5 Letter Words That Start With LE

leave

Verb : To have a consequence or remnant.

Verb : (transitive) To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.

Verb : (transitive or intransitive, copulative) To cause, to result in.

level

Adjective : The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.

Adjective : At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.

Adjective : Unvaried in frequency.

learn

Verb : To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.

Verb : To attend a course or other educational activity.

Verb : To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve.

lexus

Noun : the luxury vehicle division of Japanese automaker Toyota.

lease

Noun : (formal, law) An interest in land granting exclusive use or occupation of real estate for a limited period; a leasehold.

Noun : An interest granting exclusive use of any thing, such as a car or boat.

Noun : The contract or deed under which such an interest is granted.

leery

Adjective : Cautious, suspicious, wary, hesitant, or nervous about something; having reservations or concerns.

Adjective : (of a look or smile) Lecherous.

legal

Adjective : Relating to the law or to lawyers.

Adjective : Having its basis in the law.

Adjective : Being allowed or prescribed by law.

least

Verb : Used for forming superlatives of adjectives, especially those that do not form the superlative by adding -est.

Verb : In the smallest or lowest degree; in a degree below all others.

Noun : (philosophy) Something of the smallest possible extent; an indivisible unit.

lever

Noun : (mechanics) A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; — used for transmitting and modifying force and motion.

Noun : Specifically, a bar of metal, wood or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length, by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually named as the first of the six mechanical powers, and is of three kinds, according as either the fulcrum F, the weight W, or the power P, respectively, is situated between the other two, as in the figures.

Noun : A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a button).

legit

Noun : (theater, slang) A legitimate; a legitimate actor.

Noun : (slang) A legitimate child.

Adjective : (informal) Legitimate; legal; allowed by the rules; valid.

levee

Noun : An elevated geographical feature.

Noun : An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi.

Noun : (US) The steep bank of a river.

lemon

Noun : A yellowish citrus fruit.

Noun : A semitropical evergreen tree, Citrus limon, that bears such fruits.

Noun : A more or less bright shade of yellow associated with lemon fruits.

leach

Noun : A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.

Noun : A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.

Noun : A jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the fifteenth century.

lemma

Noun : (mathematics) A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.

Noun : (linguistics, lexicography) The canonical form of an inflected word; i.e., the form usually found as the headword in a dictionary, such as the nominative singular of a noun, the bare infinitive of a verb, etc.

Noun : (psycholinguistics) The theoretical abstract conceptual form of a word, representing a specific meaning, before the creation of a specific phonological form as the sounds of a lexeme, which may find representation in a specific written form as a dictionary or lexicographic word.

ledge

Noun : A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.

Noun : (geology) A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.

Noun : A layer or stratum.

lemur

Noun : (colloquial) Any strepsirrhine primate of the infraorder Lemuriformes, superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands.

Noun : Any of the genus Lemur, represented by the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta).

Noun : (obsolete) A loris (Lemur tardigradus, now Loris tardigradus), predating the 10th edition of Systema Naturæ.

leech

Noun : An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.

Noun : (figuratively) A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.

Noun : (medicine, dated) A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.

leash

Noun : A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.

Noun : (obsolete) A brace and a half; a tierce.

Noun : (obsolete) A set of three animals (especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares;)

lewis

Noun : A male given name from Frankish

Noun : A surname.

Noun : An English surname originating as a patronymic.

levin

Noun : (archaic, poetic) Lightning; a bolt of lightning; also, a bright flame or light.

Noun : A surname from Hebrew.

Noun : A male given name.

leary

Noun : A surname from Irish, an alternate anglicization of Ó Laoghaire (“descendant of Leary”) (O'Leary).

Noun : A male given name from Irish Laoghaire, from Old Irish Lóegaire (literally “calf-herder”).

Noun : A male or female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.

lethe

Noun : (Greek mythology) The personification of oblivion, daughter of Eris.

Noun : (Greek mythology) The river which flows through Hades from which the souls of the dead drank so that they would forget their time on Earth.

Noun : Forgetfulness of the past; oblivion.

lento

Adjective : (music) Slow (45–60 bpm).

Noun : (music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played very slowly.

Noun : A surname from Italian.

lepal

Noun : (botany, obsolete) A sterile transformed stamen.

leant

leapt

Verb : (intransitive) To jump.

Verb : (transitive) To pass over by a leap or jump.

