| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| emanant | adjective | Issuing or flowing forth; emanating; passing forth into an act, or making itself apparent by an effect; — said of mental acts; as, an emanant volition. |
| emanate | verb i. | To issue forth from a source; to flow out from more or less constantly; as, fragrance emanates from flowers., To proceed from, as a source or fountain; to take origin; to arise, to originate., Issuing forth; emanant. |
| embarge | verb t. | To put in a barge. |
| embargo | noun | An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail., To lay an embargo on and thus detain; to prohibit from leaving port; — said of ships, also of commerce and goods. |
| embassy | noun | The public function of an ambassador; the charge or business intrusted to an ambassador or to envoys; a public message to; foreign court concerning state affairs; hence, any solemn message., The person or persons sent as ambassadors or envoys; the ambassador and his suite; envoys., The residence or office of an ambassador. |
| embathe | verb t. | To bathe; to imbathe. |
| embayed | imp. & past participle | of Embay |
| emblaze | verb t. | To adorn with glittering embellishments., To paint or adorn with armorial figures; to blazon, or emblazon. |
| embloom | verb t. | To emblossom. |
| embogue | verb i. | To disembogue; to discharge, as a river, its waters into the sea or another river. |
| embolic | adjective | Embolismic., Pertaining to an embolism; produced by an embolism; as, an embolic abscess., Pushing or growing in; — said of a kind of invagination. See under Invagination. |
| embolus | noun | Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe., A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism. |
| embosom | verb t. | To take into, or place in, the bosom; to cherish; to foster., To inclose or surround; to shelter closely; to place in the midst of something. |
| embowel | verb t. | To disembowel., To imbed; to hide in the inward parts; to bury. |
| embower | verb t. | To cover with a bower; to shelter with trees., To lodge or rest in a bower. |
| embrace | verb t. | To fasten on, as armor., To clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug., To cling to; to cherish; to love., To seize eagerly, or with alacrity; to accept with cordiality; to welcome., To encircle; to encompass; to inclose., To include as parts of a whole; to comprehend; to take in; as, natural philosophy embraces many sciences., To accept; to undergo; to submit to., To attempt to influence corruptly, as a jury or court., To join in an embrace., Intimate or close encircling with the arms; pressure to the bosom; clasp; hug. |
| embraid | verb t. | To braid up, as hair., To upbraid. |
| embrave | verb t. | To inspire with bravery., To decorate; to make showy and fine. |
| embrawn | verb t. | To harden. |
| embread | verb t. | To braid. |
| embroil | verb t. | To throw into confusion or commotion by contention or discord; to entangle in a broil or quarrel; to make confused; to distract; to involve in difficulties by dissension or strife., To implicate in confusion; to complicate; to jumble., See Embroilment. |
| embrown | verb t. | To give a brown color to; to imbrown. |
| embrute | verb t. | To brutify; to imbrute. |
| embryos | plural | of Embryo |
| embryon | noun & adjective | See Embryo. |
| emburse | verb t. | To furnish with money; to imburse. |
| emended | imp. & past participle | of Emend |
| emender | noun | One who emends. |
| emerald | noun | A precious stone of a rich green color, a variety of beryl. See Beryl., A kind of type, in size between minion and nonpare/l. It is used by English printers., Of a rich green color, like that of the emerald. |
| emeraud | noun | An emerald. |
| emerged | imp. & past participle | of Emerge |
| emeriti | plural | of Emeritus |
| emerods | noun pl. | Alt. of Emeroids |
| emersed | adjective | Standing out of, or rising above, water. |
| emetine | noun | A white crystalline bitter alkaloid extracted from ipecacuanha root, and regarded as its peculiar emetic principle. |
| emforth | preposition | According to; conformably to. |
| emgalla | noun | The South African wart hog. See Wart hog. |
| emicant | adjective | Beaming forth; flashing. |
| eminent | adjective | High; lofty; towering; prominent., Being, metaphorically, above others, whether by birth, high station, merit, or virtue; high in public estimation; distinguished; conspicuous; as, an eminent station; an eminent historian, statements, statesman, or saint. |
| emitted | imp. & past participle | of Emit |
| emongst | preposition | Among. |
| emotion | noun | A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body. |
| emotive | adjective | Attended by, or having the character of, emotion. |
| empaled | imp. & past participle | of Empale |
| empanel | noun | A list of jurors; a panel., See Impanel. |
| empeach | verb t. | To hinder. See Impeach. |
| empearl | verb t. | To form like pearls; to decorate with, or as with, pearls; to impearl. |
| emperil | verb t. | To put in peril. See Imperil. |
| emperor | noun | The sovereign or supreme monarch of an empire; — a title of dignity superior to that of king; as, the emperor of Germany or of Austria; the emperor or Czar of Russia. |
| empight | adjective | Fixed; settled; fastened. |
| empiric | noun | One who follows an empirical method; one who relies upon practical experience., One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates from the rules of science and regular practice; an ignorant and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a charlatan., Alt. of Empirical |
| emplead | verb t. | To accuse; to indict. See Implead. |
| emplore | verb t. | See Implore. |
| employe | noun | One employed by another; a clerk or workman in the service of an employer. |
| emporia | plural | of Emporium |
| empower | verb t. | To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an acquittance, and discharge the debtor., To give moral or physical power, faculties, or abilities to. |
| empress | noun | The consort of an emperor., A female sovereign., A sovereign mistress. |
| emprint | verb t. | See Imprint. |
| emprise | noun | An enterprise; endeavor; adventure., The qualifies which prompt one to undertake difficult and dangerous exploits., To undertake. |
| emptier | noun | One who, or that which, empties., of Empty. |
| emption | noun | The act of buying. |
| empties | plural | of Empty |
| emptied | imp. & past participle | of Empty |
| empyema | noun | A collection of blood, pus, or other fluid, in some cavity of the body, especially that of the pleura. |
| emulate | adjective | Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous., To strive to equal or to excel in qualities or actions; to imitate, with a view to equal or to outdo, to vie with; to rival; as, to emulate the good and the great. |
| emulous | adjective | Ambitiously desirous to equal or even to excel another; eager to emulate or vie with another; desirous of like excellence with another; — with of; as, emulous of another’s example or virtues., Vying with; rivaling; hence, contentious, envious. |
| emulsic | adjective | Pertaining to, or produced from, emulsin; as, emulsic acid. |
| emulsin | noun | The white milky pulp or extract of bitter almonds., An unorganized ferment (contained in this extract and in other vegetable juices), which effects the decomposition of certain glucosides. |