| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| epacris | noun | A genus of shrubs, natives of Australia, New Zealand, etc., having pretty white, red, or purple blossoms, and much resembling heaths. |
| epagoge | noun | The adducing of particular examples so as to lead to a universal conclusion; the argument by induction. |
| epalate | adjective | Without palpi. |
| epanody | noun | The abnormal change of an irregular flower to a regular form; — considered by evolutionists to be a reversion to an ancestral condition. |
| eparchy | noun | A province, prefecture, or territory, under the jurisdiction of an eparch or governor; esp., in modern Greece, one of the larger subdivisions of a monarchy or province of the kingdom; in Russia, a diocese or archdiocese. |
| epaulet | noun | Alt. of Epaulette |
| epaxial | adjective | Above, or on the dorsal side of, the axis of the skeleton; episkeletal. |
| epergne | noun | A centerpiece for table decoration, usually consisting of several dishes or receptacles of different sizes grouped together in an ornamental design. |
| eperlan | noun | The European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus). |
| ephoral | adjective | Pertaining to an ephor. |
| ephraim | noun | A hunter’s name for the grizzly bear. |
| epiboly | noun | Epibolic invagination. See under Invagination. |
| epicarp | The external or outermost layer of a fructified or ripened ovary. See Illust. under Endocarp. | |
| epicede | noun | A funeral song or discourse; an elegy. |
| epicene | adjective & noun | Common to both sexes; — a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites., Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other. |
| epicure | noun | A follower of Epicurus; an Epicurean., One devoted to dainty or luxurious sensual enjoyments, esp. to the luxuries of the table. |
| epidemy | noun | An epidemic disease. |
| epiderm | noun | The epidermis. |
| epidote | noun | A mineral, commonly of a yellowish green (pistachio) color, occurring granular, massive, columnar