5-letter words containing es
- vespa — Very Efficient Speculative Parallel Architecture
- vesta — the ancient Roman goddess of the hearth, worshiped in a temple containing an altar on which a sacred fire was kept burning by the vestal virgins: identified with the Greek Hestia.
- vexes — to irritate; annoy; provoke: His noisy neighbors often vexed him.
- vibes — Informal. vibration (def 4).
- vices — any of various devices, usually having two jaws that may be brought together or separated by means of a screw, lever, or the like, used to hold an object firmly while work is being done on it.
- vides — see (used especially to refer a reader to parts of a text).
- vines — any plant having a long, slender stem that trails or creeps on the ground or climbs by winding itself about a support or holding fast with tendrils or claspers.
- vires — strength; force; power.
- vives — inflammation and swelling of the submaxillary gland in horses.
- vries — Hugo [hyoo-goh;; Dutch hy-goh] /ˈhyu goʊ;; Dutch ˈhü goʊ/ (Show IPA), 1848–1935, Dutch botanist and student of organic heredity: developed the concept of mutation as a factor in the process of evolution.
- wades — Plural form of wade.
- wages — Often, wages. money that is paid or received for work or services, as by the hour, day, or week. Compare living wage, minimum wage.
- wakes — Plural form of wake.
- wales — something that is selected as the best; choice.
- wames — Scot. and North England. belly.
- wanes — Plural form of wane.
- wares — Plural form of ware.
- waves — a member of the Waves.
- wawes — Plural form of wawe.
- waxes — Plural form of wax.
- weest — little; very small.
- wesak — a festival in May celebrating the birth, enlightenment, and death of the Buddha
- weser — a river in Germany, flowing N from S Lower Saxony into the North Sea. About 300 miles (485 km) long.
- wessi — a native, inhabitant, or citizen of that part of Germany that was formerly West Germany
- whies — Plural form of why.
- whoes — Obsolete form of whose.
- wides — Plural form of wide.
- wifes — a married woman, especially when considered in relation to her partner in marriage.
- wikes — Plural form of wike.
- wiles — a trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice; device.
- wines — Plural form of wine.
- wipes — Plural form of wipe.
- wires — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- wises — Plural form of wise.
- wites — a fine imposed by a king or lord on a subject who committed a serious crime. a fee demanded for granting a special privilege.
- wives — plural of wife.
- wooes — (dated) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of woo.
- wrest — to twist or turn; pull, jerk, or force by a violent twist.
- wries — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wry.
- wykes — Plural form of wyke.
- xeres — former name of Jerez.
- yales — Plural form of yale.
- yates — Plural form of yate.
- yes's — (used to express affirmation or assent or to mark the addition of something emphasizing and amplifying a previous statement): Do you want that? Yes, I do.
- yeses — (used to express affirmation or assent or to mark the addition of something emphasizing and amplifying a previous statement): Do you want that? Yes, I do.
- yikes — Expressing shock and alarm, often for humorous effect.
- yipes — an expression of surprise, fear, or alarm
- yokes — Plural form of yoke.
- yores — Chiefly Literary. time past: knights of yore.
- ypres — a town in W Belgium: battles 1914–18.