| epithelial | (adjective) of or belonging to the epithelium | Synonyms: epithelioid |
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| epithelioid | (adjective) of or belonging to the epithelium | Synonyms: epithelial |
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| epithelioma | (noun) a malignant tumor of the epithelial tissue | - |
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| epithelium | (noun) membranous tissue covering internal organs and other internal surfaces of the body | Synonyms: epithelial tissue |
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| epithet | (noun) descriptive word or phrase | - |
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| (noun) a defamatory or abusive word or phrase | Synonyms: name |
| epitome | (noun) a standard or typical example | Synonyms: image, paradigm, prototype |
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| (noun) a brief abstract (as of an article or book) | - |
| epitomise | (verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of | Synonyms: epitomize, typify |
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| epitomize | (verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of | Synonyms: epitomise, typify |
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| epitope | (noun) the site on the surface of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself | Synonyms: antigenic determinant, determinant |
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| epixylon | (noun) organisms that are attached to submerged wood surfaces in aquatic ecosystems. | - |
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| epizoan | (adjective) of or relating to epizoa | Synonyms: ectozoan |
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| (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectoparasite, ectozoan, ectozoon, epizoon |
| epizoic | (adjective) living or growing on the exterior surface of an animal usually as a parasite | - |
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| epizoon | (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectoparasite, ectozoan, ectozoon, epizoan |
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| epizootic | (adjective) (of animals) epidemic among animals of a single kind within a particular region | - |
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| equipping | (noun) the act of equipping with weapons in preparation for war | Synonyms: armament, arming |
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| ergotropic | (adjective) of or relating to ergotropism | - |
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| ergotropism | (noun) an affinity for work | - |
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| escapism | (noun) an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy | Synonyms: escape |
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| escapist | (noun) a person who escapes into a world of fantasy | Synonyms: dreamer, wishful thinker |
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| esotropia | (noun) strabismus in which one or both eyes turn inward toward the nose | Synonyms: convergent strabismus, cross-eye, crossed eye |
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| espial | (noun) the act of detecting something; catching sight of something | Synonyms: catching, detection, spotting, spying |
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| espionage | (noun) the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets | - |
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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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| exotropia | (noun) strabismus in which one or both eyes are directed outward | Synonyms: divergent strabismus, walleye |
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| expiable | (adjective) capable of being atoned for | - |
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| expiate | (verb) make amends for | Synonyms: aby, abye, atone |
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| expiation | (noun) the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity) | Synonyms: atonement, propitiation |
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| (noun) compensation for a wrong | Synonyms: atonement, satisfaction |
| expiative | (adjective) having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation | Synonyms: expiatory, propitiatory |
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| expiatory | (adjective) having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation | Synonyms: expiative, propitiatory |
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| expiration | (noun) the act of expelling air from the lungs | Synonyms: breathing out, exhalation |
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| (noun) euphemistic expressions for death | Synonyms: departure, exit, going, loss, passing, release |
| (noun) a coming to an end of a contract period | Synonyms: expiry, termination |
| expiratory | (adjective) of or relating to the breathing out phase of respiration | - |
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| expire | (verb) expel air | Synonyms: breathe out, exhale |
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| (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) lose validity | Synonyms: run out |
| expired | (adjective) having come to an end or become void after passage of a period of time | - |
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| expiry | (noun) the event of dying or departure from life | Synonyms: death, decease |
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| (noun) a coming to an end of a contract period | Synonyms: expiration, termination |
| extropic | (adjective) of or relating to extropy | - |
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| eyepiece | (noun) combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments | Synonyms: ocular |
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| fitspiration | (noun) something that inspires you to exercise | - |
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| flapping | (noun) the motion made by flapping up and down | Synonyms: flap, flutter, fluttering |
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| fleapit | (noun) an old shabby movie theater | - |
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| foppish | (adjective) affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner | Synonyms: dandified, dandyish |
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| foppishness | (noun) the manner and dress of a fop or dandy | Synonyms: dandyism |
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| frontispiece | (noun) front illustration facing the title page of a book | - |
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| (noun) an ornamental facade | - |
| 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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| gaping | (adjective) with the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe | Synonyms: agape |
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| garpike | (noun) primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth | Synonyms: billfish, gar, garfish, Lepisosteus osseus |
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| genotypic | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting a genotype | Synonyms: genotypical |
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| genotypical | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting a genotype | Synonyms: genotypic |
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| geotropism | (noun) an orienting response to gravity | - |
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| gimpiness | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: claudication, gameness, gimp, lameness, limping |
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| glamping | (noun) Camping glamorously, i.e., with expensive equipment | - |
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| glipizide | (noun) an oral antidiabetic drug (trade name Glucotrol) that stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreas | Synonyms: Glucotrol |
