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Emmet
  • (n.) An ant.

    Emollient
  • (a.) Softening
  • (n.) An external something or soothing application to allay irritation, soreness, etc.

    Emolument
  • (n.) The profit arising from office, employment, or labor

    Emotion
  • (n.) A moving of the mind or soul

    Emotive
  • (a.) Attended by, or having the character of, emotion.

    Empanel
  • (n.) A list of jurors

    Emperor
  • (n.) The sovereign or supreme monarch of an empire

    Emphasis
  • (n.) A particular stress of utterance, or force of voice, given in reading and speaking to one or more words whose signification the speaker intends to impress specially upon his audience

    Emphasize
  • (v. t.) To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice

    Emphatically
  • (adv.) Not really, but apparently.

    Emphysema
  • (n.) A swelling produced by gas or air diffused in the cellular tissue.

    Empire
  • (n.) Any dominion

    Empiric
  • (n.) One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation

    Emplace
  • (v. & n.) To put into place or position

    Employ
  • (n.) That which engages or occupies a person
  • (v. t.) To have or keep at work

    Empoison
  • (n.) Poison.
  • (v. t.) To poison

    Emporium
  • (n.) A place of trade

    Empower
  • (v. t.) To give authority to

    Empress
  • (n.) A female sovereign.

    Emprise
  • (n.) An enterprise
  • (v. t.) To undertake.

    Empty
  • (n.) An empty box, crate, cask, etc.
  • (superl.) Containing nothing
  • (v. i.) To become empty.
  • (v. t.) To deprive of the contents

    Empyema
  • (n.) A collection of blood, pus, or other fluid, in some cavity of the body, especially that of the pleura

    Empyreal
  • (a.) Formed of pure fire or light
  • (n.) Empyrean.

    Empyrean
  • (a.) Empyreal.
  • (n.) The highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to subsist

    Emu
  • (n.) A large Australian bird, of two species (Dromaius Novae-Hollandiae and D. irroratus), related to the cassowary and the ostrich

    Emulate
  • (a.) Striving to excel
  • (v. t.) To strive to equal or to excel in qualities or actions

    Emulation
  • (n.) Jea/ous rivalry

    Emulator
  • (n.) One who emulates, or strives to equal or surpass.

    Emulous
  • (a.) Ambitiously desirous to equal or even to excel another

    Emulsify
  • (v. t.) To convert into an emulsion

    Emulsion
  • (n.) Any liquid preparation of a color and consistency resembling milk

    Emunctory
  • (n.) Any organ or part of the body (as the kidneys, skin, etc.,) which serves to carry off excrementitious or waste matter

    En
  • (n.) Half an em, that is, half of the unit of space in measuring printed matter.

    Enable
  • (v. t.) To give strength or ability to

    Enact
  • (n.) Purpose
  • (v. t.) To act

    Enamel
  • (a.) Relating to the art of enameling
  • (n.) A cosmetic intended to give the appearance of a smooth and beautiful complexion.
  • (v. i.) To practice the art of enameling.
  • (v. t.) A glassy, opaque bead obtained by the blowpipe.

    Enamor
  • (v. t.) To inflame with love

    Enate
  • (a.) Growing out.

    Enation
  • (n.) Any unusual outgrowth from the surface of a thing, as of a petal

    Encage
  • (v. t.) To confine in a cage

    Encamp
  • (v. i.) To form and occupy a camp
  • (v. t.) To form into a camp

    Encase
  • (v. t.) To inclose as in a case.

    Encaustic
  • (a.) Prepared by means of heat

    Enceinte
  • (a.) Pregnant
  • (n.) The area or town inclosed by a line of fortification.

    Encephalic
  • (a.) Pertaining to the encephalon or brain.

    Encephalitis
  • (n.) Inflammation of the brain.

    Encephalon
  • (n.) The contents of the cranium

    Encephalopathy
  • (n.) Any disease or symptoms of disease referable to disorders of the brain

    Enchain
  • (v. t.) To bind with a chain

    Enchant
  • (v. t.) To charm by sorcery

    Enchase
  • (v. t.) To chase

    Enchiridion
  • (n.) Handbook

    Encircle
  • (v. t.) To form a circle about

    Enclasp
  • (v. t.) To clasp.

    Enclave
  • (n.) A tract of land or a territory inclosed within another territory of which it is independent
  • (v. t.) To inclose within an alien territory.

