| enlighten | (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
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| (verb) make understand | Synonyms: edify |
| (verb) give spiritual insight to; in religion | Synonyms: irradiate |
| enlightened | (adjective) having knowledge and spiritual insight | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved | Synonyms: educated |
| (noun) people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity | Synonyms: initiate |
| 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 |
| enlightenment | (noun) education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge | - |
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| (noun) (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness | Synonyms: nirvana |
| enlist | (verb) join the military | - |
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| (verb) engage somebody to enter the army | Synonyms: draft, muster in |
| (verb) hire for work or assistance | Synonyms: engage |
| enlistee | (noun) any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces) | Synonyms: recruit |
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| 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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| enlistment | (noun) the act of enlisting (as in a military service) | - |
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| (noun) a period of time spent in military service | Synonyms: duty tour, hitch, term of enlistment, tour, tour of duty |
| enliven | (verb) make lively | Synonyms: animate, invigorate, liven, liven up |
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| (verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: animate, exalt, inspire, invigorate |
| enlivened | (adjective) made sprightly or cheerful | - |
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| (adjective) made lively or spirited | Synonyms: spirited |
| enlivener | (noun) an agent that gives or restores life or vigor | Synonyms: invigorator, quickener |
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| enlivening | (adjective) giving spirit and vivacity | Synonyms: animating |
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| enmesh | (verb) entangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh | Synonyms: ensnarl, mesh |
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| enmeshed | (adjective) caught as if in a mesh | Synonyms: intermeshed |
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| enmity | (noun) the feeling of a hostile person | Synonyms: hostility, ill will |
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| (noun) a state of deep-seated ill-will | Synonyms: antagonism, hostility |
| ennead | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one | Synonyms: 9, IX, Nina from Carolina, nine, niner |
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| ennoble | (verb) give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility | Synonyms: entitle, gentle |
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| (verb) confer dignity or honor upon | Synonyms: dignify |
| ennoblement | (noun) the act of raising someone to the nobility | - |
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| (noun) the state of being noble | - |
| ennobling | (adjective) tending to exalt | Synonyms: exalting |
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| (adjective) investing with dignity or honor | Synonyms: dignifying |
| ennui | (noun) the feeling of being bored by something tedious | Synonyms: boredom, tedium |
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| enol | (noun) an organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom | - |
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| enolic | (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of enol | - |
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| enologist | (noun) a specialist in wine making | Synonyms: fermentologist, oenologist |
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| enology | (noun) the art of wine making | Synonyms: oenology |
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| enophile | (noun) someone who appreciates wine | Synonyms: oenophile |
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| enormity | (noun) an act of extreme wickedness | - |
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| (noun) the quality of extreme wickedness | - |
| (noun) the quality of being outrageous | Synonyms: outrageousness |
| (noun) vastness of size or extent | - |
| enormous | (adjective) extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree | Synonyms: tremendous |
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| enormously | (adverb) vastly | Synonyms: hugely, staggeringly, tremendously |
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| enormousness | (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness |
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| enosis | (noun) the union of Greece and Cyprus (which is the goal of a group of Greek Cypriots) | - |
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| enough | (adjective) sufficient for the purpose | Synonyms: adequate |
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| (noun) an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose | Synonyms: sufficiency |
| (adverb) as much as necessary | Synonyms: plenty |
| enounce | (verb) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | Synonyms: articulate, enunciate, pronounce, say, sound out |
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| enplane | (verb) board a plane | Synonyms: emplane |
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| enquire | (verb) have a wish or desire to know something | Synonyms: inquire, wonder |
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| (verb) address a question to and expect an answer from | Synonyms: ask, inquire |
| (verb) conduct an inquiry or investigation of | Synonyms: inquire, investigate |
| enquirer | (noun) someone who asks a question | Synonyms: asker, inquirer, querier, questioner |
