| E: | The fifth letter of the English alphabet |
| E: | A Latin prefix meaning out out of from also without See Ex |
| Ea: | the Akkadian god of wisdom son of Apsu and father of Marduk counterpart of the Sumerian Enki |
| Each: | Every one of the two or more individuals composing a number of objects considered separately from the rest It is used either with or without a following noun as each of you or each one of you |
| Eachwhere: | Everywhere |
| Eacles: | a genus of moths including the imperial moth Eacles imperialis |
| Eadish: | See Eddish |
| Eager: | Sharp sour acid |
| Eager: | Same as Eagre |
| Eagerly: | In an eager manner |
| Eagerness: | The state or quality of being eager ardent desire |
| Eagle: | Any large rapacious bird of the Falcon family esp of the genera Aquila and Halietus The eagle is remarkable for strength size graceful figure keenness of vision and extraordinary flight The most noted species are the golden eagle Aquila chrysa89tus the imperial eagle of Europe Aquila mogilnik or Aquila imperialis the American bald eagle Halietus leucocephalus the European sea eagle Halietus albicilla and the great harpy eagle Thrasaetus harpyia The figure of the eagle as the king of birds is commonly used as an heraldic emblem and also for standards and emblematic devices See Bald eagle Harpy and Golden eagle |
| Eagleeyed: | Sharpsighted as an eagle |
| Eaglesighted: | Farsighted and strongsighted sharpsighted |
| Eagless: | A female or hen eagle |
| Eaglestone: | A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone of the size of a walnut or larger so called by the ancients who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs a89tites |
| Eaglet: | A young eagle or a diminutive eagle |
| Eaglewinged: | Having the wings of an eagle swift or soaring high like an eagle |
| Eaglewood: | A kind of fragrant wood See Agallochum |
| Eagrass: | See Eddish |
| Eagre: | A wave or two or three successive waves of great height and violence at flood tide moving up an estuary or river commonly called the bore See Bore |
| Ealderman: | An alderman |
| Eale: | Ale |
| Eame: | Uncle |
| Ean: | To bring forth as young to yean |
| Eanling: | A lamb just brought forth a yeanling |
| Ear: | The organ of hearing the external ear |
| Ear: | To take in with the ears to hear |
| Ear: | The spike or head of any cereal as wheat rye barley Indian corn etc containing the kernels |
| Ear: | To put forth ears in growing to form ears as grain as this corn ears well |
| Ear: | To plow or till to cultivate |
| Earable: | Arable tillable |
| Earache: | Ache or pain in the ear |
| Earal: | Receiving by the ear |
| Earbored: | Having the ear perforated |
| Earcap: | A cap or cover to protect the ear from cold |
| Earcockle: | A disease in wheat in which the blackened and contracted grain or ear is filled with minute worms |
| Eardrop: | A pendant for the ear an earring as a pair of eardrops |
| Eardrum: | The tympanum See Illust of Ear |
| Eared: | Having such or so many ears used in composition as longearedeared sharpeared fulleared teneared |
| earflap: | one of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm On some hats the earflaps may be adjusted or tied to the top of the hat and lowered when needed in colder weather |
| Eariness: | Fear or timidity especially of something supernatural |
| Earing: | A line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff also called head earing |
| Earing: | Coming into ear as corn |
| Earing: | A plowing of land |
| Earl: | A nobleman of England ranking below a marquis and above a viscount The rank of an earl corresponds to that of a count comte in France and graf in Germany Hence the wife of an earl is still called countess See Count |
| Earl: | The needlefish |
| Earlap: | The lobe of the ear |
| Earldom: | The jurisdiction of an earl the territorial possessions of an earl |
| Earldorman: | Alderman |
| Earlduck: | The redbreasted merganser Merganser serrator |
| Earlespenny: | Earnest money Same as Arles penny |
| Earless: | Without ears hence deaf or unwilling to hear |
| Earlet: | An earring |
| earlier: | occurring at a prior time as on earlier occasions |
| earliest: | preceding all others in time |
| Earliness: | The state of being early or forward promptness |
| Earlmarshal: | An officer of state in England who marshals and orders all great ceremonials takes cognizance of matters relating to honor arms and pedigree and directs the proclamation of peace and war The court of chivalry was formerly under his jurisdiction and he is still the head of the heralds office or college of arms |
| Earlock: | A lock or curl of hair near the ear a lovelock See Lovelock |
| Early: | Soon in good season seasonably betimes as come early |
| Early: | In advance of the usual or appointed time in good season prior in time among or near the first opposed to late as the early bird an early spring early fruit |
| earlyish: | being somewhat early |
| Earmark: | A mark on the ear of sheep oxen dogs etc as by cropping or slitting |
| Earmark: | To mark as sheep by cropping or slitting the ear |
| Earminded: | Thinking chiefly or most readily through or in terms related to the sense of hearing specif thinking words as spoken as a result of familiarity with speech or of mental peculiarity opposed to eyeminded |
| Earn: | See Ern n |
| Earn: | To merit or deserve as by labor or service to do that which entitles one to a reward whether the reward is received or not |
| Earn: | To grieve |
| Earn: | To long to yearn |
| Earn: | To curdle as milk |
| earned: | Gained as a result of effort or action used especially of income as earned income Contrasted with unearned |
| earner: | someone who earns wages in return for labor |
| Earnest: | Seriousness reality fixed determination eagerness intentness |
