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Definitions: Elect |
ElectAdjective1. Selected as the best; "an elect circle of artists"; "elite colleges". 2. Elected but not yet installed in office; "the president elect". Noun1. An exclusive group of people: "one of the elect who have power inside the government". Verb1. Select by a vote for an office or membership; "We elected him chairman of the board". 2. Choose; "I elected to have my funds deposited automatically". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "elect" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: ElectSynonyms: elect(ip) (adj), elite (adj), chosen (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Choice | Use option, use discretion, exercise option, exercise discretion, one's option; adopt, take up, embrace, espouse; choose, elect, opt for; take one's choice, make one's choice; make choice of, fix upon. |
Deity | Predestinate, elect, call, ordain, bless, justify, sanctify, glorify; |
Inexpedience | Best, choice, select, picked, elect, recherche, rare, priceless; unparagoned, unparalleled; (supreme); superlatively; good; bully, crackajack, giltedged; superfine, |
Necessity | Fated; destined; Verb: elect; spellbound |
Piety | Believer, convert, theist, Christian, devotee, pietist; the good, the righteous, the just, the believing, the elect; Saint, Madonna, Notre Dame, Our Lady. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Elect |
| English words defined with "elect": agree ♦ Brownist ♦ cardinal, chosen, commonwealth, congressional district, constituency, Coopt, co-opt, Cooptate ♦ democracy ♦ Electing, Electoral college, elite ♦ Infralapsarian ♦ Partialist, Predilect, Preelect, Preferred stock ♦ reelect, republic, return, right of election ♦ Sacred College ♦ To put into the chair ♦ vote in. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "elect": BRYAN ♦ Conge d'Elire, Constituents ♦ doctrine of election ♦ Elect lady ♦ local union ♦ Medicare Part C, members, Mora-stone, mutual association, mutual holding company ♦ onerous gift ♦ Per Saltum ♦ Redistricting, Revenue insurance, ROOSEVELT. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "elect": Elegit ♦ Predilect. (references) |
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Screenplays | President elect of the high council of Timelords, keeper of the legacy of Rassilon, defender of the laws of time, protector of Gallifrey. (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco) We elect the officers and everything. (Land and Freedom; writing credit: Jim Allen) | |
Lyrics | What's in store for the 21st century when we elect those without a mind? ("Get High On Life"; performing artist: Exit-13) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Ioh. Frid. Bilger, Med. D.S. Elect. Palat. Ac Diversor... / Elias Christ Heiss sculps.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Henri Frederic Amiel | Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest. |
Thomas Carlyle | The devil has his elect. |
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Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-1999 | If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The Conference shall regulate its own procedure, shall elect its own President, and may appoint committees to consider and report on any matter. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Folks here elect their own cops. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | As I walked on the railroad causeway, I used to wonder at the halo of light around my shadow, and would fain fancy myself one of the elect. |
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Health | The parents of a deaf child are responsible for deciding whether to elect cochlear implantation. (references) | |
It is likely that some patients will remain who elect nonsurgical treatment of their gallstones or who are not candidates for cholecystectomy. (references) | ||
Gestational diabetes, by itself, is not an indication to perform a cesarean delivery, but sometimes there are other reasons your doctor may elect to do a cesarean. (references) | ||
Business | Alternatively, patients may elect to be private patients in public hospitals, enabling them to select the doctor of choice. (references) | |
