5-letter words that end in l
- speel — a splinter of wood
- spell — a continuous course or period of work or other activity: to take a spell at the wheel.
- spial — an observation
- spiel — a usually high-flown talk or speech, especially for the purpose of luring people to a movie, a sale, etc.; pitch.
- spill — to cause or allow to run or fall from a container, especially accidentally or wastefully: to spill a bag of marbles; to spill milk.
- spoil — to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
- spool — any cylindrical piece or device on which something is wound.
- spyal — a spy
- stael — Madame de (Baronne de Staël-Holstein) 1766–1817, French novelist, essayist, poet, and philosopher.
- stahl — Georg Ernst [gey-ork ernst] /geɪˈɒrk ɛrnst/ (Show IPA), 1660–1734, German chemist and physician.
- stall — a pretext, as a ruse, trick, or the like, used to delay or deceive.
- steal — to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force: A pickpocket stole his watch.
- 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.
- stell — a shelter for cattle or sheep built on moorland or hillsides
- stijl — a school of art that was founded in the Netherlands in 1917, embraced painting, sculpture, architecture, furniture, and the decorative arts, and was marked especially by the use of black and white with the primary colors, rectangular forms, and asymmetry.
- still — remaining in place or at rest; motionless; stationary: to stand still.
- stool — a single seat on legs or a pedestal and without arms or a back.
- stull — a timber prop.
- sural — of or relating to the calf of the leg.
- sweal — the guttering of a candle
- swell — to grow in bulk, as by the absorption of moisture or the processes of growth.
- swill — liquid or partly liquid food for animals, especially kitchen refuse given to swine; hogwash.
- swirl — to move around or along with a whirling motion; whirl; eddy.
- sybil — a female given name.
- sydel — A system language, fully typed, with inline assembly code, by Jan Garwick, ca 1974.
- sympl — (language) SYsteMs Programming Language.
- szell — George, 1897–1970, U.S. pianist and conductor, born in Hungary.
- tamil — a member of a people of Dravidian stock of S India and Sri Lanka.
- tavel — a dry rosé wine from the Rhone region of France.
- taxol — a compound from the bark of the Pacific yew tree used in cancer chemotherapy
- tepal — one of the divisions of a flower perianth, especially one that is not clearly differentiated into petals and sepals, as in lilies and tulips.
- tesol — teaching English to speakers of other languages. Compare ESOL.
- 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.
- thill — either of the pair of shafts of a vehicle between which a draft animal is harnessed.
- thiol — mercaptan.
- thirl — to pierce.
- thurl — the hip joint of cattle.
- tical — a former silver coin and monetary unit of Siam, equal to 100 satang: replaced in 1928 by the baht.
- tidal — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or subject to tides: a tidal current.
- tikal — an ancient Mayan city occupied c200 b.c. to a.d. 900, an important center of Mayan civilization, situated in Petén in the jungles of northern Guatemala and the site of significant archaeological discoveries in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
- tirol — an alpine region in W Austria and N Italy: a former Austrian crown land.
- tobol — a river rising in Kazakhstan, flowing NE through the Russian Federation in Asia to the Irtysh River. 800 miles (1290 km) long.
- toefl — TOEFL is an English language examination which is often taken by foreign students who want to study at universities in English-speaking countries. TOEFL is an abbreviation of 'Test of English as a Foreign Language'.
- tolyl — containing a tolyl group; cresyl.
- tonal — pertaining to or having tonality.
- total — constituting or comprising the whole; entire; whole: the total expenditure.
- towel — an absorbent cloth or paper for wiping and drying something wet, as one for the hands, face, or body after washing or bathing.
- trail — to drag or let drag along the ground or other surface; draw or drag along behind.