| ectoparasite | (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectozoan, ectozoon, epizoan, epizoon |
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| ectopia | (noun) abnormal position of a part or organ (especially at the time of birth) | - |
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| ectopic | (adjective) exhibiting ectopia | - |
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| ectoplasm | (noun) the outer granule-free layer of cytoplasm | - |
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| (noun) (spiritualism) a substance supposed to emanate from the body of the medium during a trance | - |
| ectoproct | (noun) sessile mossy aquatic animal having the anus of the polyp outside the crown of tentacles | - |
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| ectotherm | (noun) an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammals | Synonyms: poikilotherm |
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| ectothermic | (adjective) of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment | Synonyms: heterothermic, poikilothermic, poikilothermous |
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| ectozoan | (adjective) of or relating to epizoa | Synonyms: epizoan |
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| (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectoparasite, ectozoon, epizoan, epizoon |
| ectozoon | (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectoparasite, ectozoan, epizoan, epizoon |
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| ectrodactyly | (noun) congenital abnormality involving the absence of some fingers or toes | - |
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| ecumenic | (adjective) concerned with promoting unity among churches or religions | Synonyms: ecumenical, oecumenic, oecumenical |
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| ecumenical | (adjective) of worldwide scope or applicability | Synonyms: cosmopolitan, general, oecumenical, universal, world-wide, worldwide |
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| (adjective) concerned with promoting unity among churches or religions | Synonyms: ecumenic, oecumenic, oecumenical |
| ecumenicalism | (noun) (Christianity) the doctrine of the ecumenical movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations: aimed at universal Christian unity | Synonyms: ecumenicism, ecumenism |
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| ecumenicism | (noun) (Christianity) the doctrine of the ecumenical movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations: aimed at universal Christian unity | Synonyms: ecumenicalism, ecumenism |
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| ecumenism | (noun) (Christianity) the doctrine of the ecumenical movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations: aimed at universal Christian unity | Synonyms: ecumenicalism, ecumenicism |
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| (noun) a movement promoting union between religions (especially between Christian churches) | Synonyms: oecumenism |
| eczema | (noun) generic term for inflammatory conditions of the skin; particularly with vesiculation in the acute stages | - |
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| edacious | (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish |
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| edacity | (noun) extreme gluttony | Synonyms: esurience, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness, voracity |
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| (noun) excessive desire to eat | Synonyms: esurience, ravenousness, voraciousness, voracity |
| edaphosaurus | (noun) heavy-bodied reptile with a dorsal sail or crest; of the late Paleozoic | - |
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| edda | (noun) tropical starchy tuberous root | Synonyms: cocoyam, dasheen, taro, taro root |
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| eddo | (noun) edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants | Synonyms: cocoyam, dasheen, taro |
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| eddy | (noun) a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself | Synonyms: twist |
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| (verb) flow in a circular current, of liquids | Synonyms: purl, swirl, whirl, whirlpool |
| edelweiss | (noun) alpine perennial plant native to Europe having leaves covered with whitish down and small flower heads held in stars of glistening whitish bracts | Synonyms: Leontopodium alpinum |
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| edema | (noun) swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities | Synonyms: dropsy, hydrops, oedema |
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| edematous | (adjective) swollen with an excessive accumulation of fluid | Synonyms: dropsical |
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| edental | (adjective) having few if any teeth | Synonyms: edentate, edentulate |
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| edentate | (adjective) having few if any teeth | Synonyms: edental, edentulate |
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| (noun) primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America | - |
| edentulate | (adjective) having few if any teeth | Synonyms: edental, edentate |
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| edentulous | (adjective) having lost teeth | - |
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| edge | (noun) a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object | - |
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| (noun) the outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something | - |
| (noun) a slight competitive advantage | - |
| (noun) the attribute of urgency in tone of voice | Synonyms: sharpness |
| (noun) the boundary of a surface | Synonyms: border |
| (noun) a line determining the limits of an area | Synonyms: bound, boundary |
| (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: abut, adjoin, border, butt, butt against, butt on, march |
| (verb) provide with an edge | - |
| (verb) advance slowly, as if by inches | Synonyms: inch |
| (verb) provide with a border or edge | Synonyms: border |
| edged | (adjective) having a specified kind of border or edge | - |
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| (adjective) having a cutting edge or especially an edge or edges as specified; often used in combination | - |
| (adjective) (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character | Synonyms: cutting, stinging |
| edgeless | (adjective) lacking a cutting edge | - |
