10-letter words containing a, n, s, e
- earbashing — a scolding or lengthy and vituperative verbal attack
- earth sign — any of the three astrological signs, Taurus, Virgo, or Capricorn, that are grouped together because of the shared attributes of practicality and interest in material things.
- earthiness — of the nature of or consisting of earth or soil.
- earthlings — Plural form of earthling.
- earthshine — the faint illumination of the part of the moon not illuminated by sunlight, as during a crescent phase, caused by the reflection of light from the earth.
- earwitness — a person who testifies or can testify to what he or she has heard.
- east ender — a native or inhabitant of the East End of London
- east haven — a town in S Connecticut, near New Haven.
- east point — a city in N Georgia, near Atlanta.
- eastbourne — a seaport in East Sussex, in SE England.
- easterling — a native of a country lying to the east, especially a merchant from the Baltic.
- easterners — Plural form of easterner.
- easternize — (usually initial capital letter) to influence with ideas, customs, etc., characteristic of eastern Asia.
- easy going — calm and unworried; relaxed and rather casual: an easygoing person.
- easy money — money obtained with a minimum of effort.
- easy-going — calm and unworried; relaxed and rather casual: an easygoing person.
- ebbinghaus — Hermann (ˈhɛrman). 1850–1909, German experimental psychologist who undertook the first systematic and large-scale studies of memory and devised tests using nonsense syllables
- echinaceas — Plural form of echinacea.
- educations — Plural form of education.
- egas moniz — Antonio Caetanio de Abreu Freire. 1874–1955, Portuguese neurologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1949) with Walter Hess for their development of prefrontal leucotomy
- eglantines — Plural form of eglantine.
- egomaniacs — Plural form of egomaniac.
- eicosanoid — (biochemistry) Any of a family of naturally-occurring substances derived from 20-carbon polyunsaturated fatty acids; they include the prostaglandins, thromboxanes, leukotrienes and epoxyeicosatrienoic acids; they function as hormones.
- eigenspace — (linear algebra) A set of the eigenvectors associated with a particular eigenvalue, together with the zero vector.
- eigenstate — A quantum-mechanical state corresponding to an eigenvalue of a wave equation.
- eisenstadt — a town in E Austria, capital of Burgenland province: Hungarian until 1921. Pop: 11 334 (2001)
- el mansûra — a city in NE Egypt: scene of a battle (1250) in which the Crusaders were defeated by the Mamelukes and Louis IX of France was captured; cotton-manufacturing centre. Pop: 423 000 (2005 est)
- elatedness — Quality of being elated.
- elegancies — Plural form of elegancy.
- elementals — Plural form of elemental.
- eleusinian — of Eleusis
- elevations — Plural form of elevation.
- eliminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of eliminate.
- emanations — Plural form of emanation.
- emancipist — (Australia, historical) In penal colonies of early Australia, a convict who had been pardoned for good conduct; sometimes inclusively a convict whose sentence had completed, though one such was more usually called an expiree.
- embasement — abasement
- embayments — Plural form of embayment.
- embrangles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of embrangle.
- emittances — Plural form of emittance.
- empennages — Plural form of empennage.
- emplastron — a plaster containing a balm or medication
- emulations — Plural form of emulation.
- en passant — in passing: in chess, said of capturing a pawn that has made an initial move of two squares to its fourth rank, bypassing the square where an enemy pawn on its own fifth rank could capture it. The capture is made as if the captured pawn had moved one square instead of two
- enactments — Plural form of enactment.
- enamelists — Plural form of enamelist.
- enantiosis — a figure of speech by which there is an opposite meaning to what is said
- encaptures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encapture.
- encasement — The act of encasing or something that encases.
- encashment — (finance) The payment in cash of a note, draft, etc.
- encaustics — Plural form of encaustic.