'i' before 'e' except after 'c' - exceptions (a partial list)
This is a partial list - email me at: pal at dennisdarland dot com, if you know any more exceptions. I am now going slowly through a dictionary.
I realized this had probably been done before, so rather than completing my trip through the dictionary I searched the web
finding:
i before e (1)
i before e (Wikipedia)
i before e (3)
i before e (4)
I have gone through the dictionary - I used Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary (Completed 8/16/2011)
If you notice any missing cases let me know via the email address above.
- acrolein
- apodeictic
- atheism
- atheist
- atheistic
- atheistical
- atheistically
- aweigh
- beige
- being
- Berkeleian
- Berkeleianism
- bioscience
- casein
- caseinate
- Cecheid
- checkrein
- chow mein
- Chryseis
- cleidoic
- cleistogamic
- cleistogamous
- cleistogamously
- cleistogamy
- clupeid
- clypei
- codeine
- co-efficient
- coheir
- coheiress
- concierge
- conscience
- conscientious
- conscientiousness
- counterfeit
- counterfeiter
- counterscientific
- countersurveillance
- counterweight
- coup d'oeil
- coups d'oeil
- cruzeiro
- cueing
- cuneiform
- cysteine
- deice
- deicide
- deietic
- deification
- deify
- deign
- deil
- deinstitutionalization
- deinstitutionalize
- deionization
- deionize
- deism
- deist
- deistic
- deistical
- deistically
- deity
- disseise
- disseised
- disseising
- disseisin
- disseize
- disseized
- disseizing
- disseizin
- dreich
- dreidel
- dreidl
- dyeing
- edelweiss
- efficiency
- efficient
- efficiently
- eider
- eiderdown
- eidetic
- eidetically
- eidolon
- eigenvalue
- eigenvector
- eight
- eighteen
- eightfold
- eighth
- eightpenny
- eighty
- einkorn
- einsteinium
- eirenic
- eisegsis
- eisteddfod
- eisteddfodic
- either
- -facient
- facies
- feign
- feigned
- feigner
- feignt
- feirie
- feist
- feisty
- feistier
- feistiest
- feistiness
- flavoprotein
- fleishig
- flyweight
- foreign
- foreignness
- foreigner
- foreignism
- forfeit
- forfeitable
- forfeiter
- forfeiture
- fraulein
- freight
- freightage
- freighter
- gallein
- geisha
- geishas
- geoscience
- gleization
- greige
- greisen
- habeas corpus ad subjiciendum
- heifer
- heiho
- height
- heighten
- heightened
- heightening
- heine
- heinous
- heinously
- heinousness
- heir
- heirless
- heirship
- heiress
- heirloom
- heist
- heterogeneity
- hexerei
- hundredweight
- hundredweights
- hyperconscientious
- hyperconscientiousness
- ileitis
- insufficience
- insufficiencies
- insufficiency
- insufficient
- insufficiently
- intersocietal
- intersociety
- inveigh
- inveigher
- inveigle
- inveigled
- inveiglement
- inveigler
- inveigling
- isoseismal
- jadeite
- kapellmeister
- Klein bottle
- kyrie eleison
- langbeinite
- lei
- leishmania
- leishmanial
- leishmaniasis
- leister
- leisure
- leisured
- leisurely
- leisureliness
- leitmotiv
- leitmotif
- Lorelei
- lutein
- luteinization
- luteinize
- lwei
- lweis
- Madeira
- madeleine
- Meiji
- meikle
- meiny
- meinies
- meiosis
- meiotic
- meiotically
- Meissen
- Meistersinger
- Meistersingers
- meiamine
- milreis
- monotheism
- monotheist
- monotheistic
- monotheistical
- monotheistically
- monseigneur
- monseigneurs
- monteith
- mullein
- neigh
- neighbor
- neighbored
- neighboring
- neighborhood
- neighborly
- neighborliness
- neighbour
- neither
- nescience
- nescient
- neuroscience
- neuroscientist
- nisei
- nonrareil
- nonprotein
- nonscience
- nontheist
- nontheistic
- oei-de-boeuf
- oeilade
- oleic
- olein
- omniscience
- omniscient
- omnisciently
- Oneida
- Oneidas
- oneiric
- oneirically
- oneiromancy