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| edger | (noun) garden tool for cutting grass around the edges of a yard | - |
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| (noun) a person who puts finishing edges on a garment | - |
| edgeways | (adverb) with the edge forward or on, by, or toward the edge | Synonyms: edgewise |
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| (adverb) as if by an edge; barely | Synonyms: edgewise |
| edgewise | (adverb) with the edge forward or on, by, or toward the edge | Synonyms: edgeways |
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| (adverb) as if by an edge; barely | Synonyms: edgeways |
| edginess | (noun) feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable | Synonyms: disquietude, inquietude, uneasiness |
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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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| edgy | (adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, uptight |
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| edibility | (noun) the property of being fit to eat | Synonyms: edibleness |
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| edible | (adjective) suitable for use as food | Synonyms: comestible, eatable |
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| (noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: comestible, eatable, pabulum, victual, victuals |
| edibleness | (noun) the property of being fit to eat | Synonyms: edibility |
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| edict | (noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: decree, fiat, order, rescript |
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| (noun) a formal or authoritative proclamation | - |
| edification | (noun) uplifting enlightenment | Synonyms: sophistication |
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| edifice | (noun) a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place | Synonyms: building |
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| edified | (adjective) instructed and encouraged in moral, intellectual, and spiritual improvement | - |
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| edify | (verb) make understand | Synonyms: enlighten |
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| edifying | (adjective) enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement | Synonyms: enlightening |
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| edit | (verb) prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting | Synonyms: redact |
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| (verb) cut and assemble the components of | Synonyms: cut, edit out |
| (verb) cut or eliminate | Synonyms: blue-pencil, delete |
| (verb) supervise the publication of | - |
| edited | (adjective) improved or corrected by critical editing | Synonyms: emended |
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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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| edition | (noun) something a little different from others of the same type | Synonyms: variant, variation, version |
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| (noun) an issue of a newspaper | - |
| (noun) the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published | - |
| (noun) all of the identical copies of something offered to the public at the same time | - |
| editor | (noun) (computer science) a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data | Synonyms: editor program |
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| (noun) a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine) | Synonyms: editor in chief |
| editorial | (adjective) of or relating to an article stating opinions or giving perspectives | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of an editor | - |
| (noun) an article giving opinions or perspectives | Synonyms: column, newspaper column |
| editorialise | (verb) insert personal opinions into an objective statement | Synonyms: editorialize |
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| editorialist | (noun) a journalist who writes editorials | Synonyms: columnist |
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| editorialize | (verb) insert personal opinions into an objective statement | Synonyms: editorialise |
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| editorially | (adverb) by means of an editorial | - |
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| editorship | (noun) the position of editor | - |
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| edmontosaurus | (noun) duck-billed dinosaur from Canada found as a fossilized mummy with skin | - |
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| educate | (verb) create by training and teaching | Synonyms: develop, prepare, train |
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| (verb) give an education to | - |
| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, cultivate, school, train |
| educated | (adjective) possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge) | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved | Synonyms: enlightened |
| educatee | (noun) a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution | Synonyms: pupil, student |
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| education | (noun) the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill | Synonyms: didactics, educational activity, instruction, pedagogy, teaching |
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| (noun) the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university) | - |
| (noun) the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior) | Synonyms: breeding, training |
| (noun) knowledge acquired by learning and instruction | - |
| (noun) the gradual process of acquiring knowledge | - |
| educational | (adjective) relating to the process of education | - |
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| (adjective) providing knowledge | - |
| educationalist | (noun) a specialist in the theory of education | Synonyms: educationist |
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| educationally | (adverb) in an educational manner | - |
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| educationist | (noun) a specialist in the theory of education | Synonyms: educationalist |
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| educative | (adjective) resulting in education | - |
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| educator | (noun) someone who educates young people | Synonyms: pedagog, pedagogue |
