| elitism | (noun) the attitude that society should be governed by an elite group of individuals | - |
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| elitist | (noun) someone who believes in rule by an elite group | - |
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| elixir | (noun) a substance believed to cure all ills | - |
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| (noun) a sweet flavored liquid (usually containing a small amount of alcohol) used in compounding medicines to be taken by mouth in order to mask an unpleasant taste | - |
| (noun) hypothetical substance that the alchemists believed to be capable of changing base metals into gold | Synonyms: philosopher's stone, philosophers' stone |
| elk | (noun) large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America | Synonyms: Alces alces, moose |
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| (noun) common deer of temperate Europe and Asia | Synonyms: American elk, Cervus elaphus, red deer, wapiti |
| (noun) large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male | Synonyms: American elk, Cervus elaphus canadensis, wapiti |
| elkhound | (noun) breed of compact medium-sized dog with a heavy grey coat developed in Norway for hunting elk | Synonyms: Norwegian elkhound |
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| elkwood | (noun) small deciduous tree of eastern North America having creamy white flowers and large leaves in formations like umbrellas at the ends of branches | Synonyms: elk-wood, Magnolia tripetala, umbrella magnolia, umbrella tree |
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| ell | (noun) an extension at the end and at right angles to the main building | - |
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| ellipse | (noun) a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it | Synonyms: oval |
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| ellipsis | (noun) omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences | Synonyms: eclipsis |
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| ellipsoid | (noun) a surface whose plane sections are all ellipses or circles | - |
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| ellipticity | (noun) the property possessed by a round shape that is flattened at the poles | Synonyms: oblateness |
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| ellwand | (noun) a rod an ell long, used for official measurement. | Synonyms: ell-wand |
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| elm | (noun) any of various trees of the genus Ulmus: important timber or shade trees | Synonyms: elm tree |
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| (noun) hard tough wood of an elm tree; used for e.g. implements and furniture | Synonyms: elmwood |
| elmwood | (noun) hard tough wood of an elm tree; used for e.g. implements and furniture | Synonyms: elm |
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| elocution | (noun) an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture | - |
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| elocutionist | (noun) a public speaker trained in voice production and gesture and delivery | - |
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| elongation | (noun) the act of lengthening something | - |
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| (noun) an addition to the length of something | Synonyms: extension |
| (noun) the quality of being elongated | - |
| elopement | (noun) the act of running away with a lover (usually to get married) | - |
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| eloquence | (noun) powerful and effective language | Synonyms: fluency, smoothness |
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| elsholtzia | (noun) any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Elsholtzia having blue or purple flowers in one-sided spikes | - |
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| eluate | (noun) a liquid solution that results from elution | - |
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| elucidation | (noun) an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding | Synonyms: clarification, illumination |
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| (noun) an act of explaining that serves to clear up and cast light on | - |
| elucubration | (noun) a written work produced by elucubrating. | - |
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| eluding | (noun) the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning) | Synonyms: elusion, slip |
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| elusion | (noun) the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning) | Synonyms: eluding, slip |
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| elusiveness | (noun) the quality of being difficult to grasp or pin down | - |
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| elution | (noun) the process of extracting one material from another by washing with a solvent to remove adsorbed material from an adsorbent (as in washing of loaded ion-exchange resins to remove captured ions); used to obtain uranium ions | - |
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| elver | (noun) young eel | - |
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| (noun) young eel; may be sauteed or batter-fried | - |
| elves | (noun) an acronym for emissions of light and very low frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources; extremely bright extremely short (less than a msec) electrical flashes forming a huge ring (up to 400 km diameter) in the ionosphere | - |
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| elytron | (noun) either of the horny front wings in beetles and some other insects which cover and protect the functional hind wings | Synonyms: wing case |
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