| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| elaidic | adjective | Relating to oleic acid, or elaine. |
| elaidin | noun | A solid isomeric modification of olein. |
| elamite | noun | A dweller in Flam (or Susiana), an ancient kingdom of Southwestern Asia, afterwards a province of Persia. |
| elanced | imp. & past participle | of Elance |
| elapine | adjective | Like or pertaining to the Elapidae, a family of poisonous serpents, including the cobras. See Ophidia. |
| elapsed | imp. & past participle | of Elapse |
| elastic | adjective | Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic., Able to return quickly to a former state or condition, after being depressed or overtaxed; having power to recover easily from shocks and trials; as, elastic spirits; an elastic constitution., An elastic woven fabric, as a belt, braces or suspenders, etc., made in part of India rubber. |
| elastin | noun | A nitrogenous substance, somewhat resembling albumin, which forms the chemical basis of elastic tissue. It is very insoluble in most fluids, but is gradually dissolved when digested with either pepsin or trypsin. |
| elating | present participle & vb. noun | of Elate |
| elatery | noun | Acting force; elasticity. |
| elation | noun | A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity. |
| elative | adjective | Raised; lifted up; — a term applied to what is also called the absolute superlative, denoting a high or intense degree of a quality, but not excluding the idea that an equal degree may exist in other cases. |
| elbowed | imp. & past participle | of Elbow |
| elderly | adjective | Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people. |
| eleatic | adjective | Of or pertaining to a certain school of Greek philosophers who taught that the only certain science is that which owes nothing to the senses, and all to the reason., A philosopher of the Eleatic school. |
| elected | imp. & past participle | of Elect |
| electic | adjective | See Eclectic. |
| elector | noun | One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor of a candidate for office., Hence, specifically, in any country, a person legally qualified to vote., In the old German empire, one of the princes entitled to choose the emperor., One of the persons chosen, by vote of the people in the United States, to elect the President and Vice President., Pertaining to an election or to electors. |
| electre | noun | Alt. of Electer |
| electer | noun | Amber. See Electrum., A metallic substance compounded of gold and silver; an alloy. |
| electro | noun | An electrotype. |
| elegant | adjective | Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure., Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste. |
| elegiac | adjective | Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains., Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter., Elegiac verse. |
| elegist | noun | A write of elegies. |
| elegize | verb t. | To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail. |
| elegies | plural | of Elegy |
| eleidin | noun | Lifeless matter deposited in the form of minute granules within the protoplasm of living cells. |
| element | noun | One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based., One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically: (Chem.) A substance which cannot be decomposed into different kinds of matter by any means at present employed; as, the elements of water are oxygen and hydrogen., One of the ultimate parts which are variously combined in anything; as, letters are the elements of written language; hence, also, a simple portion of that which is complex, as a shaft, lever, wheel, or any simple part in a machine; one of the essential ingredients of any mixture; a constituent part; as, quartz, feldspar, and mica are the elements of granite., One out of several parts combined in a system of aggregation, when each is of the nature of the whole; as, a single cell is an element of the honeycomb., One of the smallest natural divisions of the organism, as a blood corpuscle, a muscular fiber., One of the simplest essential parts, more commonly called cells, of which animal and vegetable organisms, or their tissues and organs, are composed., An infinitesimal part of anything of the same nature as the entire magnitude considered; as, in a solid an element may be the infinitesimal portion between any two planes that are separated an indefinitely small distance. In the calculus, element is sometimes used as synonymous with differential., Sometimes a curve, or surface, or volume is considered as described by a moving point, or curve, or surface, the latter being at any instant called an element of the former., One of the terms in an algebraic expression., One of the necessary data or values upon which a system of calculations depends, or general conclusions are based; as, the elements of a planet’s orbit., The simplest or fundamental principles of any system in philosophy, science, or art; rudiments; as, the elements of geometry, or of music., Any outline or sketch, regarded as containing the fundamental ideas or features of the thing in question; as, the elements of a plan., One of the simple substances, as supposed by the ancient philosophers; one of the imaginary principles of matter., The four elements were, air, earth, water, and fire, the conditions and movements of the air., The elements of the alchemists were salt, sulphur, and mercury., The whole material composing the world., The bread and wine used in the eucharist or Lord’s supper., To compound of elements or first principles., To constitute; to make up with elements. |
| elenchs | plural | of Elench |
| elevate | adjective | Elevated; raised aloft., To bring from a lower place to a higher; to lift up; to raise; as, to elevate a weight, a flagstaff, etc., To raise to a higher station; to promote; as, to elevate to an office, or to a high social position., To raise from a depressed state; to animate; to cheer; as, to elevate the spirits., To exalt; to ennoble; to dignify; as, to elevate the mind or character., To raise to a higher pitch, or to a greater degree of loudness; — said of sounds; as, to elevate the voice., To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy., To lessen; to detract from; to disparage. |
| elfland | noun | Fairyland. |
| elflock | noun | Hair matted, or twisted into a knot, as if by elves. |
| eliding | present participle & vb. noun | of Elide |
| elimate | verb t. | To render smooth; to polish. |
| elixate | verb t. | To boil; to seethe; hence, to extract by boiling or seething. |
| elkwood | noun | The soft, spongy wood of a species of Magnolia (M. Umbrella). |
| ellagic | adjective | Pertaining to, or derived from, gallnuts or gallic acid; as, ellagic acid. |
| ellenge | n | Alt. of Ellingeness |
| ellinge | n | Alt. of Ellingeness |
| ellipse | noun | An oval or oblong figure, bounded by a regular curve, which corresponds to an oblique projection of a circle, or an oblique section of a cone through its opposite sides. The greatest diameter of the ellipse is the major axis, and the least diameter is the minor axis. See Conic section, under Conic, and cf. Focus., Omission. See Ellipsis., The elliptical orbit of a planet. |
| ellwand | noun | Formerly, a measuring rod an ell long. |
| elodian | noun | One of a tribe of tortoises, including the terrapins, etc., in which the head and neck can be withdrawn. |
| elogist | noun | One who pronounces an eloge. |
| elogium | noun | Alt. of Elogy |
| elohist | noun | The writer, or one of the writers, of the passages of the Old Testament, notably those of Elohim instead of Jehovah, as the name of the Supreme Being; — distinguished from Jehovist. |
| eloping | present participle & vb. noun | of Elope |
| elritch | adjective | Ghastly; preternatural. Same as Eldritch. |
| eluding | present participle & vb. noun | of Elude |
| elusion | noun | Act of eluding; adroit escape, as by artifice; a mockery; a cheat; trickery. |
| elusive | adjective | Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious. |
| elusory | adjective | Tending to elude or deceive; evasive; fraudulent; fallacious; deceitful; deceptive. |
| eluxate | verb t. | To dislocate; to luxate. |
| elysian | adjective | Pertaining, or the abode of the blessed after death; hence, yielding the highest pleasures; exceedingly delightful; beatific. |
| elysium | noun | A dwelling place assigned to happy souls after death; the seat of future happiness; Paradise., Hence, any delightful place. |
| elytrin | noun | See Chitin. |
| elytron | noun | Alt. of Elytrum |
| elytrum | noun | One of the anterior pair of wings in the Coleoptera and some other insects, when they are thick and serve only as a protection for the posterior pair., One of the shieldlike dorsal scales of certain annelids. See Chaetopoda. |
| elzevir | adjective | Applied to books or editions (esp. of the Greek New Testament and the classics) printed and published by the Elzevir family at Amsterdam, Leyden, etc., from about 1592 to 1680; also, applied to a round open type introduced by them. |