| Earnest: | Ardent in the pursuit of an object eager to obtain or do zealous with sincerity with hearty endeavor heartfelt fervent hearty used in a good sense as earnest prayers |
| Earnest: | To use in earnest |
| Earnest: | Something given or a part paid beforehand as a pledge pledge handsel a token of what is to come |
| Earnestful: | Serious |
| Earnestly: | In an earnest manner |
| Earnestness: | The state or quality of being earnest intentness anxiety |
| Earnful: | Full of anxiety or yearning |
| Earning: | That which is earned wages gained by work or services money earned used commonly in the plural |
| Earpick: | An instrument for removing wax from the ear |
| earpiece: | a device for converting electric signals into sounds designed to be held over or inserted into the ear as The common telephone handset has a speaker and an earpiece |
| Earpiercer: | The earwig |
| Earreach: | Earshot |
| Earring: | An ornament consisting of a ring passed through the lobe of the ear with or without a pendant |
| Earsh: | See Arrish |
| earshaped: | having the shape of an ear |
| Earshell: | any of various large edible marine gastropod mollusks of the genus Haliotis having a flattened earshaped shell with a pearly interior called also seaear See Abalone |
| Earshot: | Reach of the ear distance at which words may be heard |
| Earshrift: | A nickname for auricular confession shrift |
| Earsore: | An annoyance to the ear |
| Earsplitting: | Deafening disagreeably loud or shrill as earsplitting strains |
| Earst: | See Erst |
| Earth: | The globe or planet which we inhabit the world in distinction from the sun moon or stars Also this world as the dwelling place of mortals in distinction from the dwelling place of spirits |
| Earth: | To hide or cause to hide in the earth to chase into a burrow or den |
| Earth: | To burrow |
| Earth: | A plowing |
| Earthbag: | A bag filled with earth used commonly to raise or repair a parapet |
| earthball: | any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hardskinned subterranean trufflelike fruiting bodies |
| Earthbank: | A bank or mound of earth |
| Earthboard: | The part of a plow or other implement that turns over the earth the moldboard |
| Earthborn: | Born of the earth terrigenous springing originally from the earth human having the characteristics of earthly life as earthborn beings |
| Earthbred: | Low grovelling vulgar |
| earthcloset: | a small building with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate |
| earthcolors: | colors like those of soil or earth brownishreds and browns |
| earthcolored: | having the color of soil or earth reddish or reddishbrown |
| Earthdin: | An earthquake |
| Earthdrake: | A mythical monster of the early AngloSaxon literature a dragon |
| Earthen: | Made of earth made of burnt or baked clay or other like substances as an earthen vessel or pipe |
| Earthenhearted: | Hardhearted sordid gross |
| Earthenware: | Vessels and other utensils ornaments or the like made of baked clay See Crockery Pottery Stoneware and Porcelain |
| Earthflax: | A variety of asbestus See Amianthus |
| Earthfork: | A pronged fork for turning up the earth |
| earthgod: | a god of fertility and vegetation |
| earthgoddess: | a goddess of fertility and vegetation |
| Earthiness: | The quality or state of being earthy or of containing earth hence grossness |
| Earthliness: | The quality or state of being earthly worldliness grossness perishableness |
| Earthling: | An inhabitant of the earth a mortal |
| Earthlight: | The sunlight reflected from the earth to the moon by which we see faintly when the moon is near the sun either before or after new moon that part of the moons disk unillumined by direct sunlight or bdthe old moon in the arms of the newb8 |
| Earthly: | Pertaining to the earth belonging to this world or to mans existence on the earth not heavenly or spiritual carnal worldly as earthly joys earthly flowers earthly praise |
| Earthly: | In the manner of the earth or its people worldly |
| Earthlyminded: | Having a mind devoted to earthly things worldlyminded opposed to spiritualminded |
| Earthmad: | The earthworm |
| Earthnut: | A name given to various roots tubers or pods grown under or on the ground |
| Earthpea: | A species of pea Amphicarpa monoica It is a climbing leguminous plant with hairy underground pods |
| Earthquake: | A shaking trembling or concussion of the earth due to subterranean causes often accompanied by a rumbling noise The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere destroying cities and many thousand lives called also earthdin earthquave and earthshock |
| Earthquake: | Like or characteristic of an earthquake loud startling |
| Earthquave: | An earthquake |
| earthshaking: | sufficiently significant to affect the whole world as earthshaking proposals an earthshaking event |
| Earthshine: | See Earth light under Earth |
| Earthshock: | An earthquake |
| Earthstar: | A curious fungus of the genus Geaster in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores |
| earthtones: | colors like those of soil or earth brownishreds and browns |
| Earthtongue: | A fungus of the genus Geoglossum |
| Earthward: | Toward the earth opposed to heavenward or skyward |
| Earthwork: | Any construction whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification for attack or defense the material of which is chiefly earth |
| Earthworm: | Any worm of the genus Lumbricus and allied genera found in damp soil One of the largest and most abundant species in Europe and America is L terrestris many others are known called also angleworm and dewworm |
| Earthy: | Consisting of or resembling earth terrene earthlike as earthy matter |
| Earwax: | See Cerumen |
| Earwig: | Any insect of the genus Forficula and related genera belonging to the order Dermaptera formerly Euplexoptera They have elongated bodies and a prominent pair of curved pincers at the rear of their abdomen |
