6-letter words containing el
- reluct — to struggle (against something); rebel.
- relume — to light or illuminate again; relumine.
- remelt — to melt again
- resell — sell on to sb else
- retell — to tell (a story, tale, etc.) over again or in a new way: It’s Sleeping Beauty retold with a different twist.
- revels — former Russian name of Tallinn.
- reweld — to weld again
- rommel — Erwin [ur-win;; German er-veen] /ˈɜr wɪn;; German ˈɛr vin/ (Show IPA), ("the Desert Fox") 1891–1944, German field marshal: commander of the German forces in North Africa in World War II.
- rondel — Prosody. a short poem of fixed form, consisting usually of 14 lines on two rhymes, of which four are made up of the initial couplet repeated in the middle and at the end, with the second line of the couplet sometimes being omitted at the end.
- ronnel — a type of pesticide
- rudely — discourteous or impolite, especially in a deliberate way: a rude reply.
- ruelle — the area or space between a bed and the wall
- runnel — a small stream; brook; rivulet.
- russel — a type of woollen fabric
- safely — secure from liability to harm, injury, danger, or risk: a safe place.
- sagely — a profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom.
- samely — monotonous
- samuel — a judge and prophet of Israel. I Sam. 1–3; 8–15.
- sanely — free from mental derangement; having a sound, healthy mind: a sane person.
- sapele — Also called aboudikro. the mahoganylike wood of any of several African trees of the genus Entandrophragma, used for making furniture.
- sardel — a precious stone
- saurel — any of several elongated marine fishes of the genus Trachurus, having bony plates along each side.
- scamel — a bird mentioned in Shakespeare's The Tempest
- seckel — a small, yellowish-brown variety of pear.
- seelie — good benevolent fairies
- seidel — a large beer mug with a capacity of one liter (1.1 quarts) and often having a hinged lid.
- selden — George Baldwin, 1846–1922, U.S. inventor of a gasoline-powered car.
- seldom — on only a few occasions; rarely; infrequently; not often: We seldom see our old neighbors anymore.
- select — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
- selena — the Greek goddess of the moon. Compare Thyone.
- selene — the Greek goddess of the moon. Compare Thyone.
- selfed — a person or thing referred to with respect to complete individuality: one's own self.
- selfie — a photograph taken with a smartphone or other digital camera by a person who is also in the photograph, especially for posting on a social media website: celebrities sharing selfies on Twitter.
- seljuk — noting or pertaining to any of several Turkish dynasties that ruled over large parts of Asia from the 11th to the 13th centuries.
- selkie — a mythical creature that looks like a seal in water but assumes human form on land.
- seller — a person who sells; salesperson or vender.
- selvas — a tropical rain forest, as that in the Amazon basin of South America.
- selves — plural of self.
- semele — a daughter of Cadmus and mother, by Zeus, of Dionysus.
- sequel — a literary work, movie, etc., that is complete in itself but continues the narrative of a preceding work.
- seseli — a member of the Seseli genus of umbelliferous garden plants
- sewell — Anna, 1820–78, English author.
- shekel — Also, sheqel. a paper money, cupronickel or silver coin, and monetary unit of Israel equal to 100 agorot: replaced the pound in 1980.
- shelby — a city in S North Carolina.
- shelfy — full of sandbanks or reefs hidden beneath the water's surface
- shells — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
- shelly — abounding in shells: a shelly surf.
- shelta — a private language, based in part on Irish, used among Travelers in the British Isles.
- shelty — Shetland pony.
- shelve — to place (something) on a shelf or shelves.