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| enquiringly | (adverb) in an inquiring manner | Synonyms: inquiringly |
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| enquiry | (noun) a systematic investigation of a matter of public interest | Synonyms: inquiry |
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| (noun) a search for knowledge | Synonyms: inquiry, research |
| (noun) an instance of questioning | Synonyms: inquiry, interrogation, query, question |
| enrage | (verb) put into a rage; make violently angry | - |
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| enraged | (adjective) marked by extreme anger | Synonyms: angered, furious, infuriated, maddened |
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| enragement | (noun) a feeling of intense anger and impatience | Synonyms: infuriation |
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| enrapture | (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enthral, enthrall, ravish, transport |
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| enraptured | (adjective) feeling great rapture or delight | Synonyms: ecstatic, rapt, rapturous, rhapsodic |
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| enrich | (verb) make better or improve in quality | - |
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| (verb) make wealthy or richer | - |
| enrichment | (noun) act of making fuller or more meaningful or rewarding | - |
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| (noun) a gift that significantly increases the recipient's wealth | - |
| enrobe | (verb) adorn with a robe | - |
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| (verb) provide with a coating | - |
| enrol | (verb) register formally as a participant or member | Synonyms: enroll, enter, inscribe, raise, recruit |
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| enroll | (verb) register formally as a participant or member | Synonyms: enrol, enter, inscribe, raise, recruit |
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| enrollee | (noun) a person who enrolls in (or is enrolled in) a class or course of study | - |
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| enrollment | (noun) the act of enrolling | Synonyms: enrolment, registration |
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| (noun) the body of people (such as students) who register or enroll at the same time | Synonyms: registration |
| enrolment | (noun) the act of enrolling | Synonyms: enrollment, registration |
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| ensconce | (verb) fix firmly | Synonyms: settle |
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| ensemble | (noun) a coordinated outfit (set of clothing) | - |
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| (noun) the chorus of a ballet company | Synonyms: corps de ballet |
| (noun) a group of musicians playing or singing together | - |
| (noun) an assemblage of parts or details (as in a work of art) considered as forming a whole | Synonyms: tout ensemble |
| (noun) a cast other than the principals | Synonyms: supporting players |
| enshrine | (verb) enclose in a shrine | Synonyms: shrine |
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| (verb) hold sacred | Synonyms: saint |
| enshroud | (verb) cover as if with a shroud | Synonyms: cover, hide, shroud |
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| ensiform | (adjective) shaped like a sword blade | Synonyms: bladelike, sword-shaped, swordlike |
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| ensign | (noun) colors flown by a ship to show its nationality | - |
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| (noun) an emblem flown as a symbol of nationality | Synonyms: national flag |
| (noun) a person who holds a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant junior grade | - |
| ensilage | (noun) fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo | Synonyms: silage |
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| ensile | (verb) store in a silo | - |
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| ensky | (verb) exalt to the skies; lift to the skies or to heaven with praise | - |
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| enslave | (verb) make a slave of; bring into servitude | - |
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| enslavement | (noun) the act of making slaves of your captives | - |
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| (noun) the state of being a slave | Synonyms: captivity |
| ensnare | (verb) catch in or as if in a trap | Synonyms: entrap, snare, trammel, trap |
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| (verb) take or catch as if in a snare or trap | Synonyms: entrap, frame, set up |
| ensnarl | (verb) entangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh | Synonyms: enmesh, mesh |
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| ensorcelled | (adjective) captured, as if under a spell | Synonyms: bewitched |
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| ensuant | (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, collateral, concomitant, consequent, incidental, resultant, sequent |
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| ensue | (verb) issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end | Synonyms: result |
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| ensuing | (adjective) following immediately and as a result of what went before | - |
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| ensure | (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: ascertain, assure, check, control, insure, see, see to it |
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| (verb) make certain of | Synonyms: assure, guarantee, insure, secure |
| entablature | (noun) (architecture) the structure consisting of the part of a classical temple above the columns between a capital and the roof | - |
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| entail | (noun) the act of entailing property; the creation of a fee tail from a fee simple | - |
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| (noun) land received by fee tail | - |
