| element | (noun) an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system | Synonyms: component, constituent |
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| (noun) an abstract part of something | Synonyms: component, constituent, factor, ingredient |
| (noun) the most favorable environment for a plant or animal | - |
| (noun) a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone | - |
| (noun) the situation in which you are happiest and most effective | - |
| (noun) any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter | Synonyms: chemical element |
| (noun) one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe | - |
| elemental | (adjective) relating to or being an element | - |
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| (adjective) relating to severe atmospheric conditions | - |
| (adjective) of or being the essential or basic part | Synonyms: basal, elementary, primary |
| elementarily | (adverb) in an elementary manner | - |
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| elementary | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of elementary school or elementary education | - |
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| (adjective) of or being the essential or basic part | Synonyms: basal, elemental, primary |
| (adjective) easy and not involved or complicated | Synonyms: simple, uncomplicated, unproblematic |
| elements | (noun) violent or severe weather (viewed as caused by the action of the four elements) | - |
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| elopement | (noun) the act of running away with a lover (usually to get married) | - |
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| embalmment | (noun) preservation (of a dead body) by treating with balsams and drugs and other chemicals | - |
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| embankment | (noun) a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection | - |
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| embarkment | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: boarding, embarkation |
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| embarrassment | (noun) extreme excess | Synonyms: overplus, plethora, superfluity |
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| (noun) some event that causes someone to be embarrassed | - |
| (noun) the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public | - |
| (noun) the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy) | - |
| embayment | (noun) an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf | Synonyms: bay |
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| embellishment | (noun) the act of adding extraneous decorations to something | Synonyms: ornamentation |
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| (noun) a superfluous ornament | - |
| (noun) elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail | Synonyms: embroidery |
| embezzlement | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: defalcation, misapplication, misappropriation, peculation |
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| embitterment | (noun) the state of being embittered | - |
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| embodiment | (noun) giving concrete form to an abstract concept | - |
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| (noun) a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept | Synonyms: shape |
| (noun) a new personification of a familiar idea | Synonyms: avatar, incarnation |
| embossment | (noun) sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background | Synonyms: relief, relievo, rilievo, sculptural relief |
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| (noun) an impression produced by pressure or printing | Synonyms: imprint |
| embracement | (noun) the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection) | Synonyms: embrace, embracing |
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| embroilment | (noun) an intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation | Synonyms: imbroglio |
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| emend | (verb) make improvements or corrections to | - |
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| emendation | (noun) a correction by emending; a correction resulting from critical editing | - |
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| emended | (adjective) improved or corrected by critical editing | Synonyms: edited |
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| emmenagogue | (noun) any agent that promotes menstrual discharge | - |
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| emolument | (noun) compensation received by virtue of holding an office or having employment (usually in the form of wages or fees) | - |
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| emplacement | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: locating, location, placement, position, positioning |
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| (noun) military installation consisting of a prepared position for siting a weapon | - |
| employment | (noun) the occupation for which you are paid | Synonyms: work |
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| (noun) the act of using | Synonyms: exercise, usage, use, utilisation, utilization |
| (noun) the act of giving someone a job | Synonyms: engagement |
| (noun) the state of being employed or having a job | Synonyms: employ |
| empowerment | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization |
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| enactment | (noun) acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture | Synonyms: characterization, personation, portrayal |
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| (noun) the passing of a law by a legislative body | Synonyms: passage |
| (noun) a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body | Synonyms: act |
| encampment | (noun) the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp | Synonyms: bivouacking, camping, tenting |
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| (noun) temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers | Synonyms: bivouac, camp, cantonment |
| (noun) a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, campground, camping area, camping ground, camping site, campsite |
| encasement | (noun) the act of enclosing something in a case | Synonyms: incasement |
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| encephalomeningitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges | Synonyms: cerebromeningitis, meningoencephalitis |
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| enchantment | (noun) a magical spell | Synonyms: bewitchment |
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| (noun) a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual | Synonyms: captivation, enthrallment, fascination |
| (noun) a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation | Synonyms: spell, trance |
| encirclement | (noun) a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy | Synonyms: blockade |
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| encompassment | (noun) including entirely | - |
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| encouragement | (noun) the act of giving hope or support to someone | Synonyms: boost |
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| (noun) the expression of approval and support | - |
| (noun) the feeling of being encouraged | - |
