5-letter words containing as
- lassi — an Indian beverage of yogurt or buttermilk, water, and spices, often with the addition of fruit or sweetener.
- lasso — a long rope or line of hide or other material with a running noose at one end, used for roping horses, cattle, etc.
- lassu — the slow section of a csárdás folk dance
- lassy — Chiefly Scots Variant of lassie.
- lasts — occurring or coming after all others, as in time, order, or place: the last line on a page.
- lavas — Plural form of lava.
- lease — a system for keeping the warp in position and under control by alternately crossing the warp yarn over and under the lease rods.
- leash — a chain, strap, etc., for controlling or leading a dog or other animal; lead.
- least — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
- lepas — (zoology) Any of the genus Lepas of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, etc.; a goose barnacle.
- lhasa — Also, Thibet. Also called Sitsang, Xizang. Official name Tibet Autonomous Region. an administrative division of China, N of the Himalayas: prior to 1950 a theocracy under the Dalai Lama; the highest country in the world, average elevation about 16,000 feet (4877 meters). 471,660 sq. mi. (1,221,599 sq. km). Capital: Lhasa.
- liase — Misspelling of liaise.
- litas — a former silver coin and monetary unit of Lithuania, equal to 100 centai.
- lomas — city in E Argentina: suburb of Buenos Aires: pop. 573,000
- lotas — (in India) a small container for water, usually of brass or copper and round in shape.
- lucas — George, born 1944, U.S. film director.
- lukas — Paul, 1895–1971, U.S. actor, born in Hungary.
- lyase — any of various enzymes, as decarboxylase, that catalyze reactions involving the formation of or addition to a double bond.
- mamas — Plural form of mama.
- manas — an ancient kingdom in Iran, in Kurdistan.
- maras — a city in S Turkey, near the Taurus mountain range.
- masai — a member of an African people inhabiting the highlands of Kenya and Tanzania and having a largely pastoral economy and a society based on the patrilineal clan.
- masan — a seaport in SE South Korea.
- masc. — Masc. is a written abbreviation of masculine.
- maser — a device for amplifying electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission of radiation.
- mashy — mashie.
- masks — Plural form of mask.
- mason — Bobbie Ann, born 1940, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.
- massa — a city in W Italy, near the Ligurian Sea: important marble industry.
- masse — a stroke made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held almost or quite perpendicular to the table.
- massy — massive.
- mast- — masto-
- masta — (US, historical, colloquial) eye dialect of master, representing African American Vernacular English.
- masts — Plural form of mast.
- masty — (of a person) burly or big
- masur — Kurt, born 1927, German orchestral conductor.
- mayas — the power, as of a god, to produce illusions.
- mease — (UK, dialect, dated) five hundred.
- mesas — Plural form of mesa.
- miasm — (in homeopathy) any of the three underlying chronic diseases that afflict humankind: sycosis, syphilis, and psora.
- miass — a city in the S Russian Federation in Asia, near the Ural Mountains, W of Chelyabinsk.
- micas — Plural form of mica.
- midas — Classical Mythology. a Phrygian king, son of Gordius, who was given by Dionysus the power of turning whatever he touched into gold.
- mimas — Astronomy. one of the moons of Saturn.
- minas — an ancient unit of weight and value equal to the sixtieth part of a talent.
- miras — Astronomy. the first long-period pulsating variable star to be discovered, with a period averaging 331 days. It is a red giant and a component of a binary star in the constellation Cetus.
- monas — monad.
- moras — Plural form of mora.
- moxas — a flammable substance or material obtained from the leaves of certain Chinese and Japanese wormwood plants, especially Artemisia moxa.
- mynas — Plural form of myna.