6-letter words containing l, e
- aiglet — a metal or plastic tag or sheath at the end of a lace used for tying, as of a shoelace.
- aileen — a feminine name
- airtel — A form of communication formerly used within the FBI.
- aisles — a walkway between or along sections of seats in a theater, classroom, or the like.
- akeley — Carl Ethan, 1864–1926, U.S. naturalist, explorer, and sculptor.
- alagez — Aragats
- alated — having wings; winged.
- albedo — the ratio of the intensity of light reflected from an object, such as a planet, to that of the light it receives from the sun
- albeit — You use albeit to introduce a fact or comment which reduces the force or significance of what you have just said.
- albers — Josef. 1888–1976, US painter, designer, and poet, born in Germany. His works include a series of abstract paintings entitled Homage to the Square
- albert — a kind of watch chain usually attached to a waistcoat
- albiet — Misspelling of albeit.
- albite — a colourless, milky-white, yellow, pink, green, or black mineral of the feldspar group and plagioclase series, found in igneous sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. It is used in the manufacture of glass and ceramics. Composition: sodium aluminium silicate. Formula: NaALSi3O8. Crystal structure: triclinic
- alcade — a mayor having judicial powers.
- alcove — An alcove is a small area of a room which is formed by one part of a wall being built further back than the rest of the wall.
- aldern — made of alder wood
- alders — Plural form of alder.
- aldine — relating to Aldus Manutius (1450–1515), Italian printer, or to his editions of the classics
- aldose — a sugar that contains the aldehyde group or is a hemiacetal
- alecto — one of the three Furies; the others are Megaera and Tisiphone
- alegar — malt vinegar
- alegge — to alleviate or lighten (a grief or burden)
- aleman — Mateo (maˈteo). 1547–?1614, Spanish novelist, author of the picaresque novel Guzmán de Alfarache (1599)
- alephs — Plural form of aleph.
- aleppo — an ancient city in NW Syria: industrial and commercial centre; scene of heavy fighting from 2012 between various rebel forces and army units loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. Pop: 2 505 000 (2005 est)
- alerce — the wood of the sandarac tree
- alerts — Plural form of alert.
- alesia — an ancient city and fortress in Gaul: Caesar captured Vercingetorix here 52 b.c.
- aletes — a son of Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. He became ruler of Mycenae after the death of his parents.
- alette — (in classical architecture) a part of a pier, flanking a pilaster or engaged column and supporting either impost of an arch.
- alevin — a young fish, esp a young salmon or trout
- alexia — a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by impaired ability to read
- alexic — relating to or of the neurological condition alexia
- alexin — complement (def 10).
- alexis — a masculine and feminine name
- alfred — an old-fashioned male forename
- alfven — Hannes Olaf Gösta (ˈhannɛs ˈuːlaf ˈjøsta). 1908–95, Swedish physicist, noted for his research on magnetohydrodynamics; shared the Nobel prize for physics in 1970
- algate — by any means; anyway
- algren — Nelson. 1909–81, US novelist. His novels, mostly set in Chicago, include Never Come Morning (1942) and The Man with the Golden Arm (1949)
- alible — nourishing; nutritious
- aliens — Plural form of alien.
- alieve — (philosophy, psychology) To subconsciously feel as if something is true, even if one does not believe it; to hold an alief.
- alined — to arrange in a straight line; adjust according to a line.
- alines — (especially in women's clothing) a cut of garment consisting basically of two A -shaped panels for the front and back, designed to give increasing fullness toward the hemline.
- aliped — (of bats and similar animals) having the digits connected by a winglike membrane
- aliter — Otherwise.
- alkane — any saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon with the general formula CnH2n+2
- alkene — any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon with the general formula CnH2n
- alkies — Plural form of alkie.
- alkine — any member of the alkyne series.