Medicare-eligible patients who elect to be private patients in public hospitals are charged fees for medical and hospital care. If the patient has private health insurance, this typically will cover the cost of the treatment. (references) | ||
Children | Cote d'Ivoire | Students who pass entrance exams may elect to go to free public secondary schools. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Tunisia | The Government also unofficially denied Baha'i requests during the year for permission to elect local assemblies. (references) |
Egypt | Under legislation governing professional syndicates, at least 50 percent of the general membership of an association must elect the governing board. (references) | |
Economic History | Argentina | The parties may not elect foreign laws to govern the agreement. (references) |
Chad | Deputies elect a president of the National Assembly every 2 years. (references) | |
Mongolia | SGH members elect a chairman and vice chairman who serve 4-year terms. (references) | |
Human Rights | Hungary | The judges elect the president of the Constitutional Court from among themselves by secret ballot. (references) |
Ukraine | The reforms also give commercial, appellate, and Supreme Court judges the right to nominate and elect their own chairmen. (references) | |
Peru | It recommended a new mechanism to elect more transparently the president of the Supreme and superior courts and the subordination of the military justice system to the judicial branch. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Australia | Every 3 years, indigenous people elect representatives to sit on 35 regional councils and the Torres Strait Regional Authority, who in turn choose 17 commissioners comprising the ATSIC Board. (references) |
Minorities | Hungary | The elected local minority self-governments can elect their national minority self-governments; all 13 minorities have formed national self-governments. (references) |
Political Economy | Samoa | The Legislative Assembly is to elect his successors for 5-year terms. (references) |
Political Rights | Mauritania | The councils elect the national Senate. (references) |
Cote d'Ivoire | Citizens' ability to elect sub-national governments is limited. (references) | |
Guyana | Voters indirectly elect the President to a 5-year term of office. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Russia | Its unions frequently include management as part of the bargaining unit or elect management as delegates to its congresses. (references) |
Pakistan | The right of industrial workers to organize and freely elect representatives to act as collective bargaining agents is established in law. (references) | |
El Salvador | Among the requirements to obtain legal standing, unions must have a minimum of 35 members in the workplace, hold a convention, and elect officers. (references) | |
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Rush Limbaugh | Thirty-eight states elect judges, and nine of those ban candidates from announcing their opinions on certain issues. |
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John Adams | 1797-1801 | Let the representative assembly then elect by ballot, from among themselves or their constituents, or both, a distinct assembly, which, for the sake of perspicuity, we will call a council. |
Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | As a citizen may not elect what laws he will obey, neither may the Executive eject which he will enforce. |
Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | Our whole system of self-government will crumble either if officials elect what laws they will enforce or citizens elect what laws they will support. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | This new atmosphere demands a new spirit, a partnership between those of us who lead and those who elect. |
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| "Elect" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 62.75% of the time. "Elect" is used about 544 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 62.75% | 342 | 15,474 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 15.96% | 87 | 35,390 |
