7-letter words containing t, e, l
- eatable — edible.
- eblaite — the Semitic language of the people of Ebla, believed to be closely related to Ugaritic, Phoenician, and Hebrew, but written in cuneiform characters borrowed from Sumerian: decoded from the Ebla Tablets. Compare Ebla.
- ecolect — A language variety unique to a household.
- ectypal — a reproduction; copy (opposed to prototype).
- edental — Edentate.
- edictal — Of, pertaining to, or derived from edicts.
- eelpout — any fish of the family Zoarcidae, especially Zoarces viviparus, of Europe.
- egalite — equality.
- egality — (obsolete) Equality. (14th-19th c.).
- 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
- elected — Simple past tense and past participle of elect.
- electee — a person who is elected
- elector — A person who has the right to vote in an election.
- electra — the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. She persuaded her brother Orestes to avenge their father by killing his murderess Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus
- electre — (obsolete) electrum, amber (alloy of gold and silver).
- electro — A style of dance music with a fast beat and synthesized backing track.
- elegant — Pleasingly graceful and stylish in appearance or manner.
- elegist — A writer of funeral songs; one who writes in elegiac verse.
- elegits — Plural form of elegit.
- element — A part or aspect of something abstract, especially one that is essential or characteristic.
- elevate — Raise or lift (something) up to a higher position.
- 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.
- elocute — (US, legal) To state, assert or admit.
- 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)
- eluants — Plural form of eluant.
- eluates — Plural form of eluate.
- eluting — Present participle of elute.
- elution — (analytical chemistry) The process of removing materials that are absorbed with a solvent.
- elytral — relating to a beetle's elytra
- elytron — Each of the two wing cases of a beetle.
- elytrum — Alt form elytron.
- emptily — In an empty manner.
- emulate — Match or surpass (a person or achievement), typically by imitation.
- eng lit — English Literature
- engluts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of englut.
- enlight — (archaic, transitive) To illuminate.
- enlists — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enlist.
- enolate — (chemistry) any metal salt of the enol form of a tautomeric aldehyde or ketone.