6-letter words starting with e
- eleven — Equivalent to the sum of six and five; one more than ten; 11.
- elevon — The movable part of the trailing edge of a delta wing.
- elfish — Characteristic of an elf.
- eliade — Mircea. 1907–86, Romanian scholar and writer, noted for his study of religious symbolism. His works include Patterns of Comparative Religion (1949)
- eliche — pasta in the form of spirals
- elicit — Evoke or draw out (a response, answer, or fact) from someone in reaction to one's own actions or questions.
- elided — Simple past tense and past participle of elide.
- elides — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of elide.
- elijah — a Hebrew prophet of the 9th century bc, who was persecuted for denouncing Ahab and Jezebel. (I Kings 17–21: 21; II Kings 1–2:18)
- elinor — a feminine name
- elisha — a Hebrew prophet of the 9th century bc: successor of Elijah (II Kings 3–9)
- elisor — (UK, legal) An elector or chooser; one of two persons appointed by a court to return a jury or serve a writ when the sheriff and the coroners are disqualified.
- elites — Plural form of elite.
- elixir — A magical or medicinal potion.
- elliot — a masculine name
- ellipt — (linguistics) To omit (from an utterance) by ellipsis.
- elodea — An aquatic plant of a genus that includes the ornamental waterweeds.
- elohim — a Hebrew word for God or gods
- eloign — (obsolete, transitive) To remove (something) to a distance.
- eloise — a feminine name: equiv. Fr. Héloïse
- eloped — Simple past tense and past participle of elope.
- eloper — Agent noun of elope; one who elopes.
- elopes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of elope.
- elshin — a cobbler's awl
- eluant — Alternative spelling of eluent.
- Éluard — Paul (pɔl), real name Eugène-Émile-Paul Grindel. 1895–1952, French surrealist poet, noted for his political and love poems
- eluate — A solution obtained by elution.
- eluded — Simple past tense and past participle of elude.
- eluder — Agent noun of elude; one who eludes.
- eludes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of elude.
- eluent — (analytical chemistry) In chromatography, a solvent used in order to effect separation by elution.
- eluted — Simple past tense and past participle of elute.
- elutor — a vessel used for elution
- eluvia — Plural form of eluvium.
- elvers — Plural form of elver.
- elvira — a feminine name
- elvish — Of or having to do with elves.
- elyria — city in N Ohio, near Cleveland: pop. 56,000
- elysée — a palace in Paris, in the Champs Elysées: official residence of the president of France
- elytis — Odysseus, real name Odysseus Alepoudelis. 1912–96, Greek poet, author of the long poems To Axion Esti (1959) and Maria Nefeli (1978): Nobel prize for literature 1979
- elytra — Plural form of elytron.
- emails — Plural form of email.
- embail — to enclose in a circle
- embale — to bind or wrap (goods) into a package or bale
- emball — to enclose in a circle
- embalm — Preserve (a corpse) from decay, originally with spices and now usually by arterial injection of a preservative.
- embank — Construct a wall or bank of earth or stone in order to confine (a river) within certain limits.
- embark — Go on board a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle.
- embase — to degrade or debase
- embeds — An embedded journalist.