12-letter words starting with e
- elephant gun — hunting rifle
- elephantbird — Alternative form of elephant bird.
- elephantitis — (US) misconstruction of elephantiasis.
- eleutherarch — the chief of the eleutheri
- elevator car — a compartment which carries people from floor to floor in a building via a vertical shaft
- elfin forest — the zone of stunted wind-blown trees growing at high altitudes just above the timberline on tropical mountains
- elicitations — Plural form of elicitation.
- eligibleness — Eligibility.
- eliminations — Plural form of elimination.
- eliza effect — (jargon) /e-li:'z* *-fekt'/ (From ELIZA) The tendency of humans to attach associations to terms from prior experience. For example, there is nothing magic about the symbol "+" that makes it well-suited to indicate addition; it's just that people associate it with addition. Using "+" or "plus" to mean addition in a computer language is taking advantage of the ELIZA effect. The ELIZA effect is a Good Thing when writing a programming language, but it can blind you to serious shortcomings when analysing an Artificial Intelligence system. Compare ad-hockery; see also AI-complete.
- elizabeth ii — born 1926, queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1952; daughter of George VI
- elkhorn fern — a tropical fern with a large leaf like an elk's horn
- ellenborough — Earl of, title of Edward Law. 1780–1871, British colonial administrator: governor general of India (1742–44)
- ellipsograph — an instrument that draws ellipses
- elliptically — In the form of an ellipse.
- ellis island — small, government-owned island in Upper New York Bay: former (1892-1943) examination center for immigrants seeking to enter the U.S.: 27 acres (11 hectares)
- elocutionary — Of or pertaining to elocution or to public speaking; rhetorical.
- elocutionist — Someone who practices or teaches elocution.
- eloquentness — The quality of being eloquent.
- elucidations — Plural form of elucidation.
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- elytrigerous — having elytra
- emanationism — A religious concept that everything is derived from emanations from a god.
- emancipating — Present participle of emancipate.
- emancipation — The fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation.
- emancipators — Plural form of emancipator.
- emancipatory — Of or pertaining to emancipation or to an emancipator.
- emancipatrix — A woman, girl, or any other entity treated as female who emancipates; a female emancipator.
- emargination — A notch (or series of notches) in a margin.
- emasculating — Present participle of emasculate.
- emasculation — The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
- embarassment — Misspelling of embarrassment.
- embarrassing — Causing embarrassment.
- embattlement — (countable) A battlement.
- embeddedness — The property of being embedded.
- embellishing — Present participle of embellish.
- embetterment — (obsolete, now used only as a nonstandard neologism) improvement, betterment.
- embezzlement — Theft or misappropriation of funds placed in one's trust or belonging to one's employer.
- embitterment — (uncountable) The state of being embittered.
- emblazonment — The act of emblazoning.
- emblazonries — Plural form of emblazonry.
- emblematical — See emblematic.
- emblematized — Simple past tense and past participle of emblematize.
- embolization — (surgery) A nonsurgical, minimally invasive procedure that effects the selective occlusion of blood vessels by purposely introducing emboli.
- embourgeoise — to make bourgeois
- embranchment — A branching forth, as of trees for example.
- embrocations — Plural form of embrocation.
- embroiderers — Plural form of embroiderer.
- embroideries — Plural form of embroidery.
- embroidering — Present participle of embroider.