    Enclitic
  • (n.) A word which is joined to another so closely as to lose its proper accent, as the pronoun thee in prithee (pray thee)

    Enclose
  • (v. t.) To inclose.

    Enclosure
  • (n.) Inclosure.

    Encomiast
  • (n.) One who praises

    Encomium
  • (n.) Warm or high praise

    Encompass
  • (v. t.) To circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely

    Encore
  • (adv. / interj.) Once more
  • (n.) A call or demand (as, by continued applause) for a repetition
  • (v. t.) To call for a repetition or reappearance of

    Encounter
  • (adv.) To come against face to face
  • (v. i.) To meet face to face
  • (v. t.) A meeting, with hostile purpose

    Encourage
  • (v. t.) To give courage to

    Encouraging
  • (a.) Furnishing ground to hope

    Encroach
  • (n.) Encroachment.
  • (v. i.) To enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another

    Encrust
  • (v. t.) To incrust.

    Encumber
  • (v. t.) To impede the motion or action of, as with a burden

    Encyclical
  • (a.) Sent to many persons or places
  • (n.) An encyclical letter, esp. one from a pope.

    Encyclopedism
  • (n.) The art of writing or compiling encyclopedias

    Encyclopedist
  • (n.) The compiler of an encyclopedia, or one who assists in such compilation

    Encyst
  • (v. t.) To inclose in a cyst.

    End
  • (n.) One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
  • (v. i.) To come to the ultimate point
  • (v. t.) To bring to an end or conclusion

    Endamage
  • (v. t.) To bring loss or damage to

    Endanger
  • (v. t.) To incur the hazard of

    Endear
  • (v. t.) To make dear or beloved.

    Endeavor
  • (n.) An exertion of physical or intellectual strength toward the attainment of an object
  • (v. i.) To exert one's self
  • (v. t.) To exert physical or intellectual strength for the attainment of

    Endemic
  • (n.) An endemic disease.

    Ending
  • (n.) Termination

    Endive
  • (n.) A composite herb (Cichorium Endivia). Its finely divided and much curled leaves, when blanched, are used for salad

    Endless
  • (a.) Infinite

    Endmost
  • (a.) Farthest

    Endocardial
  • (a.) Pertaining to the endocardium.

    Endocarditis
  • (n.) Inflammation of the endocardium.

    Endocardium
  • (n.) The membrane lining the cavities of the heart.

    Endocarp
  • (n.) The inner layer of a ripened or fructified ovary.

    Endoderm
  • (n.) The inner layer of the skin or integument of an animal.

    Endogamy
  • (n.) Marriage only within the tribe

    Endogenous
  • (a.) Increasing by internal growth and elongation at the summit, instead of externally, and having no distinction of pith, wood, and bark, as the rattan, the palm, the cornstalk

    Endolymph
  • (n.) The watery fluid contained in the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear.

    Endometrium
  • (n.) The membrane lining the inner surface of the uterus, or womb.

    Endomorph
  • (n.) A crystal of one species inclosed within one of another, as one of rutile inclosed in quartz

    Endoparasite
  • (n.) Any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc

    Endoplasm
  • (n.) The protoplasm in the interior of a cell.

    Endorse
  • (n.) A subordinary, resembling the pale, but of one fourth its width (according to some writers, one eighth)

    Endoscope
  • (n.) An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder.

    Endoskeleton
  • (n.) The bony, cartilaginous, or other internal framework of an animal, as distinguished from the exoskeleton

    Endosmosis
  • (n.) The transmission of a fluid or gas from without inward in the phenomena, or by the process, of osmose

    Endosperm
  • (n.) The albumen of a seed

    Endospore
  • (n.) The thin inner coat of certain spores.

    Endosteum
  • (n.) The layer of vascular connective tissue lining the medullary cavities of bone.

    Endothecium
  • (n.) The inner lining of an anther cell.

    Endothelium
  • (n.) The thin epithelium lining the blood vessels, lymphatics, and serous cavities.

    Endothermic
  • (a.) Designating, or pert. to, a reaction which occurs with absorption of heat

    Endow
  • (v. t.) To enrich or furnish with anything of the nature of a gift (as a quality or faculty)

    Endue
  • (v. t.) An older spelling of Endow.

    Endurable
  • (a.) Capable of being endured or borne

    Endurance
  • (n.) A state or quality of lasting or duration

    Endure
  • (v. i.) To continue in the same state without perishing
  • (v. t.) To bear with patience

    Enduring
  • (a.) Lasting

    Endwise
  • (adv.) On end

    Enema
  • (n.) An injection, or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment.

