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Definition: Asleep |
AsleepAdjective1. In a state of sleep; "were all asleep when the phone rang"; "fell asleep at the wheel". 2. Lacking sensation; "my foot is asleep"; "numb with cold". 3. (euphemistic) "he is deceased"; "our dear departed friend". Adverb1. Into a sleeping state; "he fell asleep". 2. In the sleep of death. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "asleep" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Asleep \A*sleep"\, adjective. & adverb [Prefix a- + sleep.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Sleep is the process in which humans and other animals periodically rest, with decreased responsiveness to the surrounding world. Sleep occurs cyclically, roughly every 24 hours even though the average human inner body clock usually runs a 24.5-25.5 hour cycle. This cycle gets reset daily (to match 24 hours) with various stimuli such as sunlight. One of the correlates of this cycle is the level of melatonin, which is high at times when we tend to sleep. Some people sleep twice every 24 hours (afternoon nap, siesta).
Animals vary widely in their amounts of sleep, from 2 hours a day for giraffes to 20 hours for bats. Seals and dolphins "sleep" with alternate hemispheres of their brains asleep and the other awake. Seals need to do this so they can breathe above water while sleeping. Many animals hibernate in a deep sleep during winter to save warmth and energy. A similar kind of sleep is estivation, which is hibernating to escape the heat of summer.
Though there is still much debate about the evolutionary origins and purposes of sleep, it is widely theorised that one major function that occurs during sleep is consolidation and optimization of memories. Another function of sleep is the conservation of energy during inactivity. Other theorised functions include:
Sleep proceeds in cycles of NREM and REM phases. Each phase has a distinct physiological function. Dreaming, for example, appears to occur during REM sleep.
- promotion of physiological processes which rejuvenate the body and the mind: some studies suggest sleep restores neurons and increases production of brain proteins and certain hormones;
- unlearning during sleep prevents the brain from becoming overloaded with knowledge; and
- avoidance of danger: prehistoric mankind adapted the pattern of sleeping in caves at night, because it protected humans from species physiologically suited to function well in the dark, such as saber-toothed tigers.
Some medications (for example, sleeping pills) can suppress selective stages of sleep. This can result in obtaining sleep (loss of consciousness) without fulfilling its physiological function (memory remolding).
A majority of sleep disorders which originate within the body (for example, insomnia, DSPS, ASPS) result from errors in synchronization of sleep with the body clock. Only a fraction of sleep problems are organic and cannot be resolved with chronotherapy. One of the simplest solutions towards getting good sleep is free-running sleep. In simple terms, free-running sleep requires throwing away your alarm clock. Free-running sleep can resolve the majority of synchronization-dependent sleep disorders, but usually cannot be employed due to the resulting loss of synchronization of sleep with the outside world (including day-night cycle).
Sleep disorder is often observed in patients with a number of psychiatric problems (e.g. bipolar disorder, depression, schizophrenia, etc.).
Sleep can also refer to the state of hypnosis.
