| eulogistic | (adjective) formally expressing praise | Synonyms: encomiastic, panegyric, panegyrical |
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| eulogium | (noun) a formal expression of praise for someone who has died recently | Synonyms: eulogy |
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| eulogize | (verb) praise formally and eloquently | Synonyms: eulogise |
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| eulogy | (noun) a formal expression of praise for someone who has died recently | Synonyms: eulogium |
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| (noun) a formal expression of praise | Synonyms: encomium, paean, panegyric, pean |
| eunuch | (noun) a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction | Synonyms: castrate |
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| eunuchoidism | (noun) the state of being a eunuch (either because of lacking testicles or because they failed to develop) | Synonyms: male hypogonadism |
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| euphemise | (verb) refer to something with a euphemism | Synonyms: euphemize |
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| euphemism | (noun) an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh | - |
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| euphemistic | (adjective) of or the nature of euphemism | - |
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| euphemistically | (adverb) in a euphemistic manner | - |
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| euphemize | (verb) refer to something with a euphemism | Synonyms: euphemise |
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| euphonic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by euphony | Synonyms: euphonical |
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| euphonical | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by euphony | Synonyms: euphonic |
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| euphonious | (adjective) having a pleasant sound | Synonyms: euphonous |
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| (adjective) (of speech or dialect) pleasing in sound; not harsh or strident | - |
| euphonium | (noun) a bass horn (brass wind instrument) that is the tenor of the tuba family | - |
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| euphonous | (adjective) having a pleasant sound | Synonyms: euphonious |
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| euphony | (noun) any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds | Synonyms: music |
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| euphorbium | (noun) an acrid brown gum resin now used mainly in veterinary medicine | Synonyms: gum eurphorbium |
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| euphoria | (noun) a feeling of great (usually exaggerated) elation | Synonyms: euphory |
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| euphoriant | (adjective) tending to produce euphoria | - |
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| (noun) a psychoactive drug that tends to produce elation and euphoria | - |
| euphoric | (adjective) exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation | - |
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| euphory | (noun) a feeling of great (usually exaggerated) elation | Synonyms: euphoria |
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| euphuism | (noun) an elegant style of prose of the Elizabethan period; characterized by balance and antithesis and alliteration and extended similes with and allusions to nature and mythology | - |
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| (noun) any artificially elegant style of language | - |
| eupnea | (noun) normal relaxed breathing | Synonyms: eupnoea |
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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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| eupnoea | (noun) normal relaxed breathing | Synonyms: eupnea |
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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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| eurhythmics | (noun) the interpretation in harmonious bodily movements of the rhythm of musical compositions; used to teach musical understanding | Synonyms: eurhythmy, eurythmics, eurythmy |
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| eurhythmy | (noun) the interpretation in harmonious bodily movements of the rhythm of musical compositions; used to teach musical understanding | Synonyms: eurhythmics, eurythmics, eurythmy |
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| euro | (noun) the basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999); in 2002 twelve European nations (Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Austria, Finland) adopted the euro as their basic unit of money and abandoned their traditional currencies | - |
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| euronithopod | (noun) widespread group including duck-billed dinosaurs and their early relatives (hadrosaurs, trachodon and iguanodon) | Synonyms: Euronithopoda, Ornithopoda, suborder Euronithopoda, suborder Ornithopoda |
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| europhilia | (noun) admiration for Europe, Europeans, or the European Union. | - |
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| europium | (noun) a bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group | Synonyms: atomic number 63, Eu |
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| eurypterid | (noun) large extinct scorpion-like arthropod considered related to horseshoe crabs | - |
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| eurythmics | (noun) the interpretation in harmonious bodily movements of the rhythm of musical compositions; used to teach musical understanding | Synonyms: eurhythmics, eurhythmy, eurythmy |
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| eurythmy | (noun) the interpretation in harmonious bodily movements of the rhythm of musical compositions; used to teach musical understanding | Synonyms: eurhythmics, eurhythmy, eurythmics |
