7-letter words starting with el
- el gîza — a city in NE Egypt, on the W bank of the Nile opposite Cairo: nearby are the Great Pyramid of Cheops (Khufu) and the Sphinx. Pop: 2 221 868 (1996)
- el niño — a warming of the eastern tropical Pacific occurring every few years, which alters the weather pattern of the tropics
- el paso — a city in W Texas, on the Rio Grande opposite Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Pop: 584 113 (2003 est)
- elamite — an inhabitant of the ancient kingdom of Elam
- elapids — Plural form of elapid.
- elapine — relating to or resembling an elapid
- elapsed — Simple past tense and past participle of elapse.
- elapses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of elapse.
- elastic — (of an object or material) able to resume its normal shape spontaneously after contraction, dilatation, or distortion.
- elastin — An elastic, fibrous glycoprotein found in connective tissue.
- elating — Present participle of elate.
- elation — Great happiness and exhilaration.
- elative — (grammar) In Semitic languages, the \u201cadjective of superiority.\u201d In some languages such as Arabic, the concepts of comparative and superlative degree of an adjective are merged into a single form, the 'elative'. How this form is understood or translated depends upon context and definiteness. In the absence of comparison, the elative conveys the notion of \u201cgreatest\u201d, \u201csupreme.\u201d.
- elbowed — Simple past tense and past participle of elbow.
- elderly — (of a person) old or aging.
- eldress — a female elder
- eleanor — a feminine name: dim. Ella, Nell, Nora; var. Leonora
- eleatic — denoting or relating to a school of philosophy founded in Elea in Greece in the 6th century bc by Xenophanes, Parmenides, and Zeno. It held that one pure immutable Being is the only object of knowledge and that information obtained by the senses is illusory
- eleazar — Aaron's son and successor as high priest: Num. 20:28
- elected — Simple past tense and past participle of elect.
- electee — a person who is elected
- elector — A person who has the right to vote in an election.
- electra — the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. She persuaded her brother Orestes to avenge their father by killing his murderess Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus
- electre — (obsolete) electrum, amber (alloy of gold and silver).
- electro — A style of dance music with a fast beat and synthesized backing track.
- elegant — Pleasingly graceful and stylish in appearance or manner.
- elegiac — (especially of a work of art) having a mournful quality.
- elegies — Plural form of elegy.
- elegist — A writer of funeral songs; one who writes in elegiac verse.
- elegits — Plural form of elegit.
- elegize — Write in a wistfully mournful way about someone or something.
- element — A part or aspect of something abstract, especially one that is essential or characteristic.
- eleusis — a town in Greece, in Attica about 23 km (14 miles) west of Athens, of which it is now an industrial suburb
- elevate — Raise or lift (something) up to a higher position.
- elevens — Plural form of eleven.
- elf-cup — any of various cup-shaped ascomycetous fungi of the order Pezizales, often strikingly coloured, such as the orange-peel elf-cup (Aleuria aurantia), which is bright orange inside and dirty white outside, and the scarlet elf-cup (Sarcoscypha coccinea)
- elfhood — the state of being an elf
- elflike — Resembling an elf or some aspect of one.
- elflock — (now rare) A lock of hair that is tangled.
- elicits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of elicit.
- eliding — Present participle of elide.
- elimate — (obsolete) To render smooth; to polish.
- eliotic — of, like, or characteristic of T. S. Eliot or his style
- elision — The omission of a sound or syllable when speaking (as in I‘m, let’s, e ' en ).
- elitest — Superlative form of elite.
- elitism — The advocacy or existence of an elite as a dominating element in a system or society.
- elitist — A person who believes that a system or society should be ruled or dominated by an elite.
- elixirs — Plural form of elixir.
- elkhorn — The horn of an elk.
- ellagic — (of an acid) derived from gallnuts
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