7-letter words containing l, i, t, e
- elamite — an inhabitant of the ancient kingdom of Elam
- elastic — (of an object or material) able to resume its normal shape spontaneously after contraction, dilatation, or distortion.
- elastin — An elastic, fibrous glycoprotein found in connective tissue.
- elating — Present participle of elate.
- 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
- elegist — A writer of funeral songs; one who writes in elegiac verse.
- elegits — Plural form of elegit.
- elicits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of elicit.
- elimate — (obsolete) To render smooth; to polish.
- eliotic — of, like, or characteristic of T. S. Eliot or his style
- elitest — Superlative form of elite.
- elitism — The advocacy or existence of an elite as a dominating element in a system or society.
- elitist — A person who believes that a system or society should be ruled or dominated by an elite.
- elogist — a person who delivers a eulogy
- elohist — the supposed author or authors of one of the four main strands of text of the Pentateuch, identified chiefly by the use of the word Elohim for God instead of YHVH (Jehovah)
- eluting — Present participle of elute.
- elution — (analytical chemistry) The process of removing materials that are absorbed with a solvent.
- emptily — In an empty manner.
- eng lit — English Literature
- enlight — (archaic, transitive) To illuminate.
- enlists — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enlist.
- entails — Plural form of entail.
- entitle — Give (someone) a legal right or a just claim to receive or do something.
- entrail — (archaic) To interweave or bind.
- eoliths — Plural form of eolith.
- epilate — To remove hair from the body by mechanical, chemical or other means.
- epistle — letter, written correspondence
- estival — Belonging to or appearing in summer.
- estoile — A star with (usually six) wavy points or rays.
- estoril — a resort in W Portugal, near Lisbon, on the Atlantic Ocean: noted esp for a famous avenue of palm trees leading to the seafront. Pop: 23 769 (2001)
- estriol — An estrogen that is one of the metabolic products of estradiol.
- 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.
- ethylic — (organic chemistry) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing ethyl.
- etiolin — a yellow form of chlorophyll particular to plants grown in the dark
- evilest — Superlative form of evil.
- exility — the condition of being shrunken or meagre; the quality of being thin or slender
- exploit — Make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource).
- eyelift — A blepharoplasty performed for cosmetic reasons.
- faileth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'fail'.
- fatlike — Resembling fat (the chemical substance) or some aspect of it.
- felsite — a dense, fine-grained, igneous rock consisting typically of feldspar and quartz, both of which may appear as phenocrysts.
- felting — a nonwoven fabric of wool, fur, or hair, matted together by heat, moisture, and great pressure.
- fertile — bearing, producing, or capable of producing vegetation, crops, etc., abundantly; prolific: fertile soil.
- fetidly — In a fetid manner.
- fictile — capable of being molded.
- filbert — the thick-shelled, edible nut of certain cultivated varieties of hazel, especially of Corylus avellana, of Europe.
- filemot — a brown colour like that of a dead leaf