11-letter words containing eas
- easy street — a state of wealth, financial independence, or ease.
- easy virtue — loose morals; sexual promiscuity
- easy-breezy — easy: an easy-breezy way to update your wardrobe.
- eve teasing — sexual harassment of a woman or women, esp verbally, usually in a public place
- exonuclease — An enzyme that removes successive nucleotides from the end of a polynucleotide molecule.
- far eastern — the countries of E Asia, including China, Japan, Korea, and sometimes adjacent areas.
- feasibility — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
- flat season — the part of the year during which flat racing takes place
- goal crease — crease1 (def 4).
- grease wool — shorn fleece before it has been cleaned
- greasepaint — an oily mixture of melted tallow or grease and a pigment, used by actors, clowns, etc., for making up their faces.
- greaseproof — Resistant to grease.
- greasewoods — Plural form of greasewood.
- greasy pole — a pole covered with grease to make it slippery and difficult to climb, often used as entertainment
- greasy wool — untreated wool, still retaining the lanolin, which is used for waterproof clothing
- gum disease — dental infection
- heartseases — Plural form of heartsease.
- heel breast — the forward side of the heel, adjoining the shank of a shoe.
- high season — period of greatest activity
- hippeastrum — any plant of the South American amaryllidaceous genus Hippeastrum: cultivated for their large funnel-shaped typically red flowers
- ill at ease — of unsound physical or mental health; unwell; sick: She felt ill, so her teacher sent her to the nurse.
- increasable — Pertaining to something that can be increased.
- increasedly — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- increaseful — full of increase; fertile; fruitful
- leased line — (communications, networking) A private telephone circuit permanently connecting two points, normally provided on a lease by a local PTT.
- leaseholder — a tenant under a lease.
- least shrew — a small, brownish shrew, Cryptotis parva, of grassy regions of the eastern U.S.
- least-worst — bad but better than any available alternative
- malfeasance — the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing (used especially of an act in violation of a public trust). Compare misfeasance (def 2), nonfeasance.
- measure off — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- measure out — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- measureable — Misspelling of measurable.
- measureless — too large or great to be measured; unlimited; immeasurable: a measureless distance; measureless contempt.
- measurement — the act of measuring.
- middle east — Also called Mideast. (loosely) the area from Libya E to Afghanistan, usually including Egypt, Sudan, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the other countries of the Arabian peninsula.
- misfeasance — a wrong, actual or alleged, arising from or consisting of affirmative action.
- narrow seas — the channels between Great Britain and the Continent and Great Britain and Ireland
- neap season — the time of year when either of the two tides that occur at the first or last quarter of the moon when the tide-generating forces of the sun and moon oppose each other and produce the smallest rise and fall in tidal level
- nonfeasance — the omission of some act that ought to have been performed. Compare malfeasance, misfeasance (def 2).
- nonseasonal — not connected to or dependent on the seasons
- northeaster — New England and South Atlantic States. a wind or gale from the northeast.
- open season — a specific season or time of year when it is legal to catch or hunt for fish or game protected at all other times by the law.
- over-season — a period of the year marked by certain conditions, activities, etc.: baseball season.
- overmeasure — an excessive or surplus measure or amount: an overmeasure of exuberance.
- peak season — busiest annual period
- pease-brose — brose made from a meal of dried peas
- pleasurable — such as to give pleasure; enjoyable; agreeable; pleasant: a pleasurable experience.
- pleasureful — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- pre-release — something released beforehand, as a movie shown before its scheduled premiere.
- preassembly — an assembling or coming together of a number of persons, usually for a particular purpose: The principal will speak to all the students at Friday's assembly.