| (verb) limit the inheritance of property to a specific class of heirs | Synonyms: fee-tail |
| (verb) impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result | Synonyms: implicate |
| (verb) have as a logical consequence | Synonyms: imply, mean |
| entailment | (noun) something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied) | Synonyms: deduction, implication |
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| entangle | (verb) twist together or entwine into a confusing mass | Synonyms: mat, snarl, tangle |
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| (verb) entrap | Synonyms: mire |
| entangled | (adjective) deeply involved especially in something complicated | Synonyms: embroiled |
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| (adjective) involved in difficulties | - |
| (adjective) twisted together in a tangled mass | - |
| entanglement | (noun) an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim | Synonyms: web |
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| entasis | (noun) a slight convexity in the shaft of a column; compensates for the illusion of concavity that viewers experience when the sides are perfectly straight | - |
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| entelechy | (noun) (Aristotle) the state of something that is fully realized; actuality as opposed to potentiality | - |
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| entellus | (noun) langur of southern Asia; regarded as sacred in India | Synonyms: hanuman, Presbytes entellus, Semnopithecus entellus |
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| entente | (noun) a friendly understanding between political powers | Synonyms: entente cordiale |
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| (noun) an informal alliance between countries | Synonyms: entente cordiale |
| enter | (verb) set out on (an enterprise or subject of study) | Synonyms: embark |
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| (verb) make a record of; set down in permanent form | Synonyms: put down, record |
| (verb) become a participant; be involved in | Synonyms: participate |
| (verb) put or introduce into something | Synonyms: infix, insert, introduce |
| (verb) come on stage | - |
| (verb) to come or go into | Synonyms: come in, get in, get into, go in, go into, move into |
| (verb) take on duties or office | Synonyms: accede |
| (verb) register formally as a participant or member | Synonyms: enrol, enroll, inscribe, raise, recruit |
| (verb) be or play a part of or in | Synonyms: figure |
| enteral | (adjective) of or relating to the enteron | Synonyms: enteric |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or inside the intestines | Synonyms: enteric, intestinal |
| enteric | (adjective) of or relating to the enteron | Synonyms: enteral |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or inside the intestines | Synonyms: enteral, intestinal |
| enterics | (noun) rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria; most occur normally or pathogenically in intestines of humans and other animals | Synonyms: enteric bacteria, enterobacteria, entric |
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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 |
| enteritis | (noun) inflammation of the intestine (especially the small intestine); usually characterized by diarrhea | - |
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| enterobacteria | (noun) rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria; most occur normally or pathogenically in intestines of humans and other animals | Synonyms: enteric bacteria, enterics, entric |
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| enterobiasis | (noun) an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by the pinworm Enterobius vermicularis; occurs especially in children | - |
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| enteroceptor | (noun) any receptor that responds to stimuli inside the body | Synonyms: interoceptor |
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| enterokinase | (noun) enzyme in the intestinal juice that converts inactive trypsinogen into active trypsin | - |
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| enterolith | (noun) a calculus occurring in the intestines | - |
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| enterolithiasis | (noun) the presence of calculi in the intestines | - |
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| enteron | (noun) the alimentary canal (especially of an embryo or a coelenterate) | - |
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| enteropathy | (noun) a disease of the intestinal tract | - |
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| enteroptosis | (noun) an abnormally downward position of the intestines in the abdominal cavity | - |
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| enteroscope | (noun) an instrument for inspecting the inside of the intestine. | - |
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| enterostenosis | (noun) abnormal narrowing of the intestine | - |
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| enterostomy | (noun) surgical operation that creates a permanent opening through the abdominal wall into the intestine | Synonyms: enterotomy |
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| enterotomy | (noun) surgical operation that creates a permanent opening through the abdominal wall into the intestine | Synonyms: enterostomy |
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| enterotoxemia | (noun) a disease of cattle and sheep that is attributed to toxins absorbed from the intestines | - |
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| enterotoxin | (noun) a cytotoxin specific for the cells of the intestinal mucosa | - |
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| enterovirus | (noun) any of a group of picornaviruses that infect the gastrointestinal tract and can spread to other areas (especially the nervous system) | - |
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