| dumpling | (noun) small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough | Synonyms: dumplings |
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| (noun) dessert made by baking fruit wrapped in pastry | - |
| dung | (noun) fecal matter of animals | Synonyms: droppings, muck |
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| (verb) defecate; used of animals | - |
| (verb) fertilize or dress with dung | - |
| dwelling | (noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: abode, domicile, dwelling house, habitation, home |
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| dwindling | (adjective) gradually decreasing until little remains | Synonyms: tapering, tapering off |
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| (noun) a becoming gradually less | Synonyms: dwindling away |
| dyeing | (noun) the use of dye to change the color of something permanently | - |
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| dying | (adjective) in or associated with the process of passing from life or ceasing to be | - |
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| (adjective) eagerly desirous | Synonyms: anxious |
| (noun) the time when something ends | Synonyms: death, demise |
| earring | (noun) jewelry to ornament the ear; usually clipped to the earlobe or fastened through a hole in the lobe | - |
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| earsplitting | (adjective) loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss | Synonyms: deafening, thunderous, thundery |
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| earthing | (noun) fastening electrical equipment to earth | Synonyms: grounding |
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| earthling | (noun) an inhabitant of the earth | Synonyms: earthman, tellurian, worldling |
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| earthshaking | (adjective) loud enough to shake the very earth | - |
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| (adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world | Synonyms: world-shaking, world-shattering |
| easing | (noun) the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance) | Synonyms: alleviation, easement, relief |
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| (noun) a change for the better | Synonyms: moderation, relief |
| easygoing | (adjective) not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship | Synonyms: cushy, soft |
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| (adjective) relaxed and informal in attitude or standards | - |
| (adjective) not hurried or forced | Synonyms: easy, leisurely |
| eating | (noun) the act of consuming food | Synonyms: feeding |
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| ebbing | (noun) a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number) | Synonyms: ebb, wane |
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| echoing | (adjective) (of sounds) repeating by reflection | Synonyms: reechoing |
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| edging | (noun) border consisting of anything placed on the edge to finish something (such as a fringe on clothing or on a rug) | - |
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| edifying | (adjective) enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement | Synonyms: enlightening |
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| editing | (noun) putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form | Synonyms: redaction |
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| effervescing | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, bubbly, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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| elating | (adjective) making lively and joyful | Synonyms: exhilarating |
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| elbowing | (noun) jostling with the elbows | - |
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| electioneering | (noun) the campaign of a candidate to be elected | Synonyms: campaigning, candidacy, candidature, political campaign |
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| (noun) persuasion of voters in a political campaign | Synonyms: bell ringing, canvassing |
| electrifying | (adjective) causing a surge of emotion or excitement | Synonyms: thrilling |
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| eluding | (noun) the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning) | Synonyms: elusion, slip |
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| embarrassing | (adjective) hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment | Synonyms: awkward, sticky, unenviable |
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| (adjective) causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation | Synonyms: mortifying |
| embracing | (noun) the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection) | Synonyms: embrace, embracement |
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| emerging | (adjective) coming to maturity | Synonyms: rising |
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| (adjective) coming into existence | Synonyms: emergent |
| emphasizing | (noun) the act of giving special importance or significance to something | Synonyms: accenting, accentuation |
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| emptying | (noun) the act of removing the contents of something | Synonyms: evacuation, voidance |
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| enabling | (adjective) providing legal power or sanction | - |
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| enchanting | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, captivating, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating |
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| 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 | - |
| 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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