10-letter words starting with e
- east sider — a native or resident of the East Side of Manhattan, in New York City.
- east timor — a small country in SE Asia, comprising part of the island of Timor: colonized by Portugal in the 19th century; declared independence in 1975 but immediately invaded by Indonesia; under UN administration from 1999 and an independent state from 2002. It is mountainous with a monsoon climate; subsistence agriculture is the main occupation. Languages: Portuguese, Tetun (a lingua franca), and Bahasa Indonesia. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: US dollar. Capital: Dili. Pop: 1 172 390 (2013 est). Area: 14 874 sq km (5743 sq miles)
- eastbourne — a seaport in East Sussex, in SE England.
- easter day — the Sunday on which the festival of Easter is celebrated
- easter egg — a chicken egg that is dyed and often given a figure or design, or an imitation of such an egg, as an egg-shaped candy or chocolate, used at Easter as a gift or decoration.
- easterlies — moving, directed, or situated toward the east: an easterly course.
- easterling — a native of a country lying to the east, especially a merchant from the Baltic.
- eastermost — (archaic) easternmost.
- easterners — Plural form of easterner.
- easternize — (usually initial capital letter) to influence with ideas, customs, etc., characteristic of eastern Asia.
- eastertide — Easter time.
- eastwardly — having an eastward direction or situation.
- easy chair — an upholstered armchair for lounging.
- easy going — calm and unworried; relaxed and rather casual: an easygoing person.
- easy money — money obtained with a minimum of effort.
- easy-going — calm and unworried; relaxed and rather casual: an easygoing person.
- easy-peasy — very easy; presenting no difficulty at all
- eau claire — a city in W Wisconsin.
- eau de nil — a pale yellowish-green colour
- eau de vie — brandy, especially a coarser and less purified variety.
- eave spout — waterspout (def 1).
- eavesdrops — Plural form of eavesdrop.
- ebbinghaus — Hermann (ˈhɛrman). 1850–1909, German experimental psychologist who undertook the first systematic and large-scale studies of memory and devised tests using nonsense syllables
- ebionitism — The system or doctrine of the Ebionites.
- eboulement — a collapse; cave-in.
- ebracteate — having no bracts.
- ebullience — high spirits; exhilaration; exuberance.
- ebulliency — Ebullience.
- ebullition — a seething or overflowing, as of passion or feeling; outburst.
- eburnation — an abnormal condition in which bone becomes hard and dense like ivory.
- ecalcarate — having no spur or calcar.
- ecardinate — (of a mollusc or the shell of a mollusc) having no hinges
- eccentrick — Obsolete form of eccentric.
- eccentrics — Plural form of eccentric; persons who have unusual tendancies.
- ecchymoses — a discoloration due to extravasation of blood, as in a bruise.
- ecchymosis — a discoloration due to extravasation of blood, as in a bruise.
- ecchymotic — a discoloration due to extravasation of blood, as in a bruise.
- ecclesiast — A member of the Athenian Ecclesia.
- ecclestone — Bernard, known as Bernie. born 1930, British businessman and sports administrator; head of Formula One motor racing (1995–2017)
- eccoprotic — a laxative
- ecdysiasts — Plural form of ecdysiast.
- echeloning — Present participle of echelon.
- echeverria — Esteban [es-te-vahn] /ɛsˈtɛ vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1805–51, Argentine poet.
- echinaceas — Plural form of echinacea.
- echinoderm — any marine animal of the invertebrate phylum Echinodermata, having a radiating arrangement of parts and a body wall stiffened by calcareous pieces that may protrude as spines and including the starfishes, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, etc.
- echinulate — (of a plant or animal) having a covering of prickles or small spines.
- echo check — a quality check and error-control technique for data transferred over a computer network or other communications link, in which the data received is stored and also transmitted back to its point of origin, where it is compared with the original data.
- echo plate — (in sound recording or broadcasting) an electromechanical device for producing echo and reverberation effects
- echo verse — a poem in which the words or syllables at the end of a line are repeated as a response in the next line, often for ironic purpose.
- echography — a device that records oceanic depths by means of sonic waves.