4-letter words containing e, d
- ecad — An organism that is modified by its environment.
- ecgd — Export Credit Guarantee Department: an agency in the UK that helps exporters of goods and services to gain business
- edac — error detection and correction
- edam — a mild, hard, yellow cheese, produced in a round shape and coated with red wax.
- edda — either of two old Icelandic literary works, one a collection of poems on mythical and religious subjects (or) erroneously attributed to Saemund Sigfusson (c1055–1133), the other a collection of ancient Scandinavian myths and legends, rules and theories of versification, poems, etc. (or) compiled and written in part by Snorri Sturluson (1179–1241).
- eddo — the edible root of the taro or of any of several related plants.
- eddy — a current at variance with the main current in a stream of liquid or gas, especially one having a rotary or whirling motion.
- eden — (Robert) Anthony, Earl of Avon, 1897–1977, British statesman: prime minister 1955–57.
- eder — a river in central Germany, mainly in Hesse and flowing E to Kassel. 110 miles (177 km) long.
- edes — a city in SW Nigeria.
- edge — a line or border at which a surface terminates: Grass grew along the edges of the road. The paper had deckle edges.
- edgy — nervously irritable; impatient and anxious.
- edie — a female given name, form of Edith.
- edif — Electronic Design Interchange Format. Not a programming language, but a format to simplify data transfer between CAD/CAE systems. LISP-like syntax. See also Berkeley EDIF200. E-mail: <[email protected]> ftp://edif.cs.man.ac.uk/pub/edif.
- edit — to supervise or direct the preparation of (a newspaper, magazine, book, etc.); serve as editor of; direct the editorial policies of.
- edml — Edinburgh SML
- edna — a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “rejuvenation, rebirth.”.
- edom — Esau, the brother of Jacob.
- edta — ethylenediaminetetra-acetic acid; a colourless crystalline slightly soluble organic compound used in inorganic chemistry and biochemistry. It is a powerful chelating agent used to stabilize bleach in detergents. Formula: [(HOOCCH2)2NCH2]2
- educ — education
- egad — Expressing surprise, anger, or affirmation.
- eide — Advanced Technology Attachment Interface with Extensions
- eild — (obsolete, or, dialectal, Scotland) Age.
- eked — Simple past tense and past participle of eke.
- eldo — European Launcher Development Organization
- eldr — European Liberal Democratic and Reform (Party): a European political party in the European Parliament (1994–2004)
- emyd — a turtle from the family Emydidae
- endo — (slang) marijuana.
- ends — Plural form of end.
- enid — (zoology) Any member of the Enidae.
- erdf — European Regional Development Fund: a fund to provide money for specific projects for work on the infrastructure in countries of the European Union
- escd — Extended System Configuration Data
- esd. — Esdras
- esda — Electrostatic Deposition Analysis: a technique used to check the sequence in which a statement written in police custody was made. The chronology of the statement is arrived at by the examination of indentations on subsequent pages
- esdi — Enhanced Small Disk Interface
- eyed — Having eyes.
- fade — to lose brightness or vividness of color.
- fdse — full-duplex Switched Ethernet
- feds — the Fed, Informal. the Federal Reserve System.
- feed — to give a fee to.
- fend — to ward off (often followed by off): to fend off blows.
- feod — Obsolete form of feud (estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord in exchange for service).
- ferd — (obsolete or historical) An army, a host.
- feud — fee (def 4).
- fide — in bad faith; not genuine.
- fled — simple past tense and past participle of flee.
- fred — Antoinette, 1888–1946, U.S. actress, theatrical manager, and producer.
- gade — Any of various fish of the cod family found in British waters; especially those of the genera Gadus and Motella.
- geed — to agree; get along.
- geld — to castrate (an animal, especially a horse).