Words starting with E

179 words.

• earthhouse An underground chamber or habitation; a souterrain.
• earworm A tune that keeps replaying in one's head or that one keeps thinking about, especially if unwanted.
• eclaircise To make clear; to clarify, to explain.
• eclaircissement An explanation of something obscure or unknown; clarification, enlightenment.
• ecranche A type of shield, used in jousting, which had an indentation or notch to hold the lance.
• ectoblaster A fictional energy weapon designed to destroy or capture ghosts.
• ectometer A device designed to detect ghosts.
• ecumene All known inhabited and civilized areas of the world.
• edder To bind the top of, interweaving edder.
• eddish An aftergrowth of grass (or other plants) which grows after it has been mowed; also, a field of such
• eephus An off-speed pitch with unusually low velocity, intended to catch the hitter off guard.
• effable Able to be spoken of; able to be expressed.
• effront To give self-confidence to.
• effulgence A state of being bright and radiant, splendor, brilliance.
• eggcorn A word or phrase that sounds like and is mistakenly used in a seemingly logical or plausible way for
• eggshellful The amount contained in an eggshell
• eglomerate To unwind, as a thread from a ball.
• egregore An angelic being from the Book of Enoch.
• eidetic Marked by or resulting from extraordinary ability to recall detailed and vivid mental images of visu
• eidolopoeia A rhetorical technique in which a speech is attributed to a deceased person, a phantom, an image or
• einherjar The warriors who died fighting bravely and were brought by valkyries to Valhalla, where they feast a
• eisegesis An interpretation, especially of Scripture, that reflects the personal ideas or viewpoint of the int
• ejuration Renouncement, rejection; resignation of one's position.
• ekphrasis A clear, intense, self-contained argument or verbal description of an object, especially of an artwo
• elance To throw like a lance; to hurl.
• elater Elasticity; especially the expansibility of a gas.
• elench That part of an argument on which its conclusiveness depends; that which convinces or refutes an ant
• elenchus A technique of argument associated with Socrates wherein the arguer asks the interlocutor to agree w
• elenctic Serving to refute, refutative, especially as part of a systematic interrogation; pertaining to rheto
• elisor A person appointed by a court for certain acts, such as to return a jury or serve a writ when the sh
• ellinge Isolated, lonely, dreary, unsettling.
• eloign To remove (something) to a distance.
• elsewhen At some other time or times; somewhen else.
• elucubrate To solve, write or compose by working studiously at night; to study.
• emacerate To make or become lean; to emaciate.
• emaculate To clear from spots or stains, or from any imperfection.
• emanant Flowing forth; emanating or issuing from or as if from a source.
• emancipatrix A woman, girl, or any other entity treated as female who emancipates; a female emancipator.
• emarginate With the outline of the margin more or less concave in places, usually at the apex.
• embiggen To enlarge; to make or become bigger.
• embower To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.
• embush To place or hide in a thicket; to ambush.
• emmove To move; to rouse or excite.
• emove To stir or arouse emotion in (someone); to cause to feel emotion.
• empaestic Embossed, especially of Ancient Greek art.
• empanoply To dress in a full suit of armour; to panoply.
• empery An empire; the status or dominion of an emperor.
• emprise An enterprise or endeavor, especially a quest or adventure.
• emvowel To replace a portion of a person's name with a dash in printing, in order to avoid libel.
• enantiodromia The principle in Jungian psychology whereby the superabundance of one force inevitably produces its
• enation The generation of such an outgrowth.
• encaenia A festival held to mark the anniversary of the dedication of a church or temple; (especially), of th
• endeixis A legal procedure in Ancient Greece in which a wrongdoer is denounced to the magistrate.
• endful Full of ends or aims; characteristic of having a goal, target, or specific agenda; ambitious; busy.
• endie One who is employed, but has no disposable income or savings.
• endly Final, terminal; of or pertaining to the end; conclusive.
• endoss To write on the back of (a document); to endorse.
