5-letter words containing le
- atole — A thick drink or thin gruel made from cornmeal.
- avale — (transitive, obsolete) To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall; to doff.
- avile — (obsolete) To abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate.
- axile — of, relating to, or attached to the axis
- axled — having an axle
- axles — Plural form of axle.
- azole — an organic five-membered ring compound containing one or more atoms in the ring, the number usually being specified by a prefix
- baile — (in the southwestern US and parts of Central and South America) a gathering for dancing.
- baled — Also, bailer. a bucket, dipper, or other container used for bailing.
- baler — an agricultural machine for making bales of hay, etc
- bales — Also, bailer. a bucket, dipper, or other container used for bailing.
- basle — a canton of NW Switzerland, divided into the demicantons of Basle-Landschaft and Basle-Stadt. Pops.: 263 200 and 186 900 (2002 est). Areas: 427 sq km (165 sq miles) and 36 sq km (14 sq miles) respectively
- bayle — Pierre (pjɛr). 1647–1706, French philosopher and critic, noted for his Dictionnaire historique et critique (1697), which profoundly influenced Voltaire and the French Encyclopedists
- bdle. — bundle.
- beale — Dorothea. 1831–1906, British schoolmistress, a champion of women's education and suffrage. As principal of Cheltenham Ladies' College (1858–1906) she introduced important reforms
- belee — to position on the sheltered side
- belem — a port in N Brazil, the capital of Pará state, on the Pará River: major trading centre for the Amazon basin. Pop: 2 097 000 (2005 est)
- belle — A belle is a beautiful woman, especially the most beautiful woman at a party or in a group.
- berle — Milton, 1908–2002, U.S. comedian.
- beyle — Marie Henri [ma-ree ahn-ree] /maˈri ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA) real name of Stendhal.
- bible — The Bible is the holy book on which the Jewish and Christian religions are based.
- biles — Physiology. a bitter, alkaline, yellow or greenish liquid, secreted by the liver, that aids in absorption and digestion, especially of fats.
- birle — to pour (a drink) or ply with drink
- bleak — If a situation is bleak, it is bad, and seems unlikely to improve.
- bleam — (jargon) To transmit or send data. "Bleam that binary to me in an e-mail".
- blear — to make (eyes or sight) dim with or as if with tears; blur
- bleat — When a sheep or goat bleats, it makes the sound that sheep and goats typically make.
- bleed — When you bleed, you lose blood from your body as a result of injury or illness.
- bleep — A bleep is a short, high-pitched sound, usually one of a series, that is made by an electrical device.
- blend — If you blend substances together or if they blend, you mix them together so that they become one substance.
- blent — blend
- blert — a fool
- bless — When someone such as a priest blesses people or things, he asks for God's favour and protection for them.
- blest — bless
- bleve — A BLEVE is an explosion caused by a liquid which is boiling and continuing to produce a flammable vapor.
- bodle — a Scottish coin issued under Charles II, worth two Scots pennies or approximately one sixth of an English penny
- bogle — a scarecrow
- boles — any of a variety of soft, unctuous clays of various colors, used as pigments.
- boole — George. 1815–64, English mathematician. In Mathematical Analysis of Logic (1847) and An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (1854), he applied mathematical formulae to logic, creating Boolean algebra
- boule — the parliament in modern Greece
- boyle — Robert. 1627–91, Irish scientist who helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy. He established that air has weight and studied the behaviour of gases; author of The Sceptical Chymist (1661)
- brule — (in the Pacific Northwest) an area of forest destroyed by fire.
- bugle — A bugle is a simple brass musical instrument that looks like a small trumpet. Bugles are often used in the army to announce when activities such as meals are about to begin.
- butle — to act as butler
- cable — A cable is a thick wire, or a group of wires inside a rubber or plastic covering, which is used to carry electricity or electronic signals.
- caleb — a masculine name
- caple — a horse
- carle — Scot. a strong, robust fellow, especially a strong manual laborer. a miser; an extremely thrifty person.
- celeb — A celeb is the same as a celebrity.
- celle — a city in N Germany, on the Aller River in Lower Saxony: from 1378 to 1705 the residence of the Dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Pop: 71 319 (2003 est)