General Riddles

I am a 7 letter word. I become longer when my third letter is removed. Who am I?

End always begins with me. Time, space and universe always end with me. Who am I?
The letter 'E'.

There are three men in a boat with four cigarettes but no matches. How do they manage to smoke?
They throw one cigarette overboard and made the boat a cigarette lighter.

I have one letter but my name is spelled with eight. What am I?
Envelope

I can fill up an entire room and still not take up any space. Who am I?

If NUMERAL is written as UEALRMN then how would you write ALGEBRA?

Imagine you are in a dark room. How do you get out?
Stop imagining.

Place a word with 4 letters in between the two words so that it can be used as a prefix and suffix to make two new words. SPOILS_______ION

I am pronounced with only one letter but written with three letters. Two different letters are used to write me. My color varies from black, blue, green, brown, grey etc. Who am I?

A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour. When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?
If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

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