| 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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| effectuation | (noun) the act of implementing (providing a practical means for accomplishing something); carrying into effect | Synonyms: implementation |
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| effeminacy | (noun) the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man) | Synonyms: effeminateness, sissiness, softness, unmanliness, womanishness |
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| effeminate | (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: cissy, emasculate, epicene, sissified, sissy, sissyish |
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| effeminateness | (noun) the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man) | Synonyms: effeminacy, sissiness, softness, unmanliness, womanishness |
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| effeminise | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminize, feminise, feminize, womanize |
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| effeminize | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminise, feminise, feminize, womanize |
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| effendi | (noun) a former Turkish term of respect; especially for government officials | - |
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| efferent | (adjective) of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS | Synonyms: motorial |
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| (noun) a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands | Synonyms: efferent nerve, motor nerve |
| effervesce | (verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: fizz, foam, form bubbles, froth, sparkle |
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| effervescence | (noun) the property of giving off bubbles | Synonyms: bubbliness, frothiness |
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| (noun) the process of bubbling as gas escapes | - |
| effervescent | (adjective) (of a liquid) giving off bubbles | - |
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| (adjective) used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: sparkling |
| (adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: bubbling, frothy, scintillating, sparkly |
| effervescing | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, bubbly, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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| effete | (adjective) deprived of vigor and the ability to be effective | - |
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| (adjective) affected, overrefined, and effeminate | - |
| efficacious | (adjective) marked by qualities giving the power to produce an intended effect | - |
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| (adjective) producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect | Synonyms: effective, effectual |
| efficaciously | (adverb) in an effective manner | Synonyms: effectively |
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| efficaciousness | (noun) capacity or power to produce a desired effect | Synonyms: efficacy |
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| efficacy | (noun) capacity or power to produce a desired effect | Synonyms: efficaciousness |
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| efficiency | (noun) skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort | - |
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| (noun) the ratio of the output to the input of any system | - |
| efficient | (adjective) being effective without wasting time or effort or expense | - |
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| (adjective) able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively | Synonyms: effective |
| efficiently | (adverb) with efficiency; in an efficient manner | Synonyms: expeditiously |
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| effigy | (noun) a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture) | Synonyms: image, simulacrum |
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| effleurage | (noun) a rhythmic stroking | - |
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| effloresce | (verb) come into or as if into flower | Synonyms: burst forth |
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| (verb) assume crystalline form; become crystallized | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallize |
| (verb) become encrusted with crystals due to evaporation | - |
| efflorescence | (noun) a powdery deposit on a surface | Synonyms: bloom |
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| (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, florescence, flowering, inflorescence |
| (noun) any red eruption of the skin | Synonyms: rash, roseola, skin rash |
| (noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, flower, flush, heyday, peak, prime |
| efflorescent | (adjective) when the bud, or buds, on a plant are bursting into flower | Synonyms: abloom |
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| effluence | (noun) the process of flowing out | Synonyms: efflux, outflow |
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| effluent | (adjective) that is flowing outward | Synonyms: outflowing |
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| (noun) water mixed with waste matter | Synonyms: sewer water, wastewater |
| effluvium | (noun) a foul-smelling outflow or vapor (especially a gaseous waste) | - |
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| efflux | (noun) the process of flowing out | Synonyms: effluence, outflow |
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| effort | (noun) earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Synonyms: attempt, endeavor, endeavour, try |
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| (noun) use of physical or mental energy; hard work | Synonyms: elbow grease, exertion, sweat, travail |
| (noun) a notable achievement | Synonyms: exploit, feat |
| (noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, movement |
| effortful | (adjective) requiring great physical effort | - |
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| effortfulness | (noun) the quality of requiring deliberate effort | - |
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| effortless | (adjective) requiring or apparently requiring no effort | - |
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| (adjective) not showing effort or strain | Synonyms: casual |
| effortlessly | (adverb) without effort or apparent effort | - |
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| effortlessness | (noun) the quality of requiring little effort | - |
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| effrontery | (noun) audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to | Synonyms: assumption, presumption, presumptuousness |
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| effulgence | (noun) the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light | Synonyms: radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shine |
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| effulgent | (adjective) radiating or as if radiating light | Synonyms: beaming, beamy, radiant, refulgent |
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| effuse | (verb) give out or emit (also metaphorically) | - |
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| (verb) flow or spill forth | Synonyms: flow out |
| (verb) pour out liberally | Synonyms: pour out |
| effusion | (noun) flow under pressure | - |
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| (noun) an unrestrained expression of emotion | Synonyms: blowup, ebullition, gush, outburst |
| effusive | (adjective) extravagantly demonstrative | Synonyms: gushing, gushy |
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| (adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbling, burbly, gushing |
| effusively | (adverb) in an effusive manner | - |
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| effusiveness | (noun) a friendly open trait of a talkative person | Synonyms: expansiveness, expansivity |
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