7-letter words containing e, t, a, i, l
- elation — Great happiness and exhilaration.
- elative — (grammar) In Semitic languages, the \u201cadjective of superiority.\u201d In some languages such as Arabic, the concepts of comparative and superlative degree of an adjective are merged into a single form, the 'elative'. How this form is understood or translated depends upon context and definiteness. In the absence of comparison, the elative conveys the notion of \u201cgreatest\u201d, \u201csupreme.\u201d.
- eleatic — denoting or relating to a school of philosophy founded in Elea in Greece in the 6th century bc by Xenophanes, Parmenides, and Zeno. It held that one pure immutable Being is the only object of knowledge and that information obtained by the senses is illusory
- elimate — (obsolete) To render smooth; to polish.
- entails — Plural form of entail.
- entrail — (archaic) To interweave or bind.
- epilate — To remove hair from the body by mechanical, chemical or other means.
- estival — Belonging to or appearing in summer.
- etailer — An etailer is a person or company that sells products on the Internet.
- ethical — Of or relating to moral principles or the branch of knowledge dealing with these.
- faileth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'fail'.
- fatlike — Resembling fat (the chemical substance) or some aspect of it.
- filiate — Law. to determine judicially the paternity of, as a child born out of wedlock. Compare affiliate (def 5).
- flattie — a flounder or other flatfish
- fleapit — a shabby public place, especially a run-down motion-picture theater.
- foliate — covered with or having leaves.
- gelatin — a nearly transparent, faintly yellow, odorless, and almost tasteless glutinous substance obtained by boiling in water the ligaments, bones, skin, etc., of animals, and forming the basis of jellies, glues, and the like.
- genital — of, relating to, or noting reproduction.
- glaiket — foolish; giddy; flighty.
- heliast — a court judge in ancient Greece
- hyalite — a colorless variety of opal, sometimes transparent like glass, and sometimes whitish and translucent.
- implate — (transitive) To cover with plates; to sheathe.
- inflate — deflate
- irately — angry; enraged: an irate customer.
- isolate — to set or place apart; detach or separate so as to be alone.
- keitloa — a variety of the black rhinoceros having the posterior horn equal to or longer than the anterior horn.
- kisetla — a pidgin language based on Swahili, formerly used for communication between Europeans and Africans.
- laaitie — (South Africa, slang) A youth; a young person, especially male.
- labiate — having parts that are shaped or arranged like lips; lipped.
- laciest — Superlative form of lacy.
- lafitte — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), c1780–c1825, French privateer in the Americas.
- lateish — (colloquial) Quite late.
- lathier — lathlike; long and thin.
- latices — a plural of latex.
- latimer — Hugh, c1470–1555, English Protestant Reformation bishop, reformer, and martyr.
- latrine — a toilet or something used as a toilet, as a trench in the earth in a camp, or bivouac area.
- lattice — a structure of crossed wooden or metal strips usually arranged to form a diagonal pattern of open spaces between the strips.
- laytime — the period of time allowed by a shipowner to a carrier to carry out cargo loading or discharging operations
- laziest — averse or disinclined to work, activity, or exertion; indolent.
- leavitt — Henrietta, 1868–1921, U.S. astronomer.
- letitia — a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “gladness.”.
- librate — to oscillate or move from side to side or between two points.
- liestal — a demicanton in N Switzerland. 165 sq. mi. (425 sq. km). Capital: Liestal.
- lietuva — Lithuanian name of Lithuania.
- ligated — Simple past tense and past participle of ligate.
- ligates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ligate.
- limbate — bordered, as a flower in which one color is surrounded by an edging of another.
- lineate — marked with lines, especially parallel lengthwise lines; striped.
- lipoate — (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of lipoic acid.
- liquate — to heat (an alloy or mixture) sufficiently to melt the more fusible matter and thus to separate it from the rest, as in the refining of tin.