    Enemy
  • (a.) Hostile
  • (n.) One hostile to another

    Energetics
  • (n.) That branch of science which treats of the laws governing the physical or mechanical, in distinction from the vital, forces, and which comprehends the consideration and general investigation of the whole range of the forces concerned in physical phenomena

    Energize
  • (v. i.) To use strength in action
  • (v. t.) To give strength or force to

    Energy
  • (n.) Capacity for performing work.

    Enervate
  • (a.) Weakened
  • (v. t.) To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage

    Enface
  • (v. t.) To write or print (a memorandum, direction, or the like) on the face of a draft, bill, etc

    Enfeeble
  • (v. t.) To make feeble

    Enfeoff
  • (v. t.) To give a feud, or right in land, to

    Enfilade
  • (n.) A firing in the direction of the length of a trench, or a line of parapet or troops, etc
  • (v. t.) To pierce, scour, or rake with shot in the direction of the length of, as a work, or a line of troops

    Enfleurage
  • (n.) A process of extracting perfumes by exposing absorbents, as fixed oils or fats, to the exhalations of the flowers

    Enfold
  • (v. t.) To infold.

    Enforce
  • (n.) Force
  • (v. i.) To attempt by force.
  • (v. t.) To give force to

    Enfranchise
  • (v. t.) To endow with a franchise

    Engage
  • (v. i.) To be in gear, as two cogwheels working together.
  • (v. t.) To come into gear with

    Engaging
  • (a.) Tending to draw the attention or affections

    Engender
  • (n.) One who, or that which, engenders.
  • (v. i.) To assume form
  • (v. t.) To cause to exist

    Engine
  • (n.) (Pronounced, in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity
  • (v. t.) (Pronounced, in this sense, /////.) To rack

    Engird
  • (v. t.) To gird

    Engirt
  • (v. t.) To engird.

    English
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race
  • (n.) A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer.
  • (v. t.) To strike (the cue ball) in such a manner as to give it in addition to its forward motion a spinning motion, that influences its direction after impact on another ball or the cushion

    Engorge
  • (v. i.) To feed with eagerness or voracity
  • (v. t.) To gorge

    Engrailed
  • (a.) Indented with small concave curves, as the edge of a bordure, bend, or the like.

    Engrain
  • (v. t.) To color in imitation of the grain of wood

    Engrave
  • (v. t.) To cut in

    Engraving
  • (n.) An impression from an engraved plate, block of wood, or other material

    Engross
  • (v. t.) To amass.

    Engulf
  • (v. t.) To absorb or swallow up as in a gulf.

    Enhance
  • (v. i.) To be raised up
  • (v. t.) To advance

    Enigma
  • (n.) A dark, obscure, or inexplicable saying

    Enjoin
  • (v. t.) To join or unite.

    Enjoy
  • (v. i.) To take satisfaction
  • (v. t.) To have, possess, and use with satisfaction

    Enkindle
  • (v. t.) To excite

    Enlace
  • (v. t.) To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace

    Enlarge
  • (v. i.) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course
  • (v. t.) To increase the capacity of

    Enlighten
  • (v. t.) To make clear to the intellect or conscience

    Enlist
  • (v. i.) To enroll and bind one's self for military or naval service
  • (v. t.) To engage for military or naval service, the name being entered on a list or register

    Enliven
  • (v. t.) To give life, action, or motion to

    Enmesh
  • (v. t.) To catch or entangle in, or as in, meshes.

    Enmity
  • (n.) A state of opposition

    Ennead
  • (n.) The number nine or a group of nine.

    Ennoble
  • (v. t.) To make noble

    Ennui
  • (n.) A feeling of weariness and disgust

    Enormity
  • (n.) That which is enormous

    Enormous
  • (a.) Exceedingly wicked

    Enough
  • (a.) Satisfying desire
  • (adv.) Fully
  • (interj.) An exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of it is enough.
  • (n.) A sufficiency

    Enounce
  • (v. t.) To announce

    Enrage
  • (v. t.) To fill with rage

    Enrapt
  • (p. a.) Thrown into ecstasy

    Enrich
  • (v. t.) To make rich with any kind of wealth

    Enrobe
  • (v. t.) To invest or adorn with a robe

    Enroll
  • (n.) To envelop

    Enroot
  • (v. t.) To fix by the root

    Ens
  • (n.) Entity, being, or existence

    Ensanguine
  • (v. t.) To stain or cover with blood

    Ensconce
  • (v. t.) To cover or shelter, as with a sconce or fort

    Ensemble
  • (adv.) All at once
  • (n.) The whole

    Enshrine
  • (v. t.) To inclose in a shrine or chest

    Enshroud
  • (v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a shroud

    Ensiform
  • (a.) Having the form of a sword blade

    Ensign
  • (n.) A commissioned officer of the lowest grade in the navy, corresponding to the grade of second lieutenant in the army
  • (v. t.) To designate as by an ensign.