| Noun (common) | 13.39% | 73 | 39,105 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 6.61% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.92% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.37% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 544 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "elect": elect lady ♦ elect smb. president ♦ mayor elect ♦ president elect ♦ senator elect ♦ the elect. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "elect": elect-ions, elect-number, elect-year. | |
Ending with "elect": Archbishop-elect, Bishop-elect, Chairman-elect, mayor-elect, President-elect. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
elect | 35 |
frys elect | 10 |
elect trans | 8 |
elect the president | 7 |
boutique elect | 6 |
elect newark | 5 |
elect scooter | 4 |
god elect | 4 |
elect sheriff | 4 |
allied elect | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "elect"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | verkies (choose, pick, pick out, prefer), kies (choose, pick, pick out). (various references) | |
Albanian | zgjedh (choose, constitute, cull, disentangle, draft, draught, embrace, opt, pick, pick out, select, single out, solve, take), vendos (arrange, be determined, Canton, choose, compose, conclude, dare, decide, determine, dispose, elicit, emplace, establish, fix, house, induct, instal, install, instate, judge, lay, locate, make up one's mind, place, propose, put, quarter, recline, resolve, rule, seat, set, settle, situate, station, Stow, take the plunge, will), preferoj (affect, choose, prefer), përcaktoj (article, ascertain, assign, condition, define, design, designate, destine, determine, evaluate, stipulate), i zgjedhur (choosy, chosen, elected, elective, picked, recherche, refined, selected). (various references) | |
Arabic | منتخب (elected), ترشح (candidate, filter, nominate, oozing, percolate, present, put in, run, run for office, stand, transpire), المنتخب (elector, selector), المرشح, إنتخب (cull, pick out, poll, select, vote, vote in), إختار (choose, cull, discriminate, name, nominate, opt, pack, pick out, plump for, pronounce, select, single, slate, tag, take, tap). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | решавам (adjudicate, choose, conclude, decide, determine, figure out, make up one's mind, resolve, seal, settle, solve, work), новоизбран, намирам за добре (choose, please), бъдещ (coming, forward, future, prospective, ulterior, unborn, upcoming), предпочитам (affect, choose, lean, like better, prefer, see), избран (choice, chosen, elected, picked, select), избирам (choose, cull, make, mark down, name, opt, pick, pick out, put in, return, select, settle on, single out, sort out). (various references) | |
Catalan | triar (choose, pick out). (various references) | |
Chinese | 选举 (Elected, Electing, Elective, electoral), 推選 (choose), 推舉 (choose). (various references) | |
Czech | zvolit (choose, make, return, vote), vyvolit, dát přednost (give the right of way, give way, prefer). (various references) | |
Danish | vælge (choose, pick out). (various references) | |
Dutch | uitlezen (choose, pick out, read, read out), uitkiezen (choose, pick out), kiezen (choose, columellar teeth, dialing, dialling, molar teeth, pick out, prismatic teeth, vote). (various references) | |
Esperanto | elekti (choose, pick out). (various references) | |
Faeroese | velja (choose, pick out, prefer), kjósa (choose, pick out). (various references) | |
Farsi | انتخاب کردن (Chap, Choose, Select, Single), برگزیده منتخب , برگزیدن (Designate, Elite, Pick, Prefer, Single). (various references) | |
Finnish | valita (choose, pick, pick out, select). (various references) | |
French | désigner, choisir. (various references) | |
Frisian | kieze (choose, pick out), ferkieze (choose, pick out). (various references) | |
German | wählen (adopt, be decided, choose, chosen, dial, dialing, dialling, hold a ballot, make one's choice, opt, pick, pick out, polling, return, select, take, take a ballot, to ballot (for), to choose, to select, vote, vote in, voting), auswählen (choose, chosen, pick, pick out, select, selects, single out, to select). (various references) | |
Greek | εκλέγω (choose, constitute, cull, excerpt, extract, select). (various references) | |
Hebrew | בחיר (chosen). (various references) | |
Hungarian | választ (choose, chose, chosen, opt, pick out, select, to chair, to choose, to cull, to elect, to embrace, to opt), kiválasztott (chosen, number, picked, picked men, selected). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pemilih (constituent), memilih (choose, coopt, opt, pick out). (various references) | |
