7-letter words containing n, e, i
- dominie — Chiefly Scot. a schoolmaster.
- done in — past participle of do1 .
- doucine — a type of moulding of the cornice
- dourine — an infectious disease of horses, affecting the genitals and hind legs, caused by a protozoan parasite, Trypanosoma equiperdum.
- downier — Comparative form of downy.
- doxepin — a tricyclic antidepressant, C 19 H 21 NO, used primarily to treat depression or anxiety.
- drained — to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration: to drain oil from a crankcase.
- drainer — to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration: to drain oil from a crankcase.
- driness — Archaic form of dryness.
- drinked — (nonstandard) Simple past tense and past participle of drink.
- drinker — a person who drinks.
- dueling — Present participle of duel.
- dueting — Present participle of duet.
- dunedin — a seaport on SE South Island, in New Zealand.
- dunnies — Plural form of dunny.
- dunnite — an ammonium picrate explosive used as a bursting charge for armor-piercing projectiles and in high-explosive shells; explosive D.
- dwindle — to become smaller and smaller; shrink; waste away: His vast fortune has dwindled away.
- dyeline — a contact print of a line drawing, giving brown lines on an off-white background.
- eadwine — Edwin (def 1).
- eagling — Present participle of eagle.
- eanling — a young lamb; kid.
- earings — Plural form of earing.
- earning — to gain or get in return for one's labor or service: to earn one's living.
- earring — an ornament worn on or hanging from the lobe of the ear.
- easting — Navigation. the distance due east made good on any course tending eastward; easterly departure.
- eastlin — having or coming from an easterly direction
- eatings — Plural form of eating.
- ebbings — Plural form of ebbing.
- ebonics — Black English.
- ebonies — Plural form of ebony.
- ebonise — Alternative form of ebonize.
- ebonist — a worker in ebony.
- ebonite — vulcanite.
- ebonize — to stain or finish black in imitation of ebony.
- eccrine — of or relating to certain sweat glands, distributed over the entire body, that secrete a type of sweat important for regulating body heat (distinguished from apocrine).
- echidna — Also called spiny anteater. any of several insectivorous monotremes of the genera Tachyglossus, of Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea, and Zaglossus, of New Guinea, that have claws and a slender snout and are covered with coarse hair and long spines.
- echino- — indicating spiny or prickly
- echinus — any sea urchin of the genus Echinus.
- echoing — (of a sound) Be repeated or reverberate after the original sound has stopped.
- eddying — a current at variance with the main current in a stream of liquid or gas, especially one having a rotary or whirling motion.
- edenite — (mineral) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.
- edge in — a line or border at which a surface terminates: Grass grew along the edges of the road. The paper had deckle edges.
- edgings — Plural form of edging.
- editing — Present participle of edit.
- edition — one of a series of printings of the same book, newspaper, etc., each issued at a different time and differing from another by alterations, additions, etc. (distinguished from impression).
- educing — Present participle of educe.
- eelskin — The skin of a hagfish.
- effendi — a former Turkish title of respect, especially for government officials.
- eidolon — An idealized person or thing.
- eijkman — Christiaan (ˈkriːstiːˌaːn). 1858–1930, Dutch physician, who discovered that beriberi is caused by nutritional deficiency: Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1929