| Earwig: | To influence or attempt to influence by whispered insinuations or private talk |
| Earwitness: | A witness by means of his ears one who is within hearing and does hear a hearer |
| Ease: | Satisfaction pleasure hence accommodation entertainment |
| Ease: | To free from anything that pains disquiets or oppresses to relieve from toil or care to give rest repose or tranquillity to often with of as to ease of pain to ease the body or mind |
| eased: | made less severe or intense mitigated |
| Easeful: | Full of ease suitable for affording ease or rest quiet comfortable restful |
| Easel: | A frame commonly of wood serving to hold a canvas upright or nearly upright for the painters convenience or for exhibition |
| Easeless: | Without ease |
| Easement: | That which gives ease relief or assistance convenience accommodation |
| Easily: | With ease without difficulty or much effort as this task may be easily performed that event might have been easily foreseen |
| Easiness: | The state or condition of being easy freedom from distress rest |
| easing: | a change for the better |
| East: | The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to rise at the equinox or the corresponding point on the earth that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south and which is toward the right hand of one who faces the north the point directly opposite to the west |
| East: | Toward the rising sun or toward the point where the sun rises when in the equinoctial as the east gate the east border the east side the east wind is a wind that blows from the east |
| East: | Eastward |
| East: | To move toward the east to veer from the north or south toward the east to orientate |
| eastbound: | moving toward the east as eastbound trains |
| eastcentral: | of a region of the U S generally including Kentucky and West Virginia |
| Easter: | An annual church festival commemorating Christs resurrection and occurring on Sunday the second day after Good Friday It corresponds to the pascha or passover of the Jews and most nations still give it this name under the various forms of pascha pasque p83que or pask |
| Easter: | To veer to the east said of the wind |
| Easterlily: | Any one of various lilies or lilylike flowers which bloom about Easter |
| Easterling: | A native of a country eastward of another used by the English of traders or others from the coasts of the Baltic |
| Easterling: | Relating to the money of the Easterlings or Baltic traders See Sterling |
| Easterly: | Coming from the east as it was easterly wind |
| Easterly: | Toward or in the direction of the east |
| Eastern: | Situated or dwelling in the east oriental as an eastern gate Eastern countries |
| EasternChurch: | That portion of the Christian church which prevails in the countries once comprised in the Eastern Roman Empire and the countries converted to Christianity by missionaries from them Its full official title is The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern Church It became estranged from the Western or Roman Church over the question of papal supremacy and the doctrine of the filioque and a separation begun in the latter part of the 9th century became final in 1054 The Eastern Church consists of twelve thirteen if the Bulgarian Church be included mutually independent churches including among these the Hellenic Church or Church of Greece and the Russian Church using the vernacular or some ancient form of it in divine service and varying in many points of detail but standing in full communion with each other and united as equals in a great federation The highest five authorities are the patriarch of Constantinople or ecumenical patriarch whose position is not one of supremacy but of precedence the patriarch of Alexandria the patriarch of Jerusalem the patriarch of Antioch and the Holy Synod of Russia The Eastern Church accepts the first seven ecumenical councils and is hence styled only schismatic not heretical by the Roman Catholic Church has as its creed the NicenoConstantinopolitan without the later addition of the filioque which with the doctrine it represents the church decisively rejects baptizes infants with trine immersion makes confirmation follow immediately upon baptism administers the Communion in both kinds using leavened bread and to infants as well as adults permits its secular clergy to marry before ordination and to keep their wives afterward but not to marry a second time selects its bishops from the monastic clergy only recognizes the offices of bishop priest and deacon as the three necessary degrees of orders venerates relics and icons and has an elaborate ritual See also Greek Church under Greek |
| easterner: | an inhabitant of an eastern area especially of the eastern U S |
| Easternmost: | Most eastern |
| EastIndian: | Belonging to or relating to the East Indies |
| Easting: | The distance measured toward the east between two meridians drawn through the extremities of a course distance of departure eastward made by a vessel |
| Eastinsular: | Relating to the Eastern Islands East Indian |
| Eastward: | Toward the east in the direction of east from some point or place as New Haven lies eastward from New York |
| Easy: | At ease free from pain trouble or constraint |
| Easychair: | An armchair for ease or repose |
| easygoing: | Moving easily hence mildtempered relaxed and casual easeloving inactive Contrasted with tense |
| easygoingness: | being without worry or concern |
| Eat: | To chew and swallow as food to devour said especially of food not liquid as to eat bread |
| Eat: | To take food to feed especially to take solid in distinction from liquid food to board |
| Eatable: | Capable of being eaten fit to be eaten proper for food esculent edible |
