| encroaching | (adjective) gradually intrusive without right or permission | Synonyms: invasive, trespassing |
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| endearing | (adjective) lovable especially in a childlike or naive way | Synonyms: adorable, lovely |
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| ending | (noun) the act of ending something | Synonyms: conclusion, termination |
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| (noun) the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme) | Synonyms: termination |
| (noun) the last section of a communication | Synonyms: close, closing, conclusion, end |
| (noun) event whose occurrence ends something | Synonyms: conclusion, finish |
| (noun) the point in time at which something ends | Synonyms: end |
| enduring | (adjective) patiently bearing continual wrongs or trouble | Synonyms: long-suffering |
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| (adjective) lasting a long time | Synonyms: abiding, imperishable |
| energising | (adjective) supplying motive force | Synonyms: energizing, kinetic |
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| energizing | (adjective) supplying motive force | Synonyms: energising, kinetic |
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| (noun) the activity of causing to have energy and be active | Synonyms: activating, activation |
| enervating | (adjective) causing debilitation | Synonyms: debilitative, enfeebling, weakening |
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| enfeebling | (adjective) causing debilitation | Synonyms: debilitative, enervating, weakening |
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| enfolding | (noun) the action of enfolding something | Synonyms: involution |
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| engaging | (adjective) attracting or delighting | Synonyms: piquant |
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| engineering | (noun) the practical application of technical and scientific knowledge to commerce or industry | - |
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| (noun) a room (as on a ship) in which the engine is located | Synonyms: engine room |
| (noun) the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems | Synonyms: applied science, engineering science, technology |
| engraving | (noun) making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them | Synonyms: etching |
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| (noun) a block or plate or other hard surface that has been engraved | - |
| (noun) a print made from an engraving | - |
| engrossing | (adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: absorbing, fascinating, gripping, riveting |
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| enjoining | (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, enjoinment, injunction |
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| enlightening | (adjective) tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance | Synonyms: illuminating, informative |
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| (adjective) enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement | Synonyms: edifying |
| enlisting | (noun) the act of getting recruits; enlisting people for the army (or for a job or a cause etc.) | Synonyms: recruitment |
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| enlivening | (adjective) giving spirit and vivacity | Synonyms: animating |
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| ennobling | (adjective) tending to exalt | Synonyms: exalting |
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| (adjective) investing with dignity or honor | Synonyms: dignifying |
| ensuing | (adjective) following immediately and as a result of what went before | - |
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| entering | (noun) the act of entering | Synonyms: entrance, entry, incoming, ingress |
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| (noun) a movement into or inward | Synonyms: entrance |
| enterprising | (adjective) marked by imagination, initiative, and readiness to undertake new projects | - |
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| entertaining | (adjective) agreeably diverting | - |
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| enthralling | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, captivating, enchanting, entrancing, fascinating |
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| enticing | (adjective) highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire | Synonyms: alluring, beguiling, tempting |
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| entrancing | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, captivating, enchanting, enthralling, fascinating |
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| enveloping | (adjective) surrounding and closing in on or hemming in | - |
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| envisioning | (noun) visual imagery | Synonyms: picturing |
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| epilog | (noun) a short passage added at the end of a literary work | Synonyms: epilogue |
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| (noun) a short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play | Synonyms: epilogue |
| equating | (noun) the act of regarding as equal | Synonyms: equation |
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| equipping | (noun) the act of equipping with weapons in preparation for war | Synonyms: armament, arming |
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| erecting | (noun) the act of building or putting up | Synonyms: erection |
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| erg | (noun) a cgs unit of work or energy; the work done by a force of one dyne acting over a distance of one centimeter | - |
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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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| erring | (adjective) capable of making an error | Synonyms: error-prone |
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| estranging | (adjective) making one feel out of place or alienated | - |
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| etching | (noun) making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them | Synonyms: engraving |
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| (noun) an etched plate made with the use of acid | - |
| (noun) an impression made from an etched plate | - |
| etymologizing | (noun) (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase | Synonyms: derivation, deriving |
