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There are 10 five-letter words ending with LAY

ALLAY	• allay v. (Transitive) To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm. • allay v. (Transitive) To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate. • allay v. (Intransitive, obsolete) To subside, abate, become peaceful.
BELAY	• belay v. (Transitive, intransitive, nautical) To make (a rope) fast by turning it around a fastening point such as a cleat. • belay v. (Transitive, climbing) To handle a climbing rope to prevent (a climber) from falling to the ground. • belay v. (Transitive) To lay aside; stop; cancel.
DELAY	• delay n. A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity. • delay n. (Music) An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay. • delay n. (Programming, Clojure) Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”).
INLAY	• inlay v. (Also figuratively) To place (pieces of a foreign material) within another material to form a decorative design. • inlay v. (Dentistry) To place an inlay in a tooth. • inlay n. The material placed within a different material in the form of a decoration.
ONLAY	• onlay v. (Transitive, literary) To lay or place something on a surface. • onlay n. (Often attributive) A material placed such that it overlaps another. • ONLAY n. an artificial veneer for a tooth.
PALAY	• palay n. (Philippines) paddy. • PALAY n. (Tamil) the ivory tree, a small South Indian tree of the dogbane family.
RELAY	• relay n. (Hunting, rare) A new set of hounds. • relay n. (Now chiefly historical) A new set of horses kept along a specific route so that they can replace animals… • relay n. (By extension) A new set of anything.
SPLAY	• splay v. To spread; spread out. • splay v. To dislocate, as a shoulder bone. • splay v. To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.
UNLAY	• unlay v. (Transitive, nautical) To untwist. • UNLAY v. to untwist.
UPLAY	• uplay v. (Transitive, rare) To lay up; hoard. • UPLAY v. to hoard.

Scrabble words — in black are valid world wide — in RED are not valid in North America — in GREEN are valid only in North America.
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Scrabble in German: 1 word
Scrabble in Romanian: no word

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