4-letter words containing a, e
- baze — (transitive, obsolete) To stupefy; frighten; alarm.
- bead — Beads are small pieces of coloured glass, wood, or plastic with a hole through the middle. Beads are often put together on a piece of string or wire to make jewellery.
- beag — (historical) A ring.
- beak — A bird's beak is the hard curved or pointed part of its mouth.
- beal — a god of the ancient Celts, a personification of the sun.
- beam — If you say that someone is beaming, you mean that they have a big smile on their face because they are happy, pleased, or proud about something.
- bean — Beans such as green beans, French beans, or broad beans are the seeds of a climbing plant or the long thin cases which contain those seeds.
- bear — If you bear something somewhere, you carry it there or take it there.
- beas — a female given name, form of Beatrice.
- beat — If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard.
- beau — A woman's beau is her boyfriend or lover.
- beja — a member of a group of nomadic, predominantly Muslim peoples of northeastern Sudan.
- bela — a male given name.
- bema — the speaker's platform in the assembly in ancient Athens
- beta — the second letter in the Greek alphabet (Β, β), a consonant, transliterated as b
- blae — bluish-grey; slate-coloured
- brae — a hill or hillside; slope
- brea — a town in S California.
- cabe — Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment
- cade — a juniper tree, Juniperus oxycedrus of the Mediterranean region, the wood of which yields an oily brown liquid (oil of cade) used to treat skin ailments
- caen — an industrial city in NW France. Pop: 112 790 (2008)
- cafe — A café is a place where you can buy drinks, simple meals, and snacks, but, in Britain, not usually alcoholic drinks.
- cage — A cage is a structure of wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
- cake — A cake is a sweet food made by baking a mixture of flour, eggs, sugar, and fat in an oven. Cakes may be large and cut into slices or small and intended for one person only.
- came — Came is the past tense of come.
- cane — Cane is used to refer to the long, hollow, hard stems of plants such as bamboo. Strips of cane are often used to make furniture, and some types of cane can be crushed and processed to make sugar.
- cape — A cape is a large piece of land that sticks out into the sea from the coast.
- care — If you care about something, you feel that it is important and are concerned about it.
- case — A particular case is a particular situation or incident, especially one that you are using as an individual example or instance of something.
- cate — a choice bit; dainty
- cave — A cave is a large hole in the side of a cliff or hill, or one that is under the ground.
- caze — Obsolete spelling of because.
- ccea — Northern Ireland Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment
- ceca — a cul-de-sac, especially that in which the large intestine begins.
- cela — Camilo José (kaˈmilo xoˈse). 1916–2002, Spanish novelist and essayist. His works include The Family of Pascual Duarte (1942), La Colmena (1951), and La Cruz de San Andrés (1994). Nobel prize for literature 1989
- cera — (in prescriptions) wax.
- ceta — Comprehensive Employment and Training Act
- cewa — Chewa.
- clea — a female given name, form of Cleopatra.
- cmea — Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
- dace — A dace is a type of fish that lives in rivers and lakes.
- dade — (obsolete, intransitive) To walk unsteadily, like a child; to move slowly.
- daie — Archaic spelling of day.
- dale — A dale is a valley.
- dame — Dame is a title given to a woman as a special honour because of important service or work that she has done.
- dane — A Dane is a person who comes from Denmark.
- dare — If you do not dare to do something, you do not have enough courage to do it, or you do not want to do it because you fear the consequences. If you dare to do something, you do something which requires a lot of courage.
- dase — Obsolete form of daze.
- date — A date is a specific time that can be named, for example a particular day or a particular year.
- dave — David Warren ("Dave") 1920–2012, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.