See also:
- Dreaming
- Seasonal Affective Disorder
- Sleep disorders
- Bruxism
- Narcolepsy
- Sleep apnea
- Sleepwalking
- Snoring
- lodging, bed, sleeping bag, sleeping pad
- yawn
- myclonic twitch
Additional Resources
- Animal Sleep
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sleep."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ASLEEP | English | Automated Scanning Low Energy Electron Probe | Physics |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: AsleepSynonyms: asleep(p) (adj), at peace(p) (adj), at rest(p) (adj), benumbed (adj), deceased (adj), departed (adj), gone (adj), numb (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: awake(p) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Activity | Phrase: carpe diem; (opportunity); nulla dies sine linea; nec mora nec requies; the plot thickens; No sooner said than done; (early); "veni vidi vici"; catch a weasel asleep; abends wird der Faule fleissig; dictum ac factum; schwere Arbeit in der Jugend ist sanfte Ruhe im Alter; "the busy hum of men ". |
Impossibility | Attempt impossibilities; square the circle, wash a blackamoor white; skin a flint; make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, make bricks without straw; have nothing to go upon; weave a rope of sand, build castles in the air, prendre la lune avec les dents, extract sunbeams from cucumbers, set the Thames on fire, milk a he-goat into a sieve, catch a weasel asleep, rompre l'anguille au genou, be in two places at once. |
Inactivity | Sleeping; Verb: asleep; fast asleep, dead asleep, sound asleep; in a sound sleep; sound as a top, dormant, comatose; in the arms of Morpheus, in the lap of Morpheus. |
Sleep, slumber, be asleep; hibernate; oversleep; sleep like a top, sleep like a log, sleep like a dormouse; sleep soundly, heavily; doze, drowze, snooze, nap; take a nap; Noun: dream; snore one's best; settle to sleep, go to sleep, go off to sleep; doze off, drop off; fall asleep; drop asleep; close the eyes, seal up the eyes, seal up eyelids; weigh down the eyelids; get sleep, nod, yawn; go to bed, turn; get some z's, stack z's. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Here he is, a man so deep, he's almost unfathomable. A man so quick, he's almost fast asleep! I give you, the steel handed stingray, Captain James Hook (Hook; writing credit: J.M. Barrie;) When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep and you're never really awake (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) I would stay asleep my whole life, if I could dream myself into a company of players (Shakespeare in Love; writing credit: Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard) Install the device tonight, while he's asleep. If he ever does sleep (2010; writing credit: Arthur C. Clarke; Peter Hyams) He fell asleep inside a radiation suit (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Lyrics | I fell asleep on the couch, I thought we were going out (We Need A Resolution; performing artist: Aaliyah) I don't want to fall asleep (I Don't Want To Miss A Thing; performing artist: AEROSMITH) How beautiful it was to fall asleep on your couch and cry in front of you for (Unsent; performing artist: Alanis Morissette) Pinch me, pinch me 'cause I'm still asleep (Pinch Me; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies) At sunrise I fight to stay asleep (Higher; performing artist: Creed) | |
Clever | The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. (references; author: unknown) Even if I'm not asleep, that doesn't mean I'm awake. (references; author: unknown) Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet. (references; author: unknown) You know it's love when you can't fall asleep because reality is better than dreams. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Asleep (1961) Bearly Asleep (1955) Asleep in the Feet (1933) I Love to Fall Asleep (1926) Asleep at the Switch (1923) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Truly and Bluford Asleep on Middeck. Credit: NASA. |  | Caption: Edison Asleep by the Roadside During an Automobile Trip Through North Carolina in Search of Cobalt, Fred Ott, Right of Automobile; North Carolina (NC); [1906?]; {14.225/173} (jpg). |
 | Over her frame she would fall asleep. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Woman asleep in bed. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A dog asleep on a porch with an American flag hanging from a post] / W. Steig. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Exhausted boy asleep at desk, migrant school, Cranbury, New Jersey, 1956. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A giant batchelor fur seal asleep. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pig asleep, Prince George's County, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Young flood refugee asleep in schoolhouse, Sikeston, Missouri. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Children asleep on bed during square dance, McIntosh County, Okla. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Asleep on a Boat" by William J. Ray Commentary: "As I recall I took this photo blind (from the hip), not wanting to arouse a hard-working woman from her sleep." | "Paw" by Dave Forsey Commentary: "Manous' paw, taken while he was asleep." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Aristotle | The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep. |