| Eatage: | Eatable growth of grass for horses and cattle esp that of aftermath |
| eaten: | ingested through the mouth Contrasted with uneaten |
| Eater: | One who or that which eats |
| Eath: | Easy or easily |
| Eating: | The act of tasking food the act of consuming or corroding |
| EaudeCologne: | Same as Cologne |
| Eaudevie: | French name for brandy Cf Aqua vit under Aqua |
| Eauforte: | An etching or a print from an etched plate |
| Eavedrop: | A drop from the eaves eavesdrop |
| Eaves: | The edges or lower borders of the roof of a building which overhang the walls and cast off the water that falls on the roof |
| Eavesdrop: | To stand under the eaves near a window or at the door of a house to listen and learn what is said within doors hence to listen secretly to what is said in private |
| Eavesdrop: | The water which falls in drops from the eaves of a house |
| Eavesdropper: | One who stands under the eaves or near the window or door of a house to listen hence a secret listener |
| Eavesdropping: | The habit of lurking about dwelling houses and other places where persons meet for private intercourse secretly listening to what is said and then tattling it abroad The offense is indictable at common law |
| Ebb: | The European bunting |
| Ebb: | The reflux or flowing back of the tide the return of the tidal wave toward the sea opposed to flood as the boats will go out on the ebb |
| Ebb: | To flow back to return as the water of a tide toward the ocean opposed to flow |
| Ebb: | To cause to flow back |
| Ebb: | Receding going out falling shallow low |
| Ebbtide: | The reflux of tide water the retiring tide opposed to flood tide |
| EBCDIC: | a 8bit code for representing alphanumerical information in a digital information storage medium It was used expecially on IBM mainframes and differed substantially from the ASCII code |
| Ebionite: | One of a sect of heretics in the first centuries of the church whose doctrine was a mixture of Judaism and Christianity They denied the divinity of Christ regarding him as an inspired messenger and rejected much of the New Testament |
| Ebionitism: | The system or doctrine of the Ebionites |
| Eblanin: | See Pyroxanthin |
| Eblis: | The prince of the evil spirits Satan |
| Ebolavirus: | an exceptionally virulent hemorrhaic virus with a high mortality rate first recognized in an outbreak on the Ebola river in africa |
| Ebon: | Consisting of ebony |
| Ebon: | Ebony |
| Ebonist: | One who works in ebony |
| Ebonite: | A hard black variety of vulcanite It may be cut and polished and is used for many small articles as combs and buttons and for insulating material in electric apparatus |
| Ebonize: | To make black or stain black in imitation of ebony as to ebonize wood |
| Ebony: | A hard heavy and durable wood which admits of a fine polish or gloss The usual color is black but it also occurs red or green |
| Ebony: | Made of ebony or resembling ebony black as an ebony countenance |
| Ebracteate: | Without bracts |
| Ebracteolate: | Without bracteoles or little bracts said of a pedicel or flower stalk |
| Ebrauke: | Hebrew |
| Ebriety: | Drunkenness intoxication by spirituous liquors inebriety |
| Ebrillade: | A bridle check a jerk of one rein given to a horse when he refuses to turn |
| Ebriosity: | Addiction to drink habitual drunkenness |
| Ebrious: | Inclined to drink to excess intoxicated tipsy |
| Ebulliate: | To boil or bubble up |
| Ebullience: | A boiling up or over effervescence |
| Ebullient: | Boiling up or over hence manifesting exhilaration or excitement as of feeling effervescing |
| Ebullioscope: | An instrument for observing the boiling point of liquids especially for determining the alcoholic strength of a mixture by the temperature at which it boils |
| Ebullition: | A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor |
| Eburin: | A composition of dust of ivory or of bone with a cement used for imitations of valuable stones and in making moldings seals etc |
| Eburnation: | A condition of bone cartilage occurring in certain diseases of these tissues in which they acquire an unnatural density and come to resemble ivory |
| Eburnean: | Made of or relating to ivory |
| Eburnification: | The conversion of certain substances into others which have the appearance or characteristics of ivory |
| Eburnine: | Of or pertaining to ivory |
| Ecardines: | An order of Brachiopoda the Lyopomata See Brachiopoda |
| cart: | A game at cards played usually by two persons in which the players may discard any or all of the cards dealt and receive others from the pack |
| Ecaudate: | Without a tail or spur |
| Ecballium: | A genus of cucurbitaceous plants consisting of the single species Ecballium agreste or Elaterium the squirting cucumber Its fruit when ripe bursts and violently ejects its seeds together with a mucilaginous juice from which elaterium a powerful cathartic medicine is prepared |
| Ecbasis: | A figure in which the orator treats of things according to their events consequences |
| Ecbatic: | Denoting a mere result or consequence as distinguished from telic which denotes intention or purpose thus the phrase ina plhrwqh if rendered bdso that it was fulfilledb8 is ecbatic if rendered bdin order that it might beb8 etc is telic |
| Ecbole: | A digression in which a person is introduced speaking his own words |
| Ecbolic: | A drug as ergot which by exciting uterine contractions promotes the expulsion of the contents of the uterus |
| Ecboline: | An alkaloid constituting the active principle of ergot so named from its power of producing abortion |
| Eccaleobion: | A contrivance for hatching eggs by artificial heat |
| cart: | A game at cards for two persons with 32 cards ranking K Q J A 10 9 8 7 Five cards are dealt each player and the 11th turned as trump Five points constitute a game |
