5-letter words that end in el
- mohel — the person who performs the circumcision in the Jewish rite of circumcising a male child on the eighth day after his birth.
- morel — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1903–75, French orchestra conductor.
- mosel — a river in W Europe, rising in NE France and flowing northwest, forming part of the border between Luxembourg and Germany, then northeast to the Rhine: many vineyards along its lower course. Length: 547 km (340 miles)
- motel — a hotel providing travelers with lodging and free parking facilities, typically a roadside hotel having rooms adjacent to an outside parking area or an urban hotel offering parking within the building.
- navel — umbilicus (def 1).
- nebel — a Hebrew harp-like instrument
- nevel — a stroke or blow with the fist
- newel — newel post.
- nigel — a male given name, form of Neil.
- nobel — Alfred Bernhard [ahl-fred ber-nahrd] /ˈɑl frɛd ˈbɛr nɑrd/ (Show IPA), 1833–96, Swedish engineer, manufacturer, and philanthropist.
- novel — Roman Law. an imperial enactment subsequent and supplementary to an imperial compilation and codification of authoritative legal materials. Usually, Novels. imperial enactments subsequent to the promulgation of Justinian's Code and supplementary to it: one of the four divisions of the Corpus Juris Civilis.
- nowel — Noel (def 2).
- oesel — German name of Saaremaa.
- oftel — Office of Telecommunications: a government body set up in 1984 to supervise telecommunications activities in the UK, and to protect the interests of the consumers. Superseded in 2003 by Ofcom
- orgel — Alternative form of orgul.
- oriel — a bay window, especially one cantilevered or corbeled out from a wall.
- ousel — dipper (def 4).
- ouzel — dipper (def 4).
- panel — a distinct portion, section, or division of a wall, wainscot, ceiling, door, shutter, fence, etc., especially of any surface sunk below or raised above the general level or enclosed by a frame or border.
- pinel — Phillippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), 1745–1826, French physician: reformer in the treatment and care of the mentally ill.
- pixel — picture element
- ratel — a badgerlike carnivore, Mellivora capensis, of Africa and India.
- ravel — to disentangle or unravel the threads or fibers of (a woven or knitted fabric, rope, etc.).
- rebel — a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of his or her country.
- refel — to refute or disprove.
- regel — Physical Chemistry. a semirigid colloidal dispersion of a solid with a liquid or gas, as jelly, glue, etc.
- repel — to drive or force back (an assailant, invader, etc.).
- revel — to take great pleasure or delight (usually followed by in): to revel in luxury.
- rigel — a first-magnitude star in the constellation Orion.
- rivel — a very small dumpling made of a batter of butter, egg, flour, and seasoning, cooked in broth.
- rowel — a small wheel with radiating points, forming the extremity of a spur.
- sahel — the arid area on the S flank of the Sahara desert that stretches across six countries from Senegal to Chad.
- sakel — Manfred (Joshua) 1906–57, U.S. psychiatrist, born in Austria.
- samel — (of brick) not sufficiently fired
- sewel — a type of scarecrow made from feathers and used to prevent deer from entering an area
- shiel — a pasture or grazing ground.
- sorel — Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1847–1922, French engineer and social philosopher.
- speel — a splinter of wood
- spiel — a usually high-flown talk or speech, especially for the purpose of luring people to a movie, a sale, etc.; pitch.
- stael — Madame de (Baronne de Staël-Holstein) 1766–1817, French novelist, essayist, poet, and philosopher.
- steel — any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
- sydel — A system language, fully typed, with inline assembly code, by Jan Garwick, ca 1974.
- tavel — a dry rosé wine from the Rhone region of France.
- tewel — a horse's rectum
- texel — an island off the N coast of the Netherlands, in the North Sea: largest of the West Frisian Islands. 71 sq. mi. (184 sq. km).
- tezel — Johann [yoh-hahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), 1465?–1519, German monk: antagonist of Martin Luther.
- towel — an absorbent cloth or paper for wiping and drying something wet, as one for the hands, face, or body after washing or bathing.
- umbel — an inflorescence in which a number of flower stalks or pedicels, nearly equal in length, spread from a common center.
- urgel — a town in NE Spain, SSW of Andorra: cathedral.
- uriel — one of the archangels. II Esdras 4.