| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| enablement | noun | The act of enabling, or the state of being enabled; ability. |
| enaliosaur | noun | One of the Enaliosauria. |
| enamelling | of Enamel | |
| enamorment | noun | The state of being enamored. |
| enantiosis | noun | A figure of speech by which what is to be understood affirmatively is stated negatively, and the contrary; affirmation by contraries. |
| enarration | noun | A detailed exposition; relation. |
| encalendar | verb t. | To register in a calendar; to calendar. |
| encampment | noun | The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest., The place where an army or a company is encamped; a camp; tents pitched or huts erected for temporary lodgings. |
| encasement | noun | The act of encasing; also, that which encases., An old theory of generation similar to embo/tement. See Ovulist. |
| encashment | noun | The payment in cash of a note, draft, etc. |
| encephalic | adjective | Pertaining to the encephalon or brain. |
| encephalon | noun | The contents of the cranium; the brain. |
| encephalos | noun | The encephalon. |
| enchanting | present participle & vb. noun | of Enchant, Having a power of enchantment; charming; fascinating. |
| encharging | present participle & vb. noun | of Encharge |
| enchylemma | noun | The basal substance of the cell nucleus; a hyaline or granular substance, more or less fluid during life, in which the other parts of the nucleus are imbedded. |
| encincture | noun | A cincture. |
| encindered | adjective | Burnt to cinders. |
| encircling | present participle & vb. noun | of Encircle |
| enclitical | verb i. | Affixed; subjoined; — said of a word or particle which leans back upon the preceding word so as to become a part of it, and to lose its own independent accent, generally varying also the accent of the preceding word. |
| encloister | verb t. | To shut up in a cloister; to cloister. |
| encouraged | imp. & past participle | of Encourage |
| encourager | noun | One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. |
| encrinital | adjective | Relating to encrinites; containing encrinites, as certain kinds of limestone. |
| encrinitic | adjective | Alt. of Encrinitical |
| encroached | imp. & past participle | of Encroach |
| encroacher | noun | One who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own. |
| encumbered | imp. & past participle | of Encumber |
| encyclical | adjective | Sent to many persons or places; intended for many, or for a whole order of men; general; circular; as, an encyclical letter of a council, of a bishop, or the pope., An encyclical letter, esp. one from a pope. |
| encystment | noun | A process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc., A process by which many internal parasites, esp. in their larval states, become inclosed within a cyst in the muscles, liver, etc. See Trichina. |
| endamaging | present participle & vb. noun | of Endamage |
| endangered | imp. & past participle | of Endanger |
| endearedly | adverb | With affection or endearment; dearly. |
| endearment | noun | The act of endearing or the state of being endeared; also, that which manifests, excites, or increases, affection. |
| endeavored | imp. & past participle | of Endeavor |
| endeavorer | noun | One who makes an effort or attempt. |
| endermatic | adjective | Endermic. |
| endiademed | adjective | Diademed. |
| endictment | noun | See Indictment. |
| endochrome | noun | The coloring matter within the cells of plants, whether green, red, yellow, or any other color. |
| endoctrine | verb t. | To teach; to indoctrinate. |
| endodermal | adjective | Alt. of Endodermic |
| endodermic | adjective | Of or pertaining to the endoderm. |
| endodermis | noun | A layer of cells forming a kind of cuticle inside of the proper cortical layer, or surrounding an individual fibrovascular bundle. |
| endogamous | adjective | Marrying within the same tribe; — opposed to exogamous. |
| endogenous | adjective | Increasing by internal growth and elongation at the summit, instead of externally, and having no distinction of pith, wood, and bark, as the rattan, the palm, the cornstalk., Originating from within; increasing by internal growth. |
| endomysium | noun | The delicate bands of connective tissue interspersed among muscular fibers. |
| endoplasma | noun | Same as Entoplasm and Endosarc. |
| endopleura | noun | The inner coating of a seed. See Tegmen. |
| endopodite | noun | The internal or principal branch of the locomotive appendages of Crustacea. See Maxilliped. |
| endorhizae | plural | of Endorhiza |
| endorhizal | adjective | Alt. of Endorhizous |
| endosmosis | noun | The transmission of a fluid or gas from without inward in the phenomena, or by the process, of osmose. |
| endosmotic | adjective | Pertaining to endosmose; of the nature endosmose; osmotic. |
