4-letter words containing e, i
- eric — A fine paid as compensation for violent crimes.
- erie — a member of a North American Indian people formerly living south of Lake Erie
- erin — a feminine name
- eris — /e'ris/ The Greek goddess of Chaos, Discord, Confusion, and Things You Know Not Of; her name was latinised to Discordia and she was worshiped by that name in Rome. Not a very friendly deity in the Classical original, she was reinvented as a more benign personification of creative anarchy starting in 1959 by the adherents of Discordianism and has since been a semi-serious subject of veneration in several "fringe" cultures, including hackerdom. See Church of the SubGenius.
- esdi — Enhanced Small Disk Interface
- esim — A language for simulation of VLSI at the switch level. The primitives are nodes and transistors.
- etic — Relating to or denoting an approach to the study or description of a particular language or culture that is general, nonstructural, and objective in its perspective.
- etsi — European Telecommunications Standards Institute
- etui — A small ornamental case for holding needles, cosmetics, and other articles.
- evil — Profoundly immoral and malevolent.
- exit — A way out, especially of a public building, room, or passenger vehicle.
- feis — (Irish) An Irish festival, usually including folk music, dancing, and sports.
- feni — (India) An alcoholic drink made in Goa, India, from fermented cashew apples or coconut toddy (sap).
- fice — Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a small mongrel dog, especially one that is ill-tempered; cur; mutt.
- fide — in bad faith; not genuine.
- fief — a fee or feud held of a feudal lord; a tenure of land subject to feudal obligations.
- fife — Also called Fifeshire [fahyf-sheer, -sher] /ˈfaɪf ʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in E Scotland.
- fike — (ambitransitive) To feign; dissemble; flatter.
- file — a powder made from the ground leaves of the sassafras tree, used as a thickener and to impart a pungent taste to soups, gumbos, and other dishes.
- fine — of superior or best quality; of high or highest grade: fine wine.
- fire — combustion
- fise — A breaking wind.
- five — a cardinal number, four plus one.
- fixe — Archaic form of fix.
- flie — Obsolete spelling of fly.
- frei — Eduardo [e-dwahr-th aw] /ɛˈdwɑr ðɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–82, Chilean statesman: president 1964–70.
- geis — Plural form of gei.
- geit — a border on clothing
- gibe — to shift from one side to the other when running before the wind, as a fore-and-aft sail or its boom.
- gide — André (Paul Guillaume) [ahn-drey pawl gee-yohm] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ pɔl giˈyoʊm/ (Show IPA), 1869–1951, French novelist, essayist, poet, and critic: Nobel Prize 1947.
- gied — a member or former member of the U.S. armed forces, especially an enlisted soldier.
- gine — {{lbl|colloquial|often|plural}} vagina.
- gipe — Alternative form of gype.
- gire — Obsolete form of gyre.
- gise — (obsolete) guise; manner.
- gite — a furnished vacation home in France that is available for rental, especially in a rural setting.
- giue — Obsolete typography of give.
- give — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- heil — To greet with a Sieg Heil.
- hein — eh
- heir — a person who inherits or has a right of inheritance in the property of another following the latter's death.
- hemi — an internal-combustion engine having hemispherical combustion chambers.
- hide — Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
- hied — to hasten; speed; go in haste.
- hies — to hasten; speed; go in haste.
- hike — to walk or march a great distance, especially through rural areas, for pleasure, exercise, military training, or the like.
- hile — (botany) hilum.
- hipe — (wrestling) A throw in which the wrestler lifts his opponent from the ground, swings him to one side, knocks up his nearer thigh from the back with the knee, and throws him on his back.
- hire — to engage the services of (a person or persons) for wages or other payment: to hire a clerk.
- hive — a shelter constructed for housing a colony of honeybees; beehive.