| Eccehomo: | A picture which represents the Savior as given up to the people by Pilate and wearing a crown of thorns |
| Eccentric: | Deviating or departing from the center or from the line of a circle as an eccentric or elliptical orbit pertaining to deviation from the center or from true circular motion |
| Eccentric: | A circle not having the same center as another contained in some measure within the first |
| Eccentrical: | See Eccentric |
| Eccentrically: | In an eccentric manner |
| Eccentricity: | The state of being eccentric deviation from the customary line of conduct oddity |
| Ecchymose: | To discolor by the production of an ecchymosis or effusion of blood beneath the skin chiefly used in the passive form as the parts were much ecchymosed |
| Ecchymosis: | A livid or black and blue spot produced by the extravasation or effusion of blood into the areolar tissue from a contusion |
| Ecchymotic: | Pertaining to ecchymosis |
| Eccle: | The European green woodpecker also called ecall eaquall yaffle |
| Ecclesia: | The public legislative assembly of the Athenians |
| Ecclesial: | Ecclesiastical |
| Ecclesiarch: | An official of the Eastern Church resembling a sacrist in the Western Church |
| Ecclesiast: | An ecclesiastic |
| Ecclesiastes: | One of the canonical books of the Old Testament |
| Ecclesiastic: | Of or pertaining to the church See Ecclesiastical |
| Ecclesiastic: | A person in holy orders or consecrated to the service of the church and the ministry of religion a clergyman a priest |
| Ecclesiastical: | Of or pertaining to the church relating to the organization or government of the church not secular as ecclesiastical affairs or history ecclesiastical courts |
| Ecclesiastically: | In an ecclesiastical manner according ecclesiastical rules |
| Ecclesiasticism: | Strong attachment to ecclesiastical usages forms etc |
| Ecclesiasticus: | A book of the Apocrypha |
| Ecclesiological: | Belonging to ecclesiology |
| Ecclesiologist: | One versed in ecclesiology |
| Ecclesiology: | The science or theory of church building and decoration |
| Eccritic: | A remedy which promotes discharges as an emetic or a cathartic |
| Ecderon: | See Ecteron |
| Ecdysis: | The act of shedding or casting off an outer cuticular layer as in the case of serpents lobsters etc a coming out as the ecdysis of the pupa from its shell exuviation |
| Ecgonine: | A colorless crystalline nitrogenous base obtained by the decomposition of cocaine |
| chauguette: | A small chamber or place of protection for a sentinel usually in the form of a projecting turret or the like See Castle |
| Eche: | Each |
| Echelon: | An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing Also used adjectively as echelon distance |
| Echelon: | To place in echelon to station divisions of troops in echelon |
| Echelon: | To take position in echelon |
| Echeneididae: | a natural family of fishes having a sucking disk on the head for clinging to other fishes and to ships |
| Echeneis: | the type genus of the Echeneididae they are typical remoras |
| Echidna: | A monster half maid and half serpent |
| Echidnine: | The clear viscid fluid secreted by the poison glands of certain serpents also a nitrogenous base contained in this and supposed to be the active poisonous principle of the virus |
| Echidnophaga: | a genus of fleas including the sticktight flea Echidnophaga gallinacea which is a serious pest in subtropical America infesting poultry and frequently attacking man and domestic animals |
| Echinate: | Set with prickles prickly like a hedgehog bristled as an echinated pericarp |
| Echinid: | Same as Echinoid |
| Echinidan: | One the Echinoidea |
| Echinital: | Of or like an echinite |
| Echinite: | A fossil echinoid |
| Echinochloa: | annual or perennial succulent grasses of warm regions |
| echinococcosis: | infestation with echinococci tapeworms An infection with the larval form is called hydatid disease |
| Echinococcus: | A parasite of man and of many domestic and wild animals forming compound cysts or tumors called hydatid cysts in various organs but especially in the liver and lungs which often cause death It is the larval stage of the Tnia echinococcus a small tapeworm peculiar to the dog The adult form is not found in man |
| echinocyte: | a red blood cell which has become crenated |
| Echinoderm: | One of the Echinodermata |
| Echinodermal: | Relating or belonging to the echinoderms |
| Echinodermata: | One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom By many writers it was formerly included in the Radiata |
| Echinodermatous: | Relating to Echinodermata echinodermal |
| Echinoid: | Of or pertaining to the Echinoidea |
| Echinoidea: | The class Echinodermata which includes the sea urchins They have a calcareous shell usually more or less spheroidal or diskshaped composed of many united plates and covered with movable spines See Spatangoid Clypeastroid |
| Echinozoa: | The Echinodermata |
| Echinulate: | Set with small spines or prickles |
| Echinus: | A hedgehog |
| Echiuroidea: | A division of Annelida which includes the genus Echiurus and allies They are often classed among the Gephyrea and called the armed Gephyreans |
| Echo: | A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener repercussion of sound repetition of a sound |
| Echo: | To send back a sound to repeat in sound to reverberate |
| Echo: | To give an echo to resound to be sounded back as the hall echoed with acclamations |
| Echoer: | One who or that which echoes |
| echochamber: | A room with walls that resonate sound producing audible echoes it is used especially to create special sound effects in recording music |
| echoic: | Formed in imitation of a natural sound of words Contrasted to nonechoic |
| echoing: | Reflecting sounds so as to create multiple echoes as a hotel with echoing halls |
| Echoless: | Without echo or response |
