6-letter words starting with e
- egests — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of egest.
- egg on — to incite or urge; encourage (usually followed by on).
- eggars — Plural form of eggar.
- eggcup — a small cup or bowl for serving a boiled egg.
- eggers — Plural form of egger.
- eggery — A place where eggs are deposited or kept.
- eggier — Comparative form of eggy.
- egging — the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species.
- eggler — (archaic) One who gathers, or deals in, eggs.
- eggnog — a drink made of eggs, milk or cream, sugar, and, usually, rum or wine.
- egmont — Lamoral (lamoˈral), Count of Egmont, Prince of Gavre. 1522–68, Flemish statesman and soldier. He attempted to secure limited reforms and religious tolerance in the Spanish government of the Netherlands, refused to join William the Silent's rebellion, but was nevertheless executed for treason by the Duke of Alva
- egoism — An ethical theory that treats self-interest as the foundation of morality.
- egoist — An advocate of egoism.
- egoity — the essence of the ego, or one's personality
- egress — Go out of or leave (a place).
- egrets — Plural form of egret.
- eident — diligent
- eiders — Plural form of eider.
- eiffel — (language) An object-oriented language produced by Bertrand Meyer in 1985. Eiffel has classes with multiple inheritance and repeated inheritance, deferred classes (like Smalltalk's abstract class), and clusters of classes. Objects can have both static types and dynamic types. The dynamic type must be a descendant of the static (declared) type. Dynamic binding resolves multiple inheritance clashes. It has flattened forms of classes, in which all of the inherited features are added at the same level and generic classes parametrised by type. Other features are persistent objects, garbage collection, exception handling, foreign language interface. Classes may be equipped with assertions (routine preconditions and postconditions, class invariants) implementing the theory of "Design by Contract" and helping produce more reliable software. Eiffel is compiled to C. It comes with libraries containing several hundred classes: data structures and algorithms (EiffelBase), graphics and user interfaces (EiffelVision) and language analysis (EiffelLex, EiffelParse). The first release of Eiffel was release 1.4, introduced at the first OOPSLA in October 1986. The language proper was first described in a University of California, Santa Barbara report dated September 1985. Eiffel is available, with different libraries, from several sources including Interactive Software Engineering, USA (ISE Eiffel version 3.3); Sig Computer GmbH, Germany (Eiffel/S); and Tower, Inc., Austin (Tower Eiffel). The language definition is administered by an open organisation, the Nonprofit International Consortium for Eiffel (NICE). There is a standard kernel library. An Eiffel source checker and compiler front-end is available. See also Sather, Distributed Eiffel, Lace, shelf. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- eigen- — characteristic; proper
- eighth — Constituting number eight in a sequence; 8th.
- eights — Plural form of eight.
- eighty — Equivalent to the product of eight and ten; ten less than ninety; 80.
- eileen — a feminine name; var. Aileen
- eirack — a young hen in its first year
- either — Used before the first of two (or occasionally more ) alternatives that are being specified (the other being introduced by “ or ”).
- ejecta — Material that is forced or thrown out, especially as a result of volcanic eruption, meteoritic impact, or stellar explosion.
- ejects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of eject.
- el sal — El Salvador
- elaine — a feminine name
- elance — (transitive, archaic) To throw like a lance; to hurl.
- elands — Plural form of eland.
- elanet — any of four species of diurnal bird of prey of the genus Elanus and of the family Accipitridae
- elapid — (zoology) Any of many species of snakes of the family Elapidae, including the cobras, mambas, and coral snakes.
- elapse — (of time ) pass or go by.
- elated — Extremely happy and excited; delighted; pleased.
- elater — That which elates.
- elates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of elate.
- elazig — city in EC Turkey: pop. 218,000
- elbert — Mountpeak of the Sawatch range, central Colo.: highest peak of the Rocky Mountains of the conterminous U.S.: 14,443 ft (4,402 m)
- elbing — a port in N Poland: metallurgical industries. Pop: 129 000 (2005 est)
- elbląg — a port in N Poland: metallurgical industries. Pop: 129 000 (2005 est)
- elbows — Plural form of elbow.
- elbrus — a mountain in SW Russia, on the border with Georgia, in the Caucasus Mountains, with two extinct volcanic peaks: the highest mountain in Europe. Height: 5642 m (18 510 ft)
- elchee — an ambassador
- elders — Plural form of elder.
- eldest — (of one out of a group of related or otherwise associated people) of the greatest age; oldest.
- elects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of elect.
- elegit — (archaic) A judicial writ ordering seizure of a debtor's property.
- elench — a refutation of an argument by proving the contrary of its conclusion, esp syllogistically