5-letter words that end in e
- chafe — If your skin chafes or is chafed by something, it becomes sore as a result of something rubbing against it.
- chape — a metal tip or trimming for a scabbard
- chare — a chore, esp. a household chore
- chase — If you chase someone, or chase after them, you run after them or follow them quickly in order to catch or reach them.
- chate — (Scotland) To cheat.
- chave — I have
- chere — dear; beloved: used in referring to or addressing a woman or girl.
- chide — If you chide someone, you speak to them angrily because they have done something wicked or foolish.
- chile — a republic in South America, on the Pacific, with a total length of about 4090 km (2650 miles) and an average width of only 177 km (110 miles): gained independence from Spain in 1818; the government of President Allende (elected 1970) attempted the implementation of Marxist policies within a democratic system until overthrown by a military coup (1973); democracy restored 1988. Chile consists chiefly of the Andes in the east, the Atacama Desert in the north, a central fertile region, and a huge S region of almost uninhabitable mountains, glaciers, fjords, and islands; an important producer of copper, iron ore, nitrates, etc. Language: Spanish. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: peso. Capital: Santiago. Pop: 17 216 945 (2013 est). Area: 756 945 sq km (292 256 sq miles)
- chime — When a bell or a clock chimes, it makes ringing sounds.
- chine — the backbone
- chive — a small Eurasian purple-flowered alliaceous plant, Allium schoenoprasum, whose long slender hollow leaves are used in cooking to flavour soups, stews, etc
- chloe — a feminine name
- chode — (archaic) Simple past form of chide.
- choke — When you choke or when something chokes you, you cannot breathe properly or get enough air into your lungs.
- chole — A spicy Indian chickpea curry.
- chope — (Singapore) to reserve a place, such as a seat in a fast food restaurant, sometimes by placing a packet of tissue paper on it.
- chore — A chore is a task that you must do but that you find unpleasant or boring.
- chose — Chose is the past tense of choose.
- chupe — A stew containing meat and potatoes, part of Chilean and Peruvian cuisine.
- chuse — Obsolete spelling of choose.
- chute — A chute is a steep, narrow slope down which people or things can slide.
- chyle — a milky fluid composed of lymph and emulsified fat globules, formed in the small intestine during digestion
- chyme — the thick fluid mass of partially digested food that leaves the stomach
- circe — an enchantress who detained Odysseus on her island and turned his men into swine
- citie — Archaic spelling of city.
- clade — a group of organisms considered as having evolved from a common ancestor
- clane — Eye dialect of clean.
- clare — a county of W Republic of Ireland, in Munster between Galway Bay and the Shannon estuary. County town: Ennis. Pop: 103 277 (2002). Area: 3188 sq km (1231 sq miles)
- clave — one of a pair of hardwood sticks struck together to make a hollow sound, esp to mark the beat of Latin-American dance music
- clepe — to call by the name of
- cleve — Per Teodor [par tey-aw-dawr] /pær ˈteɪ ɔˌdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1840–1905, Swedish chemist.
- clime — You use clime in expressions such as warmer climes and foreign climes to refer to a place that has a particular kind of climate.
- cline — a continuous variation in form between members of a species having a wide variable geographical or ecological range
- clite — Classical Mythology. the wife of Cyzicus, who hanged herself when her husband was mistakenly killed by the Argonauts.
- clive — Robert, Baron Clive of Plassey. 1725–74, British general and statesman, whose victory at Plassey (1757) strengthened British control in India
- cloke — Archaic spelling of cloak.
- clone — If someone or something is a clone of another person or thing, they are so similar to this person or thing that they seem to be exactly the same as them.
- close — When you close something such as a door or lid or when it closes, it moves so that a hole, gap, or opening is covered.
- clote — the burdock
- clove — Cloves are small dried flower buds used as a spice.
- cloye — to claw
- cloze — In language teaching, a cloze test is a test in which words are removed from a text and replaced with spaces. The learner has to fill each space with a suitable word.
- clyde — a river in S Scotland, rising in South Lanarkshire and flowing northwest to the Firth of Clyde: formerly extensive shipyards. Length: 170 km (106 miles)
- clype — to tell tales; be an informer
- cname — (networking) The canonical name query type for Domain Name System. This query asks a DNS server for a host's official hostname.
- coate — Obsolete form of coat.
- coble — a small single-masted flat-bottomed fishing boat
- codge — (transitive) To patch or cobble together; to make hastily and carelessly.
- codle — Obsolete form of coddle.