4-letter words containing le
- leep — to boil or scald
- leer — to look with a sideways or oblique glance, especially suggestive of lascivious interest or sly and malicious intention: I can't concentrate with you leering at me.
- lees — Ann, 1736–84, British mystic: founder of Shaker sect in U.S.
- leet — elite
- left — of, relating to, or located on or near the side of a person or thing that is turned toward the west when the subject is facing north (opposed to right).
- lege — by virtue of law.
- lego — one of these blocks, usually as part of a set.
- legs — either of the two lower limbs of a biped, as a human being, or any of the paired limbs of an animal, arthropod, etc., that support and move the body.
- lehr — an oven used to anneal glass.
- leid — (Scotland, chiefly poetic) language.
- leif — a male given name.
- leis — Plural form of lei.
- leix — Laoighis.
- leks — Plural form of lek.
- lela — a female given name.
- lely — Sir Peter [pee-ter;; Dutch pey-tuh r] /ˈpi tər;; Dutch ˈpeɪ tər/ (Show IPA), (Pieter van der Faes) 1618–80, Dutch painter in England.
- lema — (physiology, rare) The secretion of the tarsal glands of the eye.
- lena — a river in the Russian Federation in Asia, flowing NE from Lake Baikal through the Yakutsk Republic into the Laptev Sea. 2800 miles (4500 km) long.
- lend — to grant the use of (something) on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.
- lene — (phonetics) The smooth breathing (spiritus lenis).
- leng — to tarry or linger
- leno — Also called leno weave, gauze weave. a weave structure in which paired warp yarns are intertwined in a series of figure eights and filling yarn is passed through each of the interstices so formed, producing a firm, open mesh.
- lens — a piece of transparent substance, usually glass, having two opposite surfaces either both curved or one curved and one plane, used in an optical device in changing the convergence of light rays, as for magnification, or in correcting defects of vision.
- lent — simple past tense and past participle of lend.
- leon — a province in NW Spain: formerly a kingdom. 5936 sq. mi. (15,375 sq. km).
- leps — Plural form of lep.
- lept — (archaic) Simple past form of leap.
- lere — (obsolete or UK dialectal, Scotland) To teach; instruct; explain; inform.
- lerp — (uncountable) A sweet secretion, produced by the larvae of the family Psyllidae, that forms scales on eucalyptus leaves.
- lese — (obsolete) To lose.
- lesk — (dialectal) The loin, flank.
- less — not at all (used before a verb): He little knows what awaits him.
- lest — With the intention of preventing (something undesirable); to avoid the risk of.
- leta — a female given name, form of Latona.
- leto — the mother by Zeus of Apollo and Artemis, called Latona by the Romans.
- lets — Archaic. to hinder, prevent, or obstruct.
- lett — a member of a people, the chief inhabitants of Latvia, living on or near the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea; Latvian.
- leud — a vassal or tenant in the early Middle Ages.
- leva — a coin and monetary unit of Bulgaria, equal to 100 stotinki. Abbreviation: L., LV.
- levi — Carlo [kahr-law] /ˈkɑr lɔ/ (Show IPA), 1902–75, Italian painter and writer.
- levo — levorotatory.
- levs — Plural form of lev.
- levy — an imposing or collecting, as of a tax, by authority or force.
- lewd — inclined to, characterized by, or inciting to lust or lechery; lascivious.
- leys — a pewter containing about 80 percent tin and 20 percent lead.
- lyle — a male given name.
- male — a republic in the Indian Ocean, SW of India, consisting of about 2000 islands: British protectorate 1887–1965. 115 sq. mi. (298 sq. km). Capital: Male.
- mele — Alternative form of mell.
- mile — Also called statute mile. a unit of distance on land in English-speaking countries equal to 5280 feet, or 1760 yards (1.609 kilometers).
- mlle — Mademoiselle