| Echometer: | A graduated scale for measuring the duration of sounds and determining their different and the relation of their intervals |
| Echometry: | The art of measuring the duration of sounds or echoes |
| Echon: | Each one |
| Echopathy: | A morbid condition characterized by automatic and purposeless repetition of words or imitation of actions |
| Echoscope: | An instrument for intensifying sounds produced by percussion of the thorax |
| clair: | A kind of frosted cake containing flavored cream |
| Eclaircise: | To make clear to clear up what is obscure or not understood to explain |
| Eclaircissement: | The clearing up of anything which is obscure or not easily understood an explanation |
| Eclampsia: | A fancied perception of flashes of light a symptom of epilepsy hence epilepsy itself convulsions |
| Eclampsy: | Same as Eclampsia |
| Eclat: | Brilliancy of success or effort splendor brilliant show striking effect glory renown |
| Eclectic: | Selecting choosing what is true or excellent in doctrines opinions etc from various sources or systems as an eclectic philosopher |
| Eclectic: | One who follows an eclectic method |
| Eclectically: | In an eclectic manner by an eclectic method |
| Eclecticism: | Theory or practice of an eclectic |
| Eclegm: | A medicine made by mixing oils with sirups |
| Eclipse: | An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun moon or other luminous body by the intervention of some other body either between it and the eye or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earths shadow a solar eclipse by the moon coming between the sun and the observer A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a planet though of the nature of an eclipse is called an occultation The eclipse of a small portion of the sun by Mercury or Venus is called a transit of the planet |
| Eclipse: | To cause the obscuration of to darken or hide said of a heavenly body as the moon eclipses the sun |
| Eclipse: | To suffer an eclipse |
| eclipsis: | the omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences |
| ecliptic: | A great circle of the celestial sphere making an angle with the equinoctial of about 23deg 28b7 It is the apparent path of the sun or the real path of the earth as seen from the sun |
| Ecliptic: | Pertaining to the ecliptic as the ecliptic way |
| Eclogite: | A rock consisting of granular red garnet light green smaragdite and common hornblende so called in reference to its beauty |
| Eclogue: | A pastoral poem in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other a bucolic an idyl as the Ecloques of Virgil from which the modern usage of the word has been established |
| ecobabble: | using the technical language of ecology to make the user seem ecologically aware |
| ecological: | of or pertaining to ecology as an ecological disaster |
| ecologist: | a biologist who studies the relation between organisms and their environment |
| ecology: | the branch of biology concerned with the various relations of animals and plants to one another and to their surrounding environment |
| econometric: | of or pertaining to econometrics as econometric theories |
| econometrician: | an economist who uses statistical and mathematical methods |
| econometrics: | the application of mathematics and statistics to the study of economic and financial data |
| Economic: | Pertaining to the household domestic |
| Economically: | With economy with careful management with prudence in expenditure |
| Economics: | The science of household affairs or of domestic management |
| economise: | same as economize |
| economiser: | a person who economizes and avoids waste |
| Economist: | One who economizes or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality one who expends money time or labor judiciously and without waste |
| Economization: | The act or practice of using to the best effect |
| Economize: | To manage with economy to use with prudence to expend with frugality as to economize ones income |
| Economize: | To be prudently sparing in expenditure to be frugal and saving as to economize in order to grow rich |
| Economizer: | One who or that which economizes |
| economy: | The management of domestic affairs the regulation and government of household matters especially as they concern expense or disbursement as a careful economy |
| corch: | A manikin or image representing an animal especially man with the skin removed so that the muscles are exposed for purposes of study |
| cossaise: | A dancing tune in the Scotch style |
| Ecostate: | Having no ribs or nerves said of a leaf |
| coute: | One of the small galleries run out in front of the glacis They serve to annoy the enemys miners |
| Ecphasis: | An explicit declaration |
| Ecphonema: | A breaking out with some interjectional particle |
| Ecphoneme: | A mark used to indicate an exclamation |
| Ecphonesis: | An animated or passionate exclamation |
| Ecphractic: | Serving to dissolve or attenuate viscid matter and so to remove obstructions deobstruent |
| crasement: | The operation performed with an craseur |
| craseur: | An instrument intended to replace the knife in many operations the parts operated on being severed by the crushing effect produced by the gradual tightening of a steel chain so that hemorrhage rarely follows |
| cru: | Having the color or appearance of unbleached stuff as silk linen or the like |
| Ecstasy: | The state of being beside ones self or rapt out of ones self a state in which the mind is elevated above the reach of ordinary impressions as when under the influence of overpowering emotion an extraordinary elevation of the spirit as when the soul unconscious of sensible objects is supposed to contemplate heavenly mysteries |
| Ecstasy: | To fill ecstasy or with rapture or enthusiasm |
