6-letter words starting with le
- lemuel — a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “devoted to God.”.
- lemurs — Plural form of lemur.
- lenaea — a festival in ancient Athens in honor of Dionysus, celebrated at the beginning of February and comprising a public banquet followed by the performance of comedies.
- lenape — Delaware (defs 5, 6).
- lenard — Philipp [fee-lip] /ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), 1862–1947, German physicist, born in Austria-Hungary: Nobel Prize 1905.
- lended — (nonstandard) Simple past tense and past participle of lend.
- lendee — The person to whom something is lent.
- lender — to grant the use of (something) on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.
- lenexa — a city in NE Kansas.
- length — the longest extent of anything as measured from end to end: the length of a river.
- lengua — a member of a group of Indian peoples living in the Gran Chaco area of Paraguay.
- lenify — (transitive) To assuage or mitigate; to soften.
- lenite — to undergo lenition; be pronounced with weakened articulation, as when the consonant sound p changes to b, b to v, or v to w.
- lenity — the quality or state of being mild or gentle, as toward others.
- lennon — John, 1940–80, English singer, songwriter, and guitarist for the Beatles.
- lennox — a town in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- lenoir — Jean Joseph Étienne [zhahn zhoh-zef ey-tyen] /ʒɑ̃ ʒoʊˈzɛf eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1822–1900, French inventor.
- lenore — a female given name, form of Eleanor.
- lens's — a piece of transparent substance, usually glass, having two opposite surfaces either both curved or one curved and one plane, used in an optical device in changing the convergence of light rays, as for magnification, or in correcting defects of vision.
- lensed — a piece of transparent substance, usually glass, having two opposite surfaces either both curved or one curved and one plane, used in an optical device in changing the convergence of light rays, as for magnification, or in correcting defects of vision.
- lenses — a piece of transparent substance, usually glass, having two opposite surfaces either both curved or one curved and one plane, used in an optical device in changing the convergence of light rays, as for magnification, or in correcting defects of vision.
- lenten — of, relating to, or suitable for Lent.
- lentic — pertaining to or living in still water.
- lentil — a plant, Lens culinaris, of the legume family, having flattened, biconvex seeds used as food.
- lentor — Slowness, sluggishness.
- leo ii — Saint, died a.d. 683, Sicilian ecclesiastic: pope 682–683.
- leo iv — Saint, died a.d. 855, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 847–855.
- leo ix — Saint (Bruno) 1002–54, German ecclesiastic: pope 1049–54.
- leo vi — pope a.d. 928.
- leo xi — (Alessandro de'Medici) 1535–1605, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1605.
- leoben — a city in E central Austria, in Styria on the Mur River: lignite mining. Pop: 25 804 (2001)
- leones — Plural form of leone.
- leonid — any of a shower of meteors occurring around November 15 and appearing to radiate from a point in the constellation Leo.
- leonov — Aleksey Arkhipovich [uh-lyi-ksyey uhr-khyee-puh-vyich] /ʌ lyɪˈksyeɪ ʌrˈkhyi pə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), born 1934, Soviet cosmonaut: first man to walk in space 1965.
- lepcha — a member of a people of Sikkim and adjacent areas of Nepal, Bhutan, and India.
- lepers — A person suffering from leprosy.
- lepper — Misspelling of leper.
- leptin — a hormone that is thought to suppress appetite and speed up metabolism.
- lepto- — fine, slender, or slight
- lepton — an aluminum coin of modern Greece until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a drachma.
- lerida — a city in NE Spain.
- lerner — Alan Jay, 1918–86, U.S. lyricist and librettist.
- lesage — Alain René (alɛ̃ ʀəˈneɪ) ; ȧlan rənāˈ) 1668-1747; Fr. novelist & dramatist
- lesbic — relating to lesbians
- lesbos — Mytilene (def 1).
- lesche — an arcade or other public place in ancient Greece.
- lesion — an injury; hurt; wound.
- leslie — a male or female given name.
- lessee — a person, group, etc., to whom a lease is granted.
- lessen — to become less.