6-letter words containing e
- apercu — outline
- aperea — Cavia aperea, the Brazilian guinea pig.
- apexes — the tip, point, or vertex; summit.
- apheta — (astrology) The planet that has the most influence on a person's life.
- apices — apex
- apiece — If people have a particular number of things apiece, they have that number each.
- apises — a sacred bull worshiped at Memphis: identified originally with Ptah and later assimilated with Osiris to form the Ptolemaic Serapis.
- aplite — a light-coloured fine-grained acid igneous rock with a sugary texture, consisting of quartz and feldspars
- aplweb — (text, tool) A Web to APL and Web to TeX translator by Dr. Christoph von Basum of The University of Bielefeld, Germany.
- apneic — a temporary suspension of breathing, occurring in some newborns (infant apnea) and in some adults during sleep (sleep apnea)
- apnoea — a temporary inability to breathe
- apogee — The apogee of something such as a culture or a business is its highest or its greatest point.
- apozem — an infusion or decoction
- appeal — If you appeal to someone to do something, you make a serious and urgent request to them.
- appear — If you say that something appears to be the way you describe it, you are reporting what you believe or what you have been told, though you cannot be sure it is true.
- append — When you append something to something else, especially a piece of writing, you attach it or add it to the end of it.
- apples — well or fine; under control.
- applet — An applet is a computer program which is contained within a page on the World Wide Web, and which transfers itself to your computer and runs automatically while you are looking at that Web page.
- appley — resembling or tasting like an apple
- appose — to place side by side or near to each other
- apside — (astronomy) An apsis.
- aptest — inclined; disposed; given; prone: too apt to slander others.
- aptote — an indeclinable noun
- aqtobe — a city in NW Kazakhstan, on the Ilek River.
- aquake — Quaking.
- aquent — Lb soil science A kind of wet soil formed on river banks, tidal mudflats etc.
- aquire — Misspelling of acquire.
- arabel — a female given name.
- arable — Arable farming involves growing crops such as wheat and barley rather than keeping animals or growing fruit and vegetables. Arable land is land that is used for arable farming.
- araise — to raise
- araxes — Araks
- arbela — an ancient city in Assyria, near which the Battle of Arbela took place (331 bc), in which Alexander the Great defeated the Persians
- arbute — (archaic) The wood of the strawberry tree.
- arcade — An arcade is a covered passage where there are shops or market stalls.
- arcane — Something that is arcane is secret or mysterious.
- arched — An arched roof, window, or doorway is curved at the top.
- archer — An archer is someone who shoots arrows using a bow.
- arches — Obsolete. a person who is preeminent; a chief.
- archet — Lb musical instruments violin box.
- archie — Archibald Lee ("Archie") 1913–1998, U.S. boxer.
- arcked — a simple past tense and past participle of arc.
- arcnet — (networking) A network developed by DataPoint. ARCnet was proprietary until the late 1980s and had about as large a marketshare as Ethernet among small businesses. It was almost as fast and was considerably cheaper at the time.
- arcsec — 1⁄3600 of a degree of an angle
- ardeid — belonging or pertaining to the family Ardeidae, comprising the herons and bitterns.
- ardent — Ardent is used to describe someone who has extremely strong feelings about something or someone.
- areach — to reach
- arecas — Plural form of areca.
- aren't — Aren't is the usual spoken form of 'are not'.
- arenas — Plural form of arena.
- arendt — Hannah. 1906–75, US political philosopher, born in Germany. Her publications include The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) and Eichmann in Jerusalem (1961)