5-letter words containing es
- sessa — an exclamation found in Shakespeare, of unknown meaning; suggestions include 'be gone', 'come', or a woman's name
- sexes — either the male or female division of a species, especially as differentiated with reference to the reproductive functions.
- shees — sídh.
- shies — bashful; retiring.
- shoes — an external covering for the human foot, usually of leather and consisting of a more or less stiff or heavy sole and a lighter upper part ending a short distance above, at, or below the ankle.
- sises — sister.
- sites — the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment: the site of our summer cabin.
- skies — plural of sky.
- slues — to turn (a mast or other spar) around on its own axis, or without removing it from its place.
- soles — a fluid colloidal solution.
- sones — a unit for measuring the loudness of sound, equal to the loudness of a sound that, in the judgment of a group of listeners, is equal to that of a 1000-cycle-per-second reference sound having an intensity of 40 decibels.
- spies — a person employed by a government to obtain secret information or intelligence about another, usually hostile, country, especially with reference to military or naval affairs.
- sties — a pen or enclosure for swine; pigpen.
- sykes — sike.
- tabes — a gradually progressive emaciation.
- taces — tasset.
- tales — a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case; story: a tale about Lincoln's dog.
- tames — changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated: a tame bear.
- tares — the weight of the wrapping, receptacle, or conveyance containing goods.
- taxes — a plural of taxi.
- teres — a shoulder muscle
- tesla — Nikola [nik-oh-luh] /ˈnɪk oʊ lə/ (Show IPA), 1856–1943, U.S. physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor, born in Croatia.
- tesol — teaching English to speakers of other languages. Compare ESOL.
- tessa — a female given name, form of Theresa.
- testa — the outer, usually hard, integument or coat of a seed.
- teste — the male gonad or reproductive gland, either of two oval glands located in the scrotum.
- testy — irritably impatient; touchy.
- these — (used with adjectives and adverbs of quantity or extent) to the extent or degree indicated: this far; this softly.
- thesp — an actor
- tides — the periodic rise and fall of the waters of the ocean and its inlets, produced by the attraction of the moon and sun, and occurring about every 12 hours.
- times — multiplied by: Two times four is eight.
- tines — a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- tobes — the principal outer garment in some parts of north and central Africa, consisting of a length of cloth that is sewn into a long loose skirt or is draped around the body and fastened over one shoulder.
- toles — enameled or lacquered metalware, usually with gilt decoration, often used, especially in the 18th century, for trays, lampshades, etc.
- tomes — a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- tores — a torus.
- totes — totally: That's totes awesome!
- trees — a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.
- tress — Usually, tresses. long locks or curls of hair.
- tries — plural of try.
- trues — being in accordance with the actual state or conditions; conforming to reality or fact; not false: a true story.
- tues. — Tues. is a written abbreviation for Tuesday.
- tules — either of two large bulrushes, Scirpus lacustris or S. acutus, found in California and adjacent regions in inundated lands and marshes.
- tunes — a succession of musical sounds forming an air or melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
- tykes — Australia and New Zealand Informal. a Roman Catholic.
- tynes — a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- types — a number of things or persons sharing a particular characteristic, or set of characteristics, that causes them to be regarded as a group, more or less precisely defined or designated; class; category: a criminal of the most vicious type.
- vales — a valley.
- veges — a vegetable.
- vesey — Denmark, 1767–1822, black freedman, born probably on St. Thomas, Danish West Indies: hanged as alleged leader of a slave insurrection, in Charleston, S.C.