7-letter words containing he
- echelle — relating to a type of optical grating that splits light into different beams that move in different directions
- echelon — a level of command, authority, or rank: After years of service, she is now in the upper echelon of city officials. Synonyms: place, rank, hierarchy, authority, grade, office; row, tier, rung; social standing, position, class, standing.
- ecorche — an anatomical model of part or all of the human body with the skin removed, to allow study of the underlying musculature.
- egghead — an intellectual.
- embathe — (archaic) To bathe.
- encheer — to cheer up
- enrheum — to pass a cold on to
- ephebes — Plural form of ephebe.
- ephebus — in ancient Athens, a young citizen (18 to 20 years) undergoing physical and military training
- ephedra — An evergreen shrub of warm, arid regions that has trailing or climbing stems and tiny, scalelike leaves . Some kinds are a source of ephedrine and are used medicinally.
- ephelis — a freckle; skin discoloration
- ephesus — (in ancient Greece) a major trading city on the W coast of Asia Minor: famous for its temple of Artemis (Diana); sacked by the Goths (262 ad)
- epithem — an external topical application
- epithet — An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.
- erathem — the stratum of rocks representing a specific geological era
- escheat — The reversion of property to the state, or (in feudal law) to a lord, on the owner’s dying without legal heirs.
- eschews — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of eschew.
- esthete — Alternative spelling of aesthete.
- ethenic — (chemistry) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling ethene or ethylene.
- ethered — Simple past tense and past participle of ether.
- etheric — Of or pertaining to the ether (all-pervading medium).
- exhedra — Alternative form of exedra.
- faithed — having faith or a faith
- farther — at or to a great distance; a long way off; at or to a remote point: We sailed far ahead of the fleet.
- fashery — a trouble or difficulty; a thing which causes worry
- fat hen — a common plant, Chenopodium album, with small green flowers and whitish scales on the stem and leaves: family Chenopodiaceae (chenopods)
- fathead — Slang. a stupid person; fool.
- fathers — Plural form of father.
- feather — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
- fetched — damned: Jim beat up every fetched one of them.
- fetcher — to go and bring back; return with; get: to go up a hill to fetch a pail of water.
- fetches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fetch.
- filched — Simple past tense and past participle of filch.
- filcher — to steal (especially something of small value); pilfer: to filch ashtrays from fancy restaurants.
- filches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of filch.
- finched — Simple past tense and past participle of finch.
- finches — Plural form of finch.
- fischer — Edwin, 1886–1960, Swiss pianist.
- fishers — Plural form of fisher.
- fishery — a place where fish are bred; fish hatchery.
- fisheye — (in plasterwork) a surface defect having the form of a spot.
- fitches — the European polecat, Mustela putorius.
- fitchew — the European polecat, Mustela putorius.
- flashed — Simple past tense and past participle of flash.
- flasher — a brief, sudden burst of bright light: a flash of lightning.
- flashes — Plural form of flash.
- fleshed — having flesh, especially of a specified type (usually used in combination): dark-fleshed game birds.
- flesher — a person who fleshes hides.
- fleshes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flesh.
- flushed — a flushed bird or flock of birds.