• endura A fast or series of privations undertaken by the Cathars to purify the soul, often resulting in deat
• endware A hamlet or township; a small settlement or locality.
• endwork Work done on, about, or toward an end; a result; purpose; goal
• enfouldered Mixed with lightning or fire.
• englut To swallow; to swallow up, engulf.
• engouled Partly swallowed; disappearing in the jaws of anything.
• engram A postulated physical or biochemical change in neural tissue that represents a memory.
• enhort To encourage, to insist upon.
• enode To clear of knots; to make clear.
• enomotarch The commander of an enomoty.
• ensample An example; a pattern or model for imitation.
• ensorcell To bewitch or enchant.
• enturbulate To agitate or disturb; to upset, harass.
• enubilate To clear from mist, clouds, or obscurity.
• epanalepsis The repetition of the same word or clause after intervening matter.
• epanodos The repetition of a sequence of words or phrases in reverse order.
• eparch The governor or prefect of a province.
• ephemeron Something short-lived or transitory.
• ephialtes an incubus; a nightmare
• ephor One of the five annually-elected senior magistrates in various Dorian states, especially in ancient
• epicede An elegy; an ode to someone deceased.
• epicerastic Relieving the harshness or bitterness of certain bodily humours; (loosely), soothing, emollient.
• epichorial In or of the country; rural.
• epigone A follower or disciple.
• epilogism enumeration; computation
• epiphonema An exclamation or reflection used to summarise or round off an argument or discourse.
• epiplexis A rhetorical device where a sequence of rhetorical questions is used to criticise or blame, or more
• epiploce A figure of speech by which one striking circumstance is added, in due gradation, to another; escala
• epistocracy A rule by citizens with political knowledge, or a proposed political system which concentrates polit
• epistolophobia An abnormal or irrational fear of correspondence, especially the receiving or writing of letters or
• epistrophe The repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences.
• epitaphion An embroidered veil showing the dead body of Jesus Christ.
• epitasis The second part of a play, in which the action begins.
• epizeuxis The repetition of words in immediate succession for emphasis.
• equable Unvarying, calm and steady; constant and uniform.
• equanimous Calm and composed; of stable disposition.
• equerry An officer responsible for the care and supervision of the horses of a person of rank.
• equinologist A person who studies horses.
• equiparation The transfer or imputation of attributes from one object or concept to another; the drawing of an eq
• equiprimordial Existing together as equally fundamental ab initio; coöriginal.
• equison Groom, ostler, equerry, jockey.
• eristic One who makes specious arguments; one who is disputatious.
• erlking In German literature and modern folklore, a malicious elf or spirit who preys on children.
• erotesis A figure of speech whereby a question is asked in confident expectation of a negative answer.
• erumpent That emerges, or bursts through; breaking forth.
• eryngo The root of sea holly, Eryngium maritimum, formerly candied and taken as confectionery and held to h
• eschaton The apocalypse; the approach of Christ’s reign immediately preceding the end of the world; a concept
• escheat To put (land, property) in escheat; to confiscate.
• escritoire A writing desk with a hinged door that provides the writing surface.
• escuage Payment to a lord in lieu of military service.
• esemplastic Unifying; having the power to shape disparate things into a unified whole.
• esker A long, narrow, sinuous ridge created by deposits from a stream running beneath a glacier.
• espial An act of noticing or observing.
• esquivalience Deliberate shirking of one's official duties.
• essent that which is; an entity, a being, an existent
• essoin An excuse for not appearing in court at the return of process; the allegation of an excuse to the co
• estancia A large rural estate in Latin America; a kind of ranch.
• estavelle A hole that may function as an ephemeral spring or a sinkhole, depending on hydrological conditions.
• estray An animal that has escaped from its owner; a wandering animal whose owner is unknown. An animal cann
• estre The indoor layout or plan of a castle.
• estuate To swell up or rage; to be agitated.
• esurient Very greedy or hungry; ravenous; (figuratively) avid, eager.
