5-letter words containing l
- adult — An adult is a mature, fully developed person. An adult has reached the age when they are legally responsible for their actions.
- afald — single; sole
- aflat — (obsolete) Level with the ground; flat.
- aflex — (tool) A Lex-like scanner generator that produce Ada output from IRUS (Irvine Research Unit in Software). aflex comes with ayacc. Version 1.2a. Mailing list: <[email protected]>.
- afoul — in or into a state of difficulty, confusion, or conflict (with)
- agals — Plural form of agal.
- agila — eaglewood
- agile — Someone who is agile can move quickly and easily.
- aglet — a metal sheath or tag at the end of a shoelace, ribbon, etc
- agley — awry; askew
- aglow — If something is aglow, it is shining and bright with a soft, warm light.
- agnel — a gold coin of France of the 13th–16th centuries, bearing the figure of a lamb.
- ahold — a hold
- aholt — ahold.
- ahull — with sails furled
- ailed — to cause pain, uneasiness, or trouble to.
- ailey — Alvin, Jr.1931-89; U.S. dancer & choreographer
- aioli — garlic mayonnaise
- airly — (dialectal) early.
- aisle — An aisle is a long narrow gap that people can walk along between rows of seats in a public building such as a church or between rows of shelves in a supermarket.
- aizle — a red-hot ember or hot ashes
- akala — a Hawaiian shrub or climber, Rubus macraei, bearing a large, red, edible raspberry.
- akela — the adult leader of a pack of Cub Scouts
- akola — a city in Maharashtra, W central India, on the Morna River.
- alack — used to express regret, surprise, dismay, etc.
- alala — a dull, brownish-tinged crow that occurs only in Hawaii.
- alamo — Franciscan mission at San Antonio, Tex.: scene of a siege and massacre of Texans by Mexican troops (1836)
- aland — to land, on land, ashore
- alane — (inorganic compound) aluminium hydride, AlH3.
- alang — a type of grass grown in Malaysia and often used for thatching roofs
- alant — a genus of flowering plants more commonly known as Inula
- alapa — the light blow on the cheek delivered by the bishop in a confirmation service.
- alarm — Alarm is a feeling of fear or anxiety that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen.
- alarp — As Low As Reasonably Practicable
- alary — of, relating to, or shaped like wings
- alate — having wings or winglike extensions
- alava — Cape, a cape in NW Washington: westernmost point in the contiguous U.S.
- alays — a mountain range in SW Kyrgyzstan, part of the Tien Shan. To 19,280 feet (5880 meters).
- alban — Saint. 3rd century ad, the first English martyr. He was beheaded by the Romans on the site on which St Alban's Abbey now stands, for admitting his conversion to Christianity. Feast day: June 17
- albay — former name of Legaspi.
- albee — Edward. 1928–2016, US dramatist. His plays include Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), Seascape (1975), Marriage Play (1986), Three Tall Women (1990), and Goat (2004)
- album — An album is a record with about 25 minutes of music on each side. You can also refer to a collection of songs that is available on a record or CD as an album.
- alcid — any of twenty-two species of oceanic birds of the family Alcidae
- alcon — a noted archer who helped Hercules abduct the cattle of Geryon.
- alcor — (language) A subset of ALGOL.
- aldan — a river in E Russia in the SE Sakha Republic, rising in the Aldan Mountains and flowing north and west to the Lena River. Length: about 2700 km (1700 miles)
- aldat — (language) A database language, based on extended algebra.
- aldea — a village or a villa in Portugal or a Portuguese colony
- alden — John1599?-1687; Pilgrim settler in Plymouth Colony: character in Longfellow's poem “The Courtship of Miles Standish”
- alder — An alder is a species of tree or shrub that grows especially in cool, damp places and loses its leaves in winter.