Verb : (archaic, transitive) To copulate with (a female beast)

lense

Noun : Misspelling of lens. [An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.]

Noun : (proscribed) Alternative spelling of lens [An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.]

Verb : Misspelling of lens. [(transitive, cinematography) To film, shoot.]

lexis

Noun : (linguistics) The set of all words and phrases in a language; any unified subset of words from a particular language.

Noun : (pedagogy, TEFL) Words, collocations, and common phrases in a language; vocabulary and word combinations.

Noun : The vocabulary used by a writer

leads

Noun : (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).

Noun : (countable, nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or (dated) to estimate velocity in knots.

Noun : A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.

lenin

Noun : Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, a Russian revolutionary and politician.

leper

Noun : A person who has leprosy, a person suffering from Hansen's disease.

Noun : (figurative) Synonym of outcast: A person who is shunned, a pariah.

Verb : (now rare) To afflict with leprosy.

leafy

Adjective : covered with leaves

Adjective : containing much foliage

Adjective : in the form of leaves (of some material)

leman

Noun : (archaic) One beloved; a lover, a sweetheart of either sex (especially a secret lover, gallant, or mistress).

Noun : (often negative) A paramour.

Noun : A surname.

leger

Adjective : (obsolete) Light; slender, slim; trivial.

Adjective : Lying or remaining in a place; hence, resident.

Noun : An ambassador or minister resident at a court or seat of government; a leiger or lieger.

leigh

Noun : (archaic) A meadow.

Noun : A surname from Middle English, variant of Lee.

Noun : A unisex given name transferred from the surname.

leven

Noun : eleven

Noun : A coastal town in Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO3800).

Noun : A village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA1045).

leone

Noun : A unit of currency of Sierra Leone, divided into 100 cents.

leaky

Adjective : Having leaks; not fully sealed.

leggy

Adjective : (UK, US, chiefly of a woman) Having long, attractive legs; long-legged.

Adjective : (slang, chiefly of a woman) Exposing the bare or pantyhose-clad legs, especially the thighs.

Adjective : Having numerous legs.

letch

Noun : (archaic) Strong desire; passion.

Noun : (informal) A lecher.

Noun : A stream or pool in boggy land.

lehar

Noun : hungarian composer of light operas (1870-1948

lefty

Noun : (Canada, US, informal) One who is left-handed.

Noun : (chiefly UK, informal) One who has left-wing political views.

Noun : (slang) One's left testicle.

levis

Noun : descendants of the Israelite tribe of Levi; Levites

Noun : Alternative spelling of Levi's [Blue jeans.]

lexia

Noun : Alternative form of lexie (unit of reading) [(literary theory) A minimal unit of reading, such as a sentence or sentence fragment]

leica

Noun : a right tributary of the river Siret in Romania.

leroy

Noun : A male given name transferred from the surname.

Noun : A surname from French.

Noun : A surname from French, borne by English speakers.

leche

Noun : Archaic form of lechwe. [Kobus leche, an African antelope that inhabits marshy regions.]

leafs

Noun : The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.

Noun : Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.

Noun : (publishing, bookbinding, advertising) A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).

let go

Verb : (intransitive, with of and transitive, with object before go) To release from one's grasp; to go from a state of holding on to a state of no longer holding on.

Verb : To emotionally disengage or to distract oneself from a situation.

Verb : (euphemistic) To dismiss from employment.

lexie

Noun : A female nickname, diminutive of the given names Alexis, Alexia, Alexandra or Alexandria.

Noun : (literary theory) A minimal unit of reading, such as a sentence or sentence fragment

leg up

Noun : The act of assisting another's progress over a wall or other obstacle by forming a step for one of their feet with one's hands.

Noun : (figuratively) A boost, a sudden improvement; an advantage, an edge.

Noun : (figuratively) Assistance, help given to get started or overcome a problem or obstacle.

leeds

Noun : A large city and metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England.

Noun : A village and civil parish of Maidstone borough, Kent, England, the site of Leeds Castle.

Noun : A number of places in the United States:

lepus

Noun : (astronomy) A winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a rabbit. It lies south of the constellation Orion.

leith

Noun : A port and urban area within Edinburgh council area, Scotland.

Noun : A minor river in Cumbria, England, which flows into the River Lyvennet, a tributary of the Eden.

