| encourage | (verb) spur on | - |
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| (verb) inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to | - |
| (verb) contribute to the progress or growth of | Synonyms: advance, boost, further, promote |
| encouraged | (adjective) inspired with confidence | Synonyms: bucked up |
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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 | - |
| encouraging | (adjective) giving courage or confidence or hope | - |
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| (adjective) furnishing support and encouragement | Synonyms: supporting |
| encouragingly | (adverb) in an encouraging manner | - |
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| enculturation | (noun) the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture | Synonyms: acculturation, socialisation, socialization |
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| endeavour | (noun) earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Synonyms: attempt, effort, endeavor, try |
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| (noun) a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness) | Synonyms: endeavor, enterprise |
| (verb) attempt by employing effort | Synonyms: endeavor, strive |
| endoneurium | (noun) delicate connective tissue around individual nerve fibers in nerve | - |
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| endurable | (adjective) capable of being borne though unpleasant | Synonyms: bearable, sufferable, supportable |
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| endurance | (noun) the power to withstand hardship or stress | - |
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| (noun) a state of surviving; remaining alive | Synonyms: survival |
| endure | (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
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| (verb) undergo or be subjected to | Synonyms: suffer |
| (verb) continue to live and avoid dying | Synonyms: go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on, survive |
| (verb) last and be usable | Synonyms: hold out, wear |
| (verb) face and withstand with courage | Synonyms: brave, brave out, weather |
| (verb) persist for a specified period of time | Synonyms: last |
| (verb) continue to exist | Synonyms: die hard, persist, prevail, run |
| enduring | (adjective) patiently bearing continual wrongs or trouble | Synonyms: long-suffering |
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| (adjective) lasting a long time | Synonyms: abiding, imperishable |
| enduringly | (adverb) in an enduring manner | - |
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| enduringness | (noun) permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force | Synonyms: durability, lastingness, strength |
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| enflurane | (noun) a nonflammable liquid (trade name Ethrane) used as an inhalation general anesthetic | Synonyms: Ethrane |
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| enrapture | (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enthral, enthrall, ravish, transport |
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| enraptured | (adjective) feeling great rapture or delight | Synonyms: ecstatic, rapt, rapturous, rhapsodic |
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| ensure | (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: ascertain, assure, check, control, insure, see, see to it |
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| (verb) make certain of | Synonyms: assure, guarantee, insure, secure |
| entablature | (noun) (architecture) the structure consisting of the part of a classical temple above the columns between a capital and the roof | - |
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| entourage | (noun) the group following and attending to some important person | Synonyms: cortege, retinue, suite |
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| entrepreneur | (noun) someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it | Synonyms: enterpriser |
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| entrepreneurial | (adjective) of or relating to an entrepreneur | - |
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| (adjective) willing to take risks in order to make a profit | - |
| enured | (adjective) made tough by habitual exposure | Synonyms: hardened, inured |
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| enuresis | (noun) inability to control the flow of urine and involuntary urination | Synonyms: urinary incontinence |
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| epicure | (noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicurean, foodie, gastronome, gourmet |
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| epicurean | (adjective) displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses | Synonyms: luxuriant, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous |
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| (adjective) devoted to pleasure | Synonyms: hedonic, hedonistic |
| (noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicure, foodie, gastronome, gourmet |
| epicureanism | (noun) a doctrine of hedonism that was defended by several ancient Greek philosophers | - |
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| epicurism | (noun) the disposition and habits of an epicure | - |
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| epidural | (adjective) on or outside the dura mater | Synonyms: extradural |
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| (noun) regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an anesthetic into the epidural space of the spinal cord; sensation is lost in the abdominal and genital and pelvic areas; used in childbirth and gynecological surgery | Synonyms: epidural anaesthesia, epidural anesthesia |
| erasure | (noun) deletion by an act of expunging or erasing | Synonyms: expunction, expunging |
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| (noun) a correction made by erasing | - |
| (noun) a surface area where something has been erased | - |
| esurience | (noun) extreme gluttony | Synonyms: edacity, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness, voracity |
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| (noun) excessive desire to eat | Synonyms: edacity, ravenousness, voraciousness, voracity |
| esurient | (adjective) (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous | Synonyms: avid, devouring, greedy |
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| (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish |
| (adjective) extremely hungry | Synonyms: famished, ravenous, sharp-set, starved |
| 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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| exaugural | (adjective) occurring at or marking the close of a term of office | - |
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| excursion | (noun) a journey taken for pleasure | Synonyms: expedition, jaunt, junket, outing, pleasure trip, sashay |
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| (noun) wandering from the main path of a journey | Synonyms: digression |
| excursionist | (noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: rubberneck, sightseer, tripper |
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| excursive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: digressive, discursive, rambling |