| endostosis | noun | A process of bone formation in which ossification takes place within the substance of the cartilage. |
| endothelia | plural | of Endothelium |
| endothorax | noun | An internal process of the sternal plates in the thorax of insects. |
| endurement | noun | Endurance. |
| energetics | noun | That branch of science which treats of the laws governing the physical or mechanical, in distinction from the vital, forces, and which comprehends the consideration and general investigation of the whole range of the forces concerned in physical phenomena. |
| energizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Energize, Capable of imparting or exercising energy. |
| enervating | present participle & vb. noun | of Enervate |
| enervation | noun | The act of weakening, or reducing strength., The state of being weakened; effeminacy. |
| enervative | adjective | Having power, or a tendency, to enervate; weakening. |
| enfeebling | present participle & vb. noun | of Enfeeble |
| enfeeblish | verb i. | To enfeeble. |
| enfeoffing | present participle & vb. noun | of Enfeoff |
| enfiercing | present participle & vb. noun | of Enfierce |
| enfilading | present participle & vb. noun | of Enfilade |
| enflowered | imp. & past participle | of Enflower |
| enfoldment | noun | The act of infolding. See Infoldment. |
| enforcible | adjective | That may be enforced. |
| enfouldred | adjective | Mixed with, or emitting, lightning. |
| engagement | noun | The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest., The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take some one as husband or wife., That which engages; engrossing occupation; employment of the attention; obligation by pledge, promise, or contract; an enterprise embarked in; as, his engagements prevented his acceptance of any office., An action; a fight; a battle., The state of being in gear; as, one part of a clutch is brought into engagement with the other part. |
| engarrison | verb t. | To garrison; to put in garrison, or to protect by a garrison. |
| engendered | imp. & past participle | of Engender |
| engendrure | noun | The act of generation. |
| engineered | imp. & past participle | of Engineer |
| englishing | present participle & vb. noun | of English |
| englishism | noun | A quality or characteristic peculiar to the English., A form of expression peculiar to the English language as spoken in England; an Anglicism. |
| englishmen | plural | of Englishman |
| englishman | noun | A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England. |
| englutting | present participle & vb. noun | of Englut |
| engrailing | present participle & vb. noun | of Engrail |
| engraining | present participle & vb. noun | of Engrain |
| engrasping | present participle & vb. noun | of Engrasp |
| engrossing | present participle & vb. noun | of Engross |
| engulfment | noun | A swallowing up as if in a gulf. |
| enharmonic | adjective | Alt. of Enharmonical |
| enigmatist | noun | One who makes, or talks in, enigmas. |
| enigmatize | verb i. | To make, or talk in, enigmas; to deal in riddles. |
| enjoinment | noun | Direction; command; authoritative admonition. |
| enkindling | present participle & vb. noun | of Enkindle |
| enlacement | noun | The act of enlacing, or state of being enlaced; a surrounding as with a lace. |
| enlengthen | verb t. | To lengthen. |
| enlistment | noun | The act or enlisting, or the state of being enlisted; voluntary enrollment to serve as a soldier or a sailor., The writing by which an enlisted man is bound. |
| enlivening | present participle & vb. noun | of Enliven |
| enneagonal | adjective | Belonging to an enneagon; having nine angles. |
| enneandria | noun | A Linnaean class of plants having nine stamens. |
| enneatical | adjective | Occurring once in every nine times, days, years, etc.; every ninth. |
| enomotarch | noun | The commander of an enomoty. |
| enormities | plural | of Enormity |
| enormously | adverb | In an enormous degree. |
| enragement | noun | Act of enraging or state of being enraged; excitement. |
| enraptured | imp. & past participle | of Enrapture |
| enregister | verb t. | To register; to enroll or record; to inregister. |
| enrichment | noun | The act of making rich, or that which enriches; increase of value by improvements, embellishment, etc.; decoration; embellishment. |
| enrockment | noun | A mass of large stones thrown into water at random to form bases of piers, breakwaters, etc. |
| enrollment | noun | The act of enrolling; registration., A writing in which anything is enrolled; a register; a record. |
| ensanguine | verb t. | To stain or cover with blood; to make bloody, or of a blood-red color; as, an ensanguined hue. |
| ensconcing | imp. & past participle | of Ensconce |
| enshrining | present participle & vb. noun | of Enshrine |
| ensiferous | adjective | Bearing a sword. |
| ensigncies | plural | of Ensigncy |
