5-letter words starting with l
- leany — (obsolete) lean.
- leaps — Plural form of leap.
- leapt — a simple past tense and past participle of leap.
- learn — to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, or experience: to learn French; to learn to ski.
- lears — Edward, 1812–88, English writer of humorous verse and landscape painter.
- leary — leery1 .
- lease — a system for keeping the warp in position and under control by alternately crossing the warp yarn over and under the lease rods.
- leash — a chain, strap, etc., for controlling or leading a dog or other animal; lead.
- least — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
- leats — Plural form of leat.
- leaue — Obsolete spelling of leave.
- leave — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
- leavy — leafy.
- leaze — Alternative form of lease (to glean, or pick up grain).
- leban — Coagulated sour milk diluted with water.
- leben — a semiliquid food made from curdled milk in N Africa and the Levant
- lebes — a wine bowl having an oval body without handles and a rounded base.
- lebni — A yoghurt-like dairy dish from the eastern Mediterranean region.
- lecce — a city in SE Italy: ancient Greek and Roman city; noted for its baroque architecture.
- leccy — Alternative form of lecky.
- leche — Archaic form of lechwe.
- lechy — (informal) Like a lech; lecherous, tawdrily lustful.
- lecky — William Edward Hartpole [hahrt-pohl] /ˈhɑrt poʊl/ (Show IPA), 1838–1903, Irish essayist and historian.
- lecom — Version of COMIT on GE 225 ca. 1966. Sammet 1969, p.419.
- lects — Plural form of lect.
- leddy — Eye dialect of lady.
- ledge — a relatively narrow, projecting part, as a horizontal, shelflike projection on a wall or a raised edge on a tray.
- ledgy — having ledges.
- ledum — any of various evergreen shrubs of the genus Ledum, native to temperate and subarctic areas of the northern hemisphere
- leech — Margaret, 1893–1974, U.S. historian, novelist, and biographer.
- leeds — a city in West Yorkshire, in N England.
- leeks — Plural form of leek.
- leers — to look with a sideways or oblique glance, especially suggestive of lascivious interest or sly and malicious intention: I can't concentrate with you leering at me.
- leery — leer2 .
- leese — (obsolete) To lose.
- leets — Plural form of leet.
- lefse — a round Norwegian flatbread resembling a tortilla, made with mashed potatoes and flour.
- lefte — (obsolete) Simple past tense and past participle of leave.
- lefts — Plural form of left.
- lefty — a left-handed person.
- lefun — Logic, Equations and Functions. An integration of logic programming and functional programming by H. Ait-Kaci et al of MCC, Austin TX.
- legal — permitted by law; lawful: Such acts are not legal.
- legco — the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
- leged — Alternative form of legged.
- leger — Alexis Saint-Léger [a-lek-see san-ley-zhey] /a lɛkˈsi sɛ̃ leɪˈʒeɪ/ (Show IPA), St.-John Perse.
- leges — plural of lex.
- legge — to lighten or lessen
- leggo — (slang) Contraction of let go. To cease to hold. Generally used in the imperative.
- leggy — having awkwardly long legs.
- legis — legislation