    Ensilage
  • (n.) The fodder preserved in a silo.
  • (v. t.) To preserve in a silo

    Ensile
  • (v. t.) To store (green fodder) in a silo

    Enslave
  • (v. t.) To reduce to slavery

    Ensnare
  • (v. t.) To catch in a snare.

    Ensnarl
  • (v. t.) To entangle.

    Ensoul
  • (v. t.) To indue or imbue (a body) with soul.

    Ensphere
  • (v. t.) To form into a sphere.

    Enstatite
  • (n.) A mineral of the pyroxene group, orthorhombic in crystallization

    Ensue
  • (v. i.) To follow or come afterward
  • (v. t.) To follow

    Ensure
  • (v. t.) To betroth.

    Enswathe
  • (v. t.) To swathe

    Entablature
  • (n.) The superstructure which lies horizontally upon the columns.

    Entail
  • (n.) An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.

    Entangle
  • (v. t.) To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty

    Entasis
  • (n.) A slight convex swelling of the shaft of a column.

    Entelechy
  • (n.) An actuality

    Enter
  • (v. i.) To get admission
  • (v. t.) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into)

    Enthrall
  • (v. t.) To hold in thrall

    Enthrone
  • (v. t.) To induct, as a bishop, into the powers and privileges of a vacant see.

    Enthuse
  • (v. t. & i.) To make or become enthusiastic.

    Enthusiasm
  • (n.) A state of impassioned emotion

    Enthusiast
  • (n.) One moved or actuated by enthusiasm

    Enthymeme
  • (n.) An argument consisting of only two propositions, an antecedent and consequent deduced from it

    Entice
  • (v. t.) To draw on, by exciting hope or desire

    Enticing
  • (a.) That entices

    Entire
  • (a.) Complete in all parts
  • (n.) A name originally given to a kind of beer combining qualities of different kinds of beer.

    Entitle
  • (v. t.) To attribute

    Entity
  • (n.) A real being, whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or in fact

    Entoil
  • (v. t.) To take with toils or bring into toils

    Entomb
  • (v. t.) To deposit in a tomb, as a dead body

    Entomology
  • (n.) A treatise on the science of entomology.

    Entomophagous
  • (a.) Feeding on insects

    Entomophilous
  • (a.) Fertilized by the agency of insects

    Entourage
  • (n.) Surroundings

    Entrails
  • (n. pl.) The internal parts

    Entrain
  • (v. i.) To go aboard a railway train
  • (v. t.) To draw along as a current does

    Entrance
  • (n.) Liberty, power, or permission to enter
  • (v. t.) To put into an ecstasy

    Entrant
  • (n.) An applicant for admission.

    Entrap
  • (v. t.) To catch in a trap

    Entreat
  • (n.) Entreaty.
  • (v. i.) To make an earnest petition or request.
  • (v. t.) To beseech or supplicate successfully

    Entremets
  • (n. sing. & pl.) Any small entertainment between two greater ones.

    Entrepreneur
  • (n.) One who creates a product on his own account

    Entresol
  • (n.) A low story between two higher ones, usually between the ground floor and the first story

    Entropy
  • (n.) A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remains constant, but when heat enters or leaves the body the quantity increases or diminishes

    Entry
  • (n.) A putting upon record in proper form and order.

    Entwine
  • (v. i.) To be twisted or twined.
  • (v. t.) To twine, twist, or wreathe together or round.

