Representing a scream or shriek (especially in comic strips and books).
Representing the shrill vocal sound of a mouse, rat, or monkey.
noun
(Polari) A face.
verb
To produce a high-pitched squeal, as in fear or trepidation.
eel
eel
noun
Any freshwater or marine fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes.
The European eel, Anguilla anguilla.
verb
To fish for eels.
To move with a sinuous motion like that of an eel.
eem
eem
adv
(African-American Vernacular) Nonstandard form of even.
een
een
adv
(dialectal, Northern England) even.
noun
(archaic and Scotland, Northern England) plural of eye
(poetic or dialectal, Scotland) evening.
eeo
eer
eer
adv
(poetic) Unpunctuated contraction of ever.
efd
eff
eff
verb
(euphemistic, slang) Fuck (the taboo swear word, but not in the sense "to copulate")
To put into words; to express.
efi
efl
efs
efs
noun
plural of ef
eft
eft
adv
(obsolete) Again; afterwards
noun
A newt, especially the European smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris, syn. Triturus punctatus).
ega
egg
egg
noun
(Internet slang, derogatory, dated) A user of the microblogging service Twitter identified by the default avatar (historically an image of an egg (sense 1.1.1)) rather than a custom image; hence, a newbie or noob.
(New Zealand, derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person.
(also cytology) Synonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”); an egg cell.
(archaic) Something regarded as containing a (usually bad) thing at an early stage.
(architecture) Chiefly in egg and dart: an ornamental oval moulding alternating in a row with dart or triangular shapes.
(by extension, countable) A food item shaped to resemble an egg (sense 1.1.1), such as a chocolate egg.
(chiefly sports) A score of zero; specifically (cricket), a batter's failure to score; a duck egg or duck's egg.
(computing) One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes".
(countable) A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
(derogatory, ethnic slur, rare) A white person considered to be overly infatuated with East Asia.
(derogatory, obsolete) A young person.
(informal, dated) A person; a fellow.
(military, dated) A bomb or mine.
(specifically, countable) The edible egg (sense 1.1) of a domestic fowl such as a duck, goose, or, especially, a chicken; (uncountable) the contents of such an egg or eggs used as food.
(transgender slang) A person regarded as having not yet realized they are transgender, who has not yet come out as transgender, or who is in the early stages of transitioning; also, one's lack of awareness that one is transgender.
A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, resulting from an injury.
An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.
verb
(cooking) To coat (a food ingredient) with or dip (a food ingredient) in beaten egg (noun sense 1.1.1) during the process of preparing a dish.
(intransitive) To collect the eggs (noun sense 1.1) of wild birds.
(transitive, obsolete except in egg on) To encourage, incite, or urge (someone).
To inadvertently or intentionally distort (the circular cross-section of something, such as tube) to an elliptical or oval shape.
To throw (especially rotten) eggs (noun sense 1.1.1) at (someone or something).
egk
ego
ego
noun
(psychology, Freudian) The most central part of the mind, which mediates with one's surroundings.
The self, especially with a sense of self-importance.
egp
ehf
ehp
ehr
eia
eib
ein
eir
eir
det
(rare, nonstandard) Belonging to em, gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, equivalent to the singular their and coordinate with his and her.
For more quotations using this term, see Citations:eir.
|en
eis
eke
eke
adv
(archaic) Also; in addition to.
noun
(beekeeping) A spacer put between or over or under hive parts to make more space.
(beekeeping, archaic) A small stand on which a beehive is placed.
(obsolete except Britain, dialectal) An addition.
verb
(transitive) Chiefly in the form eke out: to add to, to augment; to increase; to lengthen.
ekg
ekg
Noun
electrocardiogram
ela
elb
elc
eld
eld
adj
(obsolete) Old.
noun
(archaic or poetic) Former ages, antiquity, olden times.
(archaic or poetic) Old age, senility; an old person.
(archaic or poetic) Time; an age, an indefinitely long period of time.
(rare or dialectal) One's age, age in years, period of life.
verb
(intransitive, archaic or poetic) To delay; linger.
(intransitive, archaic, poetic or dialectal) To age, become or grow old.
(transitive, archaic or poetic) To make old, age.
ele
elf
elf
noun
(Norse mythology) A luminous spirit presiding over nature and fertility and dwelling in the world of Álfheim (Elfland). Compare angel, nymph, fairy.
(South Africa) The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).
(fantasy) Any of the magical, typically forest-guarding races bearing some similarities to the Norse álfar (through Tolkien's Eldar).
A very diminutive person; a dwarf.
Any from a race of mythical, supernatural beings resembling but seen as distinct from human beings. They are usually delicate-featured and skilled in magic or spellcrafting; sometimes depicted as clashing with dwarves, especially in modern fantasy literature.
verb
(now rare) To twist into elflocks (of hair); to mat.
eli
elk
elk
noun
(British India) Sambar (Cervus unicolor).
