English words starting with esk

Meanings of Esker:

noun

A long ridge of gravel and other sediment, typically having a winding course, deposited by meltwater from a retreating glacier or ice sheet.

Usage examples:

Wetlands may overlie important groundwater aquifers, especially on moraines, eskers, and fluvioglac…

Meanings of Eskers:

noun

A long ridge of gravel and other sediment, typically having a winding course, deposited by meltwater from a retreating glacier or ice sheet.

Usage examples:

Wetlands may overlie important groundwater aquifers, especially on moraines, eskers, and fluvioglac…

Meanings of Eskimo:

noun

A member of an indigenous people inhabiting northern canada, alaska, greenland, and eastern siberia, and traditionally living by hunting seals and other arctic animals and birds and by fishing.

adjective

Relating to the eskimos or their languages.

Usage examples:

All of these were transcribed in the original language of the eskimo storytellers and then translat…

Meanings of Eskimoid:

adjective

Resembling or having some of the physical features or characteristics of an eskimo. also: of, relating to, or designating a postulated division of mankind represented by the indigenous peoples of the arctic coasts of canada and greenland.

noun

A person of a postulated racial type similar to the eskimo.

Meanings of Eskimos:

noun

A member of an indigenous people inhabiting northern canada, alaska, greenland, and eastern siberia, and traditionally living by hunting seals and other arctic animals and birds and by fishing.

adjective

Relating to the eskimos or their languages.

Usage examples:

All of these were transcribed in the original language of the eskimo storytellers and then translat…