5-letter words containing eg
- legge — to lighten or lessen
- leggo — (slang) Contraction of let go. To cease to hold. Generally used in the imperative.
- leggy — having awkwardly long legs.
- legis — legislation
- legit — legitimate.
- legol — "Application of MP/3 to the Design and Implementation of LEGOL, A Legally Oriented Language", S.H. Mandil et al, Intl Symp Programming, Paris 1974.
- legos — Plural form of lego.
- liege — a city in E Belgium, on the Meuse River: one of the first cities attacked in World War I.
- mega- — prefix
- megan — a female given name.
- meges — a nephew of Odysseus who commanded the Epeans in the Trojan War.
- 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.
- negev — a partially reclaimed desert region and district in S Israel, bordering on the Sinai Peninsula. 4700 sq. mi. (12,173 sq. km). Capital: Beersheba.
- negro — Anthropology. (no longer in technical use) a member of the peoples traditionally classified as the Negro race, especially those who originate in sub-Saharan Africa.
- negus — a title of Ethiopian royalty.
- omega — the 24th and last letter of the Greek alphabet (Ω, ω).
- onega — Lake, a lake in the NW Russian Federation in Europe: second largest lake in Europe. 3764 sq. mi. (9750 sq. km).
- oreg. — Oregon
- peggy — a female given name, form of Margaret.
- péguy — Charles (ʃarl). 1873–1914, French poet and essayist, whose works include Le Mystère de la charité de Jeanne d'Arc (1910); founder of the journal Cahiers de la quinzaine (1900–14): killed in World War I
- pjpeg — Progressive JPEG
- pregl — Fritz [frits] /frɪts/ (Show IPA), 1869–1930, Austrian chemist: Nobel prize 1923.
- regal — of or relating to a king; royal: the regal power.
- regan — (in Shakespeare's King Lear) the younger of Lear's two faithless daughters. Compare Cordelia (def 1), Goneril.
- regel — Physical Chemistry. a semirigid colloidal dispersion of a solid with a liquid or gas, as jelly, glue, etc.
- reger — Max [mahks] /mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1873–1916, German composer and pianist.
- reges — Rex (sense 2)
- regex — The GNU regular expression matching library. See also Rx.
- reggy — a male given name, form of Reginald.
- regie — a government monopoly used mainly to raise revenue from taxes
- regin — a smith, the brother of Fafnir, who raises Sigurd and encourages him to kill Fafnir in the hope of gaining the gold he guards.
- regis — a male given name.
- regle — a groove or channel for guiding a sliding door.
- regma — a dry fruit consisting of three or more carpels that separate from the axis at maturity.
- regur — a rich, black, loamy soil found in India
- repeg — to stabilize again (the price of a commodity, exchange rate, etc) by legislation or market operations
- 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.
- segre — Emilio [uh-mee-lee-oh,, uh-meel-yoh;; Italian e-mee-lyaw] /əˈmi liˌoʊ,, əˈmil yoʊ;; Italian ɛˈmi lyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1905–1989, U.S. physicist, born in Italy: Nobel prize 1959.
- segue — to continue at once with the next musical section or composition (often used as a musical direction).
- siege — the act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place in such a way as to isolate it from help and supplies, for the purpose of lessening the resistance of the defenders and thereby making capture possible.
- squeg — (of an electronic circuit or component) to produce an output that oscillates between a certain maximum and zero, especially when due to the effect of a grid.
- taegu — a city in SE South Korea: commercial center.
- tegea — an ancient city in SE Arcadia, Greece.
- tegua — an ankle-high moccasin worn in Mexico and parts of the US
- teleg — telegram
- thegn — Early English History. a member of any of several aristocratic classes of men ranking between earls and ordinary freemen, and granted lands by the king or by lords for military service.