7-letter words containing ei
- ogreish — a monstrously ugly, cruel, or barbarous person.
- ogreism — an occurrence of behaviour characteristic of an ogre
- omneity — the state or condition of being all
- oneiric — of or relating to dreams.
- oneiro- — indicating a dream
- paneity — the state of being bread, esp Eucharistic bread
- pareira — the root of a South American vine, Chondodendron tomentosum, used as a source of curare, a diuretic, etc.
- peiping — Wade-Giles. former name of Beijing.
- peishwa — a leader of the Maratha people
- peneios — Modern Greek name of Salambria.
- pereion — (in a crustacean) the thorax.
- pereira — Irene Rice, 1907–71, U.S. artist.
- peronei — any of several muscles on the outer side of the leg, the action of which assists in extending the foot and in turning it outward.
- perseid — any of a shower of meteors appearing in August and radiating from a point in the constellation Perseus.
- pléiade — a group of seven French poets of the 16th cent. who favored the use of classical forms
- pompeia — flourished 1st century b.c, second wife of Julius Caesar, divorced in 62 b.c. Compare Calpurnia, Cornelia (def 2).
- pompeii — an ancient city in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: it was buried along with Herculaneum by an eruption of nearby Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79; much of the city has been excavated.
- preeing — a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- proteid — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- protein — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- raleigh — a state in the SE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 52,586 sq. mi. (136,198 sq. km). Capital: Raleigh. Abbreviation: NC (for use with zip code), N.C.
- receipt — a written acknowledgment of having received, or taken into one's possession, a specified amount of money, goods, etc.
- receive — to take into one's possession (something offered or delivered): to receive many gifts.
- reified — to convert into or regard as a concrete thing: to reify a concept.
- reigate — a city in Surrey in SE England, a London suburb.
- reigned — the period during which a sovereign occupies the throne.
- reimage — a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- rein in — control, restrain
- reincur — to incur again
- reindex — (in a nonfiction book, monograph, etc.) a more or less detailed alphabetical listing of names, places, and topics along with the numbers of the pages on which they are mentioned or discussed, usually included in or constituting the back matter.
- reining — Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- reinter — to inter or bury (a body) again
- reissue — something that is issued again, as a book or a motion picture.
- reseize — to seize or take hold of again
- reweigh — to weigh (an object or quantity) again
- schweiz — German name of Switzerland.
- seeings — the act of a person who sees.
- seifert — Jaroslav [yah-raw-slahf] /ˈyɑ rɔ slɑf/ (Show IPA), 1901–1986, Czech poet: Nobel prize 1984.
- seirios — Sirius (def 2).
- seising — seizing.
- seismic — pertaining to, of the nature of, or caused by an earthquake or vibration of the earth, whether due to natural or artificial causes.
- seismo- — earthquake
- seisure — an act of seisin
- seizing — the act of a person or thing that seizes.
- seizure — the act or an instance of seizing.
- semeion — a unit of meter or time in ancient poetry
- sheikha — the chief wife of a sheikh, also the matron of a respected Arab family
- sheitan — Ash-Shaytān.
- sheitel — a wig worn by certain Orthodox Jewish married women in keeping with an old rabbinical precept that forbids a woman to leave her hair uncovered in the sight of a man other than her husband.
- shoeing — an external covering for the human foot, usually of leather and consisting of a more or less stiff or heavy sole and a lighter upper part ending a short distance above, at, or below the ankle.