Erect

Definition: Erect

Erect

Adjective

1. Upright in position or posture; "an erect stature"; "erect flower stalks"; "for a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression"; "a column still vertical amid the ruins"; "he sat bolt upright".

2. (physiology) of sexual organs; stiff and rigid.

Verb

1. Construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn".

2. Cause to rise up.

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

Multilingual Slang

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Synonyms: Erect

Elevation

Verb: heighten, elevate, raise, lift, erect; set up, stick up, perch up, perk up, tilt up; rear, hoist, heave; uplift, upraise, uprear, upbear, upcast, uphoist, upheave; buoy, weigh mount, give a lift; exalt; sublimate; place on a pedestal, set on a pedestal.

Preparation

Verb: prepare; get ready, make ready; make preparations, settle preliminaries, get up, sound the note of preparation. set in order, put in order; (arrange); forecast; (plan) prepare the ground, plow the ground, dress the ground; till the soil, cultivate the soil; predispose, sow the seed, lay a train, dig a mine; lay the groundwork, fix the groundwork, lay the basis, fix the basis, lay the foundations, fix the foundations; dig the foundations, erect the scaffolding; lay the first stone; (begin).

Pride

Adverb: with head erect.

Production

Verb: produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture; weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel; build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up; establish, compose, organize, institute; achieve, accomplish; (complete).

Verticality

Verb: be vertical; Adjective: stand up, stand on end, stand erect, stand upright; stick up,Verb: be vertical; Adjective: stand up, stand on end, stand erect, stand upright; stick up, cock up.

Render vertical; Adjective: set up, stick up, raise up, erect, rear, raise on its legs.

Adjective: vertical, upright, erect, perpendicular, plumb, normal, straight, bolt, upright; rampant; standing up; Verb: rectangular, orthogonal; a.

Crosswords: Erect

Who can erect a monument to their memory (Violon de Rothschild, Le; writing credit: Edgardo Cozarinsky)

But someday, they're going to erect a statue to me in this town (The Wizard of Oz; writing credit: L. Frank Baum; Noel Langley)

I've stood on the shoulders of life and I've never gotten down into the dirt to build, to erect a foundation of my own. I've flown too high on borrowed wings (Quiz Show; writing credit: Paul Attanasio)

And he stood erect and cursed them (On the Road to Fairfax County; performing artist: The Roches)

Beyond Reality 3: Stand Erect! (1996)

Born Erect (1980)

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Books

• A soldier erect; or further adventures of the hand-reared boy (reference)

• Earth erect (reference)

• Erect Men Undulating Women: The Visual Imagery of Gender, 'Race' and Progress in Reconstructive Illustrations of Human Evolution (reference)

• Soldier Erect (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Billy Connolly - Erect for 30 Years (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Live & Politically Erect [LIVE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Celestron Erect Image Prism for Refractor and SCT (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Setting up a Raydist tower Ready to erect tower Party off of wire drag vessels WAINWRIGHT and HILGARD Photograph #3 of sequence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Beginning to erect tower at Station Hugo Lines snapped dropping pole seconds after picture Triangulation party of William H. Burger. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Predominantly Porites sp. coral assemblage. Large erect colonies are Porites Lobata. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

A typical invertebrate grouping found on the interior roof of the pipes consisting primarily of bryozoa, tunicates and sponges over the top of oyster shells. Oysters could not survive long once the other fouling organisms covered them over. You can see the tan colonies of erect bryozoa, Reteporellina sp. These colonies disappeared after strong storm surges. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Corralline algae, erect byrozoa(tan) Reteporellina sp. and ahermatypic(no zooxanthellae algae in tissues and non-reefbuilding) coral, on interior roof of pipe. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Students at Centreville Middle School erect a duck nesting box as part of an outdoor classroom being built on the school grounds. Credit: Keith Weller.

I must request that you maintain a more erect posture. Credit: Library of Congress.

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp (emergency). Migrant family, new arrivals, erect their tent on allotted camp site. Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. Credit: Library of Congress.

Silver City men erect Barleycorn monument. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Indeed, it often makes way for a new frame of a common-wealth, by destroying the former; but, without the consent of the people, can never erect a new one. (Second Treatise of Government)

In order to ensure free passage into the Baltic to all nations, Germany shall not erect any fortifications in the area comprised between latitudes 55° 27' N. and 54° 00' N. and longitudes 9°E 00' E. and 16°E 00' E. of the meridian of Greenwich, nor install any guns commanding the maritime routes between the North Sea and the Baltic. (reference)

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He ventured to raise his eyes, and found his supernatural visitor confronting him in an erect attitude, with its chain wound over and about its arm.

