5-letter words containing es
- laves — to wash; bathe.
- lawes — Henry ("Harry") 1596–1662, English composer.
- lazes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of laze.
- lebes — a wine bowl having an oval body without handles and a rounded base.
- leese — (obsolete) To lose.
- leges — plural of lex.
- lenes — pronounced with relatively weak muscular tension and breath pressure, resulting in weak sound effect: in stressed or unstressed position, (b, d, g, j, v, th̸, z, and zh) are lenis in English, as compared with (p, t, k, ch, f, th, s, and sh), which are fortis. Compare fortis (def 1).
- lesbo — a contemptuous term used to refer to a lesbian.
- leshy — (Slavic mythology) A male woodland spirit in Slavic mythology who protects wild animals and forests.
- lesse — Archaic form of less.
- lesya — any of six possible colors given to the monad, or individual soul, by its karma and being lighter or darker according to the proportion of good or evil included in the karma.
- lewes — George Henry, 1817–78, English writer and critic.
- liest — (archaic) Second-person singular present simple form of 'lie'.
- lifes — (obsolete, possibly not standard in any era) Plural form of life.
- likes — Digital Technology. (sometimes initial capital letter) noting or pertaining to a feature used to like specific website content: a Like button; like boxes.
- limes — a boundary, especially the fortified border or frontier of a country.
- lines — a thickness of glue, as between two veneers in a sheet of plywood.
- lives — plural of life.
- lobes — Plural form of lobe.
- lodes — a veinlike deposit, usually metalliferous.
- loess — a loamy deposit formed by wind, usually yellowish and calcareous, common in the Mississippi Valley and in Europe and Asia.
- loges — (in a theater) the front section of the lowest balcony, separated from the back section by an aisle or railing or both.
- lopes — Plural form of lope.
- lores — the space between the eye and the bill of a bird, or a corresponding space in other animals, as snakes.
- loses — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
- loues — Plural form of loue.
- loves — Plural form of love.
- lowes — John Livingston, 1867–1945, U.S. scholar, critic, and teacher.
- lubes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lube.
- luces — a pike, especially when fully grown.
- ludes — Quaalude.
- luges — Plural form of luge.
- lunes — a line for securing a hawk.
- lures — Plural form of lure.
- lutes — Plural form of lute.
- lykes — Plural form of lyke.
- lyres — Plural form of lyre.
- lyses — a river in W Europe, in N France and W Belgium, flowing NE into the Scheldt River at Ghent. 120 miles (195 km) long.
- maces — a spice ground from the layer between a nutmeg shell and its outer husk, resembling nutmeg in flavor.
- makes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of make.
- males — Plural form of male.
- manes — the long hair growing on the back of or around the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse or lion.
- mapes — Walter, c1140–1209? Welsh ecclesiastic, poet, and satirist.
- mares — Plural form of mare.
- mates — Plural form of mate.
- maxes — a male given name, form of Maximilian.
- mazes — Plural form of maze.
- medes — a native or inhabitant of Media.
- meese — (chiefly, humorous) Plural form of moose.
- meges — a nephew of Odysseus who commanded the Epeans in the Trojan War.