4-letter words containing ea
- gaea — the ancient Greek goddess of the earth, mother of the Titans.
- geal — (obsolete, or, Scotland) To congeal.
- gean — heart cherry.
- gear — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- geas — (in Irish folklore) an obligation or prohibition magically imposed on a person.
- geat — The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mould in casting.
- head — Edith, 1897–1981, U.S. costume designer.
- heaf — (Northern England) A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become heafed; a heft.
- heah — Eye dialect of here.
- heal — to make healthy, whole, or sound; restore to health; free from ailment.
- heam — The afterbirth or secundus of an animal.
- hean — (obsolete) Mean; abject; poor; humble; lowly.
- heap — a group of things placed, thrown, or lying one on another; pile: a heap of stones.
- hear — to perceive by the ear: Didn't you hear the doorbell?
- heat — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- hfea — Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority
- iaea — International Atomic Energy Agency
- idea — any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity.
- ilea — Anatomy. the third and lowest division of the small intestine, extending from the jejunum to the cecum.
- itea — any tree or shrub belonging to the genus Itea, of the saxifrage family, having simple, alternate leaves and clusters of small, greenish-white flowers, as the Virginia willow, I. virginica.
- jean — born 1921, Grand Duke of Luxembourg 1964–2000.
- jeat — Obsolete form of jet.
- kean — Edmund, 1787–1833, English actor, especially known for performance of Shakespearean roles.
- keas — Plural form of kea.
- keat — a young guinea fowl.
- lead — to cover, line, weight, treat, or impregnate with lead or one of its compounds.
- leaf — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
- leag — Archaic spelling of league.
- leah — the first wife of Jacob. Gen. 29:23–26.
- leak — an unintended hole, crack, or the like, through which liquid, gas, light, etc., enters or escapes: a leak in the roof.
- leal — loyal; true.
- leam — (intransitive, UK, dialectal) To gleam; shine; glow.
- lean — to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window.
- leap — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
- lear — Edward, 1812–88, English writer of humorous verse and landscape painter.
- leas — Plural form of lea.
- leat — An artificial watercourse, canal or aqueduct, but especially a millrace.
- mead — George Herbert, 1863–1931, U.S. philosopher and author.
- meak — (obsolete) A hook with a long handle.
- meal — a coarse, unsifted powder ground from the edible seeds of any grain: wheat meal; cornmeal.
- mean — to intend for a particular purpose, destination, etc.: They were meant for each other. Synonyms: destine, foreordain.
- mear — a boundary or boundary marker.
- meas — (knitting) measures.
- meat — the flesh of animals as used for food.
- meaw — Dated form of meow.
- ncea — National Certificate of Educational Attainment
- neaf — Alternative form of nief (
- neal — a male given name.
- neam — (dialectal) Alternative form of eam.
- neap — designating tides midway between spring tides that attain the least height.