eta | (noun) the 7th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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etagere | (noun) a piece of furniture with open shelves for displaying small ornaments | - |
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etamin | (noun) a soft cotton or worsted fabric with an open mesh; used for curtains or clothing etc. | Synonyms: etamine |
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etamine | (noun) a soft cotton or worsted fabric with an open mesh; used for curtains or clothing etc. | Synonyms: etamin |
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etanercept | (noun) a genetically engineered anti-TNF compound (trade name Enbrel) consisting of receptors that bind TNF; it is injected twice a week in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis | Synonyms: Enbrel |
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etcetera | (noun) additional unspecified odds and ends; more of the same; entity, other pronoun; pronoun, entity; quantifier: other | - |
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(adverb) continuing in the same way | Synonyms: and so forth, and so on, etc. |
etch | (verb) selectively dissolve the surface of (a semiconductor or printed circuit) with a solvent, laser, or stream of electrons | - |
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(verb) carve or cut a design or letters into | Synonyms: engrave |
(verb) make an etching of | - |
(verb) carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block | Synonyms: engrave |
(verb) cause to stand out or be clearly defined or visible | - |
etched | (adjective) cut or impressed into a surface | Synonyms: engraved, graven, incised, inscribed |
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etcher | (noun) someone who etches | - |
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etching | (noun) making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them | Synonyms: engraving |
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(noun) an etched plate made with the use of acid | - |
(noun) an impression made from an etched plate | - |
eternal | (adjective) tiresomely long; seemingly without end | Synonyms: endless, interminable |
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(adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, ageless, eonian, everlasting, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
eternalise | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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eternalize | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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eternally | (adverb) for a limitless time | Synonyms: everlastingly, evermore, forever |
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eternise | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternalize, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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eternity | (noun) a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife | Synonyms: timeless existence, timelessness |
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(noun) time without end | Synonyms: infinity |
(noun) a seemingly endless time interval (waiting) | - |
eternize | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternalize, eternise, immortalise, immortalize |
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(verb) cause to continue indefinitely | - |
ethanal | (noun) a colorless volatile water-soluble liquid aldehyde used chiefly in the manufacture of acetic acid and perfumes and drugs | Synonyms: acetaldehyde |
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ethanamide | (noun) a colorless solid amide of acetic acid used as a solvent and in the synthesis of organic compounds | Synonyms: acetamide |
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ethane | (noun) a colorless odorless alkane gas used as fuel | Synonyms: C2H6 |
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ethanediol | (noun) a sweet but poisonous syrupy liquid used as an antifreeze and solvent | Synonyms: ethylene glycol, glycol |
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ethanoate | (noun) a salt or ester of acetic acid | Synonyms: acetate |
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ethanol | (noun) the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline | Synonyms: ethyl alcohol, fermentation alcohol, grain alcohol |
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ethchlorvynol | (noun) a mild sedative-hypnotic drug (trade name Placidyl) | Synonyms: Placidyl |
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ethene | (noun) a flammable colorless gaseous alkene; obtained from petroleum and natural gas and used in manufacturing many other chemicals; sometimes used as an anesthetic | Synonyms: ethylene |
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ether | (noun) a colorless volatile highly flammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic | Synonyms: diethyl ether, divinyl ether, ethoxyethane, ethyl ether, vinyl ether |
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(noun) a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves | Synonyms: aether |
(noun) any of a class of organic compounds that have two hydrocarbon groups linked by an oxygen atom | - |
(noun) the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies | Synonyms: quintessence |
ethereal | (adjective) of or containing or dissolved in ether | - |
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(adjective) characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy | Synonyms: gossamer |
(adjective) of heaven or the spirit | Synonyms: celestial, supernal |
(adjective) characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air | Synonyms: aerial, aeriform, aery, airy |
etherealize | (verb) make ethereal | Synonyms: etherialise |
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etherialise | (verb) make ethereal | Synonyms: etherealize |
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etherify | (verb) change into an ether | - |
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etherise | (verb) anesthetize with ether | Synonyms: etherize |
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etherize | (verb) anesthetize with ether | Synonyms: etherise |
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ethernet | (noun) a type of network technology for local area networks; coaxial cable carries radio frequency signals between computers at a rate of 10 megabits per second | - |
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ethic | (noun) the principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group | Synonyms: moral principle, value-system, value orientation |
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(noun) a system of principles governing morality and acceptable conduct | Synonyms: ethical code |
ethical | (adjective) conforming to accepted standards of social or professional behavior | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the philosophical study of ethics | - |
(adjective) adhering to ethical and moral principles | Synonyms: honorable, honourable |
ethicality | (noun) The state, quality or manner of conforming to accepted standards of conduct. | - |
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ethically | (adverb) in an ethical manner; from an ethical point of view; according to ethics | - |
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ethician | (noun) a philosopher who specializes in ethics | Synonyms: ethicist |
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ethicism | (noun) a doctrine that ethics and ethical ideas are valid and important | - |
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ethicist | (noun) a philosopher who specializes in ethics | Synonyms: ethician |
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ethics | (noun) the philosophical study of moral values and rules | Synonyms: moral philosophy |