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| excursus | (noun) a message that departs from the main subject | Synonyms: aside, digression, divagation, parenthesis |
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| expenditure | (noun) the act of spending money for goods or services | Synonyms: expending |
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| (noun) the act of consuming something | Synonyms: consumption, using up |
| (noun) money paid out; an amount spent | Synonyms: outgo, outlay, spending |
| exposure | (noun) abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving an infant out in the open) | - |
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| (noun) the act of exposing film to light | - |
| (noun) presentation to view in an open or public manner | - |
| (noun) the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience | - |
| (noun) a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format | Synonyms: photo, photograph, pic, picture |
| (noun) vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain | - |
| (noun) aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces | - |
| (noun) the disclosure of something secret | - |
| (noun) the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate | - |
| (noun) the state of being vulnerable or exposed | Synonyms: vulnerability |
| expurgate | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, shorten |
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| expurgated | (adjective) having material deleted | - |
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| expurgation | (noun) the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work | Synonyms: castration |
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| expurgator | (noun) a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages | Synonyms: bowdleriser, bowdlerizer |
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| extracurricular | (adjective) characterized by adultery | Synonyms: adulterous, extramarital |
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| (adjective) outside the regular duties of your job or profession | - |
| (adjective) outside the regular academic curriculum | - |
| extradural | (adjective) on or outside the dura mater | Synonyms: epidural |
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| extramural | (adjective) carried on outside the bounds of an institution or community | - |
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| exurbia | (noun) a residential area outside of a city and beyond suburbia | - |
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| failure | (noun) an act that fails | - |
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| (noun) an unexpected omission | - |
| (noun) an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose | - |
| (noun) a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently | Synonyms: loser, nonstarter, unsuccessful person |
| (noun) lack of success | - |
| (noun) loss of ability to function normally | - |
| (noun) inability to discharge all your debts as they come due | Synonyms: bankruptcy |
| faubourg | (noun) a New Orleans district lying outside the original city limits; used in combination with the names of various quarters of the city | - |
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| favour | (noun) an act of gracious kindness | Synonyms: favor |
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| (noun) souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party | Synonyms: favor, party favor, party favour |
| (noun) an advantage to the benefit of someone or something | Synonyms: favor |
| (noun) an inclination to approve | Synonyms: favor |
| (noun) a feeling of favorable regard | Synonyms: favor |
| (verb) consider as the favorite | Synonyms: favor |
| (verb) promote over another | Synonyms: favor, prefer |
| (verb) treat gently or carefully | Synonyms: favor |
| (verb) bestow a privilege upon | Synonyms: favor, privilege |
| favourable | (adjective) (of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate | Synonyms: favorable |
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| (adjective) encouraging or approving or pleasing | Synonyms: favorable |
| (adjective) giving an advantage | Synonyms: advantageous, favorable |
| (adjective) presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome | Synonyms: favorable, golden, lucky, prosperous |
| favourableness | (noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: advantageousness, favorableness, positiveness, positivity, profitableness |
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| favourably | (adverb) showing approval | Synonyms: favorably |
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| favoured | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favorite, favourite, pet, preferent, preferred |
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| favourite | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favorite, favoured, pet, preferent, preferred |
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| (adjective) appealing to the general public | Synonyms: favorite |
| (noun) something regarded with special favor or liking | Synonyms: favorite |
| (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, deary, ducky, favorite, pet |
| (noun) a competitor thought likely to win | Synonyms: favorite, front-runner |
| (verb) To mark an item as a personal favorite on social media | Synonyms: favorite |
| favouritism | (noun) unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice | Synonyms: discrimination, favoritism |
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| (noun) an inclination to favor some person or group | Synonyms: favoritism |
| feature | (noun) an article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles | - |
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| (noun) the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin | Synonyms: lineament |
| (noun) a prominent attribute or aspect of something | Synonyms: characteristic |
| (noun) (linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kind | Synonyms: feature of speech |
| (noun) the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater | Synonyms: feature film |
| (noun) a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: feature article |
| (verb) have as a feature | Synonyms: have |
| (verb) wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner | Synonyms: boast, sport |
| featured | (adjective) made a feature or highlight; given prominence | - |
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| (adjective) having facial features as specified; usually used in combination | - |
| featureless | (adjective) lacking distinguishing characteristics or features | - |
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| featurelessness | (noun) The state or condition of being without distinguishing features. | - |
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| femur | (noun) the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee | Synonyms: femoris, thighbone |
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| fervour | (noun) feelings of great warmth and intensity | Synonyms: ardor, ardour, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fire |
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| (noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up | Synonyms: excitation, excitement, fervor, inflammation |
| figural | (adjective) consisting of or forming human or animal figures | Synonyms: figurative |
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| figuration | (noun) decorating with a design | - |
