| elaborate | (adjective) developed or executed with care and in minute detail | Synonyms: detailed, elaborated |
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| (adjective) marked by complexity and richness of detail | Synonyms: luxuriant |
| (verb) make more complex, intricate, or richer | Synonyms: complicate, rarify, refine |
| (verb) work out in detail | Synonyms: work out |
| (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
| (verb) produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product | - |
| elaborated | (adjective) developed or executed with care and in minute detail | Synonyms: detailed, elaborate |
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| elaborately | (adverb) with elaboration | Synonyms: in an elaborate way, intricately |
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| elaborateness | (noun) marked by elaborately complex detail | Synonyms: elaboration, intricacy, involution |
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| (noun) an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated | Synonyms: ornateness |
| elaboration | (noun) developing in intricate and painstaking detail | Synonyms: working out |
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| (noun) addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail | Synonyms: amplification |
| (noun) marked by elaborately complex detail | Synonyms: elaborateness, intricacy, involution |
| (noun) a discussion that provides additional information | Synonyms: enlargement, expansion |
| (noun) the result of improving something | Synonyms: refinement |
| elan | (noun) enthusiastic and assured vigor and liveliness | - |
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| (noun) distinctive and stylish elegance | Synonyms: dash, flair, panache, style |
| (noun) a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause) | Synonyms: ardor, ardour, zeal |
| eland | (noun) either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes | - |
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| elaphure | (noun) large Chinese deer surviving only in domesticated herds | Synonyms: Elaphurus davidianus, pere david's deer |
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| elapid | (noun) any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres | Synonyms: elapid snake |
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| elapse | (verb) for time to move forward | Synonyms: glide by, go along, go by, lapse, pass, slide by, slip away, slip by |
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| elapsed | (adjective) (of time) having passed or slipped by | - |
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| elasmobranch | (noun) any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid scales: sharks, rays, skates | Synonyms: selachian |
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| elastance | (noun) The capacity of a dielectric for opposing an electric charge | Synonyms: electrical elastance |
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| elastase | (noun) a pancreatic enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of elastin | - |
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| elastic | (adjective) capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression; springy | - |
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| (adjective) able to adjust readily to different conditions | Synonyms: flexible, pliable, pliant |
| (noun) a fabric made of yarns containing an elastic material | - |
| (noun) a narrow band of elastic rubber used to hold things (such as papers) together | Synonyms: elastic band, rubber band |
| elasticised | (adjective) made with strands or inserts of elastic | Synonyms: elasticized |
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| elasticity | (noun) the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed | Synonyms: snap |
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| elasticized | (adjective) made with strands or inserts of elastic | Synonyms: elasticised |
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| elastin | (noun) a fibrous scleroprotein found in elastic tissues such as the walls of arteries | - |
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| elastomer | (noun) any of various elastic materials that resemble rubber (resumes its original shape when a deforming force is removed) | - |
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| elastosis | (noun) breakdown of elastic tissue (as the loss of elasticity in the skin of elderly people that results from degeneration of connective tissue) | - |
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| elate | (verb) fill with high spirits; fill with optimism | Synonyms: intoxicate, lift up, pick up, uplift |
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| elated | (adjective) exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits | - |
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| (adjective) full of high-spirited delight | Synonyms: gleeful, joyful, jubilant |
| elater | (noun) any of various widely distributed beetles | Synonyms: elaterid, elaterid beetle |
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| elaterid | (noun) any of various widely distributed beetles | Synonyms: elater, elaterid beetle |
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| elating | (adjective) making lively and joyful | Synonyms: exhilarating |
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| elation | (noun) a feeling of joy and pride | Synonyms: high spirits, lightness |
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| (noun) an exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism; an absence of depression | - |