5-letter words containing e, l, i
- dwile — a cloth, rag, or mop used for various cleaning purposes around the house
- eblis — the chief evil jinni in Islamic mythology
- edile — one of a board of magistrates in charge of public buildings, streets, markets, games, etc.
- eifel — a plateau region in W Germany, between the River Moselle and the Belgian frontier: quarrying
- eilat — a port in S Israel, on the Gulf of Aqaba: Israel's only outlet to the Red Sea. Pop: 43 500 (2003 est)
- eisel — (obsolete) vinegar, verjuice.
- eldin — fuel or firewood
- elemi — An oleoresin obtained from a tropical tree and used in varnishes, ointments, and aromatherapy.
- elfin — (with reference to a person) small and delicate, typically with an attractively mischievous or strange charm.
- elgin — a market town in NE Scotland, the administrative centre of Moray, on the River Lossie: ruined 13th-century cathedral: distilling, engineering. Pop: 20 829 (2001)
- elias — Elijah
- elide — Omit (a sound or syllable) when speaking.
- elihu — one of Job's visitors in his affliction: Job 32-37
- elint — intelligence gathered by using electronic sensors to intercept electromagnetic signals, such as radio signals, from other countries
- eliot — George, real name Mary Ann Evans. 1819–80, English novelist, noted for her analysis of provincial Victorian society. Her best-known novels include Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), and Middlemarch (1872)
- elisa — enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay: an immunological technique for accurately measuring the amount of a substance, for example in a blood sample
- elisp — 1. (language) A Lisp variant originally implemented for DEC-20s by Chuck Hedrick of Rutgers. 2. (language) A common abbreviation for Emacs Lisp. Use of this abbreviation is discouraged because "Elisp" is or was a trademark.
- elite — A group of people considered to be the best in a particular society or category, esp. because of their power, talent, or wealth.
- eliza — (artificial intelligence) A famous program by Joseph Weizenbaum, which simulated a Rogerian psychoanalyst by rephrasing many of the patient's statements as questions and posing them to the patient. It worked by simple pattern recognition and substitution of key words into canned phrases. It was so convincing, however, that there are many anecdotes about people becoming very emotionally caught up in dealing with ELIZA. All this was due to people's tendency to attach to words meanings which the computer never put there. See also ELIZA effect.
- ellie — (language) An object-oriented language with fine-grained parallelism for distributed computing. Ellie is based on BETA, Smalltalk, and others. Parallelism is supported by unbounded RPC and "future" objects. Synchronisation is by dynamic interfaces. Classes, methods, blocks, and objects are all modelled by first-class "Ellie objects". It supports genericity, polymorphism, and delegation/inheritance.
- ellis — EuLisp LInda System. An object-oriented Linda system written for EuLisp. "Using Object-Oriented Mechanisms to Describe Linda", P. Broadbery <[email protected]> et al, in Linda-Like Systems and Their Implementation, G. Wilson ed, U Edinburgh TR 91-13, 1991.
- elsie — (language) A distributed version of ELLIS.
- elvis — (tool) A vi lookalike which supports nearly all of the vi/ex commands, in both visual mode and colon mode. Like vi/ex, elvis stores most of the text in a temporary file instead of RAM. This allows it to edit files that are too large to fit in a single process' data space. Elvis runs under BSD UNIX, AT&T SysV UNIX, MINIX, MS-DOS, Atari TOS, Coherent, OS9/68000, VMS, Windows 95 and Windows NT. Elvis is just as awful to use as vi, so someone will like it. Version 1.8pl14 (1995-09-04). E-mail: Steve Kirkendall <[email protected]>.
- email — (obsolete, circa 13th century) a raised or embossed image pressed into metal, such as a seal pressed into a foil and attached to a document.
- emily — female given name
- eolic — Aeolic
- erbil — a city in N Iraq: important in Assyrian times. Pop: 870 000 (2005 est)
- ervil — a type of vetch, Vicia ervilia
- esile — vinegar
- euill — Obsolete spelling of evil.
- evill — Obsolete spelling of evil.
- evils — Plural form of evil.
- exile — The state of being barred from one's native country, typically for political or punitive reasons.
- faile — Archaic spelling of fail.
- felid — any animal of the family Felidae, comprising the cats.
- felis — a genus of mostly small cats, including the domestic cat, margay, puma, and ocelot, sharing with certain cats of related genera an inability to roar due to ossification of the hyoid bone in the larynx.
- felix — (Paul) Felix (Edler von Münzberg) [poul fey-liks eyd-luh r fuh n mynts-berk] /paʊl ˈfeɪ lɪks ˈeɪd lər fən ˈmüntsˌbɛrk/ (Show IPA), 1863–1942, Austrian composer, conductor, and writer.
- fidel — a male given name.
- field — Cyrus West, 1819–92, U.S. financier: projector of the first Atlantic cable.
- filed — Simple past tense and past participle of file.
- filer — a long, narrow tool of steel or other metal having a series of ridges or points on its surfaces for reducing or smoothing surfaces of metal, wood, etc.
- files — Plural form of file.
- filet — A kind of net or lace with a square mesh.
- fille — a girl or young woman
- flied — a simple past tense and past participle of fly1 .
- flier — something that flies, as a bird or insect.
- flies — to move through the air using wings.
- flipe — (Scotland, dated, transitive) To turn inside out, or with the leg part back over the foot, as when putting on or taking off a stocking.
- flite — to dispute; wrangle; scold; jeer.
- folie — madness; insanity.