9-letter words containing ei
- feignedly — pretended; sham; counterfeit: feigned enthusiasm.
- feijoadas — Plural form of feijoada.
- feininger — Andreas (Bernhard Lyonel) [an-drey-uh s,, ahn-] /ænˈdreɪ əs,, ɑn-/ (Show IPA), 1906–1999, U.S. photographer, born in France.
- feisal ii — 1935–58, king of Iraq 1939–58 (grandson of Faisal I).
- feiseanna — Plural form of feis.
- feistiest — Superlative form of feisty.
- femineity — feminine nature; womanliness.
- fideistic — Pertaining to fideism.
- fierstein — Harvey, born 1954, U.S. playwright.
- flyweight — a boxer or other contestant of the lightest competitive class, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 112 pounds (51 kg).
- foreigner — a person not native to or naturalized in the country or jurisdiction under consideration; alien.
- foreweigh — to assess in advance
- forfeited — a fine; penalty.
- forfeiter — One who incurs a penalty of forfeiture.
- foveiform — shaped like a small pit or depression
- free rein — unhampered freedom of movement, choice, or action: Students have free rein to choose their own class schedules.
- freighted — goods, cargo, or lading transported for pay, whether by water, land, or air.
- freighter — a vessel used mainly for carrying cargo.
- futabatei — Shimei [shee-mey] /ʃiˈmeɪ/ (Show IPA), (Tatsunosuke Hasegawa) 1864–1909, Japanese author.
- galeiform — helmet-shaped; resembling a galea.
- gauleiter — the leader or chief official of a political district under Nazi control.
- genistein — an oestrogen that occurs naturally in soya beans and is believed to inhibit the growth of certain tumours
- gladsheim — the golden palace of Odin, of which Valhalla was a part.
- gneissoid — resembling gneiss.
- gneissose — (geology) Having properties similar to gneiss.
- haecceity — That property or quality of a thing by virtue of which it is unique or describable as “ this (one). ”.
- haematein — a dark purple water-insoluble crystalline substance obtained from logwood and used as an indicator and biological stain. Formula: C16H12O6
- heidegger — Martin, 1889–1976, German philosopher and writer.
- heightens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of heighten.
- heightism — discrimination or prejudice based on a person's stature, especially discrimination against short people.
- heilbronn — a city in N Baden-Württemberg, in SW Germany.
- heinously — hateful; odious; abominable; totally reprehensible: a heinous offense.
- heiresses — Plural form of heiress.
- heirlooms — Plural form of heirloom.
- heisenbug — (jargon) /hi:'zen-buhg/ (From Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics) A bug that disappears or alters its behaviour when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialised memory, behaves quite differently.) In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialised auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (especially corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack. Opposite: Bohr bug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug.
- hippieish — Alternative spelling of hippyish.
- hussein i — 1935–1999, king of Jordan 1953–99.
- hygrodeik — A form of hygrometer having wet and dry bulb thermometers, with an adjustable index showing the percentage of moisture in the air, etc.
- hypopneic — of or relating to hypopnoea
- hyporheic — Denoting an area or ecosystem beneath the bed of a river or stream that is saturated with water and that supports invertebrate fauna which play a role in the larger ecosystem.
- ill-being — state or condition of lacking health, solvency, etc.
- intervein — one of the system of branching vessels or tubes conveying blood from various parts of the body to the heart.
- inveighed — Simple past tense and past participle of inveigh.
- inveigher — One who inveighs.
- inveigled — Simple past tense and past participle of inveigle.
- inveigler — One who inveigles.
- inveigles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inveigle.
- iseikonia — a condition in which a person sees the same image in both eyes
- iseikonic — relating to iseikonia
- isenstein — (in the Nibelungenlied) the home of Brunhild in Isenland.