5-letter words containing l, s, e
- dulse — a coarse, edible, red seaweed, Rhodymenia palmata.
- earls — Plural form of earl.
- easel — a stand or frame for supporting or displaying at an angle an artist's canvas, a blackboard, a china plate, etc.
- easle — a quantity of hot embers or ashes
- eblis — the chief evil jinni in Islamic mythology
- ecssl — Formerly APSE. An equation-oriented specification language for continuous simulations. The compiler outputs HYTRAN, which must be run on an analog processor.
- edsel — a male given name: from Old English words meaning “rich” and “hall.”.
- eisel — (obsolete) vinegar, verjuice.
- elias — Elijah
- elisa — enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay: an immunological technique for accurately measuring the amount of a substance, for example in a blood sample
- elisp — 1. (language) A Lisp variant originally implemented for DEC-20s by Chuck Hedrick of Rutgers. 2. (language) A common abbreviation for Emacs Lisp. Use of this abbreviation is discouraged because "Elisp" is or was a trademark.
- elkes — Plural form of elke.
- ellis — EuLisp LInda System. An object-oriented Linda system written for EuLisp. "Using Object-Oriented Mechanisms to Describe Linda", P. Broadbery <[email protected]> et al, in Linda-Like Systems and Their Implementation, G. Wilson ed, U Edinburgh TR 91-13, 1991.
- elops — any of several fishes of the genus Elops of the Elopidae family that are related to the tarpons
- elsan — a type of portable lavatory in which chemicals are used to kill bacteria and deodorize the sludge
- elsen — An awl, a pointed tool.
- elsie — (language) A distributed version of ELLIS.
- elves — A supernatural creature of folk tales, typically represented as a small, elusive figure in human form with pointed ears, magical powers, and a capricious nature.
- elvis — (tool) A vi lookalike which supports nearly all of the vi/ex commands, in both visual mode and colon mode. Like vi/ex, elvis stores most of the text in a temporary file instead of RAM. This allows it to edit files that are too large to fit in a single process' data space. Elvis runs under BSD UNIX, AT&T SysV UNIX, MINIX, MS-DOS, Atari TOS, Coherent, OS9/68000, VMS, Windows 95 and Windows NT. Elvis is just as awful to use as vi, so someone will like it. Version 1.8pl14 (1995-09-04). E-mail: Steve Kirkendall <[email protected]>.
- enols — Plural form of enol.
- esile — vinegar
- espol — Executive Systems Programming Oriented Language
- eusol — an antiseptic solution of chlorinated lime and boric acid
- evils — Plural form of evil.
- false — not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
- feels — Plural form of feel.
- felis — a genus of mostly small cats, including the domestic cat, margay, puma, and ocelot, sharing with certain cats of related genera an inability to roar due to ossification of the hyoid bone in the larynx.
- fells — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fell.
- felts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of felt.
- files — Plural form of file.
- fleas — Plural form of flea.
- flees — to run away, as from danger or pursuers; take flight.
- flesh — the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
- flews — a fishing net.
- flies — to move through the air using wings.
- floes — Also called ice floe. a sheet of floating ice, chiefly on the surface of the sea, smaller than an ice field.
- flues — Plural form of flue.
- flyes — Plural form of flye.
- fuels — Plural form of fuel.
- gales — Plural form of gale.
- gelds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of geld.
- gelts — Plural form of gelt.
- giles — Saint, 8th century a.d., Athenian hermit in France.
- glees — Plural form of glee.
- glens — Plural form of glen.
- glues — Plural form of glue.
- gules — the tincture red.
- hales — to compel (someone) to go: to hale a man into court.
- halse — to hug or to embrace
- heals — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of heal.