ERIC

Definition: ERIC

ERIC

Noun

1. A recompense formerly given by a murderer to the relatives of the murdered person.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"ERIC" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "ever", "a ruler".

Date "ERIC" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

"ERIC" is a common misspelling or typo for: Erica, Rich, uric, xeric.

ERIC

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Crosswords: ERIC

Eric Liddell (Chariots of Fire; writing credit: Colin Welland)

Oh Eric, I'm gonna put you in all my plays (A Walk to Remember; writing credit: Karen Janszen)

Hey, Eric, how old is this beer (Sunny Side Up; writing credit: Lew Brown; David Butler)

I like you. And when Eric Von Zipper likes someone, they stay liked (Beach Party; writing credit: Lou Rusoff)

And this is Eric, the schoolboy who leads an exciting double life (Bananaman; writing credit: Luigi Malerba)

I'm hittin switches like Eric on the solo creep (Funkdafied; performing artist: Da Brat)

By Eric Clapton, Marcy Levy and George Terry (LAY DOWN SALLY; performing artist: ERIC CLAPTON)

Eric Winstone's Stagecoach (1955)

Bodiam Castle and Eric the Slender (1926)

Eric Clapton and Friends (2002)

The Unforgettable Eric Morecambe (2001)

Stressed Eric (1998)

Eric the Half A Bee Song (performing artist: Monty Python)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Cream: Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker -- The Legendary `60's Supergroup (reference)

• Eric (A Discworld Novel) (reference)

• Eric Liddell: Pure Gold: A New Biography of the Olympic Champion Who Inspired Chariots of Fire (reference)

• Eric Sloane's An Age of Barns: An Illustrated Review of Classic Barn Styles and Construction (reference)

• Lassie Come-Home: Eric Knight's Original 1938 Classic (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Eric Reports In Resources In Education - Microfiche (reference)

• Eric Review (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Eric Clapton - One More Car One More Rider (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Exotic Lyricism: Eric Himy Plays Maurice Ravel (reference)

• Improvise with Eric Nagler (reference)

• Eric Qin: Photographs (reference)

• Prestigious: A Tribute to Eric Dolphy (reference)

• The Best Of Eric Burdon & The Animals, 1966-1968 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Vincent Cheramie, monitoring manager for Point Au Fer, and Eric Web, monitoring supervisor, Thibodaux, Louisiana. The view is from the west to east at the breach. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

David Burkholder, project manager, Lake Chapeau; Eric Web, monitoring supervisor all projects; and Vincent Cheramie, monitoring manager. The view is from west to east at the breach, Point Au Fer. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Chesapeake Bay Virginia National Estuarine Research Reserve. Eric standing on an offshore data-logger station at Goodwin Islands area in the summer of 1999. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Lieutenant Commander Dave Kruth and Lieutenant E. J. Van Den Ameele discuss navigation while Seaman Surveyor Chris Alexander keeps a lookout and Seaman Surveyor Eric Heiner minds the helm. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

11th Wing Defender Challenge team members, from left to right, Staff Sgt. Corey Margan, #135, and Senior Airman Eric D. Sawyer, #134, prepare for their climb on the "Tough One" as teammates, from left to right, Staff Sgts. Titus O. Kornegay, #13.

Senior Airman Eric Hunt, crew chief with the 22nd Expeditionary Refueling Squadron, performs a post flight inspection of a KC-135R Stratotanker's landing gear. (P.; photo by Senior Airman Kim Drews)..

Oscar Stevens (left), and Eric Banks (right), NRCS Soil Conservationist, inspect a zucchini squash blossom. Stevens grows a number of unique vegetables. Local restaurants enjoy a white zucchini produced on his farm. Reginald Stevens and Darryl Herrin in t. Credit: Bob Nichols.

At a facility in Buena Vista, Virginia, ARS food technologist Brad Berry (right) and Eric Staton, president of Tenderwave, Inc., discuss meat tenderizing operations using the Hydrodyne process. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Botanist Eric Erbe coats poplar twig samples with an ultra-thin platinum layer and a second layer of carbon for imaging with a scanning electron microscope. Credit: USDA ARS News.

