| enterprise | (noun) a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness) | Synonyms: endeavor, endeavour |
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| (noun) readiness to embark on bold new ventures | Synonyms: enterprisingness, go-ahead, initiative |
| (noun) an organization created for business ventures | - |
| enterpriser | (noun) someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it | Synonyms: entrepreneur |
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| enterprising | (adjective) marked by imagination, initiative, and readiness to undertake new projects | - |
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| enterprisingly | (adverb) in an enterprising manner | - |
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| enterprisingness | (noun) readiness to embark on bold new ventures | Synonyms: enterprise, go-ahead, initiative |
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| entertain | (verb) take into consideration, have in view | Synonyms: flirt with, think about, think of, toy with |
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| (verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | Synonyms: bear, harbor, harbour, hold, nurse |
| (verb) provide entertainment for | - |
| entertained | (adjective) pleasantly occupied | Synonyms: amused, diverted |
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| entertainer | (noun) a person who tries to please or amuse | - |
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| entertaining | (adjective) agreeably diverting | - |
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| entertainingly | (adverb) in an entertaining manner | - |
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| entertainment | (noun) an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention | Synonyms: amusement |
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| enthalpy | (noun) (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity equal to the internal energy of a system plus the product of its volume and pressure | Synonyms: H, heat content, total heat |
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| enthral | (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthrall, ravish, transport |
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| enthrall | (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, ravish, transport |
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| enthralled | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: beguiled, captivated, charmed, delighted, entranced |
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| enthralling | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, captivating, enchanting, entrancing, fascinating |
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| enthrallingly | (adverb) in a bewitching manner | Synonyms: bewitchingly, captivatingly, enchantingly |
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| enthrallment | (noun) a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual | Synonyms: captivation, enchantment, fascination |
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| enthrone | (verb) put a monarch on the throne | Synonyms: throne |
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| (verb) provide with power and authority | Synonyms: invest, vest |
| enthronement | (noun) the ceremony of installing a new monarch | Synonyms: coronation, enthronisation, enthronization, investiture |
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| enthronisation | (noun) the ceremony of installing a new monarch | Synonyms: coronation, enthronement, enthronization, investiture |
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| enthronization | (noun) the ceremony of installing a new monarch | Synonyms: coronation, enthronement, enthronisation, investiture |
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| enthuse | (verb) utter with enthusiasm | - |
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| (verb) cause to feel enthusiasm | - |
| enthusiasm | (noun) overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval | Synonyms: ebullience, exuberance |
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| (noun) a lively interest | - |
| (noun) a feeling of excitement | - |
| enthusiast | (noun) an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity | Synonyms: partisan, partizan |
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| (noun) a person having a strong liking for something | Synonyms: fancier |
| enthusiastic | (adjective) having or showing great excitement and interest | - |
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| enthusiastically | (adverb) with enthusiasm; in an enthusiastic manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a lavish or enthusiastic manner | Synonyms: sky-high |
| entice | (verb) provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion | Synonyms: lure, tempt |
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| enticement | (noun) the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire | Synonyms: temptation |
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| (noun) qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward | Synonyms: come-on, lure |
| (noun) something that seduces or has the quality to seduce | Synonyms: temptation |
| enticing | (adjective) highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire | Synonyms: alluring, beguiling, tempting |
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| entire | (adjective) (of leaves or petals) having a smooth edge; not broken up into teeth or lobes | - |
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| (adjective) (used of domestic animals) sexually competent | Synonyms: intact |
| (adjective) constituting the full quantity or extent; complete | Synonyms: full, total |
| (adjective) constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged | Synonyms: intact, integral |
| (noun) uncastrated adult male horse | Synonyms: stallion |
| entirely | (adverb) to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent; Completely or entirely | Synonyms: all, altogether, completely, right, totally, whole, wholly |
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| (adverb) without any others being included or involved | Synonyms: alone, exclusively, only, solely |
| entireness | (noun) the state of being total and complete | Synonyms: entirety, integrality, totality |
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| entirety | (noun) the state of being total and complete | Synonyms: entireness, integrality, totality |
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| entitle | (verb) give a title to | Synonyms: title |
