5-letter words containing eg
- aegae — ancient name of Edessa, a market town in Greece: ancient capital of Macedonia. Pop: 15 980 (latest est)
- aeger — (dated, British school slang) Absent and excused from one\u2019s classes due to illness.
- aegir — the god of the sea
- aegis — sponsorship or protection; auspices (esp in the phrase under the aegis of)
- begad — an emphatic exclamation
- began — Began is the past tense of begin.
- begar — compulsory labour, usually without payment; slave labour
- begat — simple past tense of beget.
- begem — to decorate with gems
- beget — To beget something means to cause it to happen or be created.
- begin — To begin to do something means to start doing it.
- begot — Begot is the past tense of beget.
- begum — (in Pakistan and certain other Muslim countries) a woman of high rank, esp the widow of a prince
- begun — Begun is the past participle of begin.
- clegg — Nick, full name Nicholas William Peter Clegg. born 1967, British politician; leader of the Liberal Democrats (2007–2015); deputy prime minister of a Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition (2010–2015)
- degas — to remove gas from (a container, vacuum tube, liquid, adsorbent, etc)
- degen — (cant) Sword.
- degum — to remove gum from (a substance or object)
- degut — to remove the entrails of; disembowel; gut.
- dregs — dregs, the sediment of liquids; lees; grounds.
- egadi — a group of islands in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of W Sicily. 15 sq. mi. (39 sq. km).
- egads — Alternative form of egad.
- egest — to discharge, as from the body; void (opposed to ingest).
- eggar — A large brownish moth that is often active during the day. The caterpillars typically bear irritant hairs and make an egg-shaped cocoon.
- egged — the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species.
- egger — tent caterpillar.
- egham — a town in S England, in N Surrey on the River Thames. Pop: 27 666 (2001)
- egrep — (tool) An extended version of the Unix grep command. Egrep accepts extended regular expressions (REs) including "*" following multi-character REs; "+" (one or more matches); "?" (zero or one matches); "|" separating two REs matches either. REs may be bracketed with (). Despite its additional complexity, egrep is usually faster than fgrep or grep.
- egret — A heron with mainly white plumage, having long plumes in the breeding season.
- egusi — Melon seeds that are ground to make soup in Africa.
- egypt — North African republic
- elegy — A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
- empeg — (hardware) An in-car audio product that plays MP3 files from a hard disk. It is based around a DEC/Intel StrongARM S-1100 processor and runs a version of Linux. The user interface is written in Python. See also MPEG.
- frege — (Friedrich Ludwig) Gottlob [gawt-lohp] /ˈgɔt loʊp/ (Show IPA), 1848–1925, German mathematician and logician.
- grege — to make heavy
- gregg — John Robert, 1864–1948, U.S. educator: inventor of a system of shorthand.
- grego — a short, hooded coat of thick, coarse fabric, originally worn in the eastern Mediterranean countries.
- grieg — Edvard [ed-vahrd;; Norwegian ed-vahrt] /ˈɛd vɑrd;; Norwegian ˈɛd vɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1843–1907, Norwegian composer.
- hegel — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich [gey-awrk vil-helm free-drikh] /ˈgeɪ ɔrk ˈvɪl hɛlm ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1770–1831, German philosopher.
- hegge — Obsolete form of hedge.
- hyleg — the dominant planet when someone is born which is said to determine the length of their life
- iyfeg — (Usenet) Insert Your Favourite Ethnic Group. Used as a meta-name when telling ethnic jokes on the net to avoid offending anyone. See also JEDR.
- kegel — Often, Kegel exercises. exercise performed to strengthen the pubococcygeus and other muscles of the pelvic floor, in order to control incontinence, improve sexual response, etc.
- klieg — A powerful electric lamp used in filming.
- krieg — war1 .
- legal — permitted by law; lawful: Such acts are not legal.
- legco — the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
- leged — Alternative form of legged.
- leger — Alexis Saint-Léger [a-lek-see san-ley-zhey] /a lɛkˈsi sɛ̃ leɪˈʒeɪ/ (Show IPA), St.-John Perse.
- leges — plural of lex.
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