Author Unknown | It was once said that if you took all of the people who fell asleep in church and laid them end to end... they would be more comfortable. |
Laurence Sterne | One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct. |
Plutarch | All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | How the delicacy, the discretion of his favourite could have been so lain asleep! He feared there must be some decided involvement |
Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | They very soon came upon a Gryphon, lying fast asleep in the sun. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | But the town was all asleep. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | And, a common effect of the second stage of inebriety into which Enjolras had rudely and suddenly pushed him, a moment later he was asleep. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Then Brother Michael went away and after a while the fellow out of third of grammar turned in towards the wall and fell asleep. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And when she saw Ma fighting with her face, Rose of Sharon closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | He had seen them asleep thus |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | They are not a feature of falling asleep. (references) | |
For each opportunity, time to fall asleep is measured. (references) | ||
They may fall asleep at inappropriate times and places. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Brazil | In June 2000, Crispiniano was asleep at his home when a group of armed men identifying themselves as policemen forced their way in and arrested him without a warrant. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LOOKING-:GLASS:, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man's disillusion given. The King of Manchuria had a magic looking-glass, whereon whoso looked saw, not his own image, but only that of the king. A certain courtier who had long enjoyed the king's favor and was thereby enriched beyond any other subject of the realm, said to the king: "Give me, I pray, thy wonderful mirror, so that when absent out of thine august presence I may yet do homage before thy visible shadow, prostrating myself night and morning in the glory of thy benign countenance, as which nothing has so divine splendor, O Noonday Sun of the Universe!" Please with the speech, the king commanded that the mirror be conveyed to the courtier's palace; but after, having gone thither without apprisal, he found it in an apartment where was naught but idle lumber. And the mirror was dimmed with dust and overlaced with cobwebs. This so angered him that he fisted it hard, shattering the glass, and was sorely hurt. Enraged all the more by this mischance, he commanded that the ungrateful courtier be thrown into prison, and that the glass be repaired and taken back to his own palace; and this was done. But when the king looked again on the mirror he saw not his image as before, but only the figure of a crowned ass, having a bloody bandage on one of its hinder hooves -- as the artificers and all who had looked upon it had before discerned but feared to report. Taught wisdom and charity, the king restored his courtier to liberty, had the mirror set into the back of the throne and reigned many years with justice and humility; and one day when he fell asleep in death while on the throne, the whole court saw in the mirror the luminous figure of an angel, which remains to this day. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Mark Shields | Bob, Senator Richard Shelby didn't race to any conclusions. But boy, I'll tell you, he was tough on the FBI, accusing them of leaking and of being asleep at the switch. It was as tough an indictment of the bureau as I've heard recently. |
Melanie Griffith | I was asleep and my husband woke me up because he'd just flown in from Spain and he was awake and he watched it live. |
Rush Limbaugh | You've been asleep for most of your life! |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Asleep" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.88% of the time. "Asleep" is used about 2,463 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.88% | 2,460 | 3,652 |