| Ecstatic: | Pertaining to or caused by ecstasy or excessive emotion of the nature or in a state of ecstasy as ecstatic gaze ecstatic trance |
| Ecstatic: | An enthusiast |
| Ecstatical: | Ecstatic |
| Ecstatically: | Rapturously ravishingly |
| Ect: | A combining form signifying without outside external |
| Ectad: | Toward the outside or surface opposed to entad |
| Ectal: | Pertaining to or situated near the surface outer opposed to ental |
| Ectasia: | A dilatation of a hollow organ or of a canal |
| Ectasis: | The lengthening of a syllable from short to long |
| Ectental: | Relating to or connected with the two primitive germ layers the ectoderm and ectoderm as the bdectental lineb8 or line of juncture of the two layers in the segmentation of the ovum |
| Ecteron: | The external layer of the skin and mucous membranes epithelium ecderon |
| Ectethmoid: | External to the ethmoid prefrontal |
| Ecthlipsis: | The dropping out or suppression from a word of a consonant with or without a vowel |
| Ecthoreum: | The slender hollow thread of a nettling cell or cnida See Nettling cell |
| Ecthyma: | A cutaneous eruption consisting of large round pustules upon an indurated and inflamed base |
| Ecto: | See Ect |
| Ectoblast: | The outer layer of the blastoderm the epiblast the ectoderm |
| Ectobronchium: | One of the dorsal branches of the main bronchi in the lungs of birds |
| Ectocuneriform: | One of the bones of the tarsus See Cuneiform |
| Ectocyst: | The outside covering of the Bryozoa |
| Ectoderm: | The outer layer of the blastoderm epiblast |
| Ectodermal: | Of or relating to the ectoderm |
| Ectolecithal: | Having the food yolk at the commencement of segmentation in a peripheral position and the cleavage process confined to the center of the egg as ectolecithal ova |
| Ectomere: | The more transparent cells which finally become external in many segmenting ova as those of mammals |
| Ectoparasite: | Any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals opposed to endoparasite |
| Ectopia: | A morbid displacement of parts especially such as is congenial as ectopia of the heart or of the bladder |
| Ectopic: | Out of place congenitally displaced as an ectopic organ |
| Ectoplasm: | The outer transparent layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum |
| Ectoplastic: | Pertaining to or composed of ectoplasm |
| Ectoprocta: | An order of Bryozoa in which the anus lies outside the circle of tentacles |
| Ectopy: | Same as Ectopia |
| Ectorganism: | An external parasitic organism |
| Ectosarc: | The semisolid external layer of protoplasm in some unicellular organisms as the amd2ba ectoplasm exoplasm |
| Ectosteal: | Of or pertaining to ectostosis as ectosteal ossification |
| Ectostosis: | A process of bone formation in which ossification takes place in the perichondrium and either surrounds or gradually replaces the cartilage |
| Ectozoic: | See Epizoic |
| Ectozon: | See Epizo94n |
| Ectropion: | An unnatural eversion of the eyelids |
| Ectropium: | Same as Ectropion |
| Ectrotic: | Having a tendency to prevent the development of anything especially of a disease |
| Ectypal: | Copied reproduced as a molding or cast in contradistinction from the original model |
| Ectype: | A copy as in pottery of an artists original work Hence |
| Ectypography: | A method of etching in which the design upon the plate is produced in relief |
| Ecumenic: | General universal in ecclesiastical usage that which concerns the whole church as an ecumenical council |
| Ecurie: | A stable |
| Eczema: | An inflammatory disease of the skin characterized by the presence of redness and itching an eruption of small vesicles and the discharge of a watery exudation which often dries up leaving the skin covered with crusts called also tetter milk crust and salt rheum |
| Eczematous: | Pertaining to eczema having the characteristic of eczema |
| ed: | The termination of the past participle of regular or weak verbs also of analogous participial adjectives from nouns as pigmented talented |
| Edacious: | Given to eating voracious devouring |
| Edacity: | Greediness voracity ravenousness rapacity |
| Edam: | A mild Dutch pressed cheese of yellow color and fine flavor made in balls weighing three or four pounds and usually colored crimson outside so called from the village of Edam near Amsterdam Also cheese of the same type wherever made |
| edaphosaurus: | an extinct heavybodied reptile of the late Paleozoic having a dorsal sail or crest |
| Edda: | The religious or mythological book of the old Scandinavian tribes of German origin containing two collections of Sagas legends myths of the old northern gods and heroes |
| Eddaic: | Relating to the Eddas resembling the Eddas |
| Edder: | An adder or serpent |
| Edder: | Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes to bind them together |
| Edder: | To bind the top interweaving edder as to edder a hedge |
| Eddish: | Aftermath also stubble and stubble field See Arrish |
| Eddoes: | The tubers of Colocasia antiquorum See Taro |
| Eddy: | A current of air or water running back or in a direction contrary to the main current |
| Eddy: | To move as an eddy or as in an eddy to move in a circle |
| Eddy: | To collect as into an eddy |
| Eddycurrent: | An induced electric current circulating wholly within a mass of metal called also Foucault current |
| Eddykite: | A quadrilateral tailless kite with convex surfaces exposed to the wind This kite was extensively used by Eddy in his famous meteorological experiments It is now generally superseded by the box kite |
| Edelweiss: | A little perennial white woolly plant Leontopodium alpinum growing at high elevations in the Alps It is the national flower of Austria |
| Edema: | Same as d2dema |
| Edematous: | Same as d2dematous |
| Eden: | The garden where Adam and Eve first dwelt hence a delightful region or residence |