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(noun) motivation based on ideas of right and wrong | Synonyms: ethical motive, morality, morals |
ethmoid | (noun) one of the eight bones of the cranium; a small bone filled with air spaces that forms part of the eye sockets and the nasal cavity | Synonyms: ethmoid bone |
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ethnarch | (noun) the ruler of a province (as in the Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire) or certain religious rulers with secular authority | - |
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ethnic | (adjective) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam | Synonyms: heathen, heathenish, pagan |
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(adjective) denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people | Synonyms: cultural, ethnical |
(noun) a person who is a member of an ethnic group | - |
ethnical | (adjective) denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people | Synonyms: cultural, ethnic |
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ethnically | (adverb) with respect to ethnicity | - |
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ethnicity | (noun) an ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties | - |
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ethnocentric | (adjective) centered on a specific ethnic group, usually one's own | - |
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ethnocentrism | (noun) belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group | - |
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ethnographer | (noun) an anthropologist who does ethnography | - |
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ethnographic | (adjective) of or relating to ethnography | Synonyms: ethnographical |
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ethnographical | (adjective) of or relating to ethnography | Synonyms: ethnographic |
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ethnography | (noun) the branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies | Synonyms: descriptive anthropology |
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ethnologic | (adjective) of or relating to ethnology | Synonyms: ethnological |
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ethnological | (adjective) of or relating to ethnology | Synonyms: ethnologic |
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ethnologist | (noun) an anthropologist who studies ethnology | - |
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ethnology | (noun) the branch of anthropology that deals with the division of humankind into races and with their origins and distribution and distinctive characteristics | - |
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ethnos | (noun) people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture | Synonyms: ethnic group |
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ethologist | (noun) a zoologist who studies the behavior of animals in their natural habitats | - |
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ethology | (noun) the branch of zoology that studies the behavior of animals in their natural habitats | - |
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ethos | (noun) (anthropology) the distinctive spirit of a culture or an era | - |
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ethosuximide | (noun) an anticonvulsant drug (trade names Emeside and Zarontin) used to treat petit mal epilepsy | Synonyms: Emeside, Zarontin |
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ethoxyethane | (noun) a colorless volatile highly flammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic | Synonyms: diethyl ether, divinyl ether, ether, ethyl ether, vinyl ether |
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ethyl | (noun) the univalent hydrocarbon radical C2H5 derived from ethane by the removal of one hydrogen atom | Synonyms: ethyl group, ethyl radical |
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ethylene | (noun) a flammable colorless gaseous alkene; obtained from petroleum and natural gas and used in manufacturing many other chemicals; sometimes used as an anesthetic | Synonyms: ethene |
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ethyne | (noun) a colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis | Synonyms: acetylene, alkyne |
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etiolate | (adjective) (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light | Synonyms: blanched, etiolated |
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(verb) make pale or sickly | - |
(verb) bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight | - |
(verb) make weak by stunting the growth or development of | - |
etiolated | (adjective) (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light | Synonyms: blanched, etiolate |
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etiolation | (noun) (botany) the act of causing a plant to develop without chlorophyll by growing it without exposure to sunlight | - |
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(noun) the act of weakening by stunting the growth or development of something | - |
(noun) a pale and sickly appearance | - |
etiologic | (adjective) relating to the etiology of a disease | Synonyms: aetiologic, aetiological, etiological |
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(adjective) of or relating to the philosophical study of causation | Synonyms: aetiologic, aetiological, etiological |
etiological | (adjective) relating to the etiology of a disease | Synonyms: aetiologic, aetiological, etiologic |
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(adjective) of or relating to the philosophical study of causation | Synonyms: aetiologic, aetiological, etiologic |
etiologist | (noun) a specialist in the etiology of diseases | Synonyms: aetiologist |
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etiology | (noun) the philosophical study of causation | Synonyms: aetiology |
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(noun) the cause of a disease | Synonyms: aetiology |
etiquette | (noun) rules governing socially acceptable behavior | - |
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etna | (noun) a gas burner used in laboratories; has an air valve to regulate the mixture of gas and air | Synonyms: bunsen, bunsen burner |
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etodolac | (noun) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Lodine) | Synonyms: Lodine |
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etude | (noun) a short composition for a solo instrument; intended as an exercise or to demonstrate technical virtuosity | - |
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etui | (noun) small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles | - |
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etymological | (adjective) based on or belonging to etymology | - |
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etymologise | (verb) construct the history of words | Synonyms: etymologize |
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(verb) give the etymology or derivation or suggest an etymology (for a word) | Synonyms: etymologize |
etymologist | (noun) a lexicographer who specializes in etymology | - |
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etymologize | (verb) construct the history of words | Synonyms: etymologise |
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(verb) give the etymology or derivation or suggest an etymology (for a word) | Synonyms: etymologise |
etymologizing | (noun) (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase | Synonyms: derivation, deriving |
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etymology | (noun) the study of the sources and development of words | - |
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(noun) a history of a word | - |
etymon | (noun) a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes | Synonyms: root |
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