- outweigh
- overconscientious
- overconscious
- overweigh
- overweight
- pantheism
- pantheist
- pantheistic
- pantheistical
- psntheisically
- paperweight
- parallel-veined
- oneiromancy
- peignoir
- pein
- pennyweight
- phenolphtatein
- plebeian
- pleiad
- Pleiad
- Pleiades
- plein air
- pleinairism
- pleinairist
- pleio-
- pleiotropic
- pleiotropy
- Pleistocene
- poleis
- Poseidon
- preignition
- preimplantation
- preinaugural
- preincorporation
- preinduction
- preindustrial
- preinterview
- preinvasion
- premeiotic
- prescience
- prescient
- presciently
- prescientific
- proficiency
- proficient
- proficiently
- protein
- proteinaceous
- proteinase
- proteinurea
- pseudoscience
- pseudoscientific
- pseudoscientist
- reichsmark
- reidentify
- reification
- reified
- reify
- reifying
- reign
- reignite
- reimage
- reimagine
- reimburse
- reimbursed
- reimbursing
- reimbursable
- reimpursement
- reimpression
- reimmerse
- reimplantation
- reimport
- reimportation
- reimpose
- reimposition
- rein
- reincarnate
- reinarnation
- reincorporate
- reincorporation
- reindeer
- reindict
- reiindictment
- reindustrialization
- reindustrialize
- reinfestation
- reinfection
- reinforce
- reinforceable
- reinforced
- reinforcement
- reinforcer
- reinhabit
- reinitiate
- reinject
- reinjection
- reinjure
- reinjury
- reink
- reinnervate
- reiinnervation
- reinoculate
- reinoculation
- reinsert
- reinsertion
- reinspect
- reinspection
- reinstall
- reinstallation
- reinstitutionalization
- reinter
- reinterview
- reintroduce
- reintroduction
- reinvade
- reinvasion
- reinvestigate
- reinvigorate
- reinvigoration
- reinvigorator
- reveile
- reweigh
- rottweiler
- rubefacient
- reins
- reinsman
- reinstate
- reinstated
- reinstating
- reinstetement
- reinsurance
- reinsure
- reinsurer
- reintegrate
- reintrgration
- reintegrative
- reinterpret
- reinterpretation
- reinvent
- reinvention
- reinvest
- reinvestment
- reis
- reissue
- reiterate
- reiterated
- reiterating
- reive
- sansei
- science
- sciential
- scientific
- scientism
- scientist
- scientize
- sclereid
- scleroprotein
- sei
- seicento
- seiche
- seidel
- seigneur
- seigneurial
- seigneury
- seigneuries
- seignior
- seigniorage
- seignorage
- seigniory
- seignory
- seigniories
- seignories
- seignorial
- seine
- seisin
- seismic
- seismicity
- seismogram
- seismograph
- seismographer
- seismographic
- seismography
- seismology
- seismological
- seismologist
- seismometer
- seismometry
- seize
- seized
- seizing
- seizer
- seizure
- semideify
- sheikh
- sheik
- sheikhdom
- sheikdom
- skeigh
- skein
- sleigh
- sleight
- societal
- societally
- societies
- society
- sovereign
- sovereignly
- sovereignty
- specie
- species
- speciesism
- speiss
- spontaneity
- stein
- subseizure
- subscience
- sufficiency
- sufficient
- sufficiently
- superefficiency
- superefficient
- surfeit
- surveil
- surveillance
- surveillant
- surveilled
- surveilling
- teiid
- terreplein
- their
- theirs
- theism
- theist
- theistic
- theistical
- theistically
- tholeiite
- theleiitic
- tie-dyeing
- tracheid
- tracheitis
- ultralightweight
- underweigh
- underweight
- unfeigned
- unfeignedly
- unscientific
- unscientifically
- unveil
- unveiled
- veil
- veiled
- veiling
- vein
- veined
- veiner
- veining
- veinlet
- veiny
- velleity
- vermeil
- vicereine
- villein
- weigela
- weigh
- weighable
- weigher
- weigh-in
- weight
- weighted
- weightless
- weighty
- weimaraner
- weiner
- weir
- weird
- weirdly
- weirdness
- weirdie
- weirdy
- weirdies
- weirdo
- weisenheimer
- wherein
- whereinto
- wisenheimer
- zein
- zeitgeber
- zeitgeist