| 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 |
| enviable | (adjective) causing envy | - |
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| enviably | (adverb) in an enviable manner | - |
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| envious | (adjective) showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages | Synonyms: covetous, jealous |
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| enviously | (adverb) with jealousy; in an envious manner | Synonyms: covetously, jealously |
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| enviousness | (noun) a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another | Synonyms: envy |
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| environ | (verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: border, ring, skirt, surround |
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| environment | (noun) the area in which something exists or lives | Synonyms: environs, surround, surroundings |
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| (noun) the totality of surrounding conditions | - |
| environmental | (adjective) concerned with the ecological effects of altering the environment | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the external conditions or surroundings | - |
| environmentalism | (noun) the activity of protecting the environment from pollution or destruction | - |
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| (noun) the philosophical doctrine that environment is more important than heredity in determining intellectual growth | - |
| environmentalist | (noun) someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution | Synonyms: conservationist |
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| environmentally | (adverb) for the environment | - |
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| environs | (noun) the area in which something exists or lives | Synonyms: environment, surround, surroundings |
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| (noun) an outer adjacent area of any place | Synonyms: purlieu |
| envisage | (verb) form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case | Synonyms: conceive of, ideate, imagine |
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| envision | (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: fancy, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize |
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| (verb) picture to oneself; imagine possible | Synonyms: foresee |
| envisioned | (adjective) seen in the mind as a mental image | Synonyms: pictured, visualised, visualized |
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| envisioning | (noun) visual imagery | Synonyms: picturing |
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| envoi | (noun) a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry | Synonyms: envoy |
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| envoy | (noun) a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry | Synonyms: envoi |
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| (noun) a diplomat having less authority than an ambassador | Synonyms: envoy extraordinary, minister plenipotentiary |
| (noun) someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else | Synonyms: emissary |
| envy | (noun) spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: invidia |
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| (noun) a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another | Synonyms: enviousness |
| (verb) be envious of; set one's heart on | Synonyms: begrudge |
| (verb) feel envious towards; admire enviously | - |