Italian | scegliere (choose, cull, pick, pick out, select, single, single out, to choose), eleggere (appoint, choose, dial, pick, pick out, put in, return, vote, vote in). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 法定得票数 (minimum number of votes required to elect a candidate). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ほうていとくひょうすう (minimum number of votes required to elect a candidate). (various references) | |
Korean | 임하십시". (various references) | |
Malay | pilih (choose, pick out), memilih (choose, pick out). (various references) | |
Manx | teih (select, single out), reiht (chosen, designated, elected, elite, select, selected), reihit, reih (champion, choice, choose, correct, correct as behaviour, discrimination, favourite, opt, option, preferred, single out). (various references) | |
Norwegian | velge (pick). (various references) | |
Papiamen | eskohé (choose, pick out), eligí (choose, pick out), skohe (choose, pick out), kis (choose, pick out). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | electay.(various references) | |
Polish | wybrać, wybierać. (various references) | |
Portuguese | escolher (adopt, choose, cull, like, list price, optative, pick and choose, pick out, run up, select, single, sort, sort out, take, to choose). (various references) | |
Romanian | alege (appear, become, choose, churn, cull, decide, distinguish, extract, glean, Peel, pick, pick on, pick out, refuse, reject, remain, result, return, screen, select, separate, shell, sift, single out, sort, sunder, take one's choice, winnow). (various references) | |
Russian | выбирать (bouse, bows, choose, chose, chosen, fetch, opt, pick, pick out, round in, select, selects, single out, take). (various references) | |
Scottish | tagh (choose, select). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | izglasati (vote), izabrati (choose, chose, number among, opt, pick, pick out, select), izabranik, izabrani. (various references) | |
Spanish | escoger (choose, cull, Favor, favour, go for, look out, mark down, mark out, opt, pick, pick out, select), elegir (choose, constitute, Favor, favour, opt, peek, pick on, pick out, read out, return, select, tip, vote in). (various references) | |
Swedish | välja (choose, chose, opt, opt for, select, vote). (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งไ"้รับคั"เลือก, คั"เลือก (select). (various references) | |
Turkish | seçmek (adopt, be particular about, choose, co opt, constitute, coopt, cull, decide on, decide up, descry, distinguish, hand-pick, intend, intend for, look out, opt, perceive, pick, pick out, plump for, postulate, select, single out, spot). (various references) | |
Ukranian | відбірний (assorted, choice), вирішувати (appoint, arbitrate, aread, choose, conclude, decide, decree, resolve, settle, solve), вибраний (hand picked), вибирати (adopt, choose, opt, pick, pick on, select, single out), обраний (select), обирати (choose, embrace). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chọn lọc đã được chọn. (various references) | |
Welsh | etholedig, ethol, darpar (intended, preparation, provision). (various references) | |
Zulu | -vota (choose, pick out, vote), -khetha (choose, pick out). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | crea, creabit, creabitur, creabuntur, creans, crearentur, crearet, creas, creasti, creata, creatae, creatam, creati, creatis, creator, creatum, creatura, creaturae, creaturam, creatus, creavi, creavit, creavitque, creo, cretes, desumo, optare. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 18, Verse 7 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | O de qeoV ou mh poihsei thn ekdikhsin twn eklektwn autou twn bowntwn proV auton hmeraV kai nuktoV kai makroqumwn ep autoiV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Deus autem non faciet vindictam electorum suorum clamantium ad se die ac nocte et patientiam habebit in illis |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Soðlice ne deð god his gecorenra wrace clypiendra to him dæges and nihtes: and he geþyld on him hæfþ; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And whether God schal not do veniaunce of hise chosun, criynge to hym dai and nyyt, and schal haue pacience in hem? |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And shall not god avenge his electe which crye daye and nyght vnto him ye though he differre them? |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And will not God avenge his own elect, who cry day and night to him, though he beareth long with them? |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it? |
