5-letter words containing le
- galle — a seaport in SW Sri Lanka.
- gavle — a seaport in E Sweden.
- gayle — a female or male given name.
- gelee — Claude [klohd] /kloʊd/ (Show IPA), Lorraine, Claude.
- giles — Saint, 8th century a.d., Athenian hermit in France.
- gilet — A light sleeveless padded jacket.
- glead — (archaic) A live coal.
- gleam — a flash or beam of light: the gleam of a lantern in the dark.
- glean — to gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit.
- gleba — the sporogenous tissue forming the central part of the sporophore in certain fungi, as in puffballs and stinkhorns.
- glebe — Also called glebe land. Chiefly British. the cultivable land owned by a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.
- gleby — clod-like
- glede — A live coal, an ember.
- gleed — a squint.
- gleek — to make a joke; jest.
- gleem — Misspelling of gleam.
- gleen — (obsolete) To glisten; to gleam.
- glees — Plural form of glee.
- gleet — Pathology. a thin, morbid discharge, as from a wound. persistent or chronic gonorrhea.
- glenn — John (Herschel, Jr.) born 1921, U.S. astronaut and politician: first U.S. orbital space flight 1962; U.S. senator 1975–99.
- glens — Plural form of glen.
- golem — Jewish Folklore. a figure artificially constructed in the form of a human being and endowed with life.
- goole — an inland port in NE England, in the East Riding of Yorkshire at the confluence of the Ouse and Don Rivers, 75 km (47 miles) from the North Sea. Pop: 18 741 (2001)
- goyle — a ravine
- guile — insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity.
- gules — the tincture red.
- gulet — Alternative form of goelette.
- hable — Obsolete form of habile.
- haleb — Aleppo
- haled — to compel (someone) to go: to hale a man into court.
- haler — heller2 (def 1).
- hales — to compel (someone) to go: to hale a man into court.
- haley — Alex, 1921–92, U.S. writer.
- halle — Morris, born 1923, U.S. linguist, born in Latvia.
- haole — (among Polynesian Hawaiians) a term used to refer to a non-Polynesian, especially a white person.
- harle — A bird, the red-breasted merganser.
- hayle — health and welfare
- hazle — Archaic form of hazel.
- helen — Also called Helen of Troy. Classical Mythology. the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda and wife of Menelaus whose abduction by Paris was the cause of the Trojan War.
- helle — a daughter of King Athamas, who was borne away with her brother Phrixus on the golden winged ram. She fell from its back and was drowned in the Hellespont
- holed — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- holen — Past participle of hele.
- holer — One which holes, perforates etc.
- holes — Plural form of hole.
- holey — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- hoyle — Edmond, 1672–1769, English authority and writer on card games.
- hyleg — the dominant planet when someone is born which is said to determine the length of their life
- ickle — (dialectal) An icicle.
- idele — (mathematics) An invertible element of the adele ring.
- idled — not working or active; unemployed; doing nothing: idle workers.