Gathering himself quickly up, he stood more erect, like a man taken by surprise in a mood to which he was reluctant to have witnesses

Jean Valjean was in the shadow with the iron drill in his hand, erect, motionless, terrified, at this radiant figure

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Health

The second method, known as the Nesbit procedure, causes a shortening of the erect penis. (references)

The first symptoms of ACC are usually seizures, which may be followed by feeding problems and delays in holding the head erect, sitting, standing, and walking. (references)

The Federal ban on funding for needle exchange programs as well as restrictions on selling injection equipment are absolutely contraindicated and erect formidable barriers to implementing what is known to be effective. (references)

Children

South Africa

The report further noted that "sexual violence and harassment in South African schools erect a discriminatory barrier for young women and girls seeking an education." A 2000 survey documented that 39 percent of sexually active teenage girls reported being raped. (references)

Civil Liberties

Burma

There are reports that, while the Government still bans most of these crosses, permission has been granted to erect at least one cross in Southern Chin State. (references)

Bhutan

Followers of religions other than Buddhism and Hinduism generally are free to worship in private homes but may not erect religious buildings or congregate in public. (references)

Economic History

Chad

Through privileged positions and dealing from behind the scenes these entities can erect protection schemes to restrict competition in key industries. (references)

Minorities

Greece

In 1999 the Ministry of Interior completed a survey of the housing needs of the Roma and in September started to erect prefabricated houses, totaling approximately 1,000. Also in September, the Minister of Interior announced a $283,707,106 (105 billion drachma) program to address Roma needs and to promote Roma integration, including housing, subsidized mortgage loans, and infrastructure in Roma camps, employment schemes, cultural and sports activities, and welfare allowances. (references)

Political Rights

Zimbabwe

The Government continued to erect obstacles to international observers during the year. (references)

Trade

Argentina

Despite the generally favorable environment for imports, authorities occasionally erect protectionist barriers. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "erect": ad with head erect ♦ be erect ♦ become erect ♦ erect a statue ♦ erect a tent ♦ erect bugle ♦ erect buildings ♦ erect the scaffolding ♦ hold oneself erect ♦ make erect ♦ stand erect ♦ standing erect ♦ with one's head erect. Additional references.

Ending with "erect": semi-erect.

Albanian

vertikal (apeak, Plumb, upright, vertical), ngre (boost, build up, carve, cast up, chant, elevate, establish, heft, heighten, hike, hitch, hoist, hold up, jerk up, kilt, lift, lift up, look up, move up, peak, pick up, propound, raise, rear, rebel, revolt, ring up, rout, run up, scoop up, set up, situate, soar, Square, straighten, take off, throw up, trice, up, upheave, uplift, upraise, wake up, weigh, wind up), ndërtoj (build, carve, construct, engineer, make, put up, raise, rear, set up, throw up, upbuild, work up), montoj (assemble, constitute, hook up, Mount, put together), krijoj (brew, compose, conceive, contract, create, develop, establish, forge, form, found, institute, make, originate, pen, procreate, produce, raise, shape, sow, transact), i ngritur (airborne, astir, elevated, established, high, uprise), i këndellur, i gjallë (above ground, alive, animate, animated, breathing, brisk, buckish, buoyant, busy, canty, colorful, colourful, crude, dapper, dashing, dynamic, elastic, fresh, frisky, glowing, graphic, graphical, green, humming, intense, jocund, keen, larky, live, lively, living, mercurial, nimble, noisy, perky, pert, picturesque, playful, poignant, quick, raw, red blooded, saucy, skittish, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, spry, uncooked, vital, vivacious, vivid), i drejtë (candid, correct, direct, disinterested, downright, equitable, even, fair, impartial, just, kosher, lank, regular, right, Square, stand up, straight, straightaway, true, upright, upstanding, virtuous, white), drejt (aright, direct, directly, endlong, fair, flat, orderly, plump, right, rightly, smack, Square, straight, to, toward, towards). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منتصب (erected, on end, standing, upstanding), ‏مستقيم (correct, direct, honest, right, stand up, straight, straightforward, through, upright), ‏معتدل (abstemious, balmy, clement, conservative, genial, gentle, low key, measured, meek, middle, mild, moderate, modest, reasonable, soft, steady, straight, temperate, upright), ‏قائم (current, existing, getting up, situated, standing, upright), ‏عدل (adjust, alter, amend, arrange, blue pencil, commute, equal, equate, evenness, fairness, fashion, fix, justice, justness, mend, modify, modulate, overhaul, qualify, reason, recast, reclaim, rectify, redress, regulate, remodel, reshuffle, retrofit, revise, right, righteousness, rightness, shuffle, straighten, temper), ‏أقام (banquet, build, dwell, establish, home, institute, live, locate, lodge, occupy, perch, reinstate, reside, roost, sojourn, stay, tenant), ‏شيد (cite, construct, elevate, praise, put up, raise, structure, tribute, whitewash), ‏بنى (build, construct, make, mason, put up, rear, structure). (various references)