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| Language | Luke Chapter 18, Verse 7 |
| Bulgarian | И "оспод рече: Слушайте що каза неправедният съдия! |
| Cebuano | Ug dili ba hatagan sa Dios ug hustisya ang iyang mga pinili nga nagatuwaw ngadto kaniya sa maadlaw ug sa magabii. Langay-langayan ba niya sila? |
| Chinese | 神 的 選 民 、 晝 夜 呼 籲 他 、 他 縱 然 為 他 們 忍 了 多 時 、 豈 不 終 久 給 他 伸 冤 麼 。 |
| Croatian | Neæe li onda Bog obraniti svoje izabrane koji dan i noæ vape k njemu sve ako i odgaða stvar njihovu? |
| Danish | Skulde da Gud ikke skaffe sine udvalgte Ret, de, som råbe til ham Dag og Nat? og er han ikke langmodig, når det gælder dem? |
| Dutch | Zal God dan geen recht doen Zijn uitverkorenen, die dag en nacht tot Hem roepen, hoewel Hij lankmoedig is over hen? |
| Finnish | Eikö sitten Jumala toimittaisi oikeutta valituillensa, jotka häntä yötä päivää avuksi huutavat, ja viivyttäisikö hän heiltä apuansa? |
| French | Et Dieu ne fera-t-il pas justice ses élus, qui crient lui jour et nuit, et tardera-t-il leur égard? |
| German | Sollte aber Gott nicht auch retten seine Auserwählten, die zu ihm Tag und Nacht rufen, und sollte er's mit ihnen verziehen? |
| Haitian Creole | Bon! Eske Bondye pa ta regle zafè pitit li yo, moun li menm li chwazi yo, lè y'ap rele nan pye l' lajounen kou lannwit? Eske l'ap pran anpil tan pou l' ede yo? |
| Hungarian | Hát az Isten nem áll-é bosszút az õ választottaiért, kik õ hozzá kiáltanak éjjel és nappal, ha hosszútûrõ is irántuk? |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Nah, apakah Allah tidak akan membela perkara umat-Nya sendiri yang berseru kepada-Nya siang dan malam? Apakah Ia akan mengulur-ulur waktu untuk menolong mereka? |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tiadakah Allah kelak membenarkan hal orang-orang pilihan-Nya yang menyeru Dia siang malam, meskipun dengan lambatnya kepada mereka itu? |
| Italian | E Dio non far giustizia ai suoi eletti che gridano giorno e notte verso di lui, e li far a lungo aspettare? |
| Korean | 하 물 며 하 나 님 께 서 그 밤 낮 부 르 짖 " 택 하 자 " 의 원 한 을 ' 어 주 지 아 니 하 시 느 냐 희 에 게 오 래 참 으 시 느 냐 |
| Latvian | Un vai Dievs lai nespriestu taisnîgu tiesu saviem izredzçtajiem, kas dienu un nakti Viòu piesauc, un nebûtu pacietîgs ar viòiem? |
| Maori | A e kore ranei te Atua e ngaki i te mate o ana tangata i whiriwhiri ai, e karanga nei ki a ia i te ao, i te po, ahakoa whakaroa noa ia ki a ratou? |
| Modern Greek | ο δε Θεος δεν θελει καμει την εκδικησιν των εκλεκτων αυτου των βοωντων προς αυτον ημεραν και νυκτα, αν και μακροθυμη δι' αυτους; |
| Norwegian | Men skulde da ikke Gud hjelpe sine utvalgte til deres rett, dem som roper til ham dag og natt, og er han sen når det gjelder dem? |
| Portuguese | E não fará Deus justiça aos seus escolhidos, que dia e noite clamam a ele, já que é longânimo para com eles? |
| Rumanian | Wi Dumnezeu nu va face dreptate alewilor Lui, cari strigq zi wi noapte cqtre El, mqcar cq zqbovewte fayq de ei? |
| Russian | вПЗ МЙ ОЕ ЪБЭЙФЙФ ЙЪ'ТБООЩИ уЧПЙИ, ЧП ЙАЭЙИ Л оЕНХ "ЕОШ Й ОПЮШ, ИПФС Й НЕ"МЙФ ЪБЭЙЭБФШ ЙИ? |
| Shuar | Tura Yus ti pénker asa, ni achikmarin tsawaisha, Káshisha untsuamka Nú nankaamas anturkashtatuak. ¿Yaitsuk menkakatuak? |
| Spanish | ¿Y Dios no hará justicia a sus escogidos que claman a él de día y de noche? ¿Les hará esperar? |
| Swahili | Je, ndio kusema Mungu hatawatetea wale aliowachagua, ambao wanamlilia mchana na usiku? Je, atakawia kuwasikiliza? |
| Swedish | Skulle då Gud icke skaffa rätt åt sina utvalda, som ropa till honom dag och natt, och skulle han icke hava tålamod med dem? |
| Thai | พระเจ้าจะไม่ทรงแก้แค้นให้คนที่พระองค์ไ"้ทรงเลือกไว้ ผู้ร้องถึงพระองค์ทั้งกลางวันกลางคืนหรือ พระองค์จะอ"พระทัยไว้ช้านานหรือ |
| Ukrainian | А чи ж Бог в оборону не візьме обраних Своїх, що голосять до Нього день і ніч, хоч і бариться 'ін щодо них? |
