5-letter words containing r, l, e
- leger — Alexis Saint-Léger [a-lek-see san-ley-zhey] /a lɛkˈsi sɛ̃ leɪˈʒeɪ/ (Show IPA), St.-John Perse.
- lehar — Franz [frahnts] /frɑnts/ (Show IPA), 1870–1948, Hungarian composer of operettas.
- lemur — any of various small, arboreal, chiefly nocturnal mammals of the family Lemuridae, of Madagascar and the Comoro Islands, especially of the genus Lemur, usually having large eyes, a foxlike face, and woolly fur: most lemurs are endangered.
- leper — a person who has leprosy.
- lepra — Leprosy Relief Association
- lerna — a marshy region near Argos, Greece: the legendary abode of the Hydra slain by Hercules.
- leros — one of the Dodecanese Islands of Greece, off the SW coast of Turkey. 21 sq. mi. (54 sq. km).
- leroy — a male given name: from Old French, meaning “the king.”.
- lever — tool for lifting
- lewer — Comparative form of lew.
- lexer — lexical analyser
- liber — an ancient Italian god of wine and vineyards, in later times identified with Bacchus.
- libre — (free software movement) With very few limitations on distribution or improvement; including source code.
- liers — a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- lifer — a person sentenced to or serving a term of life imprisonment.
- liger — the offspring of a male lion and a female tiger.
- liker — Digital Technology. (sometimes initial capital letter) noting or pertaining to a feature used to like specific website content: a Like button; like boxes.
- limer — (obsolete) A kind of dog kept on a lead; a bloodhound; a mongrel.
- liner — something serving as a lining.
- liter — light2 (def 36).
- litre — a unit of capacity redefined in 1964 by a reduction of 28 parts in a million to be exactly equal to one cubic decimeter. It is equivalent to 1.0567 U.S. liquid quarts and is equal to the volume of one kilogram of distilled water at 4°C. Abbreviation: l.
- liver — a person who lives in a manner specified: an extravagant liver.
- livre — a former money of account and group of coins of France, issued in coin form first in gold, then in silver, finally in copper, and discontinued in 1794.
- loire — a river in France, flowing NW and W into the Atlantic: the longest river in France. 625 miles (1005 km) long.
- loner — a person who is or prefers to be alone, especially one who avoids the company of others: He was always a loner—no one knew him well.
- loper — a person or thing that lopes, as a horse with a loping gait.
- lorde — real name Ella Yelich-O'Connor. born 1996, New Zealand singer and songwriter, noted for her song Royals (2013)
- lorel — A good-for-nothing fellow; a vagabond; losel.
- loren — a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- lores — the space between the eye and the bill of a bird, or a corresponding space in other animals, as snakes.
- lorne — Firth of, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, on the W coast of Scotland, leading NE to the Caledonian Canal.
- lorre — Peter (László Loewenstein) 1904–64, U.S. film actor, born in Hungary.
- loser — a person, team, nation, etc., that loses: The visiting team was the loser in the series.
- louer — Obsolete typography of lover.
- loure — a slow dance of French origin
- lover — Samuel, 1797–1868, Irish novelist, painter, and songwriter.
- lower — to cause to descend; let or put down: to lower a flag.
- lucre — monetary reward or gain; money.
- luger — Someone who competes in the luge.
- lured — anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
- lurer — anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
- lures — Plural form of lure.
- lurex — Alternative capitalization of Lurex.
- lurie — Alison. born 1926, US novelist. Her novels include Imaginary Friends (1967), The War Between the Tates (1974), Foreign Affairs (1985), and The Last Resort (1998)
- lurve — (informal) Love, fondness.
- luser — (jargon, abuse) /loo'zr/ A user; especially one who is also a loser. (luser and loser are pronounced identically.) This word was coined around 1975 at MIT. Under ITS, when you first walked up to a terminal at MIT and typed Control-Z to get the computer's attention, it printed out some status information, including how many people were already using the computer; it might print "14 users", for example. Someone thought it would be a great joke to patch the system to print "14 losers" instead. There ensued a great controversy, as some of the users didn't particularly want to be called losers to their faces every time they used the computer. For a while several hackers struggled covertly, each changing the message behind the back of the others; any time you logged into the computer it was even money whether it would say "users" or "losers". Finally, someone tried the compromise "lusers", and it stuck. Later one of the ITS machines supported "luser" as a request-for-help command. ITS died the death in mid-1990, except as a museum piece; the usage lives on, however, and the term "luser" is often seen in program comments. See: also LART. Compare: tourist, weenie.
- luter — One who applies lute.
- lyres — Plural form of lyre.
- maerl — an accumulation of red coralline algae
- meril — a counter used in the game of merils