5 Letter Words Ending in L

scowl

Noun : The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.

Noun : (by extension) Gloom; dark or threatening aspect.

Verb : (intransitive) To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry.

snarl

Verb : (transitive) To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.

Verb : (intransitive) To become entangled.

Verb : (transitive) To place in an embarrassing situation; to ensnare; to make overly complicated.

revel

Noun : An instance of merrymaking; a celebration.

Noun : A kind of dance.

Noun : A wake for the dead.

banal

Adjective : Common in a boring way, to the point of being predictable; containing nothing new or fresh.

Adjective : (uncommon, historical) Relating to a type of feudal jurisdiction or service.

avail

Verb : (transitive, often reflexive) To turn to the advantage of. [(chiefly) with of]

Verb : (transitive) To be of service to.

Verb : (transitive) To promote; to assist.

frail

Adjective : Easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish.

Adjective : Weak; infirm.

Adjective : (medicine) In an infirm state leading one to be easily subject to disease or other health problems, especially regarding the elderly.

impel

Verb : (transitive) To urge a person; to press on; to incite to action or motion via intrinsic motivation.

Verb : (transitive) To drive forward; to propel an object, to provide an impetus for motion or action.

quell

Verb : (transitive) To subdue, put down, or silence (someone or something); to force (someone) to submit.

Verb : (transitive) To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish.

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To kill.

vital

Adjective : Relating to or characteristic of life.

Adjective : Necessary to the continuation of life; being the seat of life; being that on which life depends.

Adjective : Invigorating or life-giving.

novel

Adjective : Newly made, formed or evolved; having no precedent; of recent origin; new.

Adjective : Original, especially in an interesting way; new and striking; not of the typical or ordinary type.

Noun : A work of prose fiction, longer than a novella.

model

Noun : A person who serves as a human template for artwork or fashion.

Noun : A person, usually an attractive male or female, who is hired to show items or goods to the public, such as items that are given away as prizes on a TV game show.

Noun : A representation of a physical object.

ideal

Adjective : Pertaining to ideas, or to a given idea.

Adjective : Existing only in the mind; conceptual, imaginary.

Adjective : Optimal; being the best possibility.

still

Adjective : Not moving; calm.

Adjective : Not effervescing; not sparkling.

Adjective : Uttering no sound; silent.

peril

Noun : A situation of serious and immediate danger.

Noun : Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.

Noun : (insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.

ravel

Verb : (transitive)

Verb : To entwine or tangle (something) confusedly; to entangle.

Verb : (also figuratively) Often followed by up: to form (something) out of discrete elements, like weaving fabric from threads; to knit.

swell

Verb : (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.

Verb : (transitive) To cause to become bigger.

Verb : (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.

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.

gnarl

Noun : A knot in wood; a knurl or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.

Noun : Something resembling a knot in wood, such as in stone or limbs.

Verb : (transitive) To knot or twist something.

shoal

Adjective : (now rare) Shallow.

Noun : A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow.

Noun : A shallow in a body of water.

regal

Adjective : Of or relating to royalty.

Adjective : Befitting a king, queen, emperor, or empress.

Adjective : Befitting a king, or emperor.

feral

Adjective : Wild; untamed.

Adjective : (of an animal) Wild but descended from domestic or captive ancestors; thus, in the wild, although not necessarily of the wild type.

Adjective : (of a person) Contemptible; unruly; misbehaved.

dwell

Noun : (engineering) A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.

Noun : (engineering) A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed.

Noun : (electrical engineering) A planned delay in a timed control program.

awful

Adjective : Very bad.

Adjective : Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively.

Adjective : (dated) Causing fear or horror; appalling, terrible.

churl

Noun : (feudalism, obsolete except historical)

Noun : A free peasant (as opposed to a serf) of the lowest rank, below an earl and a thane; a freeman; also (more generally), a person without royal or noble status; a commoner.

Noun : A bondman or serf.

nihil

Noun : (countable, law) A nihil dicit.

Noun : (uncountable, chiefly philosophy) nothingness, nonbeing

moral

Adjective : Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.

Adjective : Conforming to a standard of right behaviour; sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgment.

Adjective : Capable of right and wrong action.

stall

Noun : (countable) A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed.

Noun : A stable; a place for cattle.

Noun : A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.

basal

Adjective : Basic, elementary; relating to, or forming, the base, or point of origin.

Adjective : (anatomy) Associated with the base of an organism or structure.

