4-letter words starting with e
- eros — A winged figure of a child representing love and/or its power.
- errs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of err.
- erse — of or relating to the Irish Gaelic language
- ersh — Alternative form of earsh.
- erst — Long ago; formerly.
- erté — real name Romain de Tirtoff. 1892–1990, French fashion illustrator and designer, born in Russia, noted for his extravagant costumes and tableaux for the Folies-Bergère in Paris
- erts — Electronic Reciprocal Transfer System
- eruv — An urban area enclosed by a wire boundary that symbolically extends the private domain of Jewish households into public areas, permitting activities within it that are normally forbidden in public on the Sabbath.
- es-1 — (text, tool) An early text editing interpreter.
- esau — son of Isaac and Rebecca and twin brother of Jacob, to whom he sold his birthright (Genesis 25)
- esca — (ichthyology) fleshy growth from an anglerfish's head that acts as a lure.
- escd — Extended System Configuration Data
- esd. — Esdras
- esda — Electrostatic Deposition Analysis: a technique used to check the sequence in which a statement written in police custody was made. The chronology of the statement is arrived at by the examination of indentations on subsequent pages
- esdi — Enhanced Small Disk Interface
- esim — A language for simulation of VLSI at the switch level. The primitives are nodes and transistors.
- esky — (Australia) An insulated picnic cooler, using ice or refrigerated blocks to keep food and drinks cool.
- esml — Extended Systems Modelling Language
- esne — (Anglo-Saxon, historical) A hireling of servile status; slave.
- esop — Employee Stock Ownership Plan: a compensation plan set up by a company and funded with its tax-deductible contributions by which qualified employees accumulate shares of the company's stock
- espy — Catch sight of.
- esq. — Esq. is used after men's names as a written abbreviation for esquire.
- esrc — Economic and Social Research Council
- esro — European Space Research Organization
- esse — Essential nature or essence.
- este — Alternative form of est.
- état — a rank or state
- etch — Engrave (metal, glass, or stone ) by coating it with a protective layer, drawing on it with a needle, and then covering it with acid to attack the parts the needle has exposed, especially in order to produce prints from it.
- eten — a giant
- ethe — Plural form of ethos.
- etic — Relating to or denoting an approach to the study or description of a particular language or culture that is general, nonstructural, and objective in its perspective.
- etna — A kind of small, portable cooking apparatus for which heat is furnished by a spirit lamp.
- eton — a town in S England, in Windsor and Maidenhead unitary authority, Berkshire, near the River Thames: site of Eton College, a public school for boys founded in 1440. Pop: 3821 (2001 est)
- etrn — (messaging, protocol) ("Extended TURN") An ESMTP command (first defined in RFC 1985) with which a client asks the server to deliver queued mail to the client via a new ESMTP connection. ETRN supersedes the SMTP "TURN" command in the same way that ESMTP's "EHLO" supersedes SMTP's "HELO".
- etsi — European Telecommunications Standards Institute
- etui — A small ornamental case for holding needles, cosmetics, and other articles.
- ety. — etymological
- etym — An etymon.
- euca — European Union Control Association
- euen — Obsolete spelling of even.
- euer — Obsolete typography of ever.
- euge — (obsolete, rare) applause.
- eugh — Obsolete form of yew.
- eula — end-user licence agreement: the agreement made by a user before being granted permission to use computer software
- eure — a department of N France, in Haute-Normandie region. Capital: Évreux. Pop: 550 056 (2003 est). Area: 6037 sq km (2354 sq miles)
- euro — The single European currency, which replaced the national currencies of France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Luxembourg, Austria, Finland, the Republic of Ireland, Belgium, and the Netherlands in 2002. Seventeen member states of the European Union now use the euro.
- evac — Evacuation.
- eval — Evaluation.
- evan — a masculine name
- even — Flat and smooth.