4-letter words containing l
- egal — equal.
- eild — (obsolete, or, dialectal, Scotland) Age.
- elam — an ancient kingdom east of the River Tigris: established before 4000 bc; probably inhabited by a non-Semitic people
- elan — Energy, style, and enthusiasm.
- elat — Eilat
- elba — a mountainous island off the W coast of Italy, in the Mediterranean: Napoleon Bonaparte's first place of exile (1814–15). Pop: 30 000 (latest est). Area: 223 sq km (86 sq miles)
- elbe — a river in central Europe, rising in the N Czech Republic and flowing generally northwest through Germany to the North Sea at Hamburg. Length: 1165 km (724 miles)
- eldo — European Launcher Development Organization
- eldr — European Liberal Democratic and Reform (Party): a European political party in the European Parliament (1994–2004)
- elea — (in ancient Italy) a Greek colony on the Tyrrhenian coast of Lucana
- elec — electric
- elem — element(s)
- elev — elevation
- elfe — A female elf, a fairy, nymph.
- elhi — (of educational material) designed to be used by students in elementary school or high school
- elia — a department of SW Greece, in the W Peloponnese: in ancient times most of the region formed the state of Elis. Pop: 183 521 (2001). Area: 2681 sq km (1035 sq miles)
- elis — an ancient city-state of SW Greece, in the NW Peloponnese: site of the ancient Olympic games
- elix — To draw out or extract.
- eliz — Elizabethan
- elke — The European wild or whistling swan (Cygnus ferus).
- elks — Plural form of elk.
- ella — A hardware design language from DRA Malvern. Implemented in ALGOL68-RS. E-mail: <[email protected]>. SPARC version.
- ello — Eye dialect of hello.
- ells — Plural form of ell.
- elms — Plural form of elm.
- elmy — (rare, poetic) Pertaining to elm trees; in which elms grow.
- elsa — a feminine name
- else — thing other than
- elul — (in the Jewish calendar) the sixth month of the year according to biblical reckoning and the twelfth month of the civil year, usually falling within August and September
- elve — (astronomy, meteorology) an upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms, rapidly expanding disk-shaped regions of luminosity, lasting less than a thousandth of a second, which occur high above energetic cloud-to-ground lightning of positive or negative polarity.
- emil — a masculine name: fem. Emily
- enal — (organic chemistry) Any aldehyde having a neighbouring double bond.
- enol — (organic chemistry) An organic compound containing a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom, which is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
- eorl — an Anglo-Saxon nobleman
- esml — Extended Systems Modelling Language
- eula — end-user licence agreement: the agreement made by a user before being granted permission to use computer software
- eval — Evaluation.
- evil — Profoundly immoral and malevolent.
- excl — exclamation mark
- exul — an exile, a person who has been banished
- fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
- falk — (UK, dialect) The razorbill.
- fall — to come or drop down suddenly to a lower position, especially to leave a standing or erect position suddenly, whether voluntarily or not: to fall on one's knees.
- falt — An old English measure of wheat in London containing 9 bushels.
- falx — a structure shaped like a sickle, as a fold of dura mater separating the cerebral hemispheres.
- faql — frequently asked question
- farl — a thin, circular cake of flour or oatmeal.
- feal — Archaic. faithful; loyal.
- feel — to perceive or examine by touch.
- fele — (dialectal, or, obsolete) Greatly, much, very.