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| (verb) give the right to | - |
| (verb) give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility | Synonyms: ennoble, gentle |
| entitled | (adjective) qualified for by right according to law | - |
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| entitlement | (noun) right granted by law or contract (especially a right to benefits) | - |
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| entity | (noun) that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) | - |
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| entoblast | (noun) the inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems | Synonyms: endoblast, endoderm, entoderm, hypoblast |
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| entoderm | (noun) the inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems | Synonyms: endoblast, endoderm, entoblast, hypoblast |
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| entomb | (verb) place in a grave or tomb | Synonyms: bury, inhume, inter, lay to rest |
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| entombment | (noun) the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave | Synonyms: burial, inhumation, interment, sepulture |
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| entomion | (noun) the craniometric point at the tip of the angular part of the parietal bone that articulates with the temporal bone | - |
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| entomologic | (adjective) of or relating to the biological science of entomology | Synonyms: entomological |
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| entomological | (adjective) of or relating to the biological science of entomology | Synonyms: entomologic |
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| entomologist | (noun) a zoologist who studies insects | Synonyms: bug-hunter, bugologist |
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| entomology | (noun) the branch of zoology that studies insects | Synonyms: bugology |
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| entomophilous | (adjective) of flowering plants (especially orchids etc) that are pollinated by insects | - |
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| entomophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of insects | - |
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| entoparasite | (noun) any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) | Synonyms: endoparasite, endozoan, entozoan, entozoon |
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| entoproct | (noun) any of various moss-like aquatic animals usually forming branching colonies; each polyp having a both mouth and anus within a closed ring of tentacles | - |
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| entourage | (noun) the group following and attending to some important person | Synonyms: cortege, retinue, suite |
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| entozoan | (adjective) living within a living animal usually as a parasite | Synonyms: endozoic, entozoic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to entozoa | Synonyms: endozoan |
| (noun) any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) | Synonyms: endoparasite, endozoan, entoparasite, entozoon |
| entozoic | (adjective) living within a living animal usually as a parasite | Synonyms: endozoic, entozoan |
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| entozoon | (noun) any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) | Synonyms: endoparasite, endozoan, entoparasite, entozoan |
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| entrails | (noun) internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity) | Synonyms: innards, insides, viscera |
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| entrain | (verb) board a train | - |
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| entrance | (noun) the act of entering | Synonyms: entering, entry, incoming, ingress |
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| (noun) something that provides access (to get in or get out) | Synonyms: entranceway, entree, entry, entryway |
| (noun) a movement into or inward | Synonyms: entering |
| (verb) put into a trance | Synonyms: spellbind |
| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, fascinate, trance |
| entranced | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: beguiled, captivated, charmed, delighted, enthralled |
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| entrancement | (noun) a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment | Synonyms: ravishment |
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| entranceway | (noun) something that provides access (to get in or get out) | Synonyms: entrance, entree, entry, entryway |
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| entrancing | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, captivating, enchanting, enthralling, fascinating |
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| entrant | (noun) a commodity that enters competition with established merchandise | - |
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| (noun) one who enters a competition | - |
| (noun) any new participant in some activity | Synonyms: fledgeling, fledgling, freshman, neophyte, newbie, newcomer, starter |
| (noun) someone who enters | - |
| entrap | (verb) catch in or as if in a trap | Synonyms: ensnare, snare, trammel, trap |
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| (verb) take or catch as if in a snare or trap | Synonyms: ensnare, frame, set up |
| entrapment | (noun) a defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials | - |
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| entreat | (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, beseech, bid, conjure, press |
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| entreatingly | (adverb) in a beseeching manner | Synonyms: beseechingly, imploringly, importunately, pleadingly |
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| entreaty | (noun) earnest or urgent request | Synonyms: appeal, prayer |
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| entrecote | (noun) cut of meat taken from between the ribs | - |
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| entree | (noun) an entrance, especially a theatrical entrance onto a stage or as if onto a stage | - |
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| (noun) something that provides access (to get in or get out) | Synonyms: entrance, entranceway, entry, entryway |
