5-letter words starting with le
- 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
- legit — legitimate.
- legol — "Application of MP/3 to the Design and Implementation of LEGOL, A Legally Oriented Language", S.H. Mandil et al, Intl Symp Programming, Paris 1974.
- legos — Plural form of lego.
- lehar — Franz [frahnts] /frɑnts/ (Show IPA), 1870–1948, Hungarian composer of operettas.
- lehua — Also called ohia lehua. a tree, Metrosideros villosa, of the Hawaiian islands, yielding a hard wood.
- leics — Leicestershire
- leidy — Joseph, 1823–91, U.S. paleontologist, parasitologist, and anatomist.
- leigh — Vivien (Vivian Mary Hartley) 1913–67, English actress.
- leila — a female given name.
- leish — active or athletic
- leith — a seaport in SE Scotland, on the Firth of Forth: now part of Edinburgh.
- leman — Lake. Geneva, Lake of.
- lemay — Curtis (Emerson) 1906–90, U.S. Air Force officer: chief of the Strategic Air Command 1948–61; Chief of Staff of the Air Force 1961–65.
- lemel — metal filings
- lemen — a sweetheart; lover; beloved.
- lemma — a subsidiary proposition introduced in proving some other proposition; a helping theorem.
- lemme — Let me.
- lemon — the yellowish, acid fruit of a subtropical citrus tree, Citrus limon.
- lempa — a river rising in NW El Salvador, flowing E and then S to the Pacific Ocean. About 200 miles (320 km) long.
- lemur — any of various small, arboreal, chiefly nocturnal mammals of the family Lemuridae, of Madagascar and the Comoro Islands, especially of the genus Lemur, usually having large eyes, a foxlike face, and woolly fur: most lemurs are endangered.
- lenca — a member of an Indian people of El Salvador and central Honduras.
- lendl — Ivan, born 1960, U.S. tennis player, born in the former Czechoslovakia.
- lends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lend.
- lenes — pronounced with relatively weak muscular tension and breath pressure, resulting in weak sound effect: in stressed or unstressed position, (b, d, g, j, v, th̸, z, and zh) are lenis in English, as compared with (p, t, k, ch, f, th, s, and sh), which are fortis. Compare fortis (def 1).
- lenin — V(ladimir) I(lyich) [vlad-uh-meer il-yich;; Russian vluh-dyee-myir ee-lyeech] /ˈvlæd əˌmɪər ˈɪl yɪtʃ;; Russian vlʌˈdyi myɪr iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov"N. Lenin") 1870–1924, Russian revolutionary leader: Soviet premier 1918–24.
- lenis — pronounced with relatively weak muscular tension and breath pressure, resulting in weak sound effect: in stressed or unstressed position, (b, d, g, j, v, th̸, z, and zh) are lenis in English, as compared with (p, t, k, ch, f, th, s, and sh), which are fortis. Compare fortis (def 1).
- lenny — a male given name, form of Leonard.
- lenos — (historical) A trough used in ancient winemaking.
- lenox — a town in W Massachusetts, in the Berkshire Hills: a former estate (Tanglewood) in the area is the site of annual summer music festivals.
- lense — Misspelling of lens.
- lento — slow.
- lents — (in the Christian religion) an annual season of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter, beginning on Ash Wednesday and lasting 40 weekdays to Easter, observed by Roman Catholic, Anglican, and certain other churches.
- lenya — Lotte [lot-ee;; German law-tuh] /ˈlɒt i;; German ˈlɔ tə/ (Show IPA), (Karoline Blamauer) 1900–81, Austrian actress and singer, in the U.S. after 1935 (wife of Kurt Weill).
- leo i — Saint ("Leo the Great") a.d. c390–461, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 440–461.
- leo v — flourished 10th century a.d, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 903.
- leo x — (Giovanni de'Medici) 1475–1521, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1513–21 (son of Lorenzo de'Medici).
- leona — a female given name.