    Entwist
  • (v. t.) To twist or wreathe round

    Enucleate
  • (v. t.) To bring or peel out, as a kernel from its enveloping husks its enveloping husks or shell

    Enumerate
  • (v. t.) To count

    Enunciate
  • (v. i.) To utter words or syllables articulately.
  • (v. t.) To make a formal statement of

    Enuresis
  • (n.) An involuntary discharge of urine

    Envelop
  • (n.) A curve or surface which is tangent to each member of a system of curves or surfaces, the form and position of the members of the system being allowed to vary according to some continuous law
  • (v. t.) To put a covering about

    Envenom
  • (v. t.) To taint or impregnate with bitterness, malice, or hatred

    Enviable
  • (a.) Fitted to excite envy

    Envious
  • (a.) Excessively careful

    Environ
  • (adv.) About
  • (v. t.) To surround

    Envisage
  • (v. t.) To look in the face of

    Envoy
  • (n.) An explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay, or book

    Envy
  • (n.) An object of envious notice or feeling.
  • (v. i.) To be filled with envious feelings
  • (v. t.) To do harm to

    Enwind
  • (v. t.) To wind about

    Enwomb
  • (v. t.) To bury, as it were in a womb

    Enwrap
  • (v. t.) To envelop.

    Enzootic
  • (a.) Afflicting animals

    Enzyme
  • (n.) An unorganized or unformed ferment, in distinction from an organized or living ferment

    Eocene
  • (a.) Pertaining to the first in time of the three subdivisions into which the Tertiary formation is divided by geologists, and alluding to the approximation in its life to that of the present era
  • (n.) The Eocene formation.

    Eolian
  • (a.) Aeolian.

    Eosin
  • (n.) A yellow or brownish red dyestuff obtained by the action of bromine on fluorescein, and named from the fine rose-red which it imparts to silk

    Epact
  • (n.) The moon's age at the beginning of the calendar year, or the number of days by which the last new moon has preceded the beginning of the year

    Epanalepsis
  • (n.) A figure by which the same word or clause is repeated after intervening matter.

    Epanorthosis
  • (n.) A figure by which a speaker recalls a word or words, in order to substitute something else stronger or more significant

    Eparch
  • (n.) In ancient Greece, the governor or perfect of a province

    Epenthesis
  • (n.) The insertion of a letter or a sound in the body of a word

    Epergne
  • (n.) A centerpiece for table decoration, usually consisting of several dishes or receptacles of different sizes grouped together in an ornamental design

    Epexegesis
  • (n.) A full or additional explanation

    Ephemera
  • (n.) A fever of one day's continuance only.

    Ephemeris
  • (n.) A collective name for reviews, magazines, and all kinds of periodical literature.

    Ephemeron
  • (n.) One of the ephemeral flies.

    Ephod
  • (n.) A part of the sacerdotal habit among Jews, being a covering for the back and breast, held together on the shoulders by two clasps or brooches of onyx stones set in gold, and fastened by a girdle of the same stuff as the ephod

    Ephor
  • (n.) A magistrate

    Epiblast
  • (n.) The outer layer of the blastoderm

    Epiboly
  • (n.) Epibolic invagination.

    Epic
  • (a.) Narrated in a grand style
  • (n.) An epic or heroic poem.

    Epidemic
  • (n.) An epidemic disease.

    Epidemiology
  • (n.) That branch of science which treats of epidemics.

    Epidermis
  • (v. t.) The outer, nonsensitive layer of the skin

    Epididymis
  • (n.) An oblong vermiform mass on the dorsal side of the testicle, composed of numerous convolutions of the excretory duct of that organ

    Epidote
  • (n.) A mineral, commonly of a yellowish green (pistachio) color, occurring granular, massive, columnar, and in monoclinic crystals

    Epigastrium
  • (n.) The upper part of the abdomen.

    Epigeal
  • (a.) Epigaeous.

    Epigene
  • (a.) Foreign

    Epiglottis
  • (n.) A cartilaginous lidlike appendage which closes the glottis while food or drink is passing while food or drink is passing through the pharynx

    Epigram
  • (n.) An effusion of wit

    Epigraph
  • (n.) A citation from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions

    Epigynous
  • (a.) Adnate to the surface of the ovary, so as to be apparently inserted upon the top of it

    Epilepsy
  • (n.) The "falling sickness," so called because the patient falls suddenly to the ground

    Epileptiform
  • (a.) Resembling epilepsy.

    Epileptoid
  • (a.) Resembling epilepsy

    Epilogue
  • (n.) A speech or short poem addressed to the spectators and recited by one of the actors, after the conclusion of the play

    Epineurium
  • (n.) The connective tissue framework and sheath of a nerve which bind together the nerve bundles, each of which has its own special sheath, or perineurium

    Epiphany
  • (n.) A church festival celebrated on the 6th of January, the twelfth day after Christmas, in commemoration of the visit of the Magi of the East to Bethlehem, to see and worship the child Jesus

    Epiphysis
  • (n.) The cerebral epiphysis, or pineal gland.