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| (noun) representing figuratively as by emblem or allegory | - |
| figurative | (adjective) (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech | Synonyms: nonliteral |
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| (adjective) consisting of or forming human or animal figures | Synonyms: figural |
| figuratively | (adverb) in a figurative sense | - |
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| figurativeness | (noun) The property of being metaphorical or tropical, as opposed to literal; using figures of speech. | - |
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| (noun) The representation of form or figure in art. | - |
| figure | (noun) a predetermined set of movements in dancing or skating | - |
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| (noun) a model of a bodily form (especially of a person) | - |
| (noun) a decorative or artistic work | Synonyms: design, pattern |
| (noun) the impression produced by a person | - |
| (noun) the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals | Synonyms: number |
| (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, chassis, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
| (noun) a unitary percept having structure and coherence that is the object of attention and that stands out against a ground | - |
| (noun) a diagram or picture illustrating textual material | Synonyms: fig |
| (noun) language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Synonyms: figure of speech, image, trope |
| (noun) a well-known or notable person | Synonyms: name, public figure |
| (noun) an amount of money expressed numerically | - |
| (noun) one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration | Synonyms: digit |
| (noun) a combination of points and lines and planes that form a visible palpable shape | - |
| (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, reckon, work out |
| (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: calculate, count on, estimate, forecast, reckon |
| (verb) understand | - |
| (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize |
| (verb) be or play a part of or in | Synonyms: enter |
| figured | (adjective) (of e.g. fabric design) adorned with patterns | - |
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| figurehead | (noun) figure on the bow of some sailing vessels | - |
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| (noun) a person used as a cover for some questionable activity | Synonyms: front, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman |
| figurer | (noun) an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines) | Synonyms: calculator, computer, estimator, reckoner |
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| figurine | (noun) a small carved or molded figure | Synonyms: statuette |
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| figuring | (noun) problem solving that involves numbers or quantities | Synonyms: calculation, computation, reckoning |
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| filature | (noun) a bobbin used in spinning silk into thread | - |
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| fissure | (noun) (anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes | - |
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| (noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: cleft, crack, crevice, scissure |
| (noun) a long narrow depression in a surface | Synonyms: chap, crack, cranny, crevice |
| (verb) break into fissures or fine cracks | - |
| fixture | (noun) the act of putting something in working order again | Synonyms: fix, fixing, mend, mending, repair, reparation |
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| (noun) an object firmly fixed in place (especially in a household) | - |
| (noun) the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment | Synonyms: fastness, fixedness, fixity, secureness |
| (noun) a regular patron | Synonyms: habitue, regular |
| flavour | (noun) the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: flavor, nip, relish, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, tang |
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| (noun) (physics) the six kinds of quarks | Synonyms: flavor |
| (noun) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | Synonyms: feel, feeling, flavor, look, smell, spirit, tone |
| (verb) lend flavor to | Synonyms: flavor, season |
| flavourer | (noun) something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts | Synonyms: flavorer, flavoring, flavouring, seasoner, seasoning |
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| flavourful | (adjective) full of flavor | Synonyms: flavorful, flavorous, flavorsome, flavourous, flavoursome, sapid, saporous |
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| flavouring | (noun) something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts | Synonyms: flavorer, flavoring, flavourer, seasoner, seasoning |
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| flavourless | (adjective) lacking taste or flavor or tang | Synonyms: bland, flat, flavorless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid |
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| flavourlessness | (noun) the property of having no flavor | Synonyms: flavorlessness, savorlessness, savourlessness, tastelessness |
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| flavourous | (adjective) full of flavor | Synonyms: flavorful, flavorous, flavorsome, flavourful, flavoursome, sapid, saporous |
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| flavoursome | (adjective) full of flavor | Synonyms: flavorful, flavorous, flavorsome, flavourful, flavourous, sapid, saporous |
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| flavoursomeness | (noun) having an appetizing flavor | Synonyms: flavorsomeness, savoriness |
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| flexure | (noun) act of bending a joint; especially a joint between the bones of a limb so that the angle between them is decreased | Synonyms: flexion |
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| (noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding | Synonyms: bend, crease, crimp, fold, plication |
| (noun) the state of being flexed (as of a joint) | Synonyms: flection, flexion |
| floricultural | (adjective) of or relating to or involving floriculture | - |
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| floriculture | (noun) the cultivation of flowering plants | Synonyms: flower gardening |
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| flour | (noun) fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain | - |
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| (verb) convert grain into flour | - |
| (verb) cover with flour | - |
| flouriness | (noun) The state or condition of resembling flour, of being a fine soft powder. | - |
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| flourish | (noun) the act of waving | Synonyms: brandish |
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| (noun) a display of ornamental speech or language | - |
| (noun) a showy gesture | - |
| (noun) (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments | Synonyms: fanfare, tucket |
| (noun) an ornamental embellishment in writing | - |
| (verb) grow vigorously | Synonyms: boom, expand, thrive |
| (verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: brandish, wave |
| (verb) make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance | Synonyms: fly high, prosper, thrive |