Bulgarian 

прав (continuous, direct, flat, forehanded, right, stand up, standing, straight, swerveless, undeviating, unseated, upright, upstanding), изправен (go, soldierlike, soldierly, stand up, straight, upright, upstanding), изправям (detect, peak, planish, put up, raise, rectify, remedy, repair, right, righten, set right, stand up, straighten, true, uncurl, unkink), побивам (batter, drive), побит (battered, driven, set up), получавам ерекция, издигам (advance, build, edify, elevate, exalt, heave, heft, heighten, hike, levitate, lift, make, put up, pyramid, raise, rear, rose, run up, set up, swing up, throw up, upbear, uplift, upraise), построявам (build, construct, frame, make, pyramid, rear, throw a bridge, upbuild), създавам (beget, build up, create, devise, establish, float, form, make, mother, originate, present, raise up, spawn, start, throw up, work), монтирам (assemble, instal, install, rig, rig up), настръхнал (anserine, horrent), вертикален (perpendicular, vertical), въздигам (dignify, elevate, enthrone, exalt, spiritualize, upraise), сглобявам (assemble, fit out, fit up, interlock, join, put together), учредявам (constitute, found, institute, organize), повишавам (advance, aggrandize, elevate, enhance, heighten, increase, jump, key up, prefer, promote, put up, rack, raise, up). (various references)

Catalan

edificar (establish). (various references)

Chinese 

聳立 (to tower above), 高聳 (to stand tall), �"直, 直立 (upright), 剚 (stab, to cut, to pare, to reduce, to scrape), 安裝 (fix, install, installation, mount). (various references)

Czech

ztopořený, vztyèený (upright, upset), vztýèit, vzpřímený (upright), vystavìt, vtyèit, smontovat (get together), sestavit (assemble, compile, draw up, frame, make, make out, make up, piece together, put together, set), postavit (build, construct, contrast, field, found, pitch, place, put, put up, raise, rear, right, set, state). (various references)

Danish

oprette (establish, found), opret. (various references)

Dutch

stichten (activate, cause, edify, establish, found, give rise to), oprichten (establish, lever, lift, raise), inrichten (arrange, establish, put in order, tidy). (various references)

Esperanto

establi (establish), fondi (establish, found). (various references)

Faeroese

stovna (establish, found). (various references)

Farsi 

قاءم (Orthogonal, Upstanding), سیخ (Broach, Gad, Goad, Grid, Ramrod, Spur, Stiff, Wooden), عمودی (Lineal, Perpendicular, Right, Straight, Upright, Vertical), افراشتن (Fly, Rear), راست کردن (Straighten, Unbend), راست (Bolt, Prick, Right, Sheer, Straight, Straightforward, True, Upright, Wooden), شق شدن , بناکردن (Build, Ground, Mason, Upbuild), برپاکردن (Establish, Inaugurate, Pitch, Raise). (various references)

Finnish

pysty. (various references)

French

fonder. (various references)

German

errichten (deployment, establish, establishes, get up to, locate, put up, set up, to pitch, to plant), aufrecht (direct, directly, endwise, straigh ahead, straight, up, upright, uprightly, upstanding). (various references)

Greek 

όρθιοσ (Matin, unflagging, up, upright, upstanding), όρθιος (standing, upright), στήνω (plant, rig, set up), ιδρύω (establish, found, set up), ανυψώνω (elevate, lift, raise), ανεγείρω, αναστηλώνω (raise, restore), αναγείρω, ορθώνω (put up). (various references)