| Uma | Peliu-liu-nami Alata'ala doko' mpotulungi topetuku' -na to mekakae ncuu hi eo-na pai' hi bengi-na. Ba ni'uli' -koina, napeka'au ncala' pai' lako' natulungi-rae? |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "elect": electabilities, electability, electable, elected, electee, electees, electing, election, electioneer, electioneered, electioneerer, electioneerers, electioneering, electioneers, elections, elective, electively, electiveness, electivenesses, electives, elector, electoral, electorally, electorate, electorates, electors, electress, electresses, electret, electrets, electric, electrical, electrically, electrician, electricians, electricities, electricity, electrics, electrification, electrifications, electrified, electrifies, electrify, electrifying, electro, electroacoustic, electroacoustics, electroanalyses, electroanalysis, electroanalytical, electrocardiogram, electrocardiograms, electrocardiograph, electrocardiographic, electrocardiographically, electrocardiographies, electrocardiographs, electrocardiography, electrochemical, electrochemically, electrochemistries, electrochemistry, electroconvulsive, electrocorticogram, electrocorticograms, electrocute, electrocuted, electrocutes, electrocuting, electrocution, electrocutions, electrode, electrodeposit, electrodeposited, electrodepositing, electrodeposition, electrodepositions, electrodeposits, electrodermal, electrodes, electrodesiccation, electrodesiccations, electrodialyses, electrodialysis, electrodialytic, electrodynamic, electrodynamics, electrodynamometer, electrodynamometers, electroed, electroencephalogram, electroencephalograms, electroencephalograph, electroencephalographer, electroencephalographers, electroencephalographic, electroencephalographically, electroencephalographies, electroencephalographs, electroencephalography, electrofishing, electrofishings, electroform, electroformed, electroforming, electroforms, electrogeneses, electrogenesis, electrogenic, electrogram, electrograms, electrohydraulic, electroing, electrojet, electrojets, electrokinetic, electrokinetics, electroless, electrologies, electrologist, electrologists, electrology, electroluminescence, electroluminescences, electroluminescent, electrolyses, electrolysis, electrolyte, electrolytes, electrolytic, electrolytically, electrolyze, electrolyzed, electrolyzes, electrolyzing, electromagnet, electromagnetic, electromagnetically, electromagnetism, electromagnetisms, electromagnets, electromechanical, electromechanically, electrometallurgies, electrometallurgy, electrometer, electrometers, electromyogram, electromyograms, electromyograph, electromyographic, electromyographically, electromyographies, electromyographs, electromyography, electron, electronegative, electronegativities, electronegativity, electronic, electronically, electronics, electrons, electrooculogram, electrooculograms, electrooculographies, electrooculography, electroosmoses, electroosmosis, electroosmotic, electropherogram, electropherograms, electrophile, electrophiles, electrophilic, electrophilicities, electrophilicity, electrophorese, electrophoresed, electrophoreses, electrophoresing, electrophoresis, electrophoretic, electrophoretically, electrophoretogram, electrophoretograms, electrophori, electrophorus, electrophotographic, electrophotographies, electrophotography, electrophysiologic, electrophysiological, electrophysiologically, electrophysiologies, electrophysiologist, electrophysiologists, electrophysiology, electroplate, electroplated, electroplates, electroplating, electropositive, electroretinogram, electroretinograms, electroretinograph, electroretinographic, electroretinographies, electroretinographs, electroretinography, electros, electroscope, electroscopes, electroshock, electroshocks, electrostatic, electrostatically, electrostatics, electrosurgeries, electrosurgery, electrosurgical, electrotherapies, electrotherapy, electrothermal, electrothermally, electrotonic, electrotonically, electrotonus, electrotonuses, electrotype, electrotyped, electrotyper, electrotypers, electrotypes, electrotyping, electroweak, electrowinning, electrowinnings, electrum, electrums, elects, electuaries, electuary. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "elect": deselect, nonelect, praelect, preelect, prelect, preselect, reelect, select. (additional references) | |
