7-letter words containing t, e, a, i
- 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
- elimate — (obsolete) To render smooth; to polish.
- emacity — Desire or fondness for buying.
- emerita — (of a woman who is the former holder of an office, especially a female college professor) having retired but allowed to retain her title as an honor.
- emicant — Beaming forth; flashing.
- emicate — to spring up
- emirate — The rank, lands, or reign of an emir.
- enation — An outgrowth from the surface of a leaf or other part of a plant.
- enhabit — Obsolete form of inhabit.
- entails — Plural form of entail.
- entasia — (medicine) tonic spasm; any disease characterized by tonic spasms, such as tetanus or trismus.
- entasis — A slight convex curve in the shaft of a column, introduced to correct the visual illusion of concavity produced by a straight shaft.
- entrail — (archaic) To interweave or bind.
- entrain — Board a train.
- epilate — To remove hair from the body by mechanical, chemical or other means.
- epitaph — A phrase or statement written in memory of a person who has died, especially as an inscription on a tombstone.
- epitaxy — The natural or artificial growth of crystals on a crystalline substrate determining their orientation.
- eretria — an ancient city in Greece, on the S coast of Euboea: founded as an Ionian colony; destroyed by the Persians in 490 bc following which it never regained its former significance
- eritrea — a small country in NE Africa, on the Red Sea: became an Italian colony in 1890; federated with Ethiopia (1952–93); an independence movement was engaged in war with the Ethiopian government from 1961 until independence was gained in 1993; consists of hot and arid coastal lowlands, rising to the foothills of the Ethiopian highlands. Languages: Tigrinya, Arabic, English, Afar, and others. Religions: Muslim and Christian. Currency: nakfa. Capital: Asmara. Pop: 6 233 682 (2013 est). Area: 117 400 sq km (45 300 sq miles)
- erotica — pornography
- erratic — Not even or regular in pattern or movement; unpredictable.
- estival — Belonging to or appearing in summer.
- estonia — Baltic state
- etacism — (grammar) The pronunciation of the Greek eta like the Italian long e, or the vowel in the English word 'ate'.
- etaerio — (botany) An aggregate fruit of achenes, drupes, or follicles.
- etailer — An etailer is a person or company that sells products on the Internet.
- etamine — a cotton or worsted fabric of loose weave, used for clothing, curtains, etc
- étatist — having the characteristics of étatisme
- etesian — Pertaining to a dry north wind which blows in the eastern Mediterranean.
- ethical — Of or relating to moral principles or the branch of knowledge dealing with these.
- ethnica — Plural form of ethnicon.
- etonian — a pupil of Eton College
- etruria — an ancient country of central Italy, between the Rivers Arno and Tiber, roughly corresponding to present-day Tuscany and part of Umbria
- eutaxia — the condition of being easily melted
- evirate — to emasculate; to castrate
- exotica — Objects considered strange or interesting because they are out of the ordinary, especially because they originated in a distant foreign country.
- expiate — Atone for (guilt or sin).
- extatic — Obsolete spelling of ecstatic.
- extrait — an extract, esp in perfumery
- face it — accept reality
- factice — a soft rubbery material made by reacting sulphur or sulphur chloride with vegetable oil
- factive — (of a verb, adjective, or noun phrase) presupposing the truth of an embedded sentence that serves as complement, as realize in I didn't realize that he had left, which presupposes that it is true that he had left.
- faileth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'fail'.
- fainest — gladly; willingly: He fain would accept.
- fainted — lacking brightness, vividness, clearness, loudness, strength, etc.: a faint light; a faint color; a faint sound.
- fainter — lacking brightness, vividness, clearness, loudness, strength, etc.: a faint light; a faint color; a faint sound.