| empanel | (verb) select from a list | Synonyms: impanel, panel |
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| (verb) enter into a list of prospective jurors | Synonyms: impanel |
| empathetic | (adjective) showing empathy or ready comprehension of others' states | Synonyms: empathic |
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| empathetically | (adverb) in a sympathetic manner | Synonyms: sympathetically |
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| empathic | (adjective) showing empathy or ready comprehension of others' states | Synonyms: empathetic |
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| empathise | (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathize, sympathise, sympathize, understand |
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| empathize | (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathise, sympathise, sympathize, understand |
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| empathy | (noun) understanding and entering into another's feelings | - |
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| empennage | (noun) the rear part of an aircraft | Synonyms: tail, tail assembly |
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| emperor | (noun) large richly colored butterfly | Synonyms: emperor butterfly |
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| (noun) large moth of temperate forests of Eurasia having heavily scaled transparent wings | Synonyms: emperor moth, Saturnia pavonia |
| (noun) red table grape of California | - |
| (noun) the male ruler of an empire | - |
| emphasis | (noun) intensity or forcefulness of expression | Synonyms: vehemence |
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| (noun) the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch) | Synonyms: accent, stress |
| (noun) special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g. | - |
| (noun) special importance or significance | Synonyms: accent |
| emphasise | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasize, punctuate, stress |
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| (verb) give extra weight to (a communication) | Synonyms: emphasize, underline, underscore |
| emphasised | (adjective) spoken with emphasis | Synonyms: emphasized, emphatic |
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| emphasize | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasise, punctuate, stress |
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| (verb) give extra weight to (a communication) | Synonyms: emphasise, underline, underscore |
| emphasized | (adjective) spoken with emphasis | Synonyms: emphasised, emphatic |
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| emphasizing | (noun) the act of giving special importance or significance to something | Synonyms: accenting, accentuation |
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| emphatic | (adjective) forceful and definite in expression or action | Synonyms: forceful |
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| (adjective) sudden and strong | Synonyms: exclamatory |
| (adjective) spoken with emphasis | Synonyms: emphasised, emphasized |
| emphatically | (adverb) without question and beyond doubt | Synonyms: by all odds, decidedly, definitely, in spades, unquestionably |
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| emphysema | (noun) an abnormal condition of the lungs marked by decreased respiratory function; associated with smoking or chronic bronchitis or old age | Synonyms: pulmonary emphysema |
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| emphysematous | (adjective) relating to or resembling or being emphysema | - |
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| empire | (noun) a monarchy with an emperor as head of state | - |
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| (noun) a group of countries under a single authority | - |
| (noun) a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization | Synonyms: conglomerate |
| (noun) the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised | Synonyms: imperium |
| empiric | (adjective) derived from experiment and observation rather than theory | Synonyms: empirical |
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| (adjective) relying on medical quackery | Synonyms: empirical |
| empirical | (adjective) derived from experiment and observation rather than theory | Synonyms: empiric |
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| (adjective) relying on medical quackery | Synonyms: empiric |
| empirically | (adverb) in an empirical manner | Synonyms: by trial and error, through empirical observation |
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| empiricism | (noun) the application of empirical methods in any art or science | - |
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| (noun) medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings | Synonyms: quackery |
| (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience | Synonyms: empiricist philosophy, sensationalism |
| empiricist | (noun) a philosopher who subscribes to empiricism | - |
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| emplace | (verb) put into place or position | - |
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| (verb) provide a new emplacement for guns | - |
| 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 | - |
| emplane | (verb) board a plane | Synonyms: enplane |
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| employ | (noun) the state of being employed or having a job | Synonyms: employment |
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| (verb) put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose | Synonyms: apply, use, utilise, utilize |
| (verb) engage or hire for work | Synonyms: engage, hire |
| employable | (adjective) physically and mentally capable of working at a regular job and available | - |
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| (noun) a person who is qualified and ready to work | - |
| employed | (adjective) having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary | - |
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| (adjective) made useful | Synonyms: utilised, utilized |
| employee | (noun) a worker who is hired to perform a job | - |
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| employer | (noun) a person or firm that employs workers | - |
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| 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 |
