9-letter words containing ei
- deianeira — a sister of Meleager and wife of Hercules, whom she killed unwittingly by giving him a shirt that had been dipped in the poisoned blood of Nessus.
- deictical — Deictic.
- deinstall — Uninstall.
- deionised — Alternative spelling of deionized.
- deionized — to remove ions from.
- deionizer — A device that deionizes something.
- deionizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deionize.
- deiparous — giving birth to a god
- deisolate — to remove from isolation.
- deistical — a person who believes in deism.
- deltoidei — deltoid
- dereistic — autism.
- diarrheic — Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of diarrhea.
- disseisee — a person who is disseised or dispossessed of a freehold interest in land
- disseisin — (legal) The act of disseising.
- disseizee — a person who is disseized.
- disseizin — the act of disseizing.
- disseizor — a person who disseizes
- downweigh — (transitive) To weigh or press down; depress; cause to sink or prevent from rising.
- draw rein — to tighten the reins
- duotheism — Belief in and worship in two deities, usually framed as a god and goddess of roughly equal power.
- duotheist — A person who adheres to duotheism.
- dyspnoeic — Alternative spelling of dyspneic.
- eastleigh — a borough in Hampshire, S England.
- edelweiss — a small composite plant, Leontopodium alpinum, having white woolly leaves and flowers, growing in the high altitudes of the Alps.
- egotheism — The deification of one's own self.
- eiderdown — Small, soft feathers from the breast of the female eider duck.
- eidograph — a type of pantograph that was invented by the Scottish mathematician William Wallace in 1821 and which was more accurate than other pantographs
- eigenmode — a normal mode in an oscillating system, being one in which all parts of the system are oscillating with the same frequency
- eigentone — a characteristic acoustic resonance frequency of a system
- eightball — (in pool) the black ball, marked with the number eight
- eighteens — Plural form of eighteen.
- eightfoil — an eight-leaved flower shape
- eightfold — Eight times as great or as numerous.
- eightfoot — measuring eight feet
- eightieth — The ordinal form of the number eighty.
- eightsman — a member of an eight-man rowing team
- eightsome — A group of eight persons or things, one more than a sevensome and one less than a ninesome.
- eindhoven — a city in the SE Netherlands, in North Brabant province: radio and electrical industry. Pop: 206 000 (2003 est)
- einherjar — (Norse mythology) the undead spirits of warriors who died bravely in battle, brought to Valhalla by the valkyries, where they eternally feast and prepare daily for the inevitable events of Ragnarok.
- einthoven — Willem. 1860–1927, Dutch physiologist. A pioneer of electrocardiography, he was awarded the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1924
- eirenicon — A proposal to resolve disputes and reconcile differences in order to advance peace, strengthen or establish unity, or foster solidarity, usually in a modus vivendi.
- eisegeses — Plural form of eisegesis.
- eisegesis — An interpretation, especially of Scripture, that reflects the personal ideas or viewpoint of the interpreter; reading something into a text that isn't there. Compare exegesis.
- either-or — presenting an unavoidable need to choose between two alternatives
- enceintes — Plural form of enceinte.
- endeictic — functioning to exhibit
- endorheic — (of a lake or basin) Internally drained; having no outlet.
- envermeil — to colour or dye with vermilion; give a reddish colour to
- farseeing — having foresight; sagacious; discerning.