5-letter words starting with le
- leone — Giovanni [jaw-vahn-nee] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni/ (Show IPA), 1908–2001, Italian political leader: prime minister 1963, 1968; president 1971–78.
- leoni — Raúl [rah-ool] /rɑˈul/ (Show IPA), 1905–72, Venezuelan statesman: president 1964–69.
- lepal — (botany, obsolete) A sterile transformed stamen.
- lepas — (zoology) Any of the genus Lepas of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, etc.; a goose barnacle.
- leper — a person who has leprosy.
- lepid — (obsolete) pleasant; jocose.
- leppy — an unbranded or motherless calf; maverick.
- lepra — Leprosy Relief Association
- lepta — an aluminum coin of modern Greece until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a drachma.
- lepto — leptospirosis.
- lepus — a small constellation in the S hemisphere lying between Orion and Columba
- lerna — a marshy region near Argos, Greece: the legendary abode of the Hydra slain by Hercules.
- leros — one of the Dodecanese Islands of Greece, off the SW coast of Turkey. 21 sq. mi. (54 sq. km).
- leroy — a male given name: from Old French, meaning “the king.”.
- lesbo — a contemptuous term used to refer to a lesbian.
- leshy — (Slavic mythology) A male woodland spirit in Slavic mythology who protects wild animals and forests.
- lesse — Archaic form of less.
- lesya — any of six possible colors given to the monad, or individual soul, by its karma and being lighter or darker according to the proportion of good or evil included in the karma.
- let's — Archaic. to hinder, prevent, or obstruct.
- letch — a lecherous desire or craving.
- letha — a female given name.
- lethe — Classical Mythology. a river in Hades whose water caused forgetfulness of the past in those who drank of it.
- letup — cessation; pause; relief.
- levee — (in Great Britain) a public court assembly, held in the early afternoon, at which men only are received.
- level — having no part higher than another; having a flat or even surface.
- leven — Loch, a lake in E Scotland: ruins of a castle in which Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned.
- lever — tool for lifting
- levet — (obsolete) A trumpet call for rousing soldiers; a reveille.
- levin — lightning.
- levis — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, across from Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- levo- — toward or on the left-hand side
- lewer — Comparative form of lew.
- lewes — George Henry, 1817–78, English writer and critic.
- lewis — Carl (Frederick Carlton Lewis) born 1961, U.S. track and field athlete.
- lexan — a polycarbonate resin, used in molded products, as a substitute for glass, etc.
- lexer — lexical analyser
- lexie — (literary theory) A minimal unit of reading, such as a sentence or sentence fragment.
- lexis — the vocabulary of a language, as distinct from its grammar; the total stock of words and idiomatic combinations of them in a language; lexicon.
- leyte — an island in the E central Philippines: focal point of the U.S. invasion of the Philippines 1944. 3085 sq. mi. (7990 sq. km).
- lezza — Alternative form of lezzer.