6-Letter Words Containing: E,C,U,E

• a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.

• a note explaining an absence

• a poor example

• accept an excuse for

• grant exemption or release to

• serve as a reason or cause or justification of

• defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning

• ask for permission to be released from an engagement

• excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with

• a small vessel with a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye; use to apply medicated or cleansing solution to the eyeball

• (embryology) a two-walled cuplike depression that develops into the pigmented and sensory layers of the retina

• grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns

• Wine produced from a mixture of several grape varieties.

• (especially of champagne) The first (and highest quality) grape juice to be produced, from a given batch of gently pressed grapes.

• a card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand

• reason by deduction; establish by deduction

• conclude by reasoning; in logic

• expletives used informally as intensifiers

• deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)

• develop or evolve from a latent or potential state

• cut down on; make a reduction in

• make less complex

• bring to humbler or weaker state or condition

• simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another

• lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation

• be the essential element

• reduce in size; reduce physically

• lessen and make more modest

• make smaller

• to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons

• narrow or limit

• put down by force or intimidation

• undergo meiosis

• reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site

• destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it

• reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

• be cooked until very little liquid is left

• cook until very little liquid is left

• lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture

• take off weight