Hebrew 

מסומר (bristly, echinate, hobnailed, nailed), לקומם (raise against, re construct, re establish, restore, rouse, set up), לזקוף (attribute, charge an account, lift, raise up, set up), ל�"קים (establish, put up, raise, set up, start), תמיר (slender, svelte, tall, upright, upstanding, willowy), זקוף (on end, sit up, stand up, standing, straight, upright, upstanding). (various references)

Hungarian

egyenesen álló (upright, upstanding). (various references)

Indonesian

tegak (endways, endwise), mendirikan (build, cause to stand up, establish, found), mencacakkan, membatang, conggok. (various references)

Italian

rizzare (put up, raise), fondere (blend, cast, establish, found, fuse, interfuse, melt, melt down, merge, Mold, mould, smelt), eretto (built, erected, founded, standing, upright, upstanding). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

真直 (direct, frank, honest, straight, upright), 真っ直ぐ (direct, frank, honest, straight, upright), 直立 (perpendicular, rise perpendicularly, stand erect, upright, vertical), すすり泣く (all, all of a sudden, bitch, briskly, broke, clear, completely, directly, do something completely, even, face with no make-up, gently, men's underwear, neat, nimble, ought to do, penniless, quick, quickly, quietly, shapely, should do, sleeping soundly, smart, smooth to the touch, smoothly, softly, straight, thoroughly, to leaveundone, to make refreshed, to make relieved, to neglect, to sob, to standup, upright, utterly stark naked, wearing only one's birthday suit), エル�"ー盤 (aerogram, angel, elbow, Electone, Electra complex, electric, electric guitar, electricity, electroluminescence, electron, electronic, electronic banking, electronic cooking, electronic cottage, electronic file, electronic mail, electronic money, electronic music, electronic office, electronic sound, electronics, elegance, elegant, elegy, element, elementary, elevation, elevator, elf, elm, elocution, elven, encapsulation, enclosure, encode, encoder, encoding, encounter, encyclopedia, engage, engagement, engagement ring, engine, engine brake, engineer, engineering, engineering plastics, enjoy, erection, erogenous zone, Eroica, Eros, erotic, erotic and grotesque, erotic and grotesque nonsense, erotic production, erotica, eroticism, erotism, erotomania, Herman, Hermes, ignition key, long-playing record, LP). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すっくと (straight, upright), ますぐ (direct, frank, honest, straight, upright), まっすぐ (direct, frank, honest, straight, upright), エレクト , ちょくりつ (perpendicular, rise perpendicularly, stand erect, upright, vertical). (various references)

Korean 

직립 (Erection). (various references)

Manx

ny hassoo jeeragh, jeeraghey (aim, focus, level, point, rectification, rectifier, straighten, straightening, train, train as gun, unbend). (various references)

Norwegian

reise (journey, leave, travel, trip, voyage), oppreist, oppføre. (various references)

Papiamen

funda (establish, found). (various references)

Pig Latin

erectay.(various references)

Polish

założyć (establish, found), ustanowić (establish, found). (various references)

Portuguese

ereto (cocked, straight, up). (various references)

Romanian

edifica (build, enlighten, establish), înãlţa (balloon, build, elevate, exalt, heave, heighten, hoist, lift, put up, raise, set up, uplift), întemeia (base, create, establish, form, found, institute, organize, set out, underlain), asambla (assemble, knock together, match, piece, piece on), clãdi (base, build, construct, form, found, groin, ground, throw out), construi (build, build up, carry up, construct, design, engineer, fabricate, form, found, frame, make, project, put up, raise, rear), drept (as, attribution, claim, correct, Dexter, direct, directly, due, end on, endways, equitable, even, evenly, exactly, fair, fairly, for, forthright, honest, just, justice, justly, kind, law, legitimate, patent, permission, plain, point blank, precisely, privilege, real, reasonable, right, right foot, right leg, righteous, Square, stand, stand up, straight, straightforward, true, truly, truthful, unprejudiced, upright), în picioare (endways, on one's feet, standing), mândru (big, cavalier, cock-a-hoop, conceited, handsome, haughty, high, high minded, high pitched, high-flown, loftily, lofty, proud, splendid, stately, wonderful), zidi (brick in, brick up, build, construct, create, embed, immure, wall), monta (accommodate, adapt, adjust, assemble, attune, fit, fit up, fix, hang, install, key up, match, Mount, place, put up, rig up, set, set up, tune), organiza (activate, arrange, establish, order, organize, regiment, settle, systematize, systemize), ridica (advance, aggrandize, appear, arise, arrest, ascend, assemble, balloon, bring up, build, carry up, collect, construct, convene, create, draw the cloth, elevate, encash, enhance, found, get up, heave, hoist, interpose, kick up, lift, loop, Mount, muster, perk up, pick up, pitch, pose, prong, pry, put, put up, raise, receive, remove, resound, rise, round up, salt, set up, shovel, start, step up, stick up, straighten, strike, suspend, take up, up, uplift, weigh), ridicat (advanced, harsh, high, long, raised, raising, severe, standing, stiff, upright), stabili (appoint, arrange, ascertain, assess, calm, clinch, conclude, constitute, decree, determine, establish, fix, institute, introduce, lay down, Lodge, measure, nail down, name, nominate, regulate, set, set out, settle, spot, state, verify), vertical (pedimental, perpendicularly, Plumb, stand up, upright, upstanding, vertical, vertically), fonda (establish, form, found, plant, set out, start). (various references)

