5-Letter Words Containing: E,L,L,S

• A homeless person, especially one who sleeps in the New York subway.

• (police jargon) A male suspicious person or crime suspect, especially a street person such as a drug dealer, pimp or panhandler.

• To fall off or fall over.

• ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun

• the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals

• hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles

• the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts

• the exterior covering of a bird's egg

• a rigid covering that envelops an object

• a very light narrow racing boat

• the housing or outer covering of something

• a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)

• the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod

• use explosives on

• create by using explosives

• fall out of the pod or husk

• hit the pitches of hard and regularly

• look for and collect shells by the seashore

• come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

• remove from its shell or outer covering

• remove the husks from

• the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea

• a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)

• a crescendo followed by a decrescendo

• a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance

• excellent

• increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity

• become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger

• expand abnormally

• come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)

• come up, as of a liquid

• cause to become swollen

• prolific English writer best known for his science-fiction novels; he also wrote on contemporary social problems and wrote popular accounts of history and science (1866-1946)

• a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition

• a loud utterance of emotion (especially when inarticulate)

• utter a sudden loud cry

• utter or declare in a very loud voice

• (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment

• any place of pain and turmoil

• (religion) the world of the dead

• a cause of difficulty and suffering

• noisy and unrestrained mischief

• the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)

• seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges

• the act of felling something (as a tree)

• (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

• cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow

• pass away rapidly

• sew a seam by folding the edges

• the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form

• any property detected by the olfactory system

• the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people

• the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents

• the act of perceiving the odor of something

• inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense

• emit an odor

• smell bad

• have an element suggestive (of something)

• become aware of not through the senses but instinctively

• a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation

• a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)

• a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition

• a verbal formula believed to have magical force

• orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of

• indicate or signify

• write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word)

• relieve (someone) from work by taking a turn

• place under a spell

• take turns working