| epidemic | (adjective) (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously | - |
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| epidemiologic | (adjective) of or relating to epidemiology | Synonyms: epidemiological |
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| epidermic | (adjective) of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula | Synonyms: cuticular, dermal, epidermal |
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| epigastric | (adjective) lying on or over the stomach | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the anterior walls of the abdomen | - |
| epigrammatic | (adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: aphoristic, apothegmatic |
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| epileptic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of epilepsy | - |
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| epilithic | (adjective) growing on stone | - |
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| epimorphic | (adjective) characterized by incomplete metamorphosis; having the same number of body segments in successive stages | - |
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| epiphytic | (adjective) of or relating to epiphytes | - |
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| epiphytotic | (adjective) (of plants) epidemic among plants of a single kind especially over a wide area | - |
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| episodic | (adjective) of writing or narration; divided into or composed of episodes | - |
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| (adjective) limited in duration to a single episode | - |
| (adjective) occurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals | Synonyms: occasional |
| epistemic | (adjective) of or relating to epistemology | Synonyms: epistemological |
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| epizoic | (adjective) living or growing on the exterior surface of an animal usually as a parasite | - |
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| epizootic | (adjective) (of animals) epidemic among animals of a single kind within a particular region | - |
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| eponymic | (adjective) being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym | Synonyms: eponymous |
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| eremitic | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic living | Synonyms: eremitical |
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| (adjective) characterized by ascetic solitude | Synonyms: anchoritic, eremitical, hermitic, hermitical |
| ergodic | (adjective) positive recurrent aperiodic state of stochastic systems; tending in probability to a limiting form that is independent of the initial conditions | - |
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| ergonomic | (adjective) of or relating to ergonomics | - |
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| ergotic | (adjective) relating to or produced by ergot | - |
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| ergotropic | (adjective) of or relating to ergotropism | - |
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| eristic | (adjective) given to disputation for its own sake and often employing specious arguments | Synonyms: eristical |
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| erotic | (adjective) giving sexual pleasure; sexually arousing | Synonyms: titillating |
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| erratic | (adjective) liable to sudden unpredictable change | Synonyms: fickle, mercurial, quicksilver |
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| (adjective) likely to perform unpredictably | Synonyms: temperamental |
| (adjective) having no fixed course | Synonyms: planetary, wandering |
| erythropoietic | (adjective) of or relating to the formation of red blood cells | - |
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| esoteric | (adjective) confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle | - |
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| esthetic | (adjective) concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste | Synonyms: aesthetic, aesthetical, esthetical |
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| (adjective) relating to or dealing with the subject of aesthetics | Synonyms: aesthetic |
| (adjective) aesthetically pleasing | Synonyms: aesthetic, artistic |
| estrogenic | (adjective) relating to or caused by estrogen | - |
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| ethnic | (adjective) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam | Synonyms: heathen, heathenish, pagan |
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| (adjective) denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people | Synonyms: cultural, ethnical |
| ethnocentric | (adjective) centered on a specific ethnic group, usually one's own | - |
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| ethnographic | (adjective) of or relating to ethnography | Synonyms: ethnographical |
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| ethnologic | (adjective) of or relating to ethnology | Synonyms: ethnological |
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| etiologic | (adjective) relating to the etiology of a disease | Synonyms: aetiologic, aetiological, etiological |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical study of causation | Synonyms: aetiologic, aetiological, etiological |
| eucaryotic | (adjective) having cells with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei | Synonyms: eukaryotic |
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| eudaemonic | (adjective) producing happiness and well-being | Synonyms: eudemonic |
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| eudemonic | (adjective) producing happiness and well-being | Synonyms: eudaemonic |
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| eugenic | (adjective) pertaining to or causing improvement in the offspring produced | - |
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| eukaryotic | (adjective) having cells with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei | Synonyms: eucaryotic |
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| eulogistic | (adjective) formally expressing praise | Synonyms: encomiastic, panegyric, panegyrical |
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| euphemistic | (adjective) of or the nature of euphemism | - |
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| euphonic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by euphony | Synonyms: euphonical |
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| euphoric | (adjective) exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation | - |
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| eupneic | (adjective) passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: breathing, eupnoeic |
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| eupnoeic | (adjective) passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: breathing, eupneic |
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| eutrophic | (adjective) (ecology) of a lake or other body of water rich in nutrients and subject to eutrophication | - |
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| evangelistic | (adjective) relating to or promoting the preaching and dissemination of the Christian gospel | - |
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| (adjective) marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause | Synonyms: evangelical |
| exegetic | (adjective) relating to exegesis | Synonyms: exegetical |
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| exergonic | (adjective) (biochemistry) of a process accompanied by the release of energy | - |
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| exhibitionistic | (adjective) compulsively attracting attention to yourself especially by public exposure or exaggerated behavior | - |
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| exilic | (adjective) of or relating to a period of exile (especially the exile of the Jews known as the Babylonian Captivity) | - |
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| exocentric | (adjective) not fulfilling the same grammatical role of any of its constituents | - |
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| exodontic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving exodontics | - |
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| exoergic | (adjective) (of a nuclear reaction) occurring with evolution or releasing of energy | Synonyms: energy-releasing |