Russian 

воздвигать (raise, rear, set up). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uspravan (ortho-, plumb, stand up, straight, upright, upstanding, vertical), stvarati (create, make, produce, reproduce), stojeći (standing), podizati (raise, rear), graditi (bottom, build, form). (various references)

Spanish

erecto, edificar (build, construct, edify, establish, found, improve, raise, upload), fundar (base, endow, establish, form, found, institute, justify, launch, promote, set up, start). (various references)

Swedish

upprätt (perpendicular, upright), rak (direct, shift, straight, upright). (various references)

Thai

สร้างขึ้น (generate), ทำให้ตั้งขึ้น, ซึ่งตั้งตรง. (various references)

Turkish

ereksiyon halinde, kurmak (activate, base, build, build up, cog, conspire, constitute, construct, establish, fix up, float, form, found, frame, ground, install, institute, lay, line up, organize, pitch, plant, promote, put, put together, ruminate, set, set up, start, strike up, time, weave, wind up), kalkmış (astir, horny), kalkık (raised, stand up, tip-tilted, turnup, upright, upturned), kaldırmak (abolish, arouse, blank out, blue pencil, boost, Brook, cancel, carry, clear, clear away, deration, do away with, elevate, get up, give smb. a lift, heave, heft, hoist, hold, hold up, Jack, jack up, lift, lift up, move away, perk, perk up, pick off, pick up, poise, pull up, put aside, put away, put by, put up, quash, raise, reap, rear, receive, remove, scoop up, setaside, take off, take up, turn up, upheave, uphold, upraise), inşa etmek (build, construct, rear), dimdik (bolt upright, rigid, sheer, uprightly), dikmek (bed, bed out, construct, crop, engraft, fix, ingraft, lay down, needle, perk, perk up, plant, post, prick, prick up, put stitches in, raise, rear, rest, rest on, rivet, seam, seam together, seam up, set, set out, set up, sew, sew up, sow, stitch up, suture, tailor, Upend), dikleşmek (become upright, shoot up, steepen), diken diken (hirsute, standing on end), dik (abrupt, arduous, bluff, bold, horny, jagged, perpendicular, precipitous, rapid, right, rough, scarped, sheer, Square, stand up, steep, stiff, straight, up, upright, uprightly, upstanding, vertical). (various references)

Ukrainian

створювати (build, charter, coin, compose, construct, create, found, mint, originate, produce, raise up), стоячий (stagnant, standing, upstanding), випрямляти (straighten, unbend), будувати (build, carry up, construct, frame, put up), піднятий (cocked, upborne), прямий (above board, bald, barefaced, bounden, candid, direct, downright, forthright, ostensive, outright, outspoken, perpendicular, plainspoken, point blank, spadish, straight, straightforward, through). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thẳng (direct, flat, front, plump, straight, straightaway, thro, through, undeviating). (various references)