• ethopoeia A rhetorical technique in which the speaker or author presents an imaginary speech by a real person,
• etiolate To make pale and sickly-looking.
• etymythology A false etymology that has become widely disseminated and thus is commonly accepted as true; a folk
• eucatastrophe A catastrophe (dramatic event leading to plot resolution) that results in the protagonist's well-bei
• euchymy A good state of the blood and other fluids of the body.
• eudaemonism A philosophical notion, or system of ethics, which measures happiness in relation to morality.
• euergesy A good deed, an act of public benefaction by a wealthy individual.
• euhemerism The belief that legends and mythology arise from exaggerated descriptions of historical people and e
• euhemerize To create mythology and legends from ancient historical figures and events.
• eulogia The practice of sending the consecrated Eucharist to those not present, or the Eucharist itself so s
• eunoia Goodwill towards an audience, either perceived or real; the perception that the speaker has the audi
• euouae In medieval music, a mnemonic for the Latin words saeculōrum and āmēn (from “ […] in saecula saeculō
• euphuism An ornate style of writing (in Elizabethan England) marked by the excessive use of alliteration, ant
• euripus A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide or a current flows and reflows with violence, like
• euryoecious Able to live in variable habitats or conditions.
• eurythmy The harmony of features and proportion in architecture.
• eustasy A worldwide change in sea level, especially one caused by melting ice or tectonic activity.
• evanid Liable to vanish; faint; weak; evanescent.
• evene To occur; to happen; to come to pass.
• evenglome Twilight; dusk; crepusculum.
• evenhood Equality; equity; justice.
• evenlight The light of evening; twilight.
• evensong A religious service, most commonly seen in the Anglican or Episcopal Church, that takes place in the
• evitative grammatically expressing the notion that something is avoided or feared: a grammatical mood found in
• exaugurate To annul the consecration of: to deconsecrate, secularize, profane, or otherwise unhallow (historica
• exauthorate To deprive of authority or power
• excelsior Loftier, yet higher, more elevated; ever upward.
• excogitate To think over something carefully; to consider fully; cogitate.
• excorticate To strip of bark, shell or skin.
• excreate To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting.
• excrescence Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.
• exeat A license or permit for absence from a university or a religious house (such as a monastery).
• exegete A person skilled in exegesis; an interpreter of texts, difficult passages, law, oracles, and similar
• exemplative Serving as or providing a typical example.
• exercitation The exercise or exertion of some power, responsibility, faculty etc.
• exergy Concentrated or organized energy, which can be exported and do work in the process.
• exeunt They leave the stage (a stage direction to two or more actors, the plural counterpart of exit).
• eximious Pre-eminent, outstanding.
• exinanite To make (something) weak and ineffective; to enervate.
• exnihilate To bring into existence from nothing.
• exode departure; exodus, especially the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt
• exodos A final scene or departure in a play, especially a tragedy.
• exolete That has gone out of use; disused, obsolete.
• exopolitics The art or science of government as concerned with creating or influencing policy toward extraterres
• exorbitate To go off track or orbit; to deviate.
• expeditate To deprive of the claws or the balls of the forefeet.
• exprobration Reproachful accusation; upbraiding.
• exsanguious Destitute of blood; bloodless.
• exscribe To copy down onto paper; to transcribe.
• exsiccate To dry, to desiccate, to dehydrate.
• extemporanea That which is extemporaneous; something effortless but transient or superficial.
• extimate In the works of Jacques Lacan: simultaneously external and intimate.
• extirp To extirpate (something).
• extispicy A specific instance of such divination.
• extrados The outer or upper curve of an arch.
• extroitive Seeking or going out after external objects.
• exuberate To abound; to be in great abundance.
• exulansis Resignation to stop talking about an experience, because others cannot relate to it.
• exuviate To shed or cast off a covering, especially a skin; to slough; to molt (moult).
• eyely Visible or apparent to the eye; evident; obvious.