| (noun) the right to enter | Synonyms: access, accession, admission, admittance |
| (noun) the principal dish of a meal | Synonyms: main course |
| entremets | (noun) a dish that is served with, but is subordinate to, a main course | Synonyms: side dish, side order |
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| entrench | (verb) fix firmly or securely | Synonyms: intrench |
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| (verb) occupy a trench or secured area | Synonyms: dig in |
| (verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: encroach, impinge, trench |
| entrenched | (adjective) established firmly and securely | - |
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| (adjective) dug in | - |
| entrenchment | (noun) an entrenched fortification; a position protected by trenches | Synonyms: intrenchment |
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| entrepot | (noun) a depository for goods | Synonyms: depot, storage, store, storehouse |
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| (noun) a port where merchandise can be imported and then exported without paying import duties | Synonyms: transshipment center |
| entrepreneur | (noun) someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it | Synonyms: enterpriser |
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| entrepreneurial | (adjective) of or relating to an entrepreneur | - |
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| (adjective) willing to take risks in order to make a profit | - |
| entresol | (noun) intermediate floor just above the ground floor | Synonyms: mezzanine, mezzanine floor |
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| entric | (noun) rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria; most occur normally or pathogenically in intestines of humans and other animals | Synonyms: enteric bacteria, enterics, enterobacteria |
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| entropy | (noun) (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work | Synonyms: randomness, S |
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| (noun) (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome | Synonyms: information, selective information |
| entrust | (verb) confer a trust upon | Synonyms: commit, confide, intrust, trust |
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| (verb) put into the care or protection of someone | Synonyms: leave |
| entry | (noun) the act of entering | Synonyms: entering, entrance, incoming, ingress |
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| (noun) the act of beginning something new | Synonyms: debut, first appearance, introduction, launching, unveiling |
| (noun) something that provides access (to get in or get out) | Synonyms: entrance, entranceway, entree, entryway |
| (noun) something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition) | Synonyms: submission |
| (noun) an item inserted in a written record | - |
| (noun) a written record of a commercial transaction | Synonyms: accounting entry, ledger entry |
| entryphone | (noun) An intercom system which enables someone, without opening the door, to converse with the person who has rung the doorbell. | - |
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| entryway | (noun) something that provides access (to get in or get out) | Synonyms: entrance, entranceway, entree, entry |
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| entwine | (verb) spin, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: enlace, interlace, intertwine, lace, twine |
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| (verb) tie or link together | Synonyms: knit |
| enucleate | (verb) remove (a tumor or eye) from an enveloping sac or cover | - |
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| (verb) remove the nucleus from (a cell) | - |
| enucleation | (noun) surgical removal of something without cutting into it | - |
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| enumerable | (adjective) that can be counted | Synonyms: countable, denumerable, numerable |
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| enumerate | (verb) specify individually | Synonyms: itemise, itemize, recite |
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| (verb) determine the number or amount of | Synonyms: count, number, numerate |
| enumeration | (noun) the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order | Synonyms: count, counting, numeration, reckoning, tally |
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| (noun) a numbered list | Synonyms: numbering |
| enumerator | (noun) someone who collects census data by visiting individual homes | Synonyms: census taker |
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| enunciate | (verb) express or state clearly | Synonyms: articulate, vocalise, vocalize |
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| (verb) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | Synonyms: articulate, enounce, pronounce, say, sound out |
| enunciation | (noun) the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience | Synonyms: diction |
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| enured | (adjective) made tough by habitual exposure | Synonyms: hardened, inured |
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| enuresis | (noun) inability to control the flow of urine and involuntary urination | Synonyms: urinary incontinence |
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| envelop | (verb) enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering | Synonyms: enclose, enfold, enwrap, wrap |
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| envelope | (noun) any wrapper or covering | - |
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| (noun) a flat (usually rectangular) container for a letter, thin package, etc. | - |
| (noun) the bag containing the gas in a balloon | Synonyms: gasbag |
| (noun) the maximum operating capability of a system (especially an aircraft) | - |
| (noun) a natural covering (as by a fluid) | - |
| (noun) a curve that is tangent to each of a family of curves | - |
| enveloping | (adjective) surrounding and closing in on or hemming in | - |
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| envelopment | (noun) the act of enclosing something inside something else | Synonyms: enclosing, enclosure, inclosure |
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| envenom | (verb) add poison to | Synonyms: poison |
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| (verb) cause to be bitter or resentful | Synonyms: acerbate, embitter |