| Noun (common) | 0.12% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,463 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "asleep". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Zaanannim | N/A | Biblical | A person asleep |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "asleep": be asleep ♦ be fast asleep ♦ be half asleep ♦ be sound asleep ♦ catch a weasel asleep ♦ dead asleep ♦ drop asleep ♦ fall asleep ♦ fall asleep again ♦ fast asleep ♦ go fast asleep ♦ half asleep ♦ lay asleep ♦ sound asleep ♦ To get asleep ♦ To lay asleep. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "asleep": half-asleep. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "asleep"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | slaap (be asleep, sleep). (various references) | |
Albanian | në gjumë (dormant, dozy, drowsily), i vdekur (dead, deceased, decedent, defunct, departed, extinct, gangrenous, gathered to one's fathers, lifeless, stone-dead), i përgjumur (dopey, dopy, dormant, dozy, drowsy, lethargic, sleepy, slumberous, somnolent, soporific), i mpirë (benumbed, dead, inert, lame, muscle bound, numb, obtuse, stale, torpid). (various references) | |
Arabic | نائم (sleeping), غافل (heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, incautious, incurious, insensible, oblivious, regardless, thriftless, unmindful, unthinking, unwary), ساكن (boarder, calm, constant, dweller, featureless, placid, static, tranquil). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | заспал (sleepy, slow), изтръпнал (dead). (various references) | |
Chinese | 睡著 , 睡着. (various references) | |
Czech | ve spaní, spící (dormant). (various references) | |
Danish | sove (be asleep, sleep). (various references) | |
Dutch | slapen (be asleep, sleep), maffen (be asleep, sleep). (various references) | |
Esperanto | dormi (be asleep, sleep). (various references) | |
Faeroese | sova (be asleep, sleep). (various references) | |
Farsi | خفته , خوابیده (Recumbent, Resting, Sleeper, Torpid), خواب (Dream, Nap, Sleep). (various references) | |
Finnish | nukuksissa. (various references) | |
French | endormi (fast asleep). (various references) | |
Frisian | sliepe (be asleep, sleep, to sleep). (various references) | |
German | schlafend (dormant, napping, nodding, roosting, sleeping). (various references) | |
Greek | κοιμώμενος, κοιμισμένοσ (dormant, sleeping), κοιμωμένοσ (sleeper). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | fle (be asleep, sleep). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ישן (old, sleep, sleeping, slumbering). (various references) | |
Hungarian | alva. (various references) | |
Icelandic | sofa (be asleep, sleep). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tidur (dormant, sleep), tak sadar (daze, unaware), semutan, macet (disturbance, interference, misfire, out of order, stuck, traffic delay). (various references) | |
Italian | addormentato (sleeping, sleepy, slow), dormiente (dormant, roosting). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 夢寐 (dreaming), 寝込み (sick in bed). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ねこみ (sick in bed), むび (dreaming). (various references) | |
Korean | 잠들어 있는. (various references) | |
Manx | ny cadley (dormant, unawakened). (various references) | |
Norwegian | sove (be asleep, sleep). (various references) | |
Papiamen | drumi (be asleep, sleep). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | asleepay.(various references) | |
Polish | spać (be asleep, sleep). (various references) | |
Portuguese | adormecido (numb, sleeper, sleeping, slumberous, torpid). (various references) | |
Romanian | amorţit (benumbed, dead, numb, torpid). (various references) | |
Russian | спящий (sleeper). (various references) | |
Scottish | caidil (be asleep, sleep). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zaspao, usnuo, u snu. (various references) | |
Spanish | dormido (lying down, sleeping). (various references) | |
Sranan | sribi (be asleep, sleep). (various references) | |
Swedish | sovande (dormant, sleeping). (various references) | |
Tagalog | matúlog (be asleep, sleep). (various references) | |
Thai | ไม่ตื่นตัว, นอนหลับ, ชา (cha, numb, Rosie Lee, tea). (various references) | |
Turkish | uyuyan (dormant, sleeping, slumberous), uyumakta, uyuşuk (benumbed, bonelazy, bovine, dormant, drowsy, happy, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, lazy, lethargic, lethargical, numb, poky, quiescent, slack, slacker, sleepy, slothful, slouching, slouchy, soggy, stick in the mud, supine, torpid), uyuşmuş (benumbed, dopey, numb, torpid, under the influence of drugs), uykuda (in the arms of morpheus), tembel (bonelazy, do nothing, do-little, drone, gold brick, idle, idle fellow, Idler, inactive, indolent, inert, laggard, languid, languorous, lazy, lazy person, lazybones, loon, lounger, slack, slacker, slothful, slouch, slug, sluggard, sluggish, stagnant, tired, torpid, workshy). (various references) | |
Turkmen | uklamak (fall asleep, sleep), oяaly-ukuly (dozing, half asleep), irkilmek (fall asleep). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сплячий (resting, sleeper, sleeping), тупий (bat-eyed, blockish, blunt, dense, dim witted, doughy, dull, logy, obtuse, opaque, oscitant, pointless, slow witted, wooden, wooden-headed), вялий, онімілий (numb, torpid), млявий (atonic, dopey, indolent, inert, languid, languorous, nerveless, oscitant, remiss), померлий (dead, defunct, departed, now defunct). (various references) | |
