| electroplater | (noun) a plater who uses electrolysis | - |
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| electropositive | (adjective) having a positive charge | Synonyms: positive, positively charged |
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| electroretinogram | (noun) a graphical recording of the electrical activity of the retina that results when light is flashed into the eye | - |
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| electroscope | (noun) measuring instrument that detects electric charge; two gold leaves diverge owing to repulsion of charges with like sign | - |
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| electroshock | (noun) the administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma | Synonyms: ECT, electroconvulsive therapy, electroshock therapy |
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| electrosleep | (noun) unconsciousness brought about by the passage of a low voltage electric current through the brain | - |
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| electrostatic | (adjective) concerned with or producing or caused by static electricity | Synonyms: static |
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| electrostatically | (adverb) in an electrostatic manner | - |
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| electrostatics | (noun) the branch of physics that deals with static electricity | - |
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| electrosurgery | (noun) surgery performed with electrical devices (as in electrocautery) | - |
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| electrotherapist | (noun) someone who specializes in the treatment of disease by electricity | - |
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| electrotherapy | (noun) the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis) | Synonyms: electric healing, electrical healing, galvanism |
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| electrum | (noun) an alloy of gold and silver | - |
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| eleemosynary | (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: beneficent, benevolent, philanthropic |
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| elegance | (noun) a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste | - |
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| (noun) a quality of neatness and ingenious simplicity in the solution of a problem (especially in science or mathematics) | - |
| elegant | (adjective) refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style | - |
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| (adjective) displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution | - |
| (adjective) suggesting taste, ease, and wealth | Synonyms: graceful, refined |
| elegantly | (adverb) with elegance; in a tastefully elegant manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a gracefully elegant manner | - |
| elegiac | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy | - |
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| (adjective) expressing sorrow often for something past | - |
| elegise | (verb) compose an elegy | Synonyms: elegize |
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| elegist | (noun) the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead | - |
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| elegize | (verb) compose an elegy | Synonyms: elegise |
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| elegy | (noun) a mournful poem; a lament for the dead | Synonyms: lament |
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| element | (noun) an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system | Synonyms: component, constituent |
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| (noun) an abstract part of something | Synonyms: component, constituent, factor, ingredient |
| (noun) the most favorable environment for a plant or animal | - |
| (noun) a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone | - |
| (noun) the situation in which you are happiest and most effective | - |
| (noun) any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter | Synonyms: chemical element |
| (noun) one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe | - |
| elemental | (adjective) relating to or being an element | - |
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| (adjective) relating to severe atmospheric conditions | - |
| (adjective) of or being the essential or basic part | Synonyms: basal, elementary, primary |
| elementarily | (adverb) in an elementary manner | - |
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| elementary | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of elementary school or elementary education | - |
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| (adjective) of or being the essential or basic part | Synonyms: basal, elemental, primary |
| (adjective) easy and not involved or complicated | Synonyms: simple, uncomplicated, unproblematic |
| elements | (noun) violent or severe weather (viewed as caused by the action of the four elements) | - |
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| elemi | (noun) fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense | Synonyms: gum elemi |
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| elephant | (noun) five-toed pachyderm | - |
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| (noun) the symbol of the Republican Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874 | - |
| elephantiasis | (noun) hypertrophy of certain body parts (usually legs and scrotum); the end state of the disease filariasis | - |
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| elephantine | (adjective) of great mass; huge and bulky | Synonyms: gargantuan, giant, jumbo |
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| elevate | (verb) raise in rank or condition | Synonyms: lift, raise |
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| (verb) raise from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: bring up, get up, lift, raise |
| (verb) give a promotion to or assign to a higher position | Synonyms: advance, kick upstairs, promote, raise, upgrade |
| elevated | (adjective) increased in amount or degree | Synonyms: raised |
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| (adjective) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style | Synonyms: exalted, grand, high-flown, high-minded, idealistic, lofty, noble-minded, rarefied, rarified, sublime |
| (adjective) raised above the ground | - |
| (noun) a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level | Synonyms: el, elevated railroad, elevated railway, overhead railway |
| elevation | (noun) the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something | Synonyms: aggrandisement, aggrandizement |
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| (noun) drawing of an exterior of a structure | - |
| (noun) distance of something above a reference point (such as sea level) | - |
| (noun) (ballet) the height of a dancer's leap or jump | - |
