10-letter words containing em
- emancipate — Set free, esp. from legal, social, or political restrictions.
- emancipist — (Australia, historical) In penal colonies of early Australia, a convict who had been pardoned for good conduct; sometimes inclusively a convict whose sentence had completed, though one such was more usually called an expiree.
- emarginate — (botany, mycology) Roughly the same height for most of its length, becoming much shallower before reaching the attachment point.
- emasculate — Make (a person, idea, or piece of legislation) weaker or less effective.
- embalmment — The process of embalming.
- embankment — A wall or bank of earth or stone built to prevent a river flooding an area.
- embarassed — Misspelling of embarrassed.
- embargoing — Present participle of embargo.
- embarkment — Embarkation; the act of setting out.
- embasement — abasement
- embassador — Archaic form of ambassador.
- embattling — Present participle of embattle.
- embayments — Plural form of embayment.
- embeddable — That can be embedded.
- ember days — any of four groups of three days (always Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday) of prayer and fasting, the groups occurring after Pentecost, after the first Sunday of Lent, after the feast of St Lucy (Dec 13), and after the feast of the Holy Cross (Sept 14)
- ember week — a week in which Ember days fall
- emberizids — Plural form of emberizid.
- embezzlers — Plural form of embezzler.
- embezzling — Present participle of embezzle.
- embittered — Simple past tense and past participle of embitter.
- emblazoned — Simple past tense and past participle of emblazon.
- emblazoner — Someone who emblazons.
- emblazonry — Something emblazoned; a heraldic pattern.
- emblematic — Serving as a symbol of a particular quality or concept; symbolic.
- emblements — Plural form of emblement.
- emblemized — Simple past tense and past participle of emblemize.
- embodiment — A tangible or visible form of an idea, quality, or feeling.
- emboldened — Having been made bold.
- emboldener — a person or thing that emboldens
- emboliform — Plug-shaped.
- embolismal — relating to embolism, being the insertion of one or more days into a calendar
- embolismic — Relating to embolism or intercalation.
- embonpoint — The plump or fleshy part of a person’s body, in particular a woman’s bosom.
- embosoming — Present participle of embosom.
- embossable — Capable of being embossed.
- embossment — The result of embossing; something that has been embossed.
- embothrium — any evergreen shrub of the genus Embothrium, esp E. coccineum, native to South America but widely cultivated as an ornamental for its scarlet flowers: family Proteaceae
- embouchure — The way in which a player applies the mouth to the mouthpiece of a brass or wind instrument.
- embowering — Present participle of embower.
- embrangled — Simple past tense and past participle of embrangle.
- embrangles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of embrangle.
- embrasures — Plural form of embrasure.
- embrittled — Simple past tense and past participle of embrittle.
- embrittles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of embrittle.
- embrocated — Simple past tense and past participle of embrocate.
- embrocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of embrocate.
- embroiders — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of embroider.
- embroidery — The art or pastime of embroidering cloth.
- embroiling — Present participle of embroil.
- embryo sac — the structure within a plant ovule that contains the egg cell: develops from the megaspore and contains the embryo plant and endosperm after fertilization