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| evening | (noun) the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall) | Synonyms: eve, even, eventide |
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| (noun) a later concluding time period | - |
| (noun) the early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way | - |
| evensong | (noun) (Anglican Church) a daily evening service with prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer | Synonyms: Evening Prayer |
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| (noun) the sixth of the seven canonical hours of the divine office; early evening; now often made a public service on Sundays | Synonyms: vespers |
| everlasting | (adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, ageless, eonian, eternal, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
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| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| (noun) any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color | Synonyms: everlasting flower |
| everting | (noun) the act of turning inside out | Synonyms: eversion, inversion |
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| everything | (noun) all things that are of importance to a person | - |
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| evildoing | (noun) the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle | Synonyms: transgression |
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| exacerbating | (adjective) making worse | Synonyms: aggravating, exasperating |
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| exacting | (adjective) having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures | Synonyms: fastidious |
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| (adjective) requiring precise accuracy | Synonyms: exigent |
| (adjective) severe and unremitting in making demands | Synonyms: stern, strict |
| exalting | (adjective) tending to exalt | Synonyms: ennobling |
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| exasperating | (adjective) extremely annoying or displeasing | Synonyms: infuriating, maddening, vexing |
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| (adjective) making worse | Synonyms: aggravating, exacerbating |
| exceeding | (adjective) far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree | Synonyms: exceptional, olympian, prodigious, surpassing |
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| exciting | (adjective) creating or arousing excitement | - |
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| (adjective) stimulating interest and discussion | - |
| exclaiming | (noun) an abrupt excited utterance | Synonyms: exclamation |
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| excreting | (noun) the bodily process of discharging waste matter | Synonyms: elimination, evacuation, excretion, voiding |
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| excruciating | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonising, agonizing, harrowing, torturesome, torturing, torturous |
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| executing | (noun) putting a condemned person to death | Synonyms: capital punishment, death penalty, execution |
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| exemplifying | (adjective) clarifying by use of examples | Synonyms: illustrative |
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| exercising | (noun) the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit | Synonyms: exercise, physical exercise, physical exertion, workout |
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| exhausting | (adjective) having a debilitating effect | Synonyms: draining |
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| (adjective) producing exhaustion | Synonyms: tiring, wearing, wearying |
| exhilarating | (adjective) making lively and joyful | Synonyms: elating |
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| (adjective) making lively and cheerful | Synonyms: stimulating |
| existing | (adjective) having existence or being or actuality | Synonyms: existent |
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| (adjective) presently existing | - |
| (adjective) existing in something specified | - |
| expelling | (noun) any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body | Synonyms: discharge, emission |
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| expending | (noun) the act of spending money for goods or services | Synonyms: expenditure |
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| exporting | (noun) the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country | Synonyms: exportation |
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| expounding | (noun) a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic | Synonyms: exposition |
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| expunging | (noun) deletion by an act of expunging or erasing | Synonyms: erasure, expunction |
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| extenuating | (adjective) partially excusing or justifying | - |
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| extinguishing | (noun) the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning | Synonyms: extinction, quenching |
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| exulting | (adjective) joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success | Synonyms: exultant, jubilant, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant |
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| facing | (noun) providing something with a surface of a different material | Synonyms: lining |
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| (noun) a protective covering that protects the outside of a building | Synonyms: cladding |
| (noun) a lining applied to the edge of a garment for ornamentation or strengthening | - |
| (noun) an ornamental coating to a building | Synonyms: veneer |
| factoring | (noun) (mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression | Synonyms: factorisation, factorization |
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| fading | (noun) weakening in force or intensity | Synonyms: attenuation |
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| fag | (noun) finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking | Synonyms: butt, cigaret, cigarette, coffin nail |
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| (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: faggot, fagot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queen, queer |
| (verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag out, fatigue, jade, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary |
| (verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail |
| (verb) act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools | - |
| faggoting | (noun) embroidery in which groups of parallel threads are tied together with fagot stitches | Synonyms: fagoting |
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| fagoting | (noun) embroidery in which groups of parallel threads are tied together with fagot stitches | Synonyms: faggoting |
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| failing | (adjective) below acceptable in performance | - |
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| (noun) failure to reach a minimum required performance | Synonyms: flunk |
| (noun) a flaw or weak point | Synonyms: weakness |
| falling | (adjective) becoming lower or less in degree or value | - |
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| (adjective) decreasing in amount or degree | - |
| (adjective) coming down freely under the influence of gravity | Synonyms: dropping |
| falsifying | (noun) the act of determining that something is false | Synonyms: disproof, falsification, refutal, refutation |
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| faltering | (adjective) unsteady in speech or action | - |
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| (noun) the act of pausing uncertainly | Synonyms: falter, hesitation, waver |
| familiarising | (adjective) serving to make familiar | Synonyms: familiarizing |
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| familiarizing | (adjective) serving to make familiar | Synonyms: familiarising |
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| fang | (noun) hollow or grooved tooth of a venomous snake; used to inject its poison | - |
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| (noun) canine tooth of a carnivorous animal; used to seize and tear its prey | - |
| (noun) an appendage of insects that is capable of injecting venom; usually evolved from the legs | - |
| farming | (adjective) relating to farming or agriculture | Synonyms: agrarian, agricultural |
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| (noun) the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock | Synonyms: agriculture, husbandry |
| (noun) agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life | Synonyms: land |
| farrowing | (noun) the production of a litter of pigs | Synonyms: farrow |
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| farseeing | (adjective) capable of seeing to a great distance | Synonyms: eagle-eyed, keen-sighted, longsighted |
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| (adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, long, longsighted, prospicient |
| farthing | (noun) a former British bronze coin worth a quarter of a penny | - |
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| farting | (noun) a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus | Synonyms: breaking wind, fart, flatus, wind |
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| fascinating | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, captivating, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing |
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| (adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: absorbing, engrossing, gripping, riveting |
| fashioning | (noun) the act that results in something coming to be | Synonyms: devising, making |
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| fastening | (noun) the act of fastening things together | Synonyms: attachment |
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| (noun) restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place | Synonyms: fastener, fixing, holdfast |
| fasting | (noun) abstaining from food | Synonyms: fast |
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| fattening | (adjective) subject to or used in the process of finishing or fattening up for slaughter | - |
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| 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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| faultfinding | (adjective) tending to find and call attention to faults | Synonyms: captious |
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| (adjective) tending to make moral judgments or judgments based on personal opinions | - |
| (noun) persistent petty and unjustified criticism | Synonyms: carping |
| faulting | (noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | Synonyms: break, fault, fracture, geological fault, shift |
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| fawning | (adjective) attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery | Synonyms: bootlicking, obsequious, sycophantic, toadyish |
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| (adjective) attempting to win favor by flattery | Synonyms: bootlicking, sycophantic, toadyish |
| feasting | (noun) eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment) | Synonyms: banqueting |
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| featherbedding | (noun) the practice (usually by a labor union) of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are required | - |
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| feathering | (noun) turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls | Synonyms: feather |
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| feedbag | (noun) a canvas bag that is used to feed an animal (such as a horse); covers the muzzle and fastens at the top of the head | Synonyms: nosebag |
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| feeding | (noun) the act of consuming food | Synonyms: eating |
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| (noun) the act of supplying food and nourishment | Synonyms: alimentation |
| feeling | (noun) the experiencing of affective and emotional states | - |
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| (noun) an intuitive understanding of something | Synonyms: intuitive feeling |
| (noun) a physical sensation that you experience | - |
| (noun) the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin | Synonyms: tactile sensation, tactual sensation, touch, touch sensation |
| (noun) a vague idea in which some confidence is placed | Synonyms: belief, impression, notion, opinion |
| (noun) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | Synonyms: feel, flavor, flavour, look, smell, spirit, tone |
| feigning | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation |
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| (noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: dissembling, pretence, pretense |