| (noun) the event of something being raised upward | Synonyms: lift, raising |
| (noun) a raised or elevated geological formation | Synonyms: natural elevation |
| (noun) angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object) | Synonyms: ALT, altitude, EL |
| (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, height, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
| elevator | (noun) lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building | Synonyms: lift |
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| (noun) the airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend or descend | - |
| eleven | (adjective) being one more than ten | Synonyms: 11, xi |
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| (noun) a team that plays football | Synonyms: football team |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and one | Synonyms: 11, XI |
| eleventh | (adjective) coming next after the tenth and just before the twelfth in position | Synonyms: 11th |
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| (noun) position 11 in a countable series of things | - |
| elf | (noun) (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous | Synonyms: brownie, gremlin, hob, imp, pixie, pixy |
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| elfin | (adjective) relating to or made or done by or as if by an elf | - |
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| (adjective) usually good-naturedly mischievous | Synonyms: elfish, elvish |
| (adjective) small and delicate | Synonyms: elflike |
| (adjective) suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness | Synonyms: fey |
| elfish | (adjective) usually good-naturedly mischievous | Synonyms: elfin, elvish |
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| elflike | (adjective) small and delicate | Synonyms: elfin |
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| elicit | (verb) derive by reason | - |
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| (verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, educe, evoke, extract |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
| elicitation | (noun) stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors | Synonyms: evocation, induction |
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| elicited | (adjective) called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation | Synonyms: evoked |
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| elide | (verb) leave or strike out | - |
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| eligibility | (noun) the quality or state of being eligible | - |
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| eligible | (adjective) qualified for or allowed or worthy of being chosen | - |
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| eliminate | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: egest, excrete, pass |
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| (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
| (verb) terminate, end, or take out | Synonyms: do away with, extinguish, get rid of |
| (verb) remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations | - |
| (verb) dismiss from consideration or a contest | Synonyms: reject, rule out, winnow out |
| (verb) remove from a contest or race | - |
| (verb) get rid of something | Synonyms: obviate, rid of |
| elimination | (noun) the murder of a competitor | Synonyms: liquidation |
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| (noun) the act of removing or getting rid of something | Synonyms: riddance |
| (noun) the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations | - |
| (noun) analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives | Synonyms: reasoning by elimination |
| (noun) the bodily process of discharging waste matter | Synonyms: evacuation, excreting, excretion, voiding |
| eliminator | (noun) an agent that eliminates something | - |
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| elision | (noun) a deliberate act of omission | Synonyms: exception, exclusion |
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| (noun) omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next) | - |
| elite | (adjective) selected as the best | Synonyms: elect |
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| (noun) a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status | Synonyms: elite group |
| elitism | (noun) the attitude that society should be governed by an elite group of individuals | - |
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| elitist | (noun) someone who believes in rule by an elite group | - |
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| elixir | (noun) a substance believed to cure all ills | - |
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| (noun) a sweet flavored liquid (usually containing a small amount of alcohol) used in compounding medicines to be taken by mouth in order to mask an unpleasant taste | - |
| (noun) hypothetical substance that the alchemists believed to be capable of changing base metals into gold | Synonyms: philosopher's stone, philosophers' stone |
| elk | (noun) large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America | Synonyms: Alces alces, moose |
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| (noun) common deer of temperate Europe and Asia | Synonyms: American elk, Cervus elaphus, red deer, wapiti |
| (noun) large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male | Synonyms: American elk, Cervus elaphus canadensis, wapiti |
| elkhound | (noun) breed of compact medium-sized dog with a heavy grey coat developed in Norway for hunting elk | Synonyms: Norwegian elkhound |
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| elkwood | (noun) small deciduous tree of eastern North America having creamy white flowers and large leaves in formations like umbrellas at the ends of branches | Synonyms: elk-wood, Magnolia tripetala, umbrella magnolia, umbrella tree |
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| ell | (noun) an extension at the end and at right angles to the main building | - |
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| ellipse | (noun) a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it | Synonyms: oval |
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| ellipsis | (noun) omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences | Synonyms: eclipsis |
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| ellipsoid | (adjective) having the nature or shape of an ellipsoid | Synonyms: ellipsoidal, spheroidal |
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| (noun) a surface whose plane sections are all ellipses or circles | - |
| ellipsoidal | (adjective) having the nature or shape of an ellipsoid | Synonyms: ellipsoid, spheroidal |
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| elliptic | (adjective) characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements | Synonyms: elliptical |