(Canada, US) common wapiti (Cervus canadensis), the second largest member of the deer family, once thought to be a subspecies of red deer.
(chiefly Europe, Commonwealth) Any moose (Alces alces), the largest member of the deer family.
(obsolete) Alternative form of elke (the common swan (Cygnus cygnus, syn. Cygnus ferus))
Any of the subspecies of the moose (Alces alces alces, alternatively named Eurasian elk to avoid confusion with the wapiti), that occurs only in Europe and Asia.
ell
ell
noun
(historical) A measure of length. An English ell was 1¼ yards (45 inches or 114 cm), a Scottish ell was about 37 inches (94 cm), a Flemish ell was ¾ yard (27 inches or 69 cm), while certain European ells were less than 50 cm.
An extension usually at right angles to one end of a building.
Something that is L-shaped.
The name of the Latin-script letter L. (more commonly el)
elm
elm
noun
(countable) A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers.
(uncountable, usually attributive) Wood from an elm tree.
elo
elo
noun
(chess, other games) Synonym of Elo rating
elp
els
els
adj
Obsolete form of else.
noun
plural of el
elt
elt
noun
(mathematics, computing) Abbreviation of element.
verb
(intransitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To become soft; become moist, as damp earth.
(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To begrime; soil with mud; daub; smear.
(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To injure (anything) by rough handling; handle roughly.
(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To knead dough; stir dough previously kneaded to a proper consistency before baking.
(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To meddle; interfere.
(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To work persistently or laboriously; be occupied in working (e.g. in the earth, rake among dirt, etc.).
elv
ely
ema
ema
noun
A wooden plaque bearing a prayer or wish, left hanging at a Shinto shrine.
emc
eme
eme
noun
(Scotland) Friend.
(obsolete outside Scotland) An uncle.
emf
emf
noun
(physics) Alternative letter-case form of EMF ("electromotive force")
emi
eml
emm
emp
emp
noun
Abbreviation of employee.
emr
ems
ems
noun
plural of em
emt
emu
emu
noun
(computing, video games, informal) Clipping of emulator.
(obsolete) A cassowary (genus Casuarius).
(physics) Initialism of electromagnetic unit.
A large flightless bird native to Australia, Dromaius novaehollandiae.
ena
enc
enc
noun
Abbreviation of enclosure. (indicating that a letter is accompanied by further material)
end
end
noun
(American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
(by extension) Death.
(by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
(cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
(curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
(in the plural, slang, African-American Vernacular) Money.
(mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)
A purpose, goal, or aim.
One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
Result.
That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
The terminal point of something in space or time.
verb
(intransitive, ergative) to come to an end
(transitive) To finish, terminate.
ene
eng
eng
adj
(regional, obsolete) Narrow.
noun
Roman alphabet ŋ: The Latin-based letter formed by combining the letters n and g, used in the IPA, Saami, Mende, and some Australian aboriginal languages. In the IPA, it represents the voiced velar nasal, the ng sound in running and rink.
enl
eno
ens
ens
noun
(chemistry, alchemy, now historical) Something supposed to condense within itself all the virtues and qualities of a substance from which it is extracted; an essence, an active principle.
(philosophy) An entity or being; an existing thing, as opposed to a quality or attribute.
plural of en
ent
ent
noun
(fantasy) A fictional, large, humanoid, mobile talking tree in works by J. R. R. Tolkien.
verb
(dialect, Britain, Devon) To empty or pour.
env
eod
eoe
eof
eom
eon
eon
noun
(Gnosticism, usually spelled aeon or æon) A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.
(US) Eternity.
(US, informal, hyperbolic) A long period of time.
(geology) The longest geochronologic unit, being a period of hundreds of millions of years; subdivided into eras.
A period of 1,000,000,000 years.
eos
eot
epa
epd
eph
epi
epi
noun
(category theory) Abbreviation of epimorphism.
(medical jargon) epinephrine
(medicine, colloquial) Abbreviation of epidural.
(medicine, colloquial) Abbreviation of episiotomy.
A syringe or autoinjector filled with epinephrine, most frequently used for the treatment of acute allergic reactions to avoid or treat the onset of anaphylactic shock.
epl
epp
eps
eps
noun
plural of ep
ept
ept
adj
Skillful and knowledgeable; adept.
epw
era
era
noun
(geology) A geochronologic unit of tens to hundreds of millions of years; a subdivision of an eon, and subdivided into periods.
A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.
erb
erd
erd
noun
(dialect, rare) Alternative form of earth
(zoology) The common European shrew (Sorex vulgaris); the shrewmouse or erd shrew.
(US regional, Cape Colony, New York, South Africa) A small inherited house-and-garden lot in a village or settlement.
