5 Letter Words Ending in L

scowl

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

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

Verb : (transitive) To look at or repel with a scowl or a frown.

snarl

Verb : (intransitive) To growl angrily by gnashing or baring the teeth; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.

Verb : (transitive) To complain angrily; to utter growlingly.

Verb : (intransitive) To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.

revel

Verb : To make merry; to have a happy, lively time.

Verb : To take delight (in something).

Noun : An instance of merrymaking; a celebration.

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 drive forward; to propel an object, to provide an impetus for motion or action.

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

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.

Noun : A subduing.

vital

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

Adjective : Very important.

Adjective : Relating to or characteristic of life.

novel

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

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

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

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 : Optimal; being the best possibility.

Adjective : Perfect, flawless, having no defects.

Noun : A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at.

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.

Verb : (transitive) To cause to be in danger; to imperil; to risk.

ravel

Verb : (transitive) To unwind (a reel of thread, a skein of yarn, etc.); to pull apart (cloth, a seam, etc.); to fray, to unpick, to unravel; also, to pull out (a string of yarn, a thread, etc.) from a piece of fabric, or a skein or reel.

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

Verb : (transitive) (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.

Adjective : Gnarled, knotty, twisted.

shoal

Noun : Any large number of persons or things.

Noun : (collective) A large number of fish (or other sea creatures) of the same species swimming together.

Noun : A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow.

regal

Adjective : Of, pertaining to, or suitable for royalty.

Adjective : Befitting a monarch.

Adjective : (strictly) 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.

Noun : A domesticated (non-human) animal that has returned to the wild; an animal, particularly a domesticated animal, living independently of humans.

dwell

Verb : (intransitive, now literary) To live; to reside.

Verb : (intransitive) To abide; to remain; to continue.

Verb : (intransitive) To linger (on); to remain fixated. [with on ‘a particular thought, idea, etc.’]

awful

Adjective : Very bad.

Adjective : Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively.

Verb : (US, Canada) Very, extremely.

churl

Noun : (by extension) (derogatory) A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor.

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 : (uncountable, chiefly philosophy) nothingness, nonbeing

Noun : (countable, law) A nihil dicit.

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

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

cabal

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

Noun : A secret plot.

Verb : (intransitive) To engage in the activities of a cabal.

growl

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

Verb : (intransitive) To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.

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

krill

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

Noun : (slang) Crack cocaine.

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) (derogatory, slang) An ugly or unpleasant person.

Noun : (by extension) (astronomy, meteorology) An optical ejection from the top of the electrically active core region of a thunderstorm that is red in colour and seems to occur after tendrils of vigorous sprites extend downward towards cloudtops.

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/.

Verb : (intransitive) To create a trill sound; to utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.

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 holy or semidivine messenger from a deity or other divine entity, traditionally depicted as a youthful, winged figure in flowing robes.

Noun : (figuratively) A person having qualities traditionally attributed to angels.

Noun : Someone who is kind or selfless.

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

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

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.

Noun : (colloquial) The act of prowling.

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 that are regarded as innate.

Adjective : (UK, slang) Great, excellent.

Verb : (video games) To spend acquired points in exchange for skills.

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

Noun : Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.

Noun : (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.

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

whirl

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

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

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

cavil

Noun : A petty or trivial objection or criticism.

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

expel

Verb : (transitive) To eject.

Verb : (transitive) To remove from membership.

Verb : (transitive) To deport.

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

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

ghoul

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

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

Noun : (derogatory, colloquial) A person with a callous or uncaring attitude to human life and suffering, particularly when prioritizing economic concerns.

prill

Noun : a pellet, a granule, a small bead

Verb : to flow, spurt

Noun : a rill, a small stream

pearl

Noun : (literally) 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 : Nacre; mother-of-pearl.

Noun : (figuratively) Something precious.

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

Noun : (law) A meeting or series of meetings in a court of law at which evidence is presented to a judge (and sometimes a jury) to allow them to decide on a legal matter (especially whether an accused person is guilty of a crime).

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.

Verb : To defame (someone), especially in a manner that meets the legal definition of libel.

whorl

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

Verb : (intransitive) To form a pattern of concentric circles.

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

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.

Noun : The sound of a bell knelling; a toll (particularly one signalling a death).

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.

Verb : (intransitive) To give a sales pitch; to promote by speaking.

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 : (anatomy) The hole in the middle of the iris of the eye, through which light passes to be focused on the retina.

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.

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.

Verb : To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.

fatal

Adjective : Causing death or destruction.

Noun : A fatality; an event that leads to death.

Noun : (computing) A fatal error; a failure that causes a program to terminate.

rebel

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

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

Verb : (intransitive, politics) To forcefully subvert the law of the land in an attempt to replace it with another form of government.

repel

Verb : (transitive) To drive back (an assailant, advancing force etc.).

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

Verb : (transitive) To cause repulsion or dislike in; to disgust.

shawl

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

Verb : (transitive) To wrap in a shawl.

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

idyll

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.

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

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

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

Adjective : (law) Relating to private relations among citizens, as opposed to criminal matters.

modal

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

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

Adjective : (logic) Of, or relating to the modality between propositions.

swill

Verb : (transitive) To drink (or, rarely, eat) greedily or to excess.

Noun : (informal) A large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow.

Noun : (informal) Inexpensive beer or alcohol.

frill

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

Noun : (figurative) Something extraneous or not essential; something purely for show or effect; a luxury.

Noun : (zoology) The relatively extensive margin seen on the back of the heads of reptiles, with either a bony support or a cartilaginous one.

hovel

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

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

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

sigil

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

Noun : A seal, signature or signet.

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 : (dialectal) A horse's bit.

Noun : (obsolete or dialectal) A parcel or allotment of land.

Noun : (obsolete or dialectal) A part, share, lot.

athel

Noun : A kind of tamarisk native to northern Africa and the Middle East, Tamarix aphylla, planted widely elsewhere as a shade tree and a windbreak due to its tolerance of heat and of alkaline soils, but tending to become invasive outside of its native range.

Adjective : (obsolete) noble, highborn

Adjective : (obsolete) excellent, splendid, fine

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.

Adjective : Entire; relating to the whole of something.

Adjective : (used as an intensifier) Complete; absolute.

rural

Adjective : Relating to the countryside or to agriculture.

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

twirl

Noun : Any rotating movement; a spin.

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

Verb : (intransitive) To perform a twirl.

drawl

Noun : A way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together, characteristic of some Southern US accents, as well as Broad Australian, Broad New Zealand, and Scots.

Verb : (intransitive) To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, as from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.

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

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.

Verb : (transitive) To give a canted edge to a surface; to 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.

jewel

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

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

Noun : (figuratively) Anything precious or valuable.

venal

Adjective : Capable of being bought (of a person); willing to take bribes.

Adjective : (of behaviour etc.) Corrupt, mercenary.

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, intransitive) To jest, to joke.

chill

Adjective : (slang) Calm, relaxed, easygoing.

Adjective : (slang) "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.

Adjective : (slang) Okay, not a problem.

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.

Verb : (transitive) To sense a smell or smells.

focal

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

Noun : The central or most important element of something; a focal element.

Adjective : (medicine) Limited to a small area.

aural

Adjective : Of or pertaining to sound or hearing.

Adjective : Of or pertaining to the ear.

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

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

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) To ruin; to damage in such a way as to make undesirable or unusable.

Verb : (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.

Verb : (intransitive, of food or drink) To go bad; to become sour or rancid; to decay.

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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