| encroachment | (noun) entry to another's property without right or permission | Synonyms: intrusion, trespass, usurpation, violation |
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| (noun) influencing strongly | Synonyms: impact, impingement |
| (noun) any entry into an area not previously occupied | Synonyms: intrusion, invasion |
| endangerment | (noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: hazard, jeopardy, peril, risk |
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| endearment | (noun) the act of showing affection | - |
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| endorsement | (noun) the act of endorsing | Synonyms: indorsement |
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| (noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, imprimatur, indorsement, sanction, warrant |
| (noun) a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books) | Synonyms: blurb, indorsement |
| (noun) a speech seconding a motion | Synonyms: indorsement, second, secondment |
| (noun) a signature that validates something | Synonyms: indorsement |
| endowment | (noun) the act of endowing with a permanent source of income | - |
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| (noun) natural abilities or qualities | Synonyms: gift, natural endowment, talent |
| (noun) the capital that provides income for an institution | Synonyms: endowment fund |
| enfeeblement | (noun) serious weakening and loss of energy | Synonyms: debilitation, enervation, exhaustion |
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| enfeoffment | (noun) under the feudal system, the deed by which a person was given land in exchange for a pledge of service | - |
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| enforcement | (noun) the act of enforcing; ensuring observance of or obedience to | - |
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| enfranchisement | (noun) the act of certifying or bestowing a franchise on | Synonyms: certification |
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| (noun) a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote) | Synonyms: franchise |
| (noun) freedom from political subjugation or servitude | - |
| engagement | (noun) the act of sharing in the activities of a group | Synonyms: involution, involvement, participation |
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| (noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war | Synonyms: battle, conflict, fight |
| (noun) the act of giving someone a job | Synonyms: employment |
| (noun) employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time | Synonyms: booking |
| (noun) a mutual promise to marry | Synonyms: betrothal, troth |
| (noun) contact by fitting together | Synonyms: interlocking, mesh, meshing |
| (noun) a meeting arranged in advance | Synonyms: appointment, date |
| engorgement | (noun) eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation | - |
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| (noun) congestion with blood | - |
| engrossment | (noun) the quality of being intent and concentrated | Synonyms: intentness |
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| (noun) the mental state of being preoccupied by something | Synonyms: absorption, preoccupancy, preoccupation |
| (noun) complete attention; intense mental effort | Synonyms: absorption, concentration, immersion |
| enhancement | (noun) an improvement that makes something more agreeable | Synonyms: sweetening |
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| enjambement | (noun) the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause | Synonyms: enjambment |
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| enjambment | (noun) the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause | Synonyms: enjambement |
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| enjoinment | (noun) (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity | Synonyms: cease and desist order, enjoining, injunction |
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| enjoyment | (noun) act of receiving pleasure from something | Synonyms: delectation |
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| (noun) (law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property | Synonyms: use |
| (noun) the pleasure felt when having a good time | - |
| enlargement | (noun) the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope | Synonyms: expansion |
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| (noun) a photographic print that has been enlarged | Synonyms: blowup, magnification |
| (noun) a discussion that provides additional information | Synonyms: elaboration, expansion |
| (noun) the state of being enlarged | - |
| enlightenment | (noun) education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge | - |
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| (noun) (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness | Synonyms: nirvana |
| enlistment | (noun) the act of enlisting (as in a military service) | - |
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| (noun) a period of time spent in military service | Synonyms: duty tour, hitch, term of enlistment, tour, tour of duty |
| ennoblement | (noun) the act of raising someone to the nobility | - |
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| (noun) the state of being noble | - |
| enragement | (noun) a feeling of intense anger and impatience | Synonyms: infuriation |
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| enrichment | (noun) act of making fuller or more meaningful or rewarding | - |
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| (noun) a gift that significantly increases the recipient's wealth | - |
| enrollment | (noun) the act of enrolling | Synonyms: enrolment, registration |
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| (noun) the body of people (such as students) who register or enroll at the same time | Synonyms: registration |
| enrolment | (noun) the act of enrolling | Synonyms: enrollment, registration |
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| enslavement | (noun) the act of making slaves of your captives | - |
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| (noun) the state of being a slave | Synonyms: captivity |
| entailment | (noun) something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied) | Synonyms: deduction, implication |
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| entanglement | (noun) an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim | Synonyms: web |
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| entertainment | (noun) an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention | Synonyms: amusement |
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| enthrallment | (noun) a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual | Synonyms: captivation, enchantment, fascination |
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| enthronement | (noun) the ceremony of installing a new monarch | Synonyms: coronation, enthronisation, enthronization, investiture |
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| enticement | (noun) the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire | Synonyms: temptation |
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| (noun) qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward | Synonyms: come-on, lure |
| (noun) something that seduces or has the quality to seduce | Synonyms: temptation |
| entitlement | (noun) right granted by law or contract (especially a right to benefits) | - |