Eric Fullerton screening for artifacts. Credit: Joe Ross.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And, as such, Eric Lindon accepted him instantly

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Grenada

Sir Eric Gairy was Grenada's first prime minister. (references)

Finland

Finland's nearly 700-year association with the Kingdom of Sweden began in 1154 with the introduction of Christianity by Sweden's King Eric. (references)

Trinidad and Tobago

The first political party in Trinidad and Tobago with a continuing organization and program -- the People's National Movement (PNM) -- emerged in 1956 under Dr. Eric Williams, who became Prime Minister upon independence and remained in that position until his death in1981. (references)

Human Rights

Cameroon

On January 24, the Douala Operational Command arrested Marc Etah, Frederic Nguffo, Chatry Kuete, Jean Roger Tchiwan, Eric Chia, Charles Kouatou, Effician Chia, Elysee Kouatou, and Fabrice Kouate, who were suspected of stealing a gas canister in the Bepanda District of Douala. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "ERIC": Eric Arthur Blair ♦ Eric Conspiracy ♦ Eric S. Raymond ♦ Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler. Additional references.

Ending with "ERIC": Lars-eric.

Japanese Kanji 

エリキシル剤 (Educational Resources Information Center, El Dorado, El Nino, El Salvador, elixir, Elysium, erbium, erg, ergonomics, erythromycin, erythropoietin, Jerusalem, L size, large size, LP record, LSD). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

エリック (Educational Resources Information Center). (various references)

Pig Latin

ericay.(various references)

Russian 

эрик. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "ERIC": erica, ericaceous, ericas, ericoid. (additional references)

Words ending with "ERIC": aetheric, allosteric, alphameric, alphanumeric, amphoteric, antihysteric, aspheric, asthenospheric, atmospheric, bigeneric, biospheric, cadaveric, centromeric, ceric, chimaeric, chimeric, choleric, cholesteric, chromomeric, chromospheric, cleric, climacteric, congeneric, copolymeric, deuteric, diastereoisomeric, diastereomeric, dimeric, dineric, dysenteric, elastomeric, enantiomeric, enteric, epimeric, esoteric, etheric, exospheric, exoteric, flueric, generic, glyceric, hemispheric, hetaeric, homopolymeric, hydrospheric, hysteric, icteric, intergeneric, interhemispheric, ionospheric, isomeric. (additional references)

Words containing "ERIC": allosterically, alphanumerical, alphanumerically, alphanumerics, americium, americiums, anticlerical, anticlericalism, anticlericalisms, anticlericalist, anticlericalists, anticlericals, antihysterics, aspherical, atmospherically, atmospherics, bactericidal, bactericidally, bactericide, bactericides, chimerical, chimerically, cholerically, clerical, clericalism, clericalisms, clericalist, clericalists, clerically, clericals, clerics, climacterics, esoterica, esoterically, esotericism, esotericisms, exoterically, fluerics, generically, genericness, genericnesses, generics, hemispherical, hysterical, hysterically, hysterics, icterics, ionospherically, limerick, limericks, maverick. (additional references)

Misspellings

"ERIC" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aric, Cerdic, Earac, Edric, Eeris, egic, eic, Eicg, Eiiib, Eirig, Elremco, elric, Enric, erac, erib, Erice, erif, Erig, erik, Eriks, Erim, Erio, erish, Ernic, Erria, Eryi, Eurico, Heric, Iirc, Jevric, Lerici, Meric, Yerik. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cire, rice.

-1 letter: ice, ire, rec, rei.

-2 letters: er, re.

+1 letter: areic, cerci, ceria, ceric, cider, cires, citer, cried, crier, cries, crime, cripe, curie, dicer, erica, icier, icker, nicer, price, recti, relic, riced, ricer, rices, trice, ureic, xeric.

+2 letters: achier, bicker, cagier, cahier, cakier, caribe, caried, caries, carnie, ceiler, cercis, cerias, cering, ceriph, cerise, cerite, cerium, cervid, cervix, chicer, chider, chimer, chirre, cicero, ciders, cinder, cipher, circle, cirque, citers, cither, cleric, clerid, coheir, coiler, coiner, copier, corbie, corrie, cosier, cowier, cowrie, cozier, credit, cretic, cretin, criers, crikey, crimes, cringe, cripes, crises, cruise, curiae, curies, curite, currie, deicer, dermic, dicers, dicier, dicker, direct, dreich, eclair, enrich, ericas, erotic, farcie, ferric, fiacre, fierce, herdic, heroic, ickers, ickier, irenic, juicer, kicker, lacier, licker, metric, mincer, nicker, orcein, orrice, picker, piecer, pierce, pincer, precis, priced, pricer, prices, pricey, prince, racier, recipe, recite, recoil, recoin, relics, relict, ricers, richen, richer, riches, ricked, rickey, scribe, scried, scries, scrive, sicker, slicer, spicer, steric, terbic, thrice, ticker, tierce, triced, trices, uremic, uretic, voicer, wicker, wincer.