    Epiphyte
  • (n.) An air plant which grows on other plants, but does not derive its nourishment from them.

    Episcopacy
  • (n.) Government of the church by bishops

    Episcopal
  • (a.) Belonging to, or vested in, bishops

    Episcopate
  • (n.) A bishopric
  • (v. i.) To act as a bishop

    Episode
  • (n.) A separate incident, story, or action, introduced for the purpose of giving a greater variety to the events related

    Epistaxis
  • (n.) Bleeding at the nose.

    Epistemology
  • (n.) The theory or science of the method or grounds of knowledge.

    Epistle
  • (n.) A writing directed or sent to a person or persons
  • (v. t.) To write

    Epistolary
  • (a.) Contained in letters

    Epistrophe
  • (n.) A figure in which successive clauses end with the same word or affirmation

    Epistyle
  • (n.) A massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar

    Epitaph
  • (n.) A brief writing formed as if to be inscribed on a monument, as that concerning Alexander: "Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis
  • (v. i.) To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph.
  • (v. t.) To commemorate by an epitaph.

    Epitasis
  • (n.) That part which embraces the main action of a play, poem, and the like, and leads on to the catastrophe

    Epithalamium
  • (n.) A nuptial song, or poem in honor of the bride and bridegroom.

    Epithelial
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to epithelium

    Epithelium
  • (n.) The superficial layer of cells lining the alimentary canal and all its appendages, all glands and their ducts, blood vessels and lymphatics, serous cavities, etc

    Epithet
  • (n.) An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing
  • (v. t.) To describe by an epithet.

    Epitome
  • (n.) A compact or condensed representation of anything.

    Epitomize
  • (v. t.) To diminish, as by cutting off something

    Epizoon
  • (n.) One of the artificial group of invertebrates of various kinds, which live parasitically upon the exterior of other animals

    Epizootic
  • (a.) Containing fossil remains
  • (n.) An epizootic disease

    Epoch
  • (n.) A division of time characterized by the prevalence of similar conditions of the earth

    Epode
  • (n.) A species of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one

    Eponymous
  • (a.) Relating to an eponym

    Epos
  • (n.) An epic.

    Equable
  • (a.) Equal and uniform

    Equal
  • (a.) Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.
  • (n.) One not inferior or superior to another
  • (v. t.) To be or become equal to

    Equanimity
  • (n.) Evenness of mind

    Equate
  • (v. t.) To make equal

    Equation
  • (n.) A making equal

    Equator
  • (n.) The great circle of the celestial sphere, coincident with the plane of the earth's equator

    Equerry
  • (n.) A large stable or lodge for horses.

    Equestrian
  • (a.) Being or riding on horseback
  • (n.) One who rides on horseback

    Equestrienne
  • (n.) A woman skilled in equestrianism

    Equiangular
  • (a.) Having equal angles

    Equidistant
  • (a.) Being at an equal distance from the same point or thing.

    Equilateral
  • (a.) Having all the sides equal
  • (n.) A side exactly corresponding, or equal, to others

    Equilibrate
  • (v. t.) To balance two scales, sides, or ends

    Equilibrist
  • (n.) One who balances himself in unnatural positions and hazardous movements

    Equilibrium
  • (n.) A balancing of the mind between motives or reasons, with consequent indecision and doubt

    Equine
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a horse.

    Equinoctial
  • (a.) Pertaining to an equinox, or the equinoxes, or to the time of equal day and night
  • (n.) The equinoctial line.

    Equinox
  • (n.) Equinoctial wind or storm.

    Equip
  • (v. t.) To dress up

    Equitable
  • (a.) Possessing or exhibiting equity

    Equitation
  • (n.) A riding, or the act of riding, on horseback

    Equites
  • (n. pl) An order of knights holding a middle place between the senate and the commonalty

    Equity
  • (n.) An equitable claim

    Equivalence
  • (n.) Equal power or force
  • (v. t.) To be equivalent or equal to

    Equivalent
  • (a.) Contemporaneous in origin
  • (n.) A combining unit, whether an atom, a radical, or a molecule
  • (v. t.) To make the equivalent to

    Equivocal
  • (a.) (Literally, called equally one thing or the other
  • (n.) A word or expression capable of different meanings

    Equivocate
  • (a.) To use words of equivocal or doubtful signification
  • (v. t.) To render equivocal or ambiguous.

    Equivocation
  • (n.) The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, with a purpose to mislead


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