5-letter words containing h, e, l
- lehar — Franz [frahnts] /frɑnts/ (Show IPA), 1870–1948, Hungarian composer of operettas.
- lehua — Also called ohia lehua. a tree, Metrosideros villosa, of the Hawaiian islands, yielding a hard wood.
- leigh — Vivien (Vivian Mary Hartley) 1913–67, English actress.
- leish — active or athletic
- leith — a seaport in SE Scotland, on the Firth of Forth: now part of Edinburgh.
- leshy — (Slavic mythology) A male woodland spirit in Slavic mythology who protects wild animals and forests.
- letch — a lecherous desire or craving.
- letha — a female given name.
- lethe — Classical Mythology. a river in Hades whose water caused forgetfulness of the past in those who drank of it.
- lieth — Archaic third-person singular form of lie.
- lithe — bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible: the lithe body of a ballerina.
- loche — the North American burbot.
- lyeth — Archaic third-person singular form of lye.
- lythe — (obsolete) soft; flexible.
- mehul — Étienne Nicolas [ey-tyen nee-kaw-lah] /eɪˈtyɛn ni kɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), or Étienne Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1763–1817, French composer.
- mohel — the person who performs the circumcision in the Jewish rite of circumcising a male child on the eighth day after his birth.
- phyle — (in ancient Greece) a tribe or clan, based on supposed kinship.
- sahel — the arid area on the S flank of the Sahara desert that stretches across six countries from Senegal to Chad.
- selah — an expression occurring frequently in the Psalms, thought to be a liturgical or musical direction, probably a direction by the leader to raise the voice or perhaps an indication of a pause.
- shale — a rock of fissile or laminated structure formed by the consolidation of clay or argillaceous material.
- sheal — a shell or pod
- shelf — a thin slab of wood, metal, etc., fixed horizontally to a wall or in a frame, for supporting objects.
- shell — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
- sheol — the abode of the dead or of departed spirits.
- shiel — a pasture or grazing ground.
- shlep — to carry; lug: to schlep an umbrella on a sunny day.
- thelf — an archaic contraction of the elf
- thole — a pin, or either of two pins, inserted into a gunwale to provide a fulcrum for an oar.
- thule — (italics) Latin. the highest degree attainable.
- uhelp — A linear programming system.
- welch — welsh.
- welsh — to cheat by failing to pay a gambling debt: You aren't going to welsh on me, are you?
- whale — any of the larger marine mammals of the order Cetacea, especially as distinguished from the smaller dolphins and porpoises, having a fishlike body, forelimbs modified into flippers, and a head that is horizontally flattened.
- wheal — a small, burning or itching swelling on the skin, as from a mosquito bite or from hives.
- wheel — a circular frame or disk arranged to revolve on an axis, as on or in vehicles or machinery.
- whelk — a pimple or pustule.
- whelm — to submerge; engulf.
- whelp — the young of the dog, or of the wolf, bear, lion, tiger, seal, etc.
- while — a period or interval of time: to wait a long while; He arrived a short while ago.
- whole — comprising the full quantity, amount, extent, number, etc., without diminution or exception; entire, full, or total: He ate the whole pie. They ran the whole distance.
- whsle — wholesale
- whyle — Obsolete spelling of while.