8-letter words starting with e
- easeless — having no peace or contentment
- easement — Law. a right held by one property owner to make use of the land of another for a limited purpose, as right of passage.
- easiness — the quality or condition of being easy.
- east end — a section of E London, England.
- east ham — a former borough, now part of Newham, in SE England, near London.
- easterly — moving, directed, or situated toward the east: an easterly course.
- eastings — Plural form of easting.
- eastlake — Sir Charles Locke, 1836–1906, English architect, designer, and author.
- eastland — James O(liver) 1904–86, U.S. politician: senator 1941, 1943–78.
- eastlins — in an eastward direction
- eastmain — a river in central Quebec, Canada, flowing W to James Bay. 510 miles (821 km) long.
- eastmost — easternmost.
- eastside — (US) The east side of a district or city.
- eastward — Also, eastwards. toward the east.
- eastwood — Clint, born 1930, U.S. actor and director.
- easy fox — An early system on the JOHNNIAC computer.
- eat away — gnaw at, erode
- eat crow — any of several large oscine birds of the genus Corvus, of the family Corvidae, having a long, stout bill, lustrous black plumage, and a wedge-shaped tail, as the common C. brachyrhynchos, of North America.
- eat dirt — any foul or filthy substance, as mud, grime, dust, or excrement.
- eat into — use or consume part of
- eat shit — to be humble or undergo humiliation
- eatables — edible.
- eaten up — food: finished
- eateries — Plural form of eaterie.
- eavedrop — A drop falling from the eaves of a building; an eavesdrop.
- ebb tide — the reflux of the tide or the tide at ebb; ebb.
- ebenezer — a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “stone of help.”.
- ebeniste — cabinetmaker
- eberhard — Johann August (joˈhan ˈaʊɡʊst). 1739–1809, German philosopher and lexicographer, best known for his German dictionary (1795–1802)
- eberhart — Richard, 1904–2005, U.S. poet.
- ebionism — the teaching upheld by the Ebionites that said that Jesus was a mortal human being, that Christians should adhere to Jewish law and that absence of wealth was a preferred religious quality
- ebionize — to take up or follow the teachings and beliefs of the Ebionites
- ebonized — Simple past tense and past participle of ebonize.
- eboracum — ancient name of York, England.
- ebullism — (physiology) The formation of bubbles of gas in biological fluids due to reduced environmental pressure.
- eburnean — Made of ivory.
- eburnine — (rare) Like ivory.
- ecaudate — having no tail.
- ecbatana — an ancient country in W Asia, S of the Caspian Sea, corresponding generally to NW Iran. Capital: Ecbatana.
- ecclesia — an assembly, especially the popular assembly of ancient Athens.
- eccrisis — the ejection or discharge of waste matter from the body
- eccritic — (medicine) Any remedy that promotes discharges.
- ecdysone — an insect hormone that stimulates metamorphosis.
- echappee — a melodic ornamental tone following a principal tone by a step above or below and proceeding by a skip.
- echelons — Plural form of echelon.
- echidnae — Plural form of echidna.
- echidnas — Plural form of echidna.
- echinate — bristly; prickly.
- echinoid — belonging or pertaining to the class Echinoidea, comprising mainly sea urchins and sand dollars.
- echiuran — spoonworm