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| entombment | (noun) the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave | Synonyms: burial, inhumation, interment, sepulture |
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| entrancement | (noun) a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment | Synonyms: ravishment |
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| entrapment | (noun) a defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials | - |
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| entrenchment | (noun) an entrenched fortification; a position protected by trenches | Synonyms: intrenchment |
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| envelopment | (noun) the act of enclosing something inside something else | Synonyms: enclosing, enclosure, inclosure |
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| environment | (noun) the area in which something exists or lives | Synonyms: environs, surround, surroundings |
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| (noun) the totality of surrounding conditions | - |
| environmental | (adjective) concerned with the ecological effects of altering the environment | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the external conditions or surroundings | - |
| environmentalism | (noun) the activity of protecting the environment from pollution or destruction | - |
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| (noun) the philosophical doctrine that environment is more important than heredity in determining intellectual growth | - |
| environmentalist | (noun) someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution | Synonyms: conservationist |
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| environmentally | (adverb) for the environment | - |
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| epiphenomenon | (noun) a secondary phenomenon that is a by-product of another phenomenon | - |
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| equipment | (noun) an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service | - |
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| escapement | (noun) mechanical device that regulates movement | - |
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| escarpment | (noun) a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification | Synonyms: escarp, protective embankment, scarp |
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| (noun) a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion | Synonyms: scarp |
| establishment | (noun) the act of forming or establishing something | Synonyms: constitution, formation, organisation, organization |
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| (noun) a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence | - |
| (noun) the cognitive process of establishing a valid proof | Synonyms: validation |
| (noun) an organization founded and united for a specific purpose | Synonyms: institution |
| (noun) any large organization | - |
| (noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: administration, brass, governance, governing body, organisation, organization |
| (noun) (ecology) the process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat | Synonyms: ecesis |
| establishmentarianism | (noun) the doctrine of supporting the social or political establishment | Synonyms: establishmentism |
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| establishmentism | (noun) the doctrine of supporting the social or political establishment | Synonyms: establishmentarianism |
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| estrangement | (noun) the feeling of being alienated from other people | Synonyms: alienation, disaffection |
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| (noun) separation resulting from hostility | Synonyms: alienation |
| examen | (noun) a detailed inspection of your conscience (as done daily by Jesuits) | Synonyms: examination |
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| (noun) a critical study (as of a writer's work) | - |
| excitement | (noun) something that agitates and arouses | Synonyms: excitation |
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| (noun) disturbance usually in protest | Synonyms: agitation, hullabaloo, turmoil, upheaval |
| (noun) the feeling of lively and cheerful joy | Synonyms: exhilaration |
| (noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up | Synonyms: excitation, fervor, fervour, inflammation |
| excrement | (noun) waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body | Synonyms: body waste, excreta, excretion, excretory product |
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| experiment | (noun) the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation | Synonyms: experimentation |
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| (noun) a venture at something new or different | - |
| (noun) the testing of an idea | Synonyms: experimentation |
| (verb) to conduct a test or investigation | - |
| (verb) try something new, as in order to gain experience | Synonyms: try out |
| experimental | (adjective) relating to or based on experiment | - |
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| (adjective) relying on observation or experiment | Synonyms: data-based, observational |
| (adjective) of the nature of or undergoing an experiment | - |
| experimentalism | (noun) an orientation that favors experimentation and innovation | - |
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| (noun) an empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles | - |
| experimentally | (adverb) in an experimental fashion | Synonyms: by experimentation, through an experiment |
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| experimentation | (noun) the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation | Synonyms: experiment |
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| (noun) the testing of an idea | Synonyms: experiment |
| experimenter | (noun) a research worker who conducts experiments | - |
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| (noun) a person who enjoys testing innovative ideas | - |
| extolment | (noun) an expression of approval and commendation | Synonyms: congratulations, kudos, praise |
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| extremeness | (noun) the quality of being extreme | - |
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| famishment | (noun) a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period | Synonyms: starvation |
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| ferment | (noun) a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol | Synonyms: fermentation, fermenting, zymolysis, zymosis |
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| (noun) a state of agitation or turbulent change or development | Synonyms: agitation, fermentation, tempestuousness, unrest |
| (noun) a substance capable of bringing about fermentation | - |
| (verb) go sour or spoil | Synonyms: sour, turn, work |
| (verb) cause to undergo fermentation | Synonyms: work |
| (verb) work up into agitation or excitement | - |
| (verb) be in an agitated or excited state | - |
| fermentable | (adjective) capable of being fermented | - |
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| fermentation | (noun) a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol | Synonyms: ferment, fermenting, zymolysis, zymosis |
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| (noun) a state of agitation or turbulent change or development | Synonyms: agitation, ferment, tempestuousness, unrest |