Words containing "elect": antielectron, antielectrons, atelectases, atelectasis, bioelectric, bioelectrical, bioelectricities, bioelectricity, delectabilities, delectability, delectable, delectables, delectably, delectation, delectations, deselected, deselecting, deselects, dielectric, dielectrics, ferroelectric, ferroelectricities, ferroelectricity, ferroelectrics, hydroelectric, hydroelectrically, hydroelectricities, hydroelectricity, immunoelectrophoreses, immunoelectrophoresis, immunoelectrophoretic, immunoelectrophoretically, interelectrode, interelectrodes, interelectron, interelectronic, isoelectric, isoelectronic, isoelectronically, magnetoelectric, microelectrode, microelectrodes, microelectronic, microelectronically, microelectronics, microelectrophoreses, microelectrophoresis, microelectrophoretic, microelectrophoretically, multielectrode, myoelectric, myoelectrical, nonelected, nonelection, nonelections, nonelective, nonelectives, nonelectric, nonelectrical, nonelectrics, nonelectrolyte, nonelectrolytes, nonelectronic, nonelectronics, nonselected, nonselective, optoelectronic, optoelectronics, photoelectric, photoelectrically, photoelectron, photoelectronic, photoelectrons, piezoelectric, piezoelectrically, piezoelectricities, piezoelectricity, polyelectrolyte, polyelectrolytes, postelection, praelected, praelecting, praelects, preelected, preelecting, preelection, preelections, preelectric, preelects, prelected, prelecting, prelection, prelections, prelects, preselected, preselecting, preselection, preselections, preselects, pyroelectric, pyroelectricities, pyroelectricity, reelected, reelecting, reelection, reelections, reelects, selectable, selected, selectee, selectees, selecting, selection, selectionist, selectionists, selections, selective, selectively, selectiveness, selectivenesses, selectivities, selectivity, selectly, selectman, selectmen, selectness, selectnesses, selector, selectors, selects, thermoelectric, thermoelectricities, thermoelectricity, triboelectric, triboelectricities, triboelectricity, turboelectric, unelectable, unelected, unelectrified, unselected, unselective, unselectively. (additional references) | |
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"Elect" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aeltc, clect, delect, Eelco, Eilbeck, Eilert, Elbc, Elce, Eldc, elec, elecit, eleet, Eleko, elent, Elert, elet, eleut, elic, elict, elist, Ellett, ellic, Elremco, eluct, eluent, elvet, evect, flect, lect, Leeettt, ulec. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "elect" (pronounced ule"kt) |
| 5 | u l e" k t | collect, recollect, reelect, select. |
| 4 | -l e" k t | deflect, inflect, neglect, reflect. |
| 3 | -e" k t | affect, bedecked, checked, confect, connect, correct, decked, deject, detect, direct, disaffect, disconnect, disinfect, disrespect, dissect, effect, eject, erect, expect, incorrect, indirect, infect, inject, inspect, interconnect, interject, intersect, misdirect, necked, overprotect, perfect, protect, rechecked, reconnect, redirect, reinspect, reject, respect, resurrect, sect, subject, suspect, trekked, unchecked, wecht, wrecked. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-l-t" | |
-1 letter: celt, cete, leet, teel, tele. | |
-2 letters: cee, cel, eel, lee, let, tee, tel. | |
-3 letters: el, et. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-l-t" | |
+1 letter: elects, select, tercel. | |
+2 letters: capelet, celesta, celeste, centile, chelate, cleated, clefted, clement, deflect, elected, electee, elector, electro, erectly, lectern, lecture, letched, letches, lettuce, leucite, licente, neglect, prelect, reelect, reflect, reticle, sectile, selects, tercels, tiercel, treacle. | |
+3 letters: aculeate, beclothe, bracelet, calceate, capelets, celerity, celestas, celestes, celibate, cellaret, cellmate, centiles, centuple, cervelat, chelated, chelates, chevalet, citeable, cleanest, clearest, cleveite, closeted, clubfeet, clypeate, colleted, complete, corelate, corselet, coverlet, cruelest, decently, decretal, deflects, delicate, denticle, derelict, deselect, eclectic, eclogite, electees, electing, election, elective, electors, electret, electric, electron, electros, electrum, elenctic, elicited, erectile, escalate, esculent, excretal, facetely, feculent, fletched, fletcher, fletches, lacerate, lancelet, lanceted, leachate, lecterns, lectured, lecturer, lectures, lenticel, lettuces, leucites, neglects, nonelect, nucleate, ocellate, peculate, pentacle, praelect, preelect, prelects, raclette, recently, reclothe, reelects, reflects, relocate, relucent, relucted, retackle, reticles, reticule, sclerite, secretly, selected, selectee, selectly, selector, telecast, telestic, tentacle, tercelet, testicle, tiercels, treacles, triscele, tubercle, ulcerate. | |