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| educe | (verb) develop or evolve from a latent or potential state | Synonyms: derive |
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| (verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, elicit, evoke, extract |
| edulcorate | (verb) make sweeter in taste | Synonyms: dulcify, dulcorate, sweeten |
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| edutainment | (noun) entertainment that is intended to be educational | - |
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| eel | (noun) voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins | - |
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| (noun) the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled | - |
| eelblenny | (noun) eellike fishes found in subarctic coastal waters | - |
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| eelgrass | (noun) submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts | Synonyms: grass wrack, sea wrack, Zostera marina |
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| (noun) submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World and Australia | Synonyms: tape grass, Vallisneria spiralis, wild celery |
| eellike | (adjective) resembling an eel in being long and thin and sinuous | - |
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| eelpout | (noun) marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas | Synonyms: pout |
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| (noun) elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth | Synonyms: burbot, cusk, ling, Lota lota |
| eelworm | (noun) any of various small free-living plant-parasitic roundworms | - |
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| eerie | (adjective) inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening | Synonyms: eery |
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| (adjective) suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious | - |
| eerily | (adverb) in an unnatural eery manner | Synonyms: spookily |
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| eeriness | (noun) strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear | Synonyms: ghostliness |
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| eery | (adjective) inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening | Synonyms: eerie |
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| eff | (verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
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| efface | (verb) remove completely from recognition or memory | Synonyms: obliterate |
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| (verb) remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing | Synonyms: erase, rub out, score out, wipe off |
| (verb) make inconspicuous | - |
| effaceable | (adjective) capable of being effaced | Synonyms: erasable |
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| effacement | (noun) withdrawing into the background; making yourself inconspicuous | Synonyms: self-effacement |
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| (noun) shortening of the uterine cervix and thinning of its walls as it is dilated during labor | - |
| effect | (noun) an outward appearance | Synonyms: impression |
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| (noun) (of a law) having legal validity | Synonyms: force |
| (noun) an impression (especially one that is artificial or contrived) | - |
| (noun) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | Synonyms: burden, core, essence, gist |
| (noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: consequence, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot |
| (noun) a symptom caused by an illness or a drug | - |
| (verb) produce | Synonyms: effectuate, set up |
| (verb) act so as to bring into existence | - |
| effected | (adjective) settled securely and unconditionally | Synonyms: accomplished, established |
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| effecter | (noun) one who brings about a result or event; one who accomplishes a purpose | Synonyms: effector |
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| effective | (adjective) producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect | Synonyms: effectual, efficacious |
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| (adjective) existing in fact; not theoretical; real | - |
| (adjective) able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively | Synonyms: efficient |
| (adjective) works well as a means or remedy | - |
| (adjective) ready for service | - |
| (adjective) exerting force or influence | Synonyms: good, in effect, in force |
| effectively | (adverb) in actuality or reality or fact | Synonyms: in effect |
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| (adverb) in an effective manner | Synonyms: efficaciously |
| effectiveness | (noun) power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Synonyms: effectivity, effectuality, effectualness |
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| (noun) capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects | Synonyms: potency, strength |
| effectivity | (noun) power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Synonyms: effectiveness, effectuality, effectualness |
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| effector | (noun) an organ (a gland or muscle) that becomes active in response to nerve impulses | - |
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| (noun) a nerve fiber that terminates on a muscle or gland and stimulates contraction or secretion | - |
| (noun) one who brings about a result or event; one who accomplishes a purpose | Synonyms: effecter |
| effects | (noun) property of a personal character that is portable but not used in business | Synonyms: personal effects |
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| effectual | (adjective) producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect | Synonyms: effective, efficacious |
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| (adjective) having legal efficacy or force | Synonyms: legal, sound |
| effectuality | (noun) power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Synonyms: effectiveness, effectivity, effectualness |
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| effectually | (adverb) in an effectual manner | - |
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| effectualness | (noun) power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Synonyms: effectiveness, effectivity, effectuality |
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| effectuate | (verb) produce | Synonyms: effect, set up |
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