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| (adjective) rounded like an egg | Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptical, oval-shaped, oval, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate |
| (adjective) (of a leaf shape) in the form of an ellipse | - |
| elliptical | (adjective) characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements | Synonyms: elliptic |
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| (adjective) rounded like an egg | Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptic, oval-shaped, oval, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate |
| ellipticity | (noun) the property possessed by a round shape that is flattened at the poles | Synonyms: oblateness |
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| ellwand | (noun) a rod an ell long, used for official measurement. | Synonyms: ell-wand |
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| elm | (noun) any of various trees of the genus Ulmus: important timber or shade trees | Synonyms: elm tree |
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| (noun) hard tough wood of an elm tree; used for e.g. implements and furniture | Synonyms: elmwood |
| elmwood | (noun) hard tough wood of an elm tree; used for e.g. implements and furniture | Synonyms: elm |
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| elocute | (verb) declaim in an elocutionary manner | - |
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| elocution | (noun) an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture | - |
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| elocutionary | (adjective) of or relating to elocution | - |
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| (adjective) (used of style of speaking) overly embellished | - |
| elocutionist | (noun) a public speaker trained in voice production and gesture and delivery | - |
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| elongate | (adjective) having notably more length than width; being long and slender | Synonyms: elongated |
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| (adjective) (of a leaf shape) long and narrow | Synonyms: linear |
| (verb) make long or longer by pulling and stretching | Synonyms: stretch |
| elongated | (adjective) having notably more length than width; being long and slender | Synonyms: elongate |
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| (adjective) drawn out or made longer spatially | Synonyms: extended, lengthened, prolonged |
| elongation | (noun) the act of lengthening something | - |
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| (noun) an addition to the length of something | Synonyms: extension |
| (noun) the quality of being elongated | - |
| elope | (verb) run away secretly with one's beloved | Synonyms: run off |
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| elopement | (noun) the act of running away with a lover (usually to get married) | - |
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| eloquence | (noun) powerful and effective language | Synonyms: fluency, smoothness |
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| eloquent | (adjective) expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively | Synonyms: facile, fluent, silver-tongued, silver, smooth-spoken |
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| eloquently | (adverb) with eloquence | Synonyms: articulately |
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| (adverb) in an articulate manner | Synonyms: articulately |
| elsewhere | (adverb) in or to another place | - |
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| elsholtzia | (noun) any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Elsholtzia having blue or purple flowers in one-sided spikes | - |
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| eluate | (noun) a liquid solution that results from elution | - |
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| elucidate | (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
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| (verb) make clear and (more) comprehensible | Synonyms: clarify, clear up |
| elucidation | (noun) an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding | Synonyms: clarification, illumination |
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| (noun) an act of explaining that serves to clear up and cast light on | - |
| elucidative | (adjective) that makes clear | Synonyms: clarifying |
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| elucubration | (noun) a written work produced by elucubrating. | - |
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| elude | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) escape, either physically or mentally | Synonyms: bilk, evade |
| (verb) be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by | Synonyms: escape |
| eluding | (noun) the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning) | Synonyms: elusion, slip |
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| elusion | (noun) the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning) | Synonyms: eluding, slip |
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| elusive | (adjective) skillful at eluding capture | - |
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| (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: baffling, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough |
| (adjective) difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze | Synonyms: subtle |
| (adjective) difficult to describe | - |
| elusiveness | (noun) the quality of being difficult to grasp or pin down | - |
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| elute | (verb) wash out with a solvent, as in chromatography | - |
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| elution | (noun) the process of extracting one material from another by washing with a solvent to remove adsorbed material from an adsorbent (as in washing of loaded ion-exchange resins to remove captured ions); used to obtain uranium ions | - |
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| elver | (noun) young eel | - |
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| (noun) young eel; may be sauteed or batter-fried | - |
| elves | (noun) an acronym for emissions of light and very low frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources; extremely bright extremely short (less than a msec) electrical flashes forming a huge ring (up to 400 km diameter) in the ionosphere | - |
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| elvish | (adjective) usually good-naturedly mischievous | Synonyms: elfin, elfish |
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| elysian | (adjective) relating to the Elysian Fields | - |
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| (adjective) being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods | Synonyms: divine, inspired |
| elytron | (noun) either of the horny front wings in beetles and some other insects which cover and protect the functional hind wings | Synonyms: wing case |
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