| ensignship | noun | The state or rank of an ensign. |
| ensilaging | present participle & vb. noun | of Ensilage |
| enstatitic | adjective | Relating to enstatite. |
| entailment | noun | The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent., The condition of being entailed., A thing entailed. |
| entangling | present participle & vb. noun | of Entangle |
| entassment | noun | A heap; accumulation. |
| enteralgia | noun | Pain in the intestines; colic. |
| entermewer | noun | A hawk gradually changing the color of its feathers, commonly in the second year. |
| enterocele | noun | A hernial tumor whose contents are intestine. |
| enterolith | noun | An intestinal concretion. |
| enterology | noun | The science which treats of the viscera of the body. |
| enterotome | noun | A kind of scissors used for opening the intestinal canal, as in post-mortem examinations. |
| enterotomy | noun | Incision of the intestines, especially in reducing certain cases of hernia. |
| enterplead | verb i. | Same as Interplead. |
| enterprise | noun | That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise., Willingness or eagerness to engage in labor which requires boldness, promptness, energy, and like qualities; as, a man of great enterprise., To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon., To treat with hospitality; to entertain., To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult. |
| entheastic | adjective | Of godlike energy; inspired. |
| enthronize | verb t. | To place on a throne; hence, to induct into office, as a bishop. |
| enthusiasm | noun | Inspiration as if by a divine or superhuman power; ecstasy; hence, a conceit of divine possession and revelation, or of being directly subject to some divine impulse., A state of impassioned emotion; transport; elevation of fancy; exaltation of soul; as, the poetry of enthusiasm., Enkindled and kindling fervor of soul; strong excitement of feeling on behalf of a cause or a subject; ardent and imaginative zeal or interest; as, he engaged in his profession with enthusiasm., Lively manifestation of joy or zeal. |
| enthusiast | noun | One moved or actuated by enthusiasm; as: (a) One who imagines himself divinely inspired, or possessed of some special revelation; a religious madman; a fanatic. (b) One whose mind is wholly possessed and heated by what engages it; one who is influenced by a peculiar; fervor of mind; an ardent and imaginative person. |
| enticeable | adjective | Capable of being enticed. |
| enticement | noun | The act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions., That which entices, or incites to evil; means of allurement; alluring object; as, an enticement to sin. |
| enticingly | adverb | In an enticing manner; charmingly. |
| entireness | noun | The state or condition of being entire; completeness; fullness; totality; as, the entireness of an arch or a bridge., Integrity; wholeness of heart; honesty., Oneness; unity; — applied to a condition of intimacy or close association., of Entirety |
| entitative | adjective | Considered as pure entity; abstracted from all circumstances. |
| entodermal | adjective | Alt. of Entodermic |
| entodermic | adjective | Relating to the entoderm. |
| entogenous | adjective | See Endogenous. |
| entombment | noun | The act of entombing or burying, or state of being entombed; burial. |
| entomolite | noun | A fossil insect. |
| entomology | noun | That part of zoology which treats of insects., A treatise on the science of entomology. |
| entomotomy | noun | The science of the dissection of insects. |
| entophytic | adjective | Of or pertaining to entophytes; as, an entophytic disease. |
| entoprocta | noun pl. | A group of Bryozoa in which the anus is within the circle of tentacles. See Pedicellina. |
| entosterna | plural | of Entosternum |
| entothorax | noun | See Endothorax. |
| entrancing | present participle & vb. noun | of Entrance |
| entrapping | present participle & vb. noun | of Entrap |
| entreating | present participle & vb. noun | of Entreat |
| entreatful | adjective | Full of entreaty. [R.] See Intreatful. |
| entreative | adjective | Used in entreaty; pleading. |
| entreaties | plural | of Entreaty |
| entrochite | noun | A fossil joint of a crinoid stem. |
| enucleated | imp. & past participle | of Enucleate |
| enumerated | imp. & past participle | of Enumerate |
| enumerator | noun | One who enumerates. |
| enunciable | adjective | Capable of being enunciated or expressed. |
| enunciated | imp. & past participle | of Enunciate |
| enunciator | noun | One who enunciates or proclaims. |
| enveloping | present participle & vb. noun | of Envelop |
| envenoming | present participle & vb. noun | of Envenom |
| environing | present participle & vb. noun | of Environ |
| envisaging | present participle & vb. noun | of Envisage |
| enwrapment | noun | Act of enwrapping; a wrapping or an envelope. |