5-Letter Words Containing: R,A,L,E

• become less tense, rest, or take one's ease

• make less taut

• become loose or looser or less tight

• cause to feel relaxed

• become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner

• make less severe or strict

• become less severe or strict

• make less active or fast

• pronounced with muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in `bet')

• lacking in firmness or tension; not taut

• lacking in rigor or strictness

• emptying easily or excessively

• One engaged in sport; a player; an actor.

• A wharfman who resides near a lake.

• A ship used on the Great Lakes.

• at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time

• being or occurring at an early stage of development

• of an early stage in the development of a language or literature

• during an early stage

• before the usual time or the time expected

• in good time

• belonging to the distant past

• very young

• expected in the near future

• single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance

• a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another

• an abstract place usually conceived as having depth

• a hen that lays eggs

• thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells

• make or form a layer

• a shape that spreads outward

• a sudden burst of flame

• a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate

• reddening of the skin spreading outward from a focus of infection or irritation

• a sudden recurrence or worsening of symptoms

• a sudden eruption of intense high-energy radiation from the sun's surface; associated with sunspots and radio interference

• an unwanted reflection in an optical system (or the fogging of an image that is caused by such a reflection)

• a sudden outburst of emotion

• a device that produces a bright light for warning or illumination or identification

• a short forward pass to a back who is running toward the sidelines

• (baseball) a fly ball hit a short distance into the outfield

• burn brightly

• become flared and widen, usually at one end

• shine with a sudden light

• erupt or intensify suddenly

• the act of passing something along from one person or group to another

• a crew of workers who relieve another crew

• a fresh team to relieve weary draft animals

• a race between teams; each member runs or swims part of the distance

• electrical device such that current flowing through it in one circuit can switch on and off a current in a second circuit

• pass along

• control or operate by relay

• United States psychologist who experimented with psychoactive drugs (including LSD) and became a well-known advocate of their use (1920-1996)

• a row of unravelled stitches

• French composer and exponent of Impressionism (1875-1937)

• disentangle

• tangle or complicate

• wild and menacing