| emporium | (noun) a large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise; commonly part of a retail chain | Synonyms: department store |
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| empower | (verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorise, authorize |
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| (verb) give qualities or abilities to | Synonyms: endow, endue, gift, indue, invest |
| empowered | (adjective) invested with legal power or official authority especially as symbolized by having a scepter | Synonyms: sceptered, sceptred |
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| empowerment | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization |
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| empress | (noun) a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor | - |
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| emptiness | (noun) the quality of being valueless or futile | Synonyms: vanity |
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| (noun) an empty area or space | Synonyms: vacancy, vacuum, void |
| (noun) the state of containing nothing | - |
| (noun) having an empty stomach | - |
| emptor | (noun) a person who buys | Synonyms: buyer, purchaser, vendee |
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| empty | (adjective) holding or containing nothing | - |
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| (adjective) emptied of emotion | - |
| (adjective) needing nourishment | Synonyms: empty-bellied |
| (adjective) devoid of significance or force | Synonyms: hollow, vacuous |
| (noun) a container that has been emptied | - |
| (verb) excrete or discharge from the body | Synonyms: evacuate, void |
| (verb) become empty or void of its content | Synonyms: discharge |
| (verb) make void or empty of contents | - |
| (verb) remove the contents of a container | - |
| (verb) leave behind empty; move out of | Synonyms: abandon, vacate |
| emptying | (noun) the act of removing the contents of something | Synonyms: evacuation, voidance |
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| empurple | (verb) color purple | Synonyms: purple, purpurate |
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| empurpled | (adjective) excessively elaborate or showily expressed | Synonyms: over-embellished, purple |
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| empyema | (noun) a collection of pus in a body cavity (especially in the lung cavity) | - |
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| empyreal | (adjective) of or relating to the sky or heavens | Synonyms: empyrean |
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| (adjective) inspiring awe | Synonyms: empyrean, sublime |
| empyrean | (adjective) of or relating to the sky or heavens | Synonyms: empyreal |
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| (adjective) inspiring awe | Synonyms: empyreal, sublime |
| (noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, firmament, heavens, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin |
| encamp | (verb) live in or as if in a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camp, camp out, tent |
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| 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 |
| encompass | (verb) include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory | Synonyms: comprehend, cover, embrace |
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| encompassing | (adjective) closely encircling | Synonyms: circumferent, surrounding |
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| (adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, extensive, panoptic, wide |
| encompassment | (noun) including entirely | - |
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| endolymph | (noun) the bodily fluid that fills the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear | - |
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| example | (noun) a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding | Synonyms: exercise |
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| (noun) an item of information that is typical of a class or group | Synonyms: illustration, instance, representative |
| (noun) something to be imitated | Synonyms: exemplar, good example, model |
| (noun) a representative form or pattern | Synonyms: model |
| (noun) punishment intended as a warning to others | Synonyms: deterrent example, lesson, object lesson |
| (noun) an occurrence of something | Synonyms: case, instance |
| exemplar | (noun) something to be imitated | Synonyms: example, good example, model |
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| exemplariness | (noun) The state or condition of being exemplary, serving as a shining example. | - |
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| exemplary | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, cautionary, monitory, warning |
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| (adjective) being or serving as an illustration of a type | Synonyms: emblematic, typic |
| (adjective) worthy of imitation | Synonyms: model |
| exemplification | (noun) a representational or typifying form or model | Synonyms: typification |
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| (noun) showing by example | Synonyms: illustration |
| exemplify | (verb) clarify by giving an example of | Synonyms: illustrate, instance |
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| (verb) be typical of | Synonyms: represent |
| exemplifying | (adjective) clarifying by use of examples | Synonyms: illustrative |
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| exempt | (adjective) (of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject | - |
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| (adjective) (of goods or funds) not subject to taxation | Synonyms: nontaxable |
| (verb) grant exemption or release to | Synonyms: excuse, let off, relieve |
| (verb) grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to | Synonyms: free, relieve |
| exemption | (noun) an act exempting someone | Synonyms: granting immunity, immunity |
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| (noun) a deduction allowed to a taxpayer because of his status (having certain dependents or being blind or being over 65 etc.) | - |
| (noun) immunity from an obligation or duty | Synonyms: freedom |
| exomphalos | (noun) an umbilical hernia at birth in which some abdominal organs push into the umbilical cord | - |
