| ectrodactyly | (noun) congenital abnormality involving the absence of some fingers or toes | - |
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| eisteddfod | (noun) any of several annual Welsh festivals involving artistic competitions (especially in singing) | - |
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| electrode | (noun) a conductor used to make electrical contact with some part of a circuit | - |
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| electrodeposition | (noun) the deposition of a substance on an electrode by the action of electricity (especially by electrolysis) | - |
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| electrodynamometer | (noun) measuring instrument that uses the interaction of the magnetic fields of two coils to measure current or voltage or power | - |
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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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| elmwood | (noun) hard tough wood of an elm tree; used for e.g. implements and furniture | Synonyms: elm |
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| embodied | (adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: bodied, corporal, corporate, incarnate |
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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 |
| embody | (verb) represent, as of a character on stage | Synonyms: be, personify |
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| (verb) represent in bodily form | Synonyms: body forth, incarnate, substantiate |
| (verb) represent or express something abstract in tangible form | - |
| encode | (verb) convert information into code | - |
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| encoding | (noun) the activity of converting data or information into code | Synonyms: encryption |
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| endoderm | (noun) the inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems | Synonyms: endoblast, entoblast, entoderm, hypoblast |
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| endodontia | (noun) the branch of dentistry dealing with diseases of the dental pulp | Synonyms: endodontics |
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| endodontic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving or practicing endodontics | - |
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| endodontics | (noun) the branch of dentistry dealing with diseases of the dental pulp | Synonyms: endodontia |
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| endodontist | (noun) a dentist specializing in diseases of the dental pulp and nerve | - |
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| entoderm | (noun) the inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems | Synonyms: endoblast, endoderm, entoblast, hypoblast |
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| epanodos | (noun) repetition of a group of words in reverse order | - |
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| (noun) recapitulation of the main ideas of a speech (especially in reverse order) | - |
| episode | (noun) film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie | Synonyms: sequence |
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| (noun) a part of a broadcast serial | Synonyms: installment, instalment |
| (noun) a brief section of a literary or dramatic work that forms part of a connected series | - |
| (noun) a happening that is distinctive in a series of related events | - |
| 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 |
| episodically | (adverb) in an episodic manner | - |
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| episodicity | (noun) The quality of being sporadic, happening infrequently and irregularly. | - |
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| 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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| ergodicity | (noun) an attribute of stochastic systems; generally, a system that tends in probability to a limiting form that is independent of the initial conditions | - |
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| erode | (verb) remove soil or rock | Synonyms: eat away, fret |
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| (verb) become ground down or deteriorate | Synonyms: eat at, gnaw, gnaw at, wear away |
| eroded | (adjective) worn away as by water or ice or wind | Synonyms: scoured |
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| eroding | (noun) (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it), also figuratively | Synonyms: eating away, erosion, wearing, wearing away |
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| erythroderma | (noun) any skin disorder involving abnormal redness | - |
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| etodolac | (noun) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Lodine) | Synonyms: Lodine |
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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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| exode | (noun) a farcical afterpiece in the ancient Roman theater | - |
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| exoderm | (noun) the outer germ layer that develops into skin and nervous tissue | Synonyms: ectoblast, ectoderm |
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| exodontia | (noun) the branch of dentistry dealing with extraction of teeth | Synonyms: exodontics |
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| exodontic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving exodontics | - |
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| exodontics | (noun) the branch of dentistry dealing with extraction of teeth | Synonyms: exodontia |
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| exodontist | (noun) a dentist specializing in the extraction of teeth | - |
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| exodus | (noun) a journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment | Synonyms: hegira, hejira |
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| explode | (verb) burst outward, usually with noise | Synonyms: burst |
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| (verb) cause to burst with a violent release of energy | Synonyms: blow up, detonate, set off |
| (verb) increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: irrupt |
| (verb) be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise | Synonyms: break loose, burst forth |
| (verb) burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction | Synonyms: blow up, detonate |
| (verb) show a violent emotional reaction | - |
| (verb) show (a theory or claim) to be baseless, or refute and make obsolete | - |
