Definition of lets

"lets" in the noun sense

1. Lashkar-e-Taiba, Lashkar-e-Toiba, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, LET, Army of the Pure, Army of the Righteous

a brutal terrorist group active in Kashmir fights against India with the goal of restoring Islamic rule of India

"Lashkar-e-Toiba has committed mass murders of civilian Hindus"

2. let, net ball

a serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court the ball must be served again

"lets" in the verb sense

1. let, allow, permit

make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen

"This permits the water to rush in"

"This sealed door won't allow the water come into the basement"

"This will permit the rain to run off"

2. let

actively cause something to happen

"I let it be known that I was not interested"

3. permit, allow, let, countenance

consent to, give permission

"She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"

"I won't let the police search her basement"

"I cannot allow you to see your exam"

4. get, let, have

cause to move cause to be in a certain position or condition

"He got his squad on the ball"

"This let me in for a big surprise"

"He got a girl into trouble"

5. let

leave unchanged

"let it be"

6. lease, let, rent

grant use or occupation of under a term of contract

"I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners"

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Quotations for lets

Prosperity lets go the bridle. [ George Herbert ]

Now it is the time of night,
That the graves, all gaping wide.
Every one lets forth its sprite.
In the church-way paths to glide. [ William Shakespeare ]

No man can thrive unless his wife lets him. [ Proverb ]

I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated,
Especially since it lives and lets me live. [ Goethe ]

They talk of short-lived pleasures - be it so -
Pain dies as quickly; stern, hard-featured pain
Expires, and lets her weary prisoner go.
The fiercest agonies have shortest reign. [ Bryant ]

The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,
Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. [ Waller ]

Woman's tongue is her sword, which she never lets rust. [ Madame Necker ]

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live. [ Goethe ]

Like the gardener's dog, that neither eats cabbage himself nor lets any body else. [ Proverb ]

To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may. [ Henry Ward Beechen ]

He that lets his fish escape into the water, may cast his net often yet never catch it again. [ Proverb ]

Pity is sworn servant unto love; and of this be sure, wherever it begins to make the way, it lets the master in. [ Daniel ]

Who lets his wife go to every feast, and his horse drink at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Music is a kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that. [ Carlyle ]

Talking with a host is next best to talking with one's self.... He is wiser than to contradict his guest in any case; he lets him go on, he lets him travel. [ Thoreau ]

There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely wicked; but grows so, either as he holds himself up in virtue, or lets himself slide to viciousness. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Who is there that in logical words can express the affect that music has upon us? A kind of unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that. [ T. Carlyle ]

Laissez faire, the "let alone" principle, is, in all things which man has to do with, the principle of death. It is ruin to him, certain and total, if he lets his land alone, if he lets his fellow-men alone, if he lets his own soul alone. [ John Ruskin ]

He that can keep handsomely within rules, and support the carriage of a companion to his mistress, is much more likely to prevail than he who lets her see the whole relish of his life depends upon her. If possible, therefore, divert your mistress rather than sigh for her. [ Steele ]

It is wonderful indeed to consider how many objects the eye is fitted to take in at once, and successively in an instant, and at the same time to make a judgment of their position, figure, and color. It watches against our dangers, guides our steps, and lets in all the visible objects, whose beauty and variety instruct and delight. [ Steele ]

lets in Scrabble®

The word lets is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 4

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lets in Words With Friends™

The word lets is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 5

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Word Growth involving lets

Shorter words in lets

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Longer words containing lets

aglets eaglets

aglets haglets

aiglets

amulets

anklets

annulets

applets

archlets

armlets

attelets

auklets

ballets

bandelets

bandlets

barrulets

batlets

beamlets

bendlets

billets

bladelets

bloodlets

bomblets

bonelets

booklets

boomlets

bracelets

bractlets

branchlets

brooklets

budlets

bulblets

bullets

cabriolets

cacolets

caplets quindecaplets

cassoulets

chalets

chaplets

chirplets

circlets

clodlets

cloudlets

corselets

couplets

coverlets

cutlets

deerlets

doublets

dovelets

dribblets

droplets dropletshaped

droplets nanodroplets

droplets waterdroplets

drupelets

epaulets

eyelets

filets

fillets

flageolets

flannelets

fortlets

froglets

gauntlets

giblets

goblets gobletshaped

greenlets

gugglets

gullets

hamlets

herblets

hooklets

inlets chainlets

inlets veinlets

islets

lakelets

leaflets

lobelets

mallets

millets

mullets

nutlets

octuplets

omelets

osselets

outlets

owlets

pallets

pamphlets

pantalets

pellets repellets

phablets

piglets

platelets antiplatelets

playlets

pointlets

portlets

pullets

quadruplets

quillets

quintuplets

riblets driblets

rillets

ringlets springlets

ripplets

riverlets

rivulets

rootlets

roselets

roundlets

scarlets

septuplets

servlets

sextuplets

shrublets

singlets

skillets

snakelets

spikelets

spinelets

stalklets

starlets

streamlets

stylets

sublets

tablets

tartlets

toilets

treelets

tricklets

triplets

umbellets

underlets

valets

veinulets

verselets

vinelets

violets ultraviolets

wallets walletsful

warblets

wavelets

wiglets

winglets

wrenlets

wristlets