7-letter words containing n, e, i
- genoise — a light yellow cake made with eggs and butter and typically layered, filled, and frosted or made into petits fours for serving.
- genomic — a full set of chromosomes; all the inheritable traits of an organism.
- gentian — any of several plants of the genera Gentiana, Gentianella, and Gentianopsis, having usually blue, or sometimes yellow, white, or red, flowers, as the fringed gentian of North America, or Gentiana lutea, of Europe. Compare gentian family.
- gentile — of or relating to any people not Jewish.
- genuine — possessing the claimed or attributed character, quality, or origin; not counterfeit; authentic; real: genuine sympathy; a genuine antique.
- geraint — one of the knights of the Round Table, husband of Enid.
- germain — a female given name.
- germina — a germ.
- getting — Present participle of get.
- gherkin — the small, immature fruit of a variety of cucumber, used in pickling.
- ghrelin — An enzyme produced by stomach lining cells that stimulates appetite.
- giessen — a city in central Germany, in Hesse: university (1607). Pop: 74 001 (2003 est)
- gillnet — to catch (a fish) with a gill net.
- gingery — having the flavor or pungence of ginger; spicy: gingery cookies.
- gingles — Plural form of gingle.
- ginnels — Plural form of ginnel.
- ginners — Plural form of ginner.
- ginnery — a mill for ginning cotton.
- ginseng — any of several plants of the genus Panax, especially P. pseudoginseng, of eastern Asia, or P. qinquefolius, of North America, having an aromatic root used medicinally.
- gironde — an estuary in SW France, formed by the junction of the Garonne and Dordogne rivers. 45 miles (72 km) long.
- gittern — cittern.
- give in — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- gleeing — to squint or look with one eye.
- gleenie — a guinea fowl
- glennie — Dame Evelyn (Elizabeth Ann). born 1965, Scottish percussionist and composer; profoundly deaf since the age of twelve
- glenoid — shallow or slightly cupped, as the articular cavities of the scapula and the temporal bone.
- glidden — Charles Jasper, 1857–1927, U.S. businessman: a pioneer in the telephone industry.
- glinted — a tiny, quick flash of light.
- glisten — to reflect a sparkling light or a faint intermittent glow; shine lustrously.
- glueing — Present participle of glue; obsolete spelling of gluing.
- glycine — a colorless, crystalline, sweet, water-soluble solid, H 2 NCH 2 COOH, the simplest amino acid: used chiefly in organic synthesis and biochemical research. Symbol: G. Abbreviation: Gly;
- gmelina — a deciduous tree, Gmelina arborea, native to Southeast Asia,whose timber is important in the tropics.
- gniezno — a city in W central Poland, ENE of Posen: important in the early history of the country; 10th-century cathedral.
- gobelin — made at the tapestry factory established in Paris in the 15th century by the Gobelins, a French family of dyers and weavers.
- goering — Hermann Wilhelm [her-mahn vil-helm,, hur-muh n-wil-helm;; German her-mahn vil-helm] /ˈhɛr mɑn ˈvɪl hɛlm,, ˈhɜr mənˈwɪl hɛlm;; German ˈhɛr mɑn ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1893–1946, German field marshal and Nazi party leader.
- goneril — (in Shakespeare's King Lear) the elder of Lear's two faithless daughters.
- goonies — Slang. stupid, foolish, or awkward: a goony smile on his face.
- gradine — A low step or ledge, especially one at the back of an altar.
- grained — having, reduced to, consisting of, or bearing grain or grains (usually used in combination): fine-grained sand; large-grained rice.
- grainer — A knife for taking the hair off skins.
- granite — ice (def 4).
- grannie — Informal. a grandmother.
- gratine — to bake or broil (food) in au gratin style.
- grecian — Greek (especially with reference to ancient Greece).
- greenie — Slang. an amphetamine pill, especially one that is green in color.
- greisen — a hydrothermally altered rock of granitic texture composed chiefly of quartz and mica, common in the tin mines of Europe.
- greking — (obsolete) The break (of day); dawn.
- gremlin — a mischievous invisible being, said by airplane pilots in World War II to cause engine trouble and mechanical difficulties.
- greying — Present participle of grey.
- grinded — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.