5-letter words containing le
- mules — a lounging slipper that covers the toes and instep or only the instep.
- muley — (of cattle or deer) hornless; polled.
- mvule — a tropical African tree, Chlorophora excelsa (or Milicia excelsa)
- naled — a synthetic insecticide and miticide, C 4 H 7 Br 2 Cl 2 O 4 , having relatively low toxicity to mammals.
- nifle — (obsolete) A trifle; something small and insignificant.
- niles — a river in E Africa, the longest in the world, flowing N from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean. 3473 miles (5592 km) long; from the headwaters of the Kagera River, 4000 miles (6440 km) long.
- noble — distinguished by rank or title.
- nozle — Obsolete form of nozzle.
- obole — a silver-alloy coin of France issued during the Middle Ages, the 24th part of a sol, or one-half denier.
- odyle — od.
- ogled — to look at amorously, flirtatiously, or impertinently.
- ogler — One who ogles.
- ogles — to look at amorously, flirtatiously, or impertinently.
- oiled — pertaining to or resembling oil.
- oiler — any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- olean — a city in SW New York.
- oleic — pertaining to or derived from oleic acid.
- olein — Also called glyceryl trioleate, triolein. a colorless to yellowish, oily, water-insoluble liquid, C 5 7 H 1 0 4 O 6 , the triglyceride of oleic acid, present in many vegetable oils.
- olent — having or giving out a smell
- oleo- — oil
- oleos — Plural form of oleo.
- oleum — Pharmacology. oil.
- oller — waste ground
- opole — a city in Upper Silesia, SW Poland, on the Oder River.
- orale — fanon (def 2).
- osler — Sir William, 1849–1919, Canadian physician and professor of medicine.
- ovule — Botany. a rudimentary seed. the plant part that contains the embryo sac and hence the female germ cell, which after fertilization develops into a seed.
- owler — a smuggler (esp of sheep, from England to France)
- owlet — a young owl.
- pale- — paleo-
- palea — a chafflike scale or bract.
- paled — light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
- paler — light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
- pales — light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
- paley — Grace, 1922–2007, U.S. short-story writer and poet.
- parle — talk; parley.
- peale — Charles Willson [wil-suh n] /ˈwɪl sən/ (Show IPA), 1741–1827, and his brother James, 1749–1831, U.S. painters.
- peele — George, 1558?–97? English dramatist.
- pelee — Mount, a volcano in the West Indies, on the island of Martinique: eruption 1902. 4428 feet (1350 meters).
- perle — a medicinal capsule that resembles a pearl in shape.
- phyle — (in ancient Greece) a tribe or clan, based on supposed kinship.
- pilea — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Pilea, of the nettle family, many species of which are cultivated for their ornamental foliage.
- piled — having a pile, as velvet and other fabrics.
- piler — someone who makes a pile or places things on a pile
- piles — a hemorrhoid.
- plead — to appeal or entreat earnestly: to plead for time.
- pleas — an appeal or entreaty: a plea for mercy.
- pleat — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
- plebe — Also, pleb. (at the U.S. Military and Naval academies) a member of the freshman class.
- plebs — a member of the plebs; a plebeian or commoner.