| (verb) drive from the stage by noisy disapproval | - |
| (verb) cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/ | - |
| (verb) destroy by exploding | - |
| exploded | (adjective) showing the parts of something separated but in positions that show their correct relation to one another | - |
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| falsehood | (noun) the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting | Synonyms: falsification |
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| (noun) a false statement | Synonyms: falsity, untruth |
| fantods | (noun) an ill-defined state of irritability and distress | - |
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| fatherhood | (noun) the status of a father | - |
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| (noun) the status of a religious leader | - |
| (noun) the kinship relation between an offspring and the father | Synonyms: paternity |
| firewood | (noun) wood used for fuel | - |
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| flashflood | (noun) a sudden local flood of great volume and short duration | Synonyms: flash flood |
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| flatbrod | (noun) the thin wafer-like bread of Scandinavia | - |
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| flood | (noun) the act of flooding; filling to overflowing | Synonyms: flowage |
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| (noun) a large flow | Synonyms: outpouring, overflow |
| (noun) light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography | Synonyms: flood lamp, floodlight, photoflood |
| (noun) the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide) | Synonyms: flood tide, rising tide |
| (noun) the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land | Synonyms: alluvion, deluge, inundation |
| (noun) an overwhelming number or amount | Synonyms: deluge, inundation, torrent |
| (verb) cover with liquid, usually water | - |
| (verb) become filled to overflowing | - |
| (verb) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid | Synonyms: deluge, inundate, swamp |
| (verb) supply with an excess of | Synonyms: glut, oversupply |
| flooded | (adjective) covered with water | Synonyms: afloat, awash, inundated, overflowing |
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| floodgate | (noun) regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice | Synonyms: head gate, penstock, sluice valve, sluicegate, water gate |
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| (noun) something that restrains a flood or outpouring | - |
| floodhead | (noun) a wall of water rushing ahead of the flood | - |
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| flooding | (noun) a technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them | Synonyms: implosion therapy |
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| floodlight | (noun) light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography | Synonyms: flood, flood lamp, photoflood |
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| (verb) illuminate with floodlights | - |
| floodlighted | (adjective) illuminated by means of floodlights | Synonyms: floodlit |
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| floodlit | (adjective) illuminated by means of floodlights | Synonyms: floodlighted |
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| floodplain | (noun) a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding | Synonyms: flood plain |
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| fodder | (noun) coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop | - |
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| (noun) soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire | Synonyms: cannon fodder, fresh fish |
| (verb) give fodder (to domesticated animals) | - |
| food | (noun) any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue | Synonyms: nutrient |
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| (noun) anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking | Synonyms: food for thought, intellectual nourishment |
| (noun) any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment | Synonyms: solid food |
| foodgasm | (noun) An extreme feeling of pleasure caused by seeing food | - |
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| foodie | (noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicure, epicurean, gastronome, gourmet |
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| foodless | (adjective) being without food | - |
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| foodstuff | (noun) (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer | Synonyms: grocery |
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| (noun) a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food | Synonyms: food product |
| forebode | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise |
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| foreboding | (adjective) ominously prophetic | Synonyms: fateful, portentous |
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| (noun) an unfavorable omen | - |
| (noun) a feeling of evil to come | Synonyms: boding, premonition, presentiment |
| fringepod | (noun) annual herb having pinnatifid basal leaves and slender racemes of small white flowers followed by one-seeded winged silicles | Synonyms: lacepod |
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| fruitwood | (noun) wood of various fruit trees (as apple or cherry or pear) used especially in cabinetwork | - |
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| gastroduodenal | (adjective) of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum | - |
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| gastropod | (noun) a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes | Synonyms: univalve |
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| geezerhood | (noun) a late time of life | Synonyms: age, eld, old age, years |
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| geode | (noun) (mineralogy) a hollow rock or nodule with the cavity usually lined with crystals | - |
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| geodesic | (adjective) of or relating to or determined by geodesy | Synonyms: geodesical, geodetic |
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| (noun) (mathematics) the shortest line between two points on a mathematically defined surface (as a straight line on a plane or an arc of a great circle on a sphere) | Synonyms: geodesic line |
| geodesical | (adjective) of or relating to or determined by geodesy | Synonyms: geodesic, geodetic |
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| geodesy | (noun) the branch of geology that studies the shape of the earth and the determination of the exact position of geographical points | - |
