| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| elaborating | present participle & vb. noun | of Elaborate |
| elaboration | noun | The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement., The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues. |
| elaborative | adjective | Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details. |
| elaboratory | adjective | Tending to elaborate., A laboratory. |
| elapidation | noun | A clearing away of stones. |
| elastically | adverb | In an elastic manner; by an elastic power; with a spring. |
| elasticness | noun | The quality of being elastic; elasticity. |
| elatrometer | noun | An instrument for measuring the degree of rarefaction of air contained in the receiver of an air pump. |
| el doradoes | plural | of El Dorado |
| electioneer | verb i. | To make interest for a candidate at an election; to use arts for securing the election of a candidate. |
| electorship | noun | The office or status of an elector. |
| electrician | noun | An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity. |
| electricity | noun | A power in nature, a manifestation of energy, exhibiting itself when in disturbed equilibrium or in activity by a circuit movement, the fact of direction in which involves polarity, or opposition of properties in opposite directions; also, by attraction for many substances, by a law involving attraction between surfaces of unlike polarity, and repulsion between those of like; by exhibiting accumulated polar tension when the circuit is broken; and by producing heat, light, concussion, and often chemical changes when the circuit passes between the poles or through any imperfectly conducting substance or space. It is generally brought into action by any disturbance of molecular equilibrium, whether from a chemical, physical, or mechanical, cause., The science which unfolds the phenomena and laws of electricity; electrical science., Fig.: Electrifying energy or characteristic. |
| electrified | imp. & past participle | of Electrify |
| electrition | noun | The recognition by an animal body of the electrical condition of external objects. |
| electrizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Electrize |
| electrocute | verb t. | To execute or put to death by electricity. — E*lec`tro*cu”tion, n. [Recent; Newspaper words] |
| electrogeny | noun | A term sometimes applied to the effects (tetanus) produced in the muscles of the limbs, when a current of electricity is passed along the spinal cord or nerves. |
| electrolier | noun | A branching frame, often of ornamental design, to support electric illuminating lamps. |
| electrology | noun | That branch of physical science which treats of the phenomena of electricity and its properties. |
| electrolyte | noun | A compound decomposable, or subjected to decomposition, by an electric current. |
| electrolyze | verb t. | To decompose by the direct action of electricity. |
| electrotype | noun | A facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively., To make facsimile plates of by the electrotype process; as, to electrotype a page of type, a book, etc. See Electrotype, n. |
| electrotypy | noun | The process of producing electrotype plates. See Note under Electrotype, n. |
| electuaries | plural | of Electuary |
| elementally | adverb | According to elements; literally; as, the words, “Take, eat; this is my body,” elementally understood. |
| elenchtical | adjective | Same as Elenctic. |
| elephantiac | adjective | Affected with elephantiasis; characteristic of elephantiasis. |
| elephantine | adjective | Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant (commonly, in size); hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of elephantine proportions; an elephantine step or tread. |
| elephantoid | adjective | Alt. of Elephantoidal |
| elicitation | noun | The act of eliciting. |
| eligibility | noun | The quality of being eligible; eligibleness; as, the eligibility of a candidate; the eligibility of an offer of marriage. |
| eliminating | present participle & vb. noun | of Eliminate |
| elimination | noun | The act of expelling or throwing off, the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories., Act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities., The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate, 4.] |
| eliminative | adjective | Relating to, or carrying on, elimination. |
| elinguation | noun | Punishment by cutting out the tongue. |
| elizabethan | adjective | Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, literature., One who lived in England in the time of Queen Elizabeth. |
| ellengeness | n | Alt. of Ellingeness |
| ellingeness | n | See Elenge, Elengeness. |
| ellipsoidal | adjective | Pertaining to, or shaped like, an ellipsoid; as, ellipsoid or ellipsoidal form. |
| ellipticity | noun | Deviation of an ellipse or a spheroid from the form of a circle or a sphere; especially, in reference to the figure of the earth, the difference between the equatorial and polar semidiameters, divided by the equatorial; thus, the ellipticity of the earth is /. |
| elmo’s fire | See Corposant; also Saint Elmo’s Fire, under Saint. | |
| elsewhither | adverb | To some, or any, other place; as, you will have to go elsewhither for it. |
| elucidating | present participle & vb. noun | of Elucidate |
| elucidation | noun | A making clear; the act of elucidating or that which elucidates, as an explanation, an exposition, an illustration; as, one example may serve for further elucidation of the subject. |
| elucidative | adjective | Making clear; tending to elucidate; as, an elucidative note. |
| elucidatory | adjective | Tending to elucidate; elucidative. |
| elutriating | present participle & vb. noun | of Elutriate |
| elutriation | noun | The process of elutriating; a decanting or racking off by means of water, as finer particles from heavier. |