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| exogamic | (adjective) pertaining to or characterized by the custom of marrying only outside the limits of a clan or tribe | Synonyms: exogamous |
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| (adjective) characterized by or fit for fertilization by a flower that is not closely related | Synonyms: exogamous |
| exogenic | (adjective) derived or originating externally | Synonyms: exogenous |
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| exoteric | (adjective) suitable for the general public | - |
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| exothermic | (adjective) (of a chemical reaction or compound) occurring or formed with the liberation of heat | Synonyms: exothermal, heat-releasing |
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| exotic | (adjective) being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world | Synonyms: alien |
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| (adjective) strikingly strange or unusual | - |
| expressionistic | (adjective) of or relating to expressionism | Synonyms: expressionist |
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| extragalactic | (adjective) outside or beyond a galaxy | - |
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| extralinguistic | (adjective) not included within the realm of language | - |
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| extrasystolic | (adjective) of or relating to or happening during an extrasystole | - |
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| extrinsic | (adjective) not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside | - |
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| extropic | (adjective) of or relating to extropy | - |
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| fanatic | (adjective) marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea | Synonyms: fanatical, overzealous, rabid |
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| fantastic | (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: grand, howling, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
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| (adjective) extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance | - |
| (adjective) ludicrously odd | Synonyms: antic, fantastical, grotesque |
| (adjective) existing in fancy only | Synonyms: fantastical |
| (adjective) fanciful and unrealistic; foolish | Synonyms: wild |
| fascistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of fascism | Synonyms: fascist |
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| fatalistic | (adjective) of or relating to fatalism | Synonyms: fatalist |
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| ferric | (adjective) of or relating to or containing iron | Synonyms: ferrous |
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| ferromagnetic | (adjective) relating to or demonstrating ferromagnetism | - |
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| feudalistic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of feudalism | Synonyms: feudal |
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| fiberoptic | (adjective) of or relating to fiber optics | Synonyms: fiber-optic, fibre-optic, fibreoptic |
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| fibreoptic | (adjective) of or relating to fiber optics | Synonyms: fiber-optic, fiberoptic, fibre-optic |
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| fibrocalcific | (adjective) involving or resulting from calcification of fibrous tissue | - |
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| forensic | (adjective) used or applied in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law | - |
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| (adjective) of, relating to, or used in public debate or argument | - |
| formalistic | (adjective) concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art) | Synonyms: formalised, formalized |
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| formic | (adjective) of or containing or derived from formic acid | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or derived from ants | - |
| formulaic | (adjective) characterized by or in accordance with some formula | - |
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| frantic | (adjective) excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion | Synonyms: frenetic, frenzied, phrenetic |
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| (adjective) marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion | Synonyms: delirious, excited, mad, unrestrained |
| frenetic | (adjective) excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion | Synonyms: frantic, frenzied, phrenetic |
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| frigorific | (adjective) causing cold; cooling or chilling | - |
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| fundamentalistic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Protestant fundamentalism or its adherents | Synonyms: fundamentalist |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or tending toward ideological fundamentalism | Synonyms: fundamentalist |
| futuristic | (adjective) of or relating to futurism | Synonyms: futurist |
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| galactic | (adjective) of or relating to a galaxy (especially our galaxy the Milky Way) | - |
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| (adjective) inconceivably large | Synonyms: astronomic, astronomical |
| galvanic | (adjective) pertaining to or producing electric current by chemical action | Synonyms: voltaic |
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| (adjective) affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling | Synonyms: electric, galvanising, galvanizing |
| gastric | (adjective) relating to or involving the stomach | Synonyms: stomachal, stomachic |
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| gastronomic | (adjective) of or relating to gastronomy | Synonyms: gastronomical |
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| genealogic | (adjective) of or relating to genealogy | Synonyms: genealogical |
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| generic | (adjective) relating to or common to or descriptive of all members of a genus | - |
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| (adjective) applicable to an entire class or group | - |
| (adjective) (of drugs) not protected by trademark | - |
| genetic | (adjective) of or relating to the science of genetics | Synonyms: genetical |
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| (adjective) pertaining to or referring to origin | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or produced by or being a gene | Synonyms: genetical, genic |
| (adjective) occurring among members of a family usually by heredity | Synonyms: familial, hereditary, inherited, transmissible, transmitted |
| genic | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by or being a gene | Synonyms: genetic, genetical |
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| genotypic | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting a genotype | Synonyms: genotypical |
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| geocentric | (adjective) having the earth as the center | - |
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| geodesic | (adjective) of or relating to or determined by geodesy | Synonyms: geodesical, geodetic |
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| geodetic | (adjective) of or relating to or determined by geodesy | Synonyms: geodesic, geodesical |
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| geographic | (adjective) determined by geography | Synonyms: geographical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the science of geography | Synonyms: geographical |
| geologic | (adjective) of or relating to or based on geology | Synonyms: geological |
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| geometric | (adjective) of or relating to or determined by geometry | Synonyms: geometrical |
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| (adjective) characterized by simple geometric forms in design and decoration | Synonyms: geometrical |
| geomorphologic | (adjective) pertaining to geological structure | Synonyms: geomorphological, morphologic, morphological, structural |
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| geophytic | (adjective) of or relating to geophytes | - |
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| geostrategic | (adjective) of or relating to geostrategy | - |
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