Noun : A city and hamlet in North Dakota.

lepid

Adjective : (obsolete) pleasant; jocose

leona

Noun : A female given name from Latin, a feminine form of Leo through Leon.

letup

Noun : A pause or period of slackening.

lewes

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A placename

Noun : A town in East Sussex, England, United Kingdom

leans

Noun : (aviation, with the) A dangerous sensory illusion where the pilot of an aircraft believes themselves to be in a bank when they are actually wings-level, or vice-versa, often resulting in spatial disorientation and loss of control of the aircraft.

levan

Noun : A homopolysaccharide composed of D-fructofuranosyl.

Noun : A town in Utah.

Noun : A surname.

let in

Verb : (transitive) To let someone or something come in; to admit someone or something in.

Verb : To divulge one's inner thoughts to (someone), making oneself emotionally vulnerable to them; to open up to (someone).

Verb : (transitive, Oxford University slang) To associate with.

leuko

leyte

Noun : An island in the Philippines.

Noun : A province of the Philippines. Capital and largest city: Tacloban.

Noun : A municipality of Leyte, Philippines.

leaps

Verb : (intransitive) To jump.

Verb : (transitive) To pass over by a leap or jump.

Verb : (archaic, transitive) To copulate with (a female beast)

let on

Verb : Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, on.

Verb : (idiomatic) to reveal or indicate, especially unintentionally or against one's wishes

lepta

Noun : (proscribed) Alternative form of lepton [A coin used since ancient times in Greece, serving in modern times as one hundredth of a phoenix, a drachma, and a euro (as the Greek form of the Eurocent).]

leeks

Noun : The vegetable Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum, having edible leaves and an onion-like bulb but with a milder flavour than the onion.

Noun : Any of several species of Allium, broadly resembling the domesticated plant in appearance in the wild.

Noun : A town and civil parish with a town council in Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9856).

lenny

Noun : A diminutive of the male given name Leonard

let up

Verb : (intransitive) To cease or stop.

letty

Noun : A diminutive of the female given name Letitia.

Noun : A diminutive of the female given name Lettice.

lenox

Noun : Any of a number of places in the USA:

Noun : A town in Madison County, New York.

leben

Noun : a type of liquid foo

lemme

levet

Noun : (obsolete) A trumpet call for rousing soldiers; a reveille.

lehua

Noun : The flower or wood of a Polynesian tree (Metrosideros collina); the tree itself.

leere

Noun : (obsolete) tape or braid; an ornament

lente

Noun : An intermediate-acting form of insulin, between isophane and ultralente.

leese

Verb : (obsolete) To lose.

Verb : (obsolete) To release, set free.

Verb : (obsolete) To loosen, unfasten.

leggo

Noun : A form of calypso music; lavway.

lemmo

Noun : A surname from Italian.

leany

Adjective : (obsolete) lean

lepra

Noun : (medicine, archaic) Synonym of leprosy.

Noun : (medicine, obsolete) Synonym of psoriasis.

Noun : (botany, rare, obsolete) Any layer of algae, lichens, or other substance producing a leprosylike appearance on the surfaces of plants.

lendl

Noun : united states tennis player (born in czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships; in 1992 he became a united states citizen (born in 190

lenis

Adjective : (phonetics) Weakly articulated (of a consonant), hence voiced; especially as compared to the others of a group of homorganic consonants.

Noun : (phonetics) A lenis consonant.

Noun : A surname.

lerot

Noun : dormouse of southern europe and northern afric

lewin

Noun : A surname from Hebrew.

Noun : A village in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.

Noun : A village in the Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland.

lefse

Noun : A traditional soft Norwegian flatbread made from potato, flour, and milk or cream (or sometimes lard) and cooked on a griddle.

lends

Verb : (transitive) To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.

Verb : (intransitive) To make a loan.

Verb : (reflexive) To be suitable or applicable, to fit.

lexer

Noun : (computing) A computer program that performs lexical analysis.

legge

Noun : A surname.

Noun : Obsolete spelling of leg [A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land.]

leuco

lecky

Noun : (Britain, slang) Electricity.

Noun : A surname.

leder

lette

leila

Noun : A female given name from Arabic.

leaks

Noun : A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.

Noun : The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.

Noun : A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.

lelia

Noun : A female given name

lerch

Noun : A surname.

leasy

Adjective : (obsolete) flimsy; vague; deceptive

leoni

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