Welsh | yng nghwsg, yn cysgu. (various references) | |
Yucatec | wenel (be asleep, sleep). (various references) | |
Zulu | -lele (be asleep, sleep). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old English | 450-1100 | fall asleep: onslepan. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 43 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai elqwn euriskei autouV palin kaqeudontaV hsan gar autwn oi ofqalmoi bebarhmenoi |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et venit iterum et invenit eos dormientes erant enim oculi eorum gravati |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | & he com eft & gemette hyo slæpende. Soðlice heore eagen waren ge-heofegede. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And eftsoone he cam, and foond hem slepynge; for her iyen weren heuyed. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And he came and founde the a slepe agayne. For their eyes were hevy. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he came again and saw them sleeping, for their eyes were tired. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 43 |
| Cebuano | Ug miadto siya pag-usab sa iyang mga tinun-an, ug iyang nakita sila nga nanagkatulog kay nanagpirat man pag-ayo ang ilang mga mata. |
| Chinese | 又 來 見 他 們 睡 著 了 、 因 為 他 們 的 眼 睛 困 倦 。 |
| Croatian | I ponovno doðe i naðe ih pozaspale, oèi im se sklapale. |
| Danish | Og han kom og fandt dem atter sovende, thi deres Øjne vare betyngede. |
| Dutch | En komende bij hen, vond Hij hen wederom slapende; want hun ogen waren bezwaard. |
| Finnish | Ja tullessaan hän taas tapasi heidät nukkumasta, sillä heidän silmänsä olivat käyneet raukeiksi. |
| French | Il revint, et les trouva encore endormis; car leurs yeux étaient appesantis. |
| German | Und er kam und fand sie abermals schlafend, und ihre Augen waren voll Schlafs. |
| Hungarian | És mikor visszatér vala, ismét aluva találá õket; mert megnehezedtek vala az õ szemeik. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sesudah itu Yesus kembali lagi, dan mendapati pengikut-pengikut-Nya masih juga tidur, karena mereka terlalu mengantuk. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Apabila Ia kembali lagi, didapati-Nya mereka itu tertidur pula, karena matanya berat rasanya. |
| Manx Gaelic | As haink eh as hooar eh ad nyn gadley reesht: son va ny sooillyn oc trome. |
| Maori | Ko tona haerenga mai ano, na rokohanga mai e moe ana ano ratou; i taimaha hoki o ratou kanohi. |
| Norwegian | Og han kom og fant dem atter sovende; for deres øine var tunge. |
| Portuguese | E, voltando outra vez, achou-os dormindo, porque seus olhos estavam carregados. |
| Rumanian | S`a kntors iarqw la ucenici, wi i -a gqsit dormind; pentrucq li se kngreuiaserq ochii de somn. |
| Shuar | Nuyá ataksha taa ni menaintiu unuiniamuri tarimiayi. Tura kari ti nupeteam ataksha Kanúu pujuarmiayi. |
| Swahili | Akawaendea tena, akawakuta wamelala, maana macho yao yalikuwa yamebanwa na usingizi. |
| Swedish | När han sedan kom tillbaka, fann han dem åter sovande, ty deras ögon voro förtyngda. |
| Uma | Oti toe, nculii' wo'o-imi mporata ana'guru-na, leta' wo'o-ra-wadi apa' mopoke' mata-ra. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"Asleep" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Anselme, aseep, aslaug, asle, asleept, Asley, Saleeby. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "asleep" (pronounced uslē"p) |
| 4 | -s l ē" p | sleep. |
| 3 | -l ē" p | bleep, leap. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: elapse, please. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-p-s" | |
-1 letter: easel, lapse, leaps, lease, pales, peals, pease, peels, peles, pleas, salep, sepal, sleep, spale, speel. | |
-2 letters: alee, ales, alps, apes, apse, ease, eels, else, laps, lase, leap, leas, lees, pale, pals, pase, peal, peas, peel, pees, pele, plea, sale, salp, seal, seel, seep, slap, spae. | |
-3 letters: ale, alp, als, ape, asp, eel, els. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-p-s" | |
+1 letter: beleaps, elapsed, elapses, empales, leapers, pelages, pleased, pleaser, pleases, presale, relapse, repeals, sepaled, spelean. | |
+2 letters: calipees, capelets, cypselae, deplanes, empalers, empanels, emplaces, emplanes, enplanes, ensample, epaulets, espalier, especial, examples, heeltaps, opalesce, paleness, palettes, palewise, parolees, peakless, pearlers, pedestal, penalise, percales, petrales, pleaches, pleaders, pleasers, pleasure, pleaters, pleiades, poleaxes, prelates, relapsed, relapser, relapses, repanels, replaces, replates, repleads, resample, seaplane, sepaline, sepalled, spaetzle, spalpeen, spelaean, tapeless, vesperal. | |
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