5-letter words containing e
- 'tude — a hostile or defiant manner
- -able — -able combines with verbs to form adjectives. Adjectives formed in this way describe someone or something that can have a particular thing done to them. For example, if something is avoidable, it can be avoided.
- -acea — denoting animals belonging to a class or order
- -ales — denoting plants belonging to an order
- -ance — indicating an action, state or condition, or quality
- -bore — -bore combines with numbers to form adjectives which indicate the size of the barrel of a gun.
- -cade — indicating a procession of a specified kind
- -cele — tumour or hernia
- -cene — denoting a recent geological period
- -cide — indicating a person or thing that kills
- -core — indicating a type of popular music
- -cule — indicating smallness
- -cyte — indicating a cell
- -derm — indicating skin
- -emia — a (specified) condition or disease of the blood
- -ence — -ence and -ency are added to adjectives, usually in place of -ent, to form nouns referring to states, qualities, attitudes, or behaviour. For example, 'affluence' is the state of being affluent.
- -ency — -ence
- -eous — relating to or having the nature of
- -eroo — forming humorous slangy nouns from other nouns
- -ette — small
- -eyed — -eyed combines with adjectives to form adjectives which indicate the colour, shape, or size of a person's eyes, or indicate the kind of expression that they have.
- -fest — an occasion of much or many (of the thing specified)
- -free — -free combines with nouns to form adjectives that indicate that something does not have the thing mentioned, or has only a little of it. For example, sugar-free drinks do not contain any sugar, and lead-free petrol is made using only a small amount of lead.
- -fuge — indicating an agent or substance that expels or drives away
- -gate — indicating a person or thing that has been the cause of, or is associated with, a public scandal
- -geny — indicating origin or manner of development
- -goer — -goer is added to words such as 'theatre', 'church', and 'film' to form nouns which describe people who regularly go to that type of place or event.
- -head — indicating a person having a preoccupation as specified
- -ible — -able
- -idae — indicating names of zoological families
- -inae — occurring in names of zoological subfamilies
- -lect — a variety within a language
- -less — -less is added to nouns in order to form adjectives that indicate that someone or something does not have the thing that the noun refers to.
- -like — -like combines with nouns to form adjectives which describe something as being similar to the thing referred to by the noun.
- -lite — (in names of minerals) stone
- -lyse — -lyze
- -lyte — indicating a substance that can be decomposed or broken down
- -lyze — to dissolve, decompose, etc. by a (specified) means
- -made — -made combines with words such as 'factory' to make adjectives that indicate that something has been made or produced in a particular place or in a particular way.
- -meal — by a (specified) amount done or used at one time
- -ment — -ment is added to some verbs to form nouns that refer to actions, processes, or states.
- -mere — indicating a part or division
- -ness — -ness is added to adjectives to form nouns which often refer to a state or quality. For example, 'sadness' is the state of being sad and 'kindness' is the quality of being kind.
- -pede — foot or feet
- -plex — a building, as a condominium or a film theater, consisting of a (specified) number of units or sections
- -rhea — -rrhea
- -sect — to cut or divide, esp into a specified number of parts
- -size — You can use -size or -sized in combination with nouns to form adjectives which indicate that something is the same size as something else.
- -some — characterized by; tending to
- -ster — indicating a person who is engaged in a certain activity
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