobed — having a lobe or lobes; lobate.
- lobes — Plural form of lobe.
- lubed — Simple past tense and past participle of lube.
- lubes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lube.
- mabel — a female given name.
- mabey — Misspelling of maybe.
- maybe — perhaps; possibly: Maybe I'll go too.
- mbeki — Thabo [tah-boh] /ˈtɑ boʊ/ (Show IPA), born 1942, South African economist and politician: president of the Republic of South Africa 1999–.
- mebbe — (nonstandard, dialect) maybe.
- mobed — Alternative form of mobad.
- mobes — Plural form of mobe.
- nabes — a neighborhood movie theater.
- nebel — a Hebrew harp-like instrument
- niobe — the daughter of Tantalus and wife of Amphion of Thebes. She provoked Apollo and Artemis to vengeance by taunting their mother, Leto, with the number and beauty of her own children; Niobe's children were slain and Zeus turned her into stone, in which state she continued to weep over her loss.
- nobel — Alfred Bernhard [ahl-fred ber-nahrd] /ˈɑl frɛd ˈbɛr nɑrd/ (Show IPA), 1833–96, Swedish engineer, manufacturer, and philanthropist.