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| eusporangiate | (adjective) (of ferns) having sporangia that arise from a group of epidermal cells | - |
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| eusporangium | (noun) a sporangium that arises from a group of epidermal cells | - |
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| eutectic | (noun) a mixture of substances having a minimum melting point | - |
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| euthanasia | (noun) the act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness) | Synonyms: mercy killing |
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| euthanatise | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatize, euthanise, euthanize, mercy kill |
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| euthanatize | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatise, euthanise, euthanize, mercy kill |
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| euthanise | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatise, euthanatize, euthanize, mercy kill |
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| euthanize | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatise, euthanatize, euthanise, mercy kill |
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| euthenics | (noun) the study of methods of improving human well-being and efficient functioning by improving environmental conditions | - |
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| eutherian | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the subclass Eutheria | - |
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| (noun) mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials | Synonyms: eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal |
| eutrophic | (adjective) (ecology) of a lake or other body of water rich in nutrients and subject to eutrophication | - |
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| eutrophication | (noun) excessive nutrients in a lake or other body of water, usually caused by runoff of nutrients (animal waste, fertilizers, sewage) from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life; the decomposition of the plants depletes the supply of oxygen, leading to the death of animal life | - |
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| fauteuil | (noun) an upholstered armchair | - |
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| feud | (noun) a bitter quarrel between two parties | - |
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| (verb) carry out a feud | - |
| feudal | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of feudalism | Synonyms: feudalistic |
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| feudalism | (noun) the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th century; vassals were protected by lords who they had to serve in war | Synonyms: feudal system |
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| feudalistic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of feudalism | Synonyms: feudal |
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| feudalize | (verb) bring (a country or people) under feudalism | - |
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| feudally | (adverb) in a feudal manner | - |
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| feudatory | (adjective) of or pertaining to the relation of a feudal vassal to his lord | - |
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| (adjective) owing feudal allegiance to or being subject to a sovereign | - |
| (noun) a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord | Synonyms: liege, liege subject, liegeman, vassal |
| frotteur | (noun) someone who masturbates by rubbing against another person (as in a crowd) | - |
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| gluteus | (noun) any one of three large skeletal muscles that form the buttock and move the thigh | Synonyms: glute, gluteal muscle, gluteus muscle |
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| grandeur | (noun) the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand | Synonyms: brilliance, grandness, magnificence, splendor, splendour |
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| (noun) the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct | Synonyms: magnanimousness, nobility, nobleness |
| hauteur | (noun) overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors | Synonyms: arrogance, haughtiness, high-handedness, lordliness |
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| hereunder | (adverb) in a subsequent part of this document or statement or matter etc. | Synonyms: hereafter, hereinafter |
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| (adverb) under the terms of this agreement | - |
| hereupon | (adverb) immediately after this | - |
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| hermeneutic | (adjective) interpretive or explanatory | - |
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| hermeneutics | (noun) the branch of theology that deals with principles of exegesis | - |
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| heulandite | (noun) a group of minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous aluminum silicate of sodium and calcium | - |
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| heuristic | (adjective) of or relating to or using a general formulation that serves to guide investigation | - |
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| (noun) a commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem | Synonyms: heuristic program, heuristic rule |
| hypozeugma | (noun) use of a series of subjects with a single predicate | - |
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| hypozeuxis | (noun) use of a series of parallel clauses (as in `I came, I saw, I conquered') | - |
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| ichneumon | (noun) northern African mongoose; in ancient times thought to devour crocodile eggs | Synonyms: Herpestes ichneumon |