Welsh

unionsyth (direct, straight), codi (accrue, amount, arise, get up, lift, raise, rise). (various references)

gub. (various references)

adtollens, adtollite, aedifica, aedificabant, aedificabat, aedificabatur, aedificaberis, aedificabimini, aedificabimus, aedificabis, aedificabit, aedificabitis, aedificabitur, aedificabo, aedificabunt, aedificabuntur, aedificamus, aedificanda, aedificandam, aedificandum, aedificans, aedificant, aedificantes, aedificanti, aedificantibus, aedificantium, aedificare, aedificarem, aedificaremus, aedificarent, aedificares, aedificaret, aedificaretis, aedificaretur, aedificari, aedificaris, aedificas, aedificasse, aedificassem, aedificasti, aedificastis, aedificat, aedificata, aedificatae, aedificate, aedificatis, aedificato, aedificator, aedificatum, aedificatur, aedificaturus, aedificatus, aedificaverat, aedificaverint, aedificaveris, aedificaverit, aedificaverunt, aedificaveruntque, aedificavi, aedificavimus, aedificavit, aedificavitque, aedificem, aedificemus, aedificent, aedificentur, aedifices, aedificet, aedificetur, aedifico, aggeres, aggeris, aggestum, condo, consistant, consistens, consistentes, consistere, consisteret, consistite, consistunt, constabit, constabunt, constans, constant, constantes, constantia, constat, constiterant, constituam, constituamus, constituantur, constituas, constituat, constitue, constituebant, constituebat, constituemus, constituendum, constituens, constituent, constituentur, constituerat, constituere, constituerem, constituerent, constitueret, constituerim, constitueris, constituerit, constituerunt, constitueruntque, constitues, constituesque, constituet, constituetur, constitui, constituimus, constituissent, constituisset, constituisti, constituistis, constituit, constituite, constituitque, constituitur, constituo, constituta, constitutae, constituti, constitutis, constitutum, constitutus, constituunt, erecta, erectae, erectas, erecti, erectio, erectionis, erectis, erecto, erectum, erectus, erexerat, erexerunt, erexi, erexisset, erexisti, erexit, erexitque, erigam, erigantur, erigas, erigat, erige, erigebant, erigens, erigent, erigere, eriges, erigetis, erigetur, erigimini, erigit, erigite, erigitur, excita, excitabis, excitabit, excitabitur, excitabo, excitandi, excitandum, excitantibus, excitare, excitatas, excitate, excitatus, excitaverunt, excitavi, excitavit, excitet, excito, extollaris, extollas, extollat, extolle, extollens, extollentem, extollentia, extollentiam, extollere, extollerentur, extolletur, extolli, extollite, extollitur, molior, reaedificabo, superextolletur. (various references)

estorer. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "erect": erectable, erected, erecter, erecters, erectile, erectilities, erectility, erecting, erection, erections, erective, erectly, erectness, erectnesses, erector, erectors, erects. (additional references)

Words ending with "erect": coerect, preerect, reerect, semierect, suberect. (additional references)

Words containing "erect": coerected, coerecting, coerects, endarterectomies, endarterectomy, hysterectomies, hysterectomized, hysterectomy, preerected, preerecting, preerects, reerected, reerecting, reerects. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Erect" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: edec, edret, eerit, Eerst, Eerste, efect, Elremco, erac, eract, Erakat, erast, erce, eregt, ereht, erence, Erentz, erest, erete, ergcm, erhebt, erict, eriot, erist, erit, errect, Erteco, etec, evect, evret, irec, rect. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: terce.

-1 letter: cere, cete, rete, tree.

-2 letters: cee, ere, rec, ree, ret, tee.

-3 letters: er, et, re.

+1 letter: center, centre, cerate, cerite, cermet, certes, create, ecarte, erects, etcher, recent, recept, recite, refect, reject, resect, secret, tenrec, tercel, terces, tercet, tierce.

+2 letters: accrete, acerate, catered, caterer, centare, centers, centner, centred, centres, cerated, cerates, cerites, cermets, cheater, coerect, coexert, cortege, coterie, coveter, created, creates, credent, cremate, crenate, cresset, crested, curette, ecartes, ejector, elector, electro, enteric, enticer, erected, erecter, erectly, erector, erethic, eructed, etchers, etheric, eucrite, exacter, excerpt, exciter, excreta, excrete, fetcher, hectare, heretic, lectern, lecture, ocreate, percent, percept, perfect, precent, precept, prefect, prelect, reacted, receipt, recepts, recheat, recited, reciter, recites, recrate, reeject, reelect, reenact, reerect, refects, reflect, rejects, resects, respect, retched, retches, reteach, reticle, retrace, scepter, sceptre, secrete, secrets, specter, spectre, teacher, techier, tenrecs, tercels, tercets, terebic, terrace, tierced, tiercel, tierces, treacle, trochee.