5-letter words containing eb
- 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.
- jebus — an ancient Canaanite city taken by David: it later became Jerusalem.
- kebab — Usually, kebabs. small pieces of meat or seafood seasoned or marinated and broiled, often with tomatoes, green peppers, onions, or other vegetables, usually on a skewer.
- kebap — Alternative spelling of kebab.
- kebbi — a state of Nigeria, in the NW. Capital: Birnin-Kebbi. Pop: 3 238 628 (2006). Area: 36 800 sq km (14 208 sq miles)
- keble — John, 1792–1866, English clergyman and poet.
- kebob — Usually, kebabs. small pieces of meat or seafood seasoned or marinated and broiled, often with tomatoes, green peppers, onions, or other vegetables, usually on a skewer.
- klebs — Edwin [ed-win;; German et-veen] /ˈɛd wɪn;; German ˈɛt vin/ (Show IPA), 1834–1913, German pathologist and bacteriologist.
- krebs — Sir Hans Adolf [hahns ah-dawlf;; English hanz ad-olf,, ey-dolf] /hɑns ˈɑ dɔlf;; English hænz ˈæd ɒlf,, ˈeɪ dɒlf/ (Show IPA), 1900–81, German biochemist in England: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1953.
- leban — Coagulated sour milk diluted with water.
- 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.
- lebni — A yoghurt-like dairy dish from the eastern Mediterranean region.
- maneb — a carbamate fungicide, C 4 H 6 MnN 2 S 4 , used for control of numerous crop diseases.
- mebbe — (nonstandard, dialect) maybe.
- mebby — (slang) maybe.
- mebi- — denoting 220
- mebos — a confection made from salted and sugared dried apricots
- nebby — (Geordie) Overly inquiring; nosey.
- nebel — a Hebrew harp-like instrument
- nebr. — Nebraska
- negeb — a partially reclaimed desert region and district in S Israel, bordering on the Sinai Peninsula. 4700 sq. mi. (12,173 sq. km). Capital: Beersheba.
- noweb — (programming) A system of structured programming and documentation from M.Speh in DESY. See literate programming.
- pebi- — denoting 250
- pheba — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- phebe — a female given name.
- plebe — Also, pleb. (at the U.S. Military and Naval academies) a member of the freshman class.
- plebs — a member of the plebs; a plebeian or commoner.
- queeb — (slang, perhaps vulgar) vaginal flatulence.
- rebab — a Near Eastern fiddle having one to three strings and played with a bow.
- rebar — a steel bar or rod used to reinforce concrete.
- rebbe — a teacher in a Jewish school.
- rebec — a Renaissance fiddle with a pear-shaped body tapering into a neck that ends in a sickle-shaped or scroll-shaped pegbox.
- rebel — a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of his or her country.
- rebid — Bridge. to make a second bid in (a suit that one bid previously): He opened a spade and then rebid spades on the three level.
- rebop — bop1 .
- rebus — a representation of a word or phrase by pictures, symbols, etc., that suggest that word or phrase or its syllables: Two gates and a head is a rebus for Gateshead.
- rebut — to refute by evidence or argument.
- rebuy — to acquire the possession of, or the right to, by paying or promising to pay an equivalent, especially in money; purchase.
- sebi- — fat or fatty matter
- sebum — the fatty secretion of the sebaceous glands.
- sheba — Queen of, the queen who visited Solomon to test his wisdom. I Kings 10:1–13.
- taleb — (in Afghanistan) a member of the Taliban
- tebet — Tevet.
- tebi- — denoting 240
- tebow — to express religious faith, gratitude, reverence, or awe, usually in public, by dropping to one knee, head resting on one's fist: People now expect her to Tebow whenever she wins a race. At his first sight of the Grand Canyon, he shocked us all by tebowing right at the edge.
- thebe — an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Botswana, the 100th part of a pula.
- webby — pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling a web.
- weber — Ernst Heinrich [ernst hahyn-rikh] /ɛrnst ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1795–1878, German physiologist.
- xebec — a small, three-masted vessel of the Mediterranean, formerly much used by corsairs, now employed to some extent in commerce.