5-letter words containing i, e, s
- disme — a former coin of the U.S., equal to 10 cents, issued in 1792: early form of the dime.
- dives — an act or instance of diving.
- dries — a plural of dry.
- easie — Obsolete spelling of easy.
- eblis — the chief evil jinni in Islamic mythology
- edits — Plural form of edit.
- egusi — Melon seeds that are ground to make soup in Africa.
- eidos — The distinctive expression of the cognitive or intellectual character of a culture or social group.
- eisel — (obsolete) vinegar, verjuice.
- elias — Elijah
- 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.
- 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]>.
- emirs — Plural form of emir.
- emits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of emit.
- ennis — a town in the W Republic of Ireland, county town of Co Clare. Pop: 22 051 (2002)
- eosin — A red fluorescent dye that is a bromine derivative of fluorescein, or one of its salts or other derivatives.
- epics — Plural form of epic.
- epis. — Epistle
- épris — enamoured
- erisa — law: Employee Retirement Income Security Act
- esile — vinegar
- etuis — Plural form of etui.
- evils — Plural form of evil.
- exies — a fit of shaking, shivering or hysterics; ague
- exist — Have objective reality or being.
- exits — Plural form of exit.
- feist — Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a small mongrel dog, especially one that is ill-tempered; cur; mutt.
- 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.
- fetis — (obsolete) neat; pretty; well made; graceful.
- fices — Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a small mongrel dog, especially one that is ill-tempered; cur; mutt.
- fides — (italics) Latin. (used with a singular verb) good faith; absence of fraud or deceit; the state of being exactly as claims or appearances indicate: The bona fides of this contract is open to question. Compare mala fides.
- fiefs — Plural form of fief.
- fifes — Plural form of fife.
- files — Plural form of file.
- fines — Plural form of fine.
- fires — Plural form of fire.
- fiske — John (Edmund Fisk Green; John Fisk) 1842–1901, U.S. philosopher and historian.
- fives — a cardinal number, four plus one.
- fixes — Plural form of fix.
- flies — to move through the air using wings.
- fries — Charles Carpenter, 1887–1967, U.S. linguist.
- frise — a rug or upholstery fabric having the pile in uncut loops or in a combination of cut and uncut loops.
- geist — Ghost, apparition.
- gibes — to shift from one side to the other when running before the wind, as a fore-and-aft sail or its boom.
- giles — Saint, 8th century a.d., Athenian hermit in France.
- gines — Plural form of gine.
- gites — Plural form of gite.