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- EMPTIONThe act of buying; purchase.
- EMULATETo attempt to equal or be the same as.
- EMULATIONThe endeavor or desire to equal or excel someone else in qualities or actions.
- EMULATIVEHaving a tendency to emulate others; imitative.
- EMULGETo milk out; to drain.
- EMULGENTOf a straining or purifying process.
- EMULSIONA stable suspension of small droplets of one liquid in another with which it is immiscible.
- EMUNCTORYPertaining to the elimination of waste from the body.
- ENACTTo make (a bill) into law.
- ENATEA relative whose relation is traced only through female members of the family.
- ENCLAVEA political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another.
- ENCRUSTTo cover with a hard crust.
- ENDEAVORA sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal; assiduous or persistent activity.
- ENDIVEA leafy salad vegetable, Cichorium endivia, which is often confused with common chicory (Cichorium intybus).
- ENDORSETo express support or approval, especially officially or publicly; to give an endorsement.
- ENDURETo continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist.
- ENEMYSomeone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.
- ENERVATETo reduce strength or energy; debilitate.
- ENFORCETo keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force.
- ENMITYThe quality of being an enemy; a hostile or unfriendly disposition.
- ENNUIA gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom; depression.
- ENORMITYDeviation from what is normal or standard; irregularity, abnormality.
- ENORMOUSDeviating from the norm; unusual, extraordinary.
- ENSIFORMshaped like a sword blade
- ENSUETo follow (a leader, inclination etc.).
- ENTAILTo imply, require, or invoke.
- ENTERTo go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
- ENTERTAINTo amuse (someone); to engage the attention of agreeably.
- ENTIREWhole; complete.
- ENTIRETYThe whole; the complete or amount.
- ENTITLETo give a title to.
- ENTITYThat which has a distinct existence as an individual unit, often used for organizations which have no physical form.
- ENTRAILSplural of entrail The internal organs of an animal, especially the intestines.
- ENTREATSenses relating to asking or pleading. To ask earnestly or beg for (something, such as a benefit or favour).
- ENTRYThe act of entering.
- ENUCLEATETo remove the nucleus from (a cell).
- ENUMERATETo specify each member of a sequence individually in incrementing order.
- ENUNCIATETo make a definite or systematic statement of.
- ENVIOUSFeeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging.
- EPICEDIUMAn epicede: a dirge, lament, elegy.
- EPICURISMSynonym of Epicureanism.
- EPIDEMIOLOGYThe branch of science dealing with the spread and control of diseases, viruses, concepts etc. throughout populations or systems.
- EPIDERMALOf or pertaining to the epidermis.
- EPIGASTRICOf or relating to the epigastrium.
- EPILATETo remove hair from the skin in such a way that removes or destroys the root, especially by plucking it out.
- EPISTOMEa mouth-covering lobe or ridge in bryozoans and phoronids
- EPITHELIUMA membranous tissue composed of one or more layers of cells which forms the covering of most internal and external surfaces of the body and its organs: internally including the lin
- EPITHETONAn epithet, an attribute of a person or thing.
- EPIZOICGrowing on the surface of an animal host, as: In a nonparasitic way, using an animal's skin as a microhabitat. In a parasitic way, as an external parasite.
- EPOCHAObsolete form of epoch.
- EPULATIONA feast or banquet.
- EPULISA hard tumour or tumorous growth developed from the gums.
- EQUALThe same in one or more respects.
- EQUALITYThe fact of being equal.
- EQUANIMITYThe state of being calm, stable and composed, especially under stress.
- EQUANIMOUSCalm and composed; of stable disposition.
- EQUATETo consider equal or equivalent (to or with).
- EQUATIONThe act or process of equating two or more things, or the state of those things being equal (that is, identical).
- EQUATORAn imaginary great circle around Earth, equidistant from the two poles, and dividing earth's surface into the northern and southern hemispheres.
- EQUESA member of the equestrian order (Latin: ordo equester), the lower of the two aristocratic classes of Ancient Rome, ranking below the patricians.
- EQUESTRIANOf horseback riding or horseback riders.
- EQUIDAny animal of the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine (horse, zebra, ass, mule, etc.).
- EQUILIBRATETo balance, or bring into equilibrium.
- EQUINEOf, relating to, or reminiscent of horses.
- EQUINOCTIALOf or relating to the spring or autumnal equinox.
- EQUIPAGEEquipment or supplies, especially military ones.
- EQUIPARATETo perform equiparation; to transfer attributes from one object or concept to another.
- EQUISETUMA horsetail (plant of genus Equisetum)
- EQUITYFairness, impartiality, or justice as determined in light of "natural law" or "natural right".
- EQUIVALENCYAn equivalent thing.
- EQUIVALENTSimilar or identical in value, meaning or effect; virtually equal.
- EQUIVOCALHaving two or more equally applicable meanings; capable of double or multiple interpretation.
- EQUIVOCATETo speak using double meaning; to speak ambiguously, unclearly or doubtfully, with intent to deceive; to vacillate in one's answers, responding with equivoques.
- ERADICATETo pull up by the roots.
- ERADICATIONThe act of plucking up by the roots; an uprooting or rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.
- ERASETo remove (markings or information).
- ERASIONThe act of erasing; a rubbing out or obliteration; erasure.
- ERASUREThe action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
- ERBIUMA chemical element (symbol Er) with atomic number 68: a silvery-white metal, in nature always found in combination with other elements. An atom of this element.
- ERECTUpright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
- ERECTILECapable of being raised to an upright position.
- ERECTIONThe act of building or putting up or together of something.
- ERGOConsequently, therefore, or thus.
- ERINACEOUSOf, pertaining to, or resembling a hedgehog.
- ERODETo wear away by abrasion, corrosion, or chemical reaction.
- EROSIONThe result of having been worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff face.
- ERRATICUnsteady, random; prone to unexpected changes; not consistent.
- ERRATUMA published notice reporting an error belatedly discovered in a previous publication.
- ERRONEOUSContaining an error; inaccurate.
- ERUBESCENTRed; reddish.
- ERUCIFORMShaped like a caterpillar; the term is loosely applied to some larvae with little resemblance to typical caterpillars.
- ERUCTTo burp or belch.
- ERUCTATETo belch, to burp.
- ERUCTATIONThe act of belching, of expelling gas from the stomach through the mouth.
- ERUDITELearned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.
- ERUDITIONProfound knowledge acquired from learning and scholarship.
- ERUMPENTThat emerges, or bursts through; breaking forth.
- ERUPTTo eject something violently (such as lava or water, as from a volcano or geyser).
- ERUPTIONA violent ejection, such as the spurting out of lava from a volcano.
- ERVILbitter vetch, blister vetch (Vicia ervilia).