8-Letter Words Starting With EL

Here's the list of all the 82 8-Letter Words Starting With EL in the English Language.

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electric
1. using or providing or producing or transmitting or operated by electricity
2. (of a situation) exceptionally tense
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elements
1. violent or severe weather (viewed as caused by the action of the four elements)
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election
1. a vote to select the winner of a position or political office
2. the act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of deliberate choice
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eligible
1. qualified for or allowed or worthy of being chosen
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electron
1. an elementary particle with negative charge
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elephant
1. five-toed pachyderm
2. the symbol of the Republican Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874
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elevated
1. raised above the ground
2. of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style
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elective
1. a course that the student can select from among alternatives
2. optional
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elevator
1. lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building
2. the airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend or descend
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elegance
1. a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste
2. a quality of neatness and ingenious simplicity in the solution of a problem (especially in science or mathematics)
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eleventh
1. position 11 in a countable series of things
2. coming next after the tenth and just before the twelfth in position
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eldorado
1. an imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity; sought in South America by 16th-century explorers
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elliptic
1. (of a leaf shape) in the form of an ellipse
2. rounded like an egg
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eloquent
1. expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively
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elicited
1. called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation
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ellipsis
1. omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences
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elongate
1. (of a leaf shape) long and narrow
2. having notably more length than width; being long and slender
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ellipses
1. omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences
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eldritch
1. suggesting the operation of supernatural influences
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elastase
1. a pancreatic enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of elastin
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8-Letter Words Starting With EL