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| ileum | (noun) the part of the small intestine between the jejunum and the cecum | - |
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| ileus | (noun) blockage of the intestine (especially the ileum) that prevents the contents of the intestine from passing to the lower bowel | Synonyms: intestinal obstruction |
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| immunotherapeutic | (adjective) of or relating to immunotherapy | - |
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| interleukin | (noun) any of several lymphokines that promote macrophages and killer T cells and B cells and other components of the immune system | - |
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| isoleucine | (noun) an essential amino acid found in proteins; isomeric with leucine | - |
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| jongleur | (noun) a singer of folk songs | Synonyms: folk singer, minstrel, poet-singer, troubadour |
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| keurboom | (noun) tree with odd-pinnate leaves and racemes of fragrant pink to purple flowers | Synonyms: Virgilia capensis, Virgilia oroboides |
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| (noun) fast-growing roundheaded tree with fragrant white to deep rose flowers; planted as an ornamental | Synonyms: Virgilia divaricata |
| leu | (noun) the basic unit of money in Romania | - |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Moldova | - |
| leucaemia | (noun) malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized by abnormal proliferation of leukocytes; one of the four major types of cancer | Synonyms: cancer of the blood, leukaemia, leukemia |
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| leucine | (noun) a white crystalline amino acid occurring in proteins that is essential for nutrition; obtained by the hydrolysis of most dietary proteins | - |
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| leucocyte | (noun) blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi; an important part of the body's defense system | Synonyms: leukocyte, WBC, white blood cell, white blood corpuscle, white cell, white corpuscle |
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| leucocytosis | (noun) an abnormal increase in the number of white blood cells in the blood as a result of infection (as in leukemia) | Synonyms: leukocytosis |
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| leucocytozoan | (noun) parasitic in birds | Synonyms: leucocytozoon |
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| leucocytozoon | (noun) parasitic in birds | Synonyms: leucocytozoan |
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| leucoma | (noun) eye disease consisting of an opaque white spot on the cornea | Synonyms: leukoma |
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| leucopenia | (noun) an abnormal lowering of the white blood cell count | Synonyms: leukopenia |
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| leucorrhea | (noun) discharge of white mucous material from the vagina; often an indication of infection | Synonyms: leukorrhea |
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| leucothoe | (noun) any plant of the genus Leucothoe; grown for their beautiful white flowers; glossy foliage contains a poisonous substance similar to that found in genus Kalmia | - |
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| leucotomy | (noun) surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes | Synonyms: frontal lobotomy, leukotomy, lobotomy, prefrontal leucotomy, prefrontal leukotomy, prefrontal lobotomy |
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| leukaemia | (noun) malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized by abnormal proliferation of leukocytes; one of the four major types of cancer | Synonyms: cancer of the blood, leucaemia, leukemia |
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| leukemia | (noun) malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized by abnormal proliferation of leukocytes; one of the four major types of cancer | Synonyms: cancer of the blood, leucaemia, leukaemia |
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| leukocyte | (noun) blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi; an important part of the body's defense system | Synonyms: leucocyte, WBC, white blood cell, white blood corpuscle, white cell, white corpuscle |
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| leukocytosis | (noun) an abnormal increase in the number of white blood cells in the blood as a result of infection (as in leukemia) | Synonyms: leucocytosis |
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| leukoderma | (noun) a congenital skin condition characterized by spots or bands of unpigmented skin | - |
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| leukoencephalitis | (noun) inflammation of the white matter of the brain | - |
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| leukoma | (noun) eye disease consisting of an opaque white spot on the cornea | Synonyms: leucoma |
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| leukopenia | (noun) an abnormal lowering of the white blood cell count | Synonyms: leucopenia |
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| leukorrhea | (noun) discharge of white mucous material from the vagina; often an indication of infection | Synonyms: leucorrhea |
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| leukotomy | (noun) surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes | Synonyms: frontal lobotomy, leucotomy, lobotomy, prefrontal leucotomy, prefrontal leukotomy, prefrontal lobotomy |
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| lieu | (noun) the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another | Synonyms: place, position, stead |
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| lieutenancy | (noun) the position of a lieutenant | - |
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