+4 letters: acetylate, acetylene, altercate, beclothed, beclothes, bracelets, bracteole, calenture, cartelise, cartelize, cartwheel, catalexes, cattlemen, celebrant, celebrate, celebrity, celestial, celestite, celibates, cellarets, cellmates, cellulite, centraler, centriole, centupled, centuples, cerecloth, cervelats, chapleted, chevalets, clattered, clatterer, clemently, cleveites, cleverest, clientage, clientele, clipsheet, clustered, cluttered, coelomate, coeternal, collected, comeliest, completed, completer, completes, corelated, corelates, correlate, corselets, covellite, coverlets, covetable, craterlet, crenulate, crestless, cruellest, cruelties, cutleries, decaliter, deceitful, deciliter, decollate, decollete, decretals, defalcate, deflected, deflector, delicates, demulcent, denticles, derelicts, deselects, eclectics, eclogites, effectual, ejaculate, ejectable, electable, elections, electives, electoral, electress, electrets, electrics, electrify, electrode, electroed, electrons, electrums, electuary, elucidate, entelechy, enucleate, epileptic, erectable, escalated, escalates, esculents, ethylenic, exactable, excellent, excitable, excitedly, exculpate, explicate, exultance, faceplate, flechette, fleeciest, fletchers, genetical, genuflect, hatcheled, heretical, inclement, inflected, insectile, intellect, intercell, interlace, lacerated, lacerates, lancelets, latecomer, latencies, leachates, leachiest, lectotype, lecturers, lenticels, lenticule, leukocyte, myelocyte, neglected, neglecter, nucleated, nucleates, peculated, peculates, pentacles, percolate, perfectly, petechial, petulance, placement, placentae, praelects, preelects, prelected, preselect, princelet, raclettes, reclothed, reclothes, recollect, rectangle, reelected, reflected, reflector, relocated, relocatee, relocates, reluctate, replicate, retackled, retackles, reticules, scentless, scheelite, sclerites, scolecite, selectees, selecting, selection, selective, selectman, selectmen, selectors, spectacle, speculate, splenetic, stenciled, stenciler, tailpiece, teachable, teacherly, telecasts, telegenic, telescope, telestics, tentacled, tentacles, tercelets, testicles, timescale, tolerance, traceable, traceless, tracheole, trisceles, trochleae, tubercles, ulcerated, ulcerates, unelected, urceolate, ureotelic, ventricle, videlicet. | |
+5 letters: accelerant, accelerate, accentless, acceptable, acceptedly, acetylated, acetylates, acetylenes, acetylenic, acoelomate, adolescent, affectable, affectedly, affectless, altarpiece, altercated, altercates, antechapel, anthelices, bedclothes, binucleate, bluejacket, bottleneck, bracteoles, brocatelle, cajolement, calentures, cantilever, carpellate, cartelised, cartelises, cartelized, cartelizes, cartwheels, ceilometer, celebrants, celebrated, celebrates, celebrator, celerities, celestials, celestites, cellarette, cellulites, centennial, centerfold, centerless, centerline, centesimal, centiliter, centralest, centralise, centralize, centrioles, cerecloths, cetologies, chalybeate, chatelaine, chelatable, clatterers, cleanliest, clematises, clerestory, clerkliest, clientages, clienteles, clientless, clinometer, clipsheets, cloistered, coalescent, coelentera, coelomates, coherently, colemanite, coleoptera, coleoptile, collective, collegiate, comestible, complected, complement, completely, completest, completive, complexest, concretely, correlated, correlates, corselette, cotterless, coulometer, couplement, covellites, craterlets, craterlike, creatively, creaturely, credential, creditable, crenelated, crenulated, cuttlebone, cyclometer, decadently, decaliters, decathlete, decelerate, deciliters, decollated, decollates, decolletes, decrepitly, deductible, deescalate, defalcated, defalcates, deflecting, deflection, deflective, deflectors, dejectedly, delectable, delectably, delicately, demulcents, deselected, detachable, detachedly, detectable, dielectric, discreetly, discretely, ectodermal, edulcorate, ejaculated, ejaculates, electively, electorate, electrical, electrodes, electroing, electrojet, | |