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| extemporaneous | (adjective) with little or no preparation or forethought | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporary, extempore, impromptu, off-the-cuff, offhand, offhanded, unrehearsed |
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| extemporaneously | (adverb) without prior preparation | Synonyms: extemporarily, extempore |
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| extemporarily | (adverb) without prior preparation | Synonyms: extemporaneously, extempore |
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| extemporary | (adjective) with little or no preparation or forethought | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporaneous, extempore, impromptu, off-the-cuff, offhand, offhanded, unrehearsed |
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| extempore | (adjective) with little or no preparation or forethought | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporaneous, extemporary, impromptu, off-the-cuff, offhand, offhanded, unrehearsed |
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| (adverb) without prior preparation | Synonyms: extemporaneously, extemporarily |
| extemporisation | (noun) a performance given extempore without planning or preparation | Synonyms: extemporization, improvisation |
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| extemporise | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporize, improvise, improvize |
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| extemporization | (noun) a performance given extempore without planning or preparation | Synonyms: extemporisation, improvisation |
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| extemporize | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporise, improvise, improvize |
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| (verb) manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand | Synonyms: improvise |
| farmplace | (noun) a farm together with its buildings | Synonyms: farm-place, farmstead |
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| firedamp | (noun) a mixture of gases (mostly methane) that form in coal mines and become explosive when mixed with air | - |
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| flump | (verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise | Synonyms: plank, plonk, plop, plump, plump down, plunk, plunk down |
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| (verb) fall heavily | Synonyms: flump down |
| foglamp | (noun) headlight that provides strong beam for use in foggy weather | - |
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| frump | (noun) a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman | Synonyms: dog |
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| frumpily | (adverb) in a dowdy unfashionable manner | Synonyms: dowdily, frumpishly |
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| frumpish | (adjective) primly out of date | Synonyms: dowdy, frumpy |
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| frumpishly | (adverb) in a dowdy unfashionable manner | Synonyms: dowdily, frumpily |
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| frumpy | (adjective) primly out of date | Synonyms: dowdy, frumpish |
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| galumph | (verb) move around heavily and clumsily | - |
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| gamp | (noun) colloquial terms for an umbrella | Synonyms: brolly |
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| gazump | (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge |
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| (verb) raise the price of something after agreeing on a lower price | - |
| gempylid | (noun) snake mackerels; elongated marine fishes with oily flesh; resembles mackerels; found worldwide | - |
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| gimp | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: claudication, gameness, gimpiness, lameness, limping |
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| (verb) walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury | Synonyms: hitch, hobble, limp |
| gimpiness | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: claudication, gameness, gimp, lameness, limping |
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| gimpy | (adjective) disabled in the feet or legs | Synonyms: crippled, game, halt, halting, lame |
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| glamping | (noun) Camping glamorously, i.e., with expensive equipment | - |
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| glimpse | (noun) a quick look | Synonyms: coup d'oeil, glance |
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| (noun) a brief or incomplete view | - |
| (noun) a vague indication | - |
| (verb) catch a glimpse of or see briefly | - |
| gomphothere | (noun) extinct elephants of Central American and South America; of the Miocene and Pleistocene | - |
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| goosebump | (noun) reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation | Synonyms: goose bump, goose pimple, goose skin, gooseflesh, horripilation, pilomotor reflex |
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| gramps | (noun) the father of your father or mother | Synonyms: grandad, granddad, granddaddy, grandfather, grandpa |
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| grampus | (noun) slaty-grey blunt-nosed dolphin common in northern seas | Synonyms: Grampus griseus |
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| (noun) predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas | Synonyms: killer, killer whale, orca, Orcinus orca, sea wolf |
| grump | (noun) a bad-tempered person | Synonyms: churl, crank, crosspatch, grouch |
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| grumpily | (adverb) in an ill-natured manner | Synonyms: crossly, grouchily |
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| grumpiness | (noun) a fussy and eccentric disposition | Synonyms: contrariness, crankiness, crotchetiness |
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| grumpy | (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, ill-tempered |
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| guimpe | (noun) a short blouse with sleeves that is worn under a jumper or pinafore dress | - |
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| (noun) a piece of starched cloth covering the shoulders of a nun's habit | - |