| Edenic: | Of or pertaining to Eden paradisaic |
| Edenite: | A variety of amphibole See Amphibole |
| Edenized: | Admitted to a state of paradisaic happiness |
| Edental: | See Edentate a |
| Edentalous: | See Edentate a |
| Edentata: | An order of mammals including the armadillos sloths and anteaters called also Bruta The incisor teeth are rarely developed and in some groups all the teeth are lacking |
| Edentate: | Destitute of teeth as an edentate quadruped an edentate leaf |
| Edentate: | One of the Edentata |
| Edentated: | Same as Edentate a |
| Edentation: | A depriving of teeth |
| Edentulous: | Toothless |
| Edge: | The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument as the edge of an ax knife sword or scythe |
| Edge: | To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon to sharpen |
| Edge: | To move sideways to move gradually as edge along this way |
| Edgebone: | Same as Aitchbone |
| edged: | having a specified kind of border or edge as a blackedged card dried sweat left saltedged patches |
| Edgeless: | Without an edge not sharp blunt obtuse as an edgeless sword or weapon |
| Edgelong: | In the direction of the edge |
| Edgeshot: | Having an edge planed said of a board |
| Edgeways: | With the edge towards anything in the direction of the edge |
| Edging: | That which forms an edge or border as the fringe trimming etc of a garment or a border in a garden |
| Edgingly: | Gradually gingerly |
| Edgy: | Easily irritated sharp as an edgy temper |
| Edh: | The name of the AngloSaxon letter th in a similar word omacedher other dociredh dothb8 |
| Edibility: | Suitableness for being eaten edibleness |
| Edible: | Fit to be eaten as food eatable esculent as edible fishes |
| Edibleness: | Suitableness for being eaten |
| Edict: | A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority as if by the very act of announcement a decree as the edicts of the Roman emperors the edicts of the French monarch |
| Edictal: | Relating to or consisting of edicts as the Roman edictal law |
| Edificant: | Building constructing |
| Edification: | The act of edifying or the state of being edified a building up especially in a moral or spiritual sense moral intellectual or spiritual improvement instruction |
| Edificatory: | Tending to edification |
| Edifice: | A building a structure an architectural fabric chiefly applied to elegant houses and other large buildings as a palace a church a statehouse |
| Edificial: | Pertaining to an edifice structural |
| Edifier: | One who builds |
| Edify: | To build to construct |
| Edify: | To improve |
| Edifying: | Instructing improving as an edifying conversation |
| Edile: | See 92dile |
| Edileship: | The office of dile |
| Edingtonite: | A grayish white zeolitic mineral in tetragonal crystals It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta |
| Edit: | To superintend the publication of to revise and prepare for publication to select correct arrange etc the matter of for publication as to edit a newspaper |
| edited: | improved or corrected by critical editing |
| Edition: | A literary work edited and published as by a certain editor or in a certain manner as a good edition of Chaucer Chalmers edition of Shakespeare |
| ditiondeluxe: | See Luxe |
| Editioner: | An editor |
| Editor: | One who edits esp a person who prepares superintends revises and corrects a book magazine or newspaper etc for publication |
| Editorial: | Of or pertaining to an editor written or sanctioned by an editor as editorial labors editorial remarks |
| Editorial: | A leading article in a newspaper or magazine an editorial article an article published as an expression of the views of the editor |
| editorialize: | to write an opinion in an editorial in a publication |
| Editorially: | In the manner or character of an editor or of an editorial article |
| Editorship: | The office or charge of an editor care and superintendence of a publication |
| Editress: | A female editor |
| Edituate: | To guard as a churchwarden does |
| Edomite: | One of the descendants of Esau or Edom the brother of Jacob an Idumean |
| Edriophthalma: | A group of Crustacea in which the eyes are without stalks the Arthrostraca |
| Edriophthalmous: | Pertaining to the Edriophthalma |
| educability: | Capability of being educated |
| educable: | Capable of being educated |
| educate: | To bring up or guide the powers of as a child to develop and cultivate whether physically mentally or morally but more commonly limited to the mental activities or senses to expand strengthen and discipline as the mind a faculty etc to form and regulate the principles and character of to prepare and fit for any calling or business by systematic instruction to cultivate to train to instruct as to educate a child to educate the eye or the taste |
| Educated: | Formed or developed by education as an educated man |
| educatee: | a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution |
| Education: | The act or process of educating the result of educating as determined by the knowledge skill or discipline of character acquired also the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline as an education for the bar or the pulpit he has finished his education |
| Educational: | Of or pertaining to education |
| educationalist: | a specialist in the theory of eduction |
| Educationist: | One who is versed in the theories of or who advocates and promotes education |
| Educative: | Tending to educate that gives education as an educative process an educative experience |
| Educator: | One who educates a teacher |
| Educe: | To bring or draw out to cause to appear to produce against counter agency or influence to extract to evolve as to educe a form from matter |
| Educible: | Capable of being educed |
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