7-letter words starting with e
- earywig — (regional) earwig.
- ease ii — Early system on IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- ease up — freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort: to enjoy one's ease.
- easeful — comfortable; quiet; peaceful; restful.
- easeled — having been set up or displayed on an easel
- easiest — not hard or difficult; requiring no great labor or effort: a book that is easy to read; an easy victory.
- eastern — lying toward or situated in the east: the eastern half of the island.
- easting — Navigation. the distance due east made good on any course tending eastward; easterly departure.
- eastlin — having or coming from an easterly direction
- eastman — George, 1854–1932, U.S. philanthropist and inventor in the field of photography.
- eat out — to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).
- eatable — edible.
- eaterie — Alternative spelling of eatery.
- eatings — Plural form of eating.
- ebauche — a rough sketch or initial version
- ebbings — Plural form of ebbing.
- ebbless — having no tendency to ebb or flow back
- ebbtide — Alt form ebb tide.
- ebcidic — (spelling) It's spelled "EBCDIC".
- eblaite — the Semitic language of the people of Ebla, believed to be closely related to Ugaritic, Phoenician, and Hebrew, but written in cuneiform characters borrowed from Sumerian: decoded from the Ebla Tablets. Compare Ebla.
- ebonics — Black English.
- ebonies — Plural form of ebony.
- ebonise — Alternative form of ebonize.
- ebonist — a worker in ebony.
- ebonite — vulcanite.
- ebonize — to stain or finish black in imitation of ebony.
- ebriate — drunk
- ebriety — the condition of being drunk
- ebriose — inebriated
- ecap ii — Electronic Circuit Analysis Program. Simple language for analysing electrical networks. "Introduction to Computer Analysis: ECAP for Electronics Technicians and Engineers", H. Levin, P-H 1970.
- ecbasis — (rhetoric) A figure in which the orator treats things according to their events or consequences.
- ecbolic — Medicine/Medical. promoting labor by increasing uterine contractions.
- eccles. — a book of the Bible. Abbreviation: Eccl., Eccles.
- eccrine — of or relating to certain sweat glands, distributed over the entire body, that secrete a type of sweat important for regulating body heat (distinguished from apocrine).
- ecdemic — noting or pertaining to a disease that is observed far from the area in which it originates.
- ecdyses — Plural form of ecdysis.
- ecdysis — the shedding or casting off of an outer coat or integument by snakes, crustaceans, etc.
- echappe — a ballet movement in which the dancer jumps from the fifth position and lands on the toes or the balls of the feet in the second position.
- 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.
- echidna — Also called spiny anteater. any of several insectivorous monotremes of the genera Tachyglossus, of Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea, and Zaglossus, of New Guinea, that have claws and a slender snout and are covered with coarse hair and long spines.
- echino- — indicating spiny or prickly
- echinus — any sea urchin of the genus Echinus.
- echoing — (of a sound) Be repeated or reverberate after the original sound has stopped.
- echoism — onomatopoeia.
- echoize — to produce (words) that are evocative of sounds
- eckhart — Johannes [yoh-hah-nuh s] /yoʊˈhɑ nəs/ (Show IPA), ("Meister Eckhart") c1260–1327? Dominican theologian and preacher: founder of German mysticism.
- eclipse — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
- eclogue — a pastoral poem, often in dialogue form.
- eclosed — Simple past tense and past participle of eclose.