encircling | (adjective) being all around the edges; enclosing | Synonyms: skirting |
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enclosing | (noun) the act of enclosing something inside something else | Synonyms: enclosure, envelopment, inclosure |
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encoding | (noun) the activity of converting data or information into code | Synonyms: encryption |
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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 |
encouraging | (adjective) giving courage or confidence or hope | - |
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(adjective) furnishing support and encouragement | Synonyms: supporting |
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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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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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 | - |
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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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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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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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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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 |
fencing | (noun) the art or sport of fighting with swords (especially the use of foils or epees or sabres to score points under a set of rules) | - |
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(noun) a barrier that serves to enclose an area | Synonyms: fence |
(noun) material for building fences | Synonyms: fencing material |
fermenting | (noun) a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol | Synonyms: ferment, fermentation, zymolysis, zymosis |
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