(by extension) Stock; cattle.
erg
erg
noun
(geomorphology) A large desert region of sand dunes with little or no vegetation, especially in the Sahara.
(rowing, slang) An ergometer.
The unit of work or energy, being the amount of work done by a force of one dyne applied through a distance of one centimeter. Equal to 10⁻⁷ joules.
verb
(rowing, slang, transitive, intransitive) To use an ergometer.
eri
erk
erk
intj
(Australia, colloquial) An expression of revulsion or disgust; yuck.
(colloquial) An expression of trepidation; eek.
noun
(Britain, slang) A member of the groundcrew in the RAF.
erl
ern
ern
noun
Alternative spelling of erne
verb
(UK dialectal) To run; flow.
(UK dialectal, Scotland) (of the eyes) To cause to water; smart.
(UK dialectal, Scotland) To (cause to) coagulate; curdle (milk) by adding rennet and applying heat.
(UK dialectal, Scotland) To pain; torture.
(intransitive, obsolete) To stir with strong emotion; grieve; mourn.
erp
err
err
intj
Alternative form of er (“sound of hesitation”)
verb
(archaic) to stray.
(intransitive) To sin.
(intransitive, formal) To make a mistake.
ers
ers
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of er
ert
ert
verb
(intransitive, UK dialectal) To be eager, prone; hurry.
(intransitive, UK dialectal) To strive onward and upward.
(transitive, UK dialectal) To incite; urge on; encourage.
(transitive, UK dialectal) To irritate; grill; provoke.
(transitive, UK dialectal) To make as if to strike; argue (with); strive after; try to obtain.
eru
erv
esa
esa
name
Alternative letter-case form of ESA (trademark stylisation)
esb
esc
esd
ese
ese
noun
(US) dude, man. (Usually used vocatively).
(obsolete) Ease; pleasure.
esf
esh
esh
noun
The IPA symbol ʃ.
esi
esk
esl
esm
esn
eso
esp
esp
adv
Alternative form of esp.
esq
esr
ess
ess
noun
Something shaped like the letter S. (See esses)
The name of the Latin-script letter S.
verb
To move in a changing direction, forming the shape of a letter S.
est
est
adj
Abbreviation of established.
name
Initialism of w:Erhard Seminars Training, a course intended to promote satisfaction with life in the present moment, as opposed to strivings to attain it.
noun
(obsolete) Grace; favour.
esu
eta
eta
noun
(physics) A kind of electrically neutral meson having zero spin and isospin.
A social outcast in Japan who is subjected to menial work, making up a class or caste of such people.
The seventh letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, the eighth in Old Greek.
etc
etc
adv
Alternative form of etc.
etd
etf
eth
eth
noun
A letter (capital Ð, small ð) introduced into Old English to represent its dental fricative, then not distinguished from the letter thorn, no longer used in English but still in modern use in Icelandic, the IPA and other phonetic alphabets to represent the voiced dental fricative "th" sound as in the English word then. The letter is also used in Faroese, but is generally silent in that language.
etn
eto
etr
ets
etv
ety
ety
noun
Abbreviation of etymology.
etz
euc
eug
euh
eur
euv
euv
Noun
of; the highest energy, highest frequency, shortest wavelength end of the ultraviolet EM band, overlapping with soft X-rays.
eva
eva
adv
Pronunciation spelling of ever.
eve
eve
noun
(archaic, poetic) Evening, night.
(figurative) The period of time when something is just about to happen or to be introduced
The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve.
evg
evx
evy
ewa
ewe
ewe
noun
A female sheep, as opposed to a ram.
ewo
ews
exc
exp
exr
ext
ext
noun
(telecommunications) extension
exterior (describing the location of a shot in a film script, etc.)
eye
eye
noun
(architecture) The circle in the centre of a volute.
(game of Go) An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.
(informal) The dark brown center of a black-eyed Susan flower.
(typography) The enclosed counter (negative space) of the small letter e.
(usually in the plural) View or opinion.
A brood.
A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.
A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.
A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc.; for example, at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss, through a crank, at the end of a rope, or through a millstone.
A mark on an animal, such as a peacock or butterfly, resembling a human eye.
A meaningful stare or look.
A private eye: a privately hired detective or investigator.
A reproductive bud in a potato.
An organ through which animals see (perceive surroundings via light).
Attention, notice.
One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.
That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty.
The ability to notice what others might miss.
The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.
The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.
The name of the Latin-script letter I.
The oval hole of an axehead through which the axehandle is fitted.
The relatively clear and calm center of a hurricane or other cyclonic storm.
The visual sense.
Tinge; shade of colour.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To appear; to look.
(poetic)
(transitive) To allow (fish eggs) to develop so that the black eye spots are visible.
(transitive) To carefully or appraisingly observe (someone or something).
(transitive) To remove the reproductive buds from (potatoes).