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| glockenspiel | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of graduated metal bars mounted on a frame and played with small hammers | Synonyms: orchestral bells |
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| gonadotropic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving gonadotropin | Synonyms: gonadotrophic |
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| gonadotropin | (noun) hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland and placenta; stimulates the gonads and controls reproductive activity | Synonyms: gonadotrophic hormone, gonadotrophin, gonadotropic hormone |
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| gossiping | (noun) a conversation that spreads personal information about other people | Synonyms: gossipmongering |
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| grasping | (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grabby, greedy, prehensile |
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| (noun) the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles) | Synonyms: prehension, seizing, taking hold |
| (noun) understanding with difficulty | - |
| griping | (noun) acute abdominal pain (especially in infants) | Synonyms: colic, gripes, intestinal colic |
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| gripping | (adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: absorbing, engrossing, fascinating, riveting |
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| groping | (adjective) acting with uncertainty or hesitance or lack of confidence | - |
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| gropingly | (adverb) in an uncertain groping manner | - |
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| groupie | (noun) an enthusiastic young fan (especially a young woman who follows rock groups around) | - |
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| grouping | (noun) any number of entities (members) considered as a unit | Synonyms: group |
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| (noun) the activity of putting things together in groups | - |
| (noun) a system for classifying things into groups | Synonyms: pigeonholing |
| 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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| gulping | (noun) the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly | Synonyms: guzzling, swilling |
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| (noun) a spasmodic reflex of the throat made as if in swallowing | Synonyms: gulp |
| gyroscopic | (adjective) having the characteristics of a gyroscope | - |
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| hairpiece | (noun) a covering or bunch of human or artificial hair used for disguise or adornment | Synonyms: false hair, postiche |
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| hairpin | (noun) a double pronged pin used to hold women's hair in place | - |
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| handspike | (noun) a metal bar (or length of pipe) used as a lever | - |
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| happily | (adverb) in an unexpectedly lucky way | - |
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| (adverb) in a joyous manner | Synonyms: blithely, gayly, jubilantly, merrily, mirthfully |
| happiness | (noun) emotions experienced when in a state of well-being | - |
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| (noun) state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy | Synonyms: felicity |
| harpist | (noun) someone who plays the harp | Synonyms: harper |
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| hatpin | (noun) a long sturdy pin used by women to secure a hat to their hair | - |
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| hawsepipe | (noun) the hole that an anchor rope passes through | Synonyms: hawse, hawsehole |
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| headpiece | (noun) a protective helmet for the head | - |
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| (noun) the band that is the part of a bridle that fits around a horse's head | Synonyms: headstall |
| headpin | (noun) the front bowling pin in the triangular arrangement of ten pins | Synonyms: kingpin |
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| heliotropism | (noun) an orienting response to the sun | - |
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| helping | (noun) an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal | Synonyms: portion, serving |
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| hemeralopia | (noun) inability to see clearly in bright light | Synonyms: day blindness |
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| hemianopia | (noun) blindness in one half of the visual field of one or both eyes | Synonyms: hemianopsia |
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| hemiepiphyte | (noun) a plant that is an epiphyte for part of its life | Synonyms: semiepiphyte |
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| hippie | (noun) someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle | Synonyms: flower child, hippy, hipster |
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| hippies | (noun) a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s; advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs; favored acid rock and progressive rock music | Synonyms: flower people, hipsters |
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| hispid | (adjective) (of animals or plants) having stiff coarse hairs or bristles | - |
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| hornpipe | (noun) a British solo dance performed by sailors | - |
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| (noun) an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone | Synonyms: pibgorn, stockhorn |
| (noun) music for dancing the hornpipe | - |
| horripilate | (verb) cause (someone's) hair to stand on end and to have goosebumps | - |
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| (verb) have one's hair stand on end and get goosebumps | - |
| horripilation | (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, goosebump, gooseflesh, pilomotor reflex |
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| horsewhipping | (noun) the act of whipping with a horsewhip | - |
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| hosepipe | (noun) a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas | Synonyms: hose |
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| hospice | (noun) a program of medical and emotional care for the terminally ill | - |
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| (noun) a lodging for travelers (especially one kept by a monastic order) | - |
| hospitable | (adjective) favorable to life and growth | - |
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| (adjective) disposed to treat guests and strangers with cordiality and generosity | - |
| (adjective) having an open mind | - |
| hospitableness | (noun) having a disposition that welcomes guests and is fond of entertaining | - |
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| hospitably | (adverb) in a hospitable manner | - |
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| hospital | (noun) a health facility where patients receive treatment | Synonyms: infirmary |
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| (noun) a medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care | - |
| hospitalisation | (noun) placing in medical care in a hospital | Synonyms: hospital care, hospitalization |
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| hospitalise | (verb) admit into a hospital | Synonyms: hospitalize |
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| hospitality | (noun) kindness in welcoming guests or strangers | Synonyms: cordial reception |
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| hospitalization | (noun) placing in medical care in a hospital | Synonyms: hospital care, hospitalisation |
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| (noun) insurance that pays all or part of a patient's hospital expense | Synonyms: hospitalization insurance |
| (noun) the condition of being treated as a patient in a hospital | - |
| (noun) a period of time when you are confined to a hospital | - |