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| geodetic | (adjective) of or relating to or determined by geodesy | Synonyms: geodesic, geodesical |
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| geoduck | (noun) a large edible clam found burrowing deeply in sandy mud along the Pacific coast of North America; weighs up to six pounds; has siphons that can extend to several feet and cannot be withdrawn into the shell | - |
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| girlhood | (noun) the childhood of a girl | Synonyms: maidenhood, maidhood |
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| glossodynia | (noun) pain in the tongue | Synonyms: glossalgia |
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| gnathopod | (noun) One of a set of three paired appendages on the thorax of a decapod crustacean, located just posterior to the maxillae and used in feeding. | Synonyms: maxilliped |
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| god | (noun) a material effigy that is worshipped | Synonyms: graven image, idol |
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| (noun) any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force | Synonyms: deity, divinity, immortal |
| (noun) a man of such superior qualities that he seems like a deity to other people | - |
| godchild | (noun) an infant who is sponsored by an adult (the godparent) at baptism | - |
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| goddam | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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| (adverb) expressing anger, despair, frustration, approval, or surprise | Synonyms: goddamn, goddamned |
| goddamn | (adjective) used as expletives | Synonyms: damn |
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| (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamned, infernal |
| (adverb) expressing anger, despair, frustration, approval, or surprise | Synonyms: goddam, goddamned |
| goddamned | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, infernal |
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| (adverb) expressing anger, despair, frustration, approval, or surprise | Synonyms: goddam, goddamn |
| goddaughter | (noun) a female godchild | - |
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| goddess | (noun) a female deity | - |
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| godfather | (noun) any man who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism | - |
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| (noun) someone having a relation analogous to that of a male sponsor to his godchild | - |
| godforsaken | (adjective) located in a dismal or remote area; desolate | Synonyms: waste, wild |
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| godless | (adjective) not revering god | Synonyms: irreverent |
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| godlessness | (noun) impiety by virtue of not being a godly person | Synonyms: ungodliness |
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| godlike | (adjective) being or having the nature of a god | Synonyms: divine |
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| (adjective) appropriate to or befitting a god | Synonyms: divine |
| godliness | (noun) piety by virtue of being a godly person | - |
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| godly | (adjective) emanating from God | Synonyms: divine |
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| (adjective) showing great reverence for god | Synonyms: reverent, worshipful |
| godmother | (noun) any woman who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism | - |
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| godown | (noun) (in India and Malaysia) a warehouse | - |
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| godparent | (noun) a person who sponsors someone (the godchild) at baptism | - |
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| godsend | (noun) a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | Synonyms: bonanza, boom, bunce, gold rush, gravy, manna from heaven, windfall |
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| godson | (noun) a male godchild | - |
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| godwit | (noun) large wading bird that resembles a curlew; has a long slightly upturned bill | - |
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| goldenrod | (noun) any of numerous chiefly summer-blooming and fall-blooming North American plants especially of the genus Solidago | - |
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| good | (adjective) having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified | - |
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| (adjective) morally admirable | - |
| (adjective) promoting or enhancing well-being | Synonyms: beneficial |
| (adjective) having the normally expected amount | Synonyms: full |
| (adjective) with or in a close or intimate relationship | Synonyms: dear, near |
| (adjective) thorough | - |
| (adjective) generally admired | - |
| (adjective) resulting favorably | Synonyms: well |
| (adjective) not left to spoil | Synonyms: unspoiled, unspoilt |
| (adjective) not forged | Synonyms: honest |
| (adjective) tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health | Synonyms: salutary |
| (adjective) in excellent physical condition | Synonyms: sound |
| (adjective) appealing to the mind | Synonyms: serious |
| (adjective) agreeable or pleasing | - |
| (adjective) exerting force or influence | Synonyms: effective, in effect, in force |
| (adjective) most suitable or right for a particular purpose | Synonyms: right, ripe |
| (adjective) capable of pleasing | - |
| (adjective) deserving of esteem and respect | Synonyms: admirable, estimable, honorable, respectable |
| (adjective) of moral excellence | Synonyms: just, upright |
| (adjective) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | Synonyms: adept, expert, practiced, proficient, skilful, skillful |
| (adjective) financially safe | Synonyms: dependable, safe, secure |
| (noun) a raw material that is sold in large quantities, usually to other businesses for manufacturing or production purposes | Synonyms: commodity, trade good |
| (noun) benefit | - |
| (noun) moral excellence or admirableness | Synonyms: goodness |
| (noun) that which is pleasing or valuable or useful | Synonyms: goodness |
| (adverb) (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (`good' is a nonstandard dialectal variant for `well') | Synonyms: well |
| (adverb) completely and absolutely (`good' is sometimes used informally for `thoroughly') | Synonyms: soundly, thoroughly |
| goodby | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodbye, sayonara, so long |
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