Adjective : (medicine) Of a minimal level that is necessary for maintaining the health or life of an organism.

cabal

Noun : (derogatory) A putative, secret organization of individuals gathered for a political purpose.

Noun : A secret plot.

Noun : An identifiable group within the tradition of Discordianism.

growl

Noun : A deep, rumbling, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal.

Noun : (by extension) A similar sound made by a human.

Noun : (by extension) The rumbling sound made by a human's hungry stomach.

krill

Noun : any of several small marine crustacean species of plankton in the order Euphausiacea in the class Malacostraca.

Noun : A surname.

shell

Noun : A hard external covering of an animal.

Noun : The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.

Noun : (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.

troll

Noun : (originally Scandinavian mythology, now also European folklore and fantasy) a giant supernatural being, especially a grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges.

Noun : (by extension)

Noun : (derogatory, informal) A company, person, etc., that owns and legally enforces copyrights, patents, trademarks, or other intellectual property rights in an aggressive and opportunistic manner, often with no intention of commercially exploiting the subjects of the rights.

trill

Noun : (music) A rapid alternation between an indicated note and the one above it as an ornament; in musical notation usually indicated with the letters tr written above the staff.

Noun : (phonetics) A type of consonantal sound that is produced by vibrations of the tongue against the place of articulation: for example, Spanish ⟨rr⟩, /r/.

Noun : A tremulous high-pitched vocal sound produced by cats.

annul

Verb : (transitive) To formally revoke the validity of.

Verb : (transitive) To dissolve (a marital union) on the grounds that it is not valid.

angel

Noun : An incorporeal and sometimes divine messenger from a deity, or other divine entity, often depicted in art as a youthful winged figure in flowing robes.

Noun : (Abrahamic tradition) One of the lowest order of such beings, below virtues.

Noun : A person having the qualities attributed to angels, such as purity or selflessness.

devil

Noun : (theology) The chief devil; Satan.

Noun : (theology) An evil creature, the objectification of a hostile and destructive force.

Noun : (folklore) A fictional image of a man, usually red or orange in skin color; with a set of horns on his head, a pointed goatee and a long tail and carrying a pitchfork; that represents evil and portrayed to children in an effort to discourage bad behavior.

mogul

Noun : (rail transport) A steam locomotive of the 2-6-0 wheel arrangement.

Noun : A census-designated place in Washoe County, Nevada, United States.

Noun : A rich or powerful person; a magnate, nabob.

prowl

Verb : (ambitransitive) To rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner; especially, to search in, as for prey or booty.

Verb : (intransitive) To idle; to go about aimlessly.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To collect by plunder.

brawl

Noun : A disorderly argument or fight, usually with a large number of people involved.

Verb : (intransitive) To engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel.

Verb : (intransitive) To create a disturbance; to complain loudly.

skill

Noun : A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities, which are often regarded as innate.

Noun : (obsolete) Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.

Noun : (obsolete) Knowledge; understanding.

small

Adjective : Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.

Adjective : Humiliated or insignificant.

Adjective : Having a small penis, muscles, or other important body parts, regardless of overall body size.

quail

Verb : (intransitive) To waste away; to fade, to wither.

Verb : (transitive, now rare) To daunt or frighten (someone).

Verb : (intransitive) To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful.

whirl

Verb : (intransitive) To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.

Verb : (intransitive) To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.

Verb : (transitive) To make something or someone whirl.

cavil

Verb : (intransitive) To criticise for petty or frivolous reasons.

Noun : A petty or trivial objection or criticism.

expel

Verb : (transitive) To eject.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).

Verb : (transitive) To remove from membership.

steel

Noun : (countable, uncountable) An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.

Noun : (countable) Any item made of this metal, particularly including:

Noun : Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers.

cruel

Adjective : Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless.

Adjective : Harsh; severe.

Adjective : (slang) Cool; awesome; neat.

vigil

Noun : An instance of keeping awake during normal sleeping hours, especially to keep watch or pray.

Noun : A period of observation or surveillance at any hour.

Noun : The eve of a religious festival in which staying awake is part of the ritual devotions.

ghoul

Noun : (mythology) A demon said to feed on corpses.

Noun : A graverobber.

Noun : A person with an undue interest in death and corpses, or more generally in things that are revolting and repulsive.

prill

Verb : to flow, spurt

Noun : a rill, a small stream

Noun : (obsolete) a spinning top

pearl

Noun : A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery.

Noun : (figuratively) Something precious.

Noun : A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing liquid for e.g. medicinal application.

trial

Noun : An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are.

Noun : The testing of a product or procedure.

Noun : (medicine, sciences, research) A research study to test the effectiveness and safety of a drug, medical procedure, etc.

libel

Noun : (countable) A written or pictorial false statement which unjustly seeks to damage someone's reputation.

Noun : (uncountable) The act or tort of displaying such a statement publicly.

Noun : (countable) Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire.

whorl

Noun : Each circle, volution or equivalent in a pattern of concentric circles, ovals, arcs, or a spiral.

Noun : (botany) A circle of three or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem.

Noun : (zoology) A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.

extol

Verb : (transitive) To praise; to make high.

knell

Verb : (intransitive) To ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.

Verb : (transitive) To signal or proclaim something (especially a death) by ringing a bell.

Verb : (transitive) To summon by, or as if by, ringing a bell.

brill

Noun : A type of flatfish, Scophthalmus rhombus.

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP6514).

spiel

Noun : A lengthy and extravagant speech or argument usually intended to persuade.

Noun : (music) An early form of rap music.

Verb : (intransitive) To talk at length.

label

Noun : A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.

Noun : A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group.

Noun : (music) A company that sells records.

pupil

Noun : (dated outside UK) A learner at a school under the supervision of a teacher.

Noun : One who studies under supervision of a renowned expert in their field.

Noun : (law, obsolete) An orphan who is a minor and under the protection of the state.

trail

Verb : (transitive) To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).

Verb : (transitive) To drag (something) behind on the ground.

Verb : (transitive) To leave (a trail of).

spell

Noun : Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.

Noun : A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.

Noun : (obsolete) Speech, discourse.

fatal

Adjective : (rare, archaic) Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny.

Adjective : (rare, archaic) Foreboding death or great disaster.

Adjective : Causing death or destruction.

rebel

Noun : A person who resists an established authority, often violently.

Noun : (US, historical) Synonym of Confederate: a citizen of the Confederate States of America, especially a Confederate soldier.

Verb : (intransitive) To resist or become defiant toward an authority.

repel

Verb : (transitive, now rare) To turn (someone) away from a privilege, right, job, etc.

Verb : (transitive) To reject, put off (a request, demand etc.).

Verb : (transitive) To ward off (a malignant influence, attack etc.).

shawl

Noun : A square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders, typically by women.

Noun : A fold of wrinkled flesh under the lips and neck of a bloodhound, used in scenting.

Verb : (transitive) To wrap in a shawl.

idyll

Noun : Any poem or short written piece composed in the style of Theocritus's short pastoral poems, the Idylls.

Noun : An episode or series of events or circumstances of pastoral or rural simplicity, fit for an idyll; a carefree or lighthearted experience.

Noun : (music) A composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character, e.g. Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner.

navel

Noun : (anatomy) The indentation or bump remaining in the abdomen of placental mammals where the umbilical cord was attached before birth.

Noun : The central part or point of anything; the middle.

Noun : A navel orange.

civil

Adjective : (not comparable) Having to do with people and government office as opposed to the military or religion.

Adjective : (comparable) Behaving in a reasonable or polite manner; avoiding displays of hostility.

Adjective : (archaic) In a peaceful and well-ordered state.

modal

Adjective : Of, or relating to a mode or modus.

Adjective : (grammar) Of, relating to, or describing the mood of a clause.

Adjective : (music) Of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided, associated with emotional moods in Ancient — and in medieval ecclesiastical — music.

swill

Noun : (collective) A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose.

Noun : (by extension) Any disgusting or distasteful liquid.

Noun : (by extension, figurative) Anything disgusting or worthless.

frill

Noun : A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim.

Noun : (figurative) A substance or material on the edge of something, resembling such a strip of fabric.

Noun : (photography) A wrinkled edge to a film.

hovel

Noun : An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.

Noun : (derogatory) A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.

Noun : In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.

sigil

Noun : A seal, signature or signet.

Noun : An occult or magical sign, image or symbol.

Noun : (programming) A nonalphanumeric symbol affixed to a term (such as a variable) to indicate a property such as type or scope.

miaul

Noun : (dated) The cry of a cat.

Verb : (intransitive, dated) To give the cry of a cat.

cavel

Noun : (obsolete) A gag.

Noun : (dialectal) A horse's bit.

Noun : (obsolete or dialectal) The stick or runestaff used in casting lots; a lot.

athel

Adjective : (obsolete) noble, highborn

Adjective : (obsolete) excellent, splendid, fine

Adjective : (obsolete) genuine, sincere, devout

brool

Noun : A deep murmur.

drill

Verb : (transitive) To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).

Verb : (intransitive) To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.

Verb : (ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.

total

Noun : An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.

Noun : (informal, mathematics) Sum.

Adjective : Entire; relating to the whole of something.

rural

Adjective : Relating to the countryside or to agriculture.

Noun : (obsolete) A person from the countryside; a rustic.

twirl

Noun : A movement where a person spins round elegantly; a pirouette.

Noun : Any rotating movement; a spin.

Noun : A little twist of some substance; a swirl.

drawl

Verb : (transitive) To drag on slowly and heavily; to dawdle or while away time indolently.

Verb : (transitive) To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance.

Verb : (intransitive) To move slowly and heavily; to move in a dull, slow, lazy manner.

crool

Verb : (archaic, intransitive) To murmur or mutter.

Adjective : Alternative spelling of cruel [Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless.]

Verb : Alternative spelling of cruel [(chiefly Australia, New Zealand) To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success)]

bevel

Noun : An edge that is canted, one that is not a 90-degree angle; a chamfer.

Noun : An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; a bevel square.

Noun : (gambling) A die used for cheating, having some sides slightly rounded instead of flat.

jewel

Noun : A precious or semi-precious stone; gem, gemstone.

Noun : A valuable object used for personal ornamentation, especially one made of precious metals and stones; a piece of jewellery.

Noun : (figuratively) Anything precious or valuable.

venal

Adjective : (rare, archaic) Venous; pertaining to veins.

Adjective : (archaic) For sale; available for purchase.

Adjective : Of a position, privilege etc.: available for purchase rather than assigned on merit.

oriel

Noun : (architecture) A large polygonal recess in a building, such as a bay window, forming a protrusion on the outer wall.

Noun : (obsolete) A small apartment next to a hall, used for dining.

Noun : (Oxford University, informal) Ellipsis of Oriel College, Oxford.

knoll

Noun : A small mound or rounded hill.

Noun : (oceanography) A rounded, underwater hill with a prominence of less than 1,000 metres, which does not breach the water's surface.

Noun : A knell.

droll

Adjective : Oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish.

Noun : (archaic) A funny person; a buffoon, a wag.

Verb : (archaic) To jest, to joke.

chill

Noun : A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.

Noun : A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.

Noun : An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.

smell

Noun : A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.

Noun : (physiology) The sense that detects odours.

Noun : A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate.

focal

Adjective : Belonging to, concerning, or located at a focus.

Adjective : (medicine) Limited to a small area.

Noun : (geometry, obsolete) One of two lines perpendicular to the axis of a cone such that the cosine of the angle between the line and the axis is equal to the ratio of the cosines o the semiangles of the cone.

aural

Adjective : Of or pertaining to the ear.

Adjective : Of or pertaining to sound or hearing.

Adjective : Of or pertaining to an aura.

shall

Verb : Used before a verb to indicate the simple future tense in the first person singular or plural.

Verb : Used similarly to indicate determination or obligation in the second and third persons singular or plural.

Verb : Used in questions with the first person singular or plural to suggest a possible future action.

twill

Noun : (weaving) A pattern, characterised by diagonal ridges, created by the regular interlacing of threads of the warp and weft during weaving.

Noun : A cloth or portion of cloth woven in such a pattern.

Verb : (transitive) To weave (cloth, etc.) so as to produce the appearance of diagonal lines or ribs on the surface.

coral

Noun : (countable) Any of many species of marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa, most of which build hard calcium carbonate skeletons and form colonies, or a colony belonging to one of those species.

Noun : (uncountable) A hard substance made of the skeletons of these organisms.

Noun : (countable) A somewhat yellowish orange-pink color; the color of red coral (Corallium rubrum) of the Mediterranean Sea, commonly used as an ornament or gem.

spoil

Verb : (transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.

Verb : (transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.

Verb : (ambitransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).

royal

Adjective : Of or relating to a monarch or his (or her) family.

Adjective : Having the air or demeanour of a monarch; illustrious; magnanimous; of more than common size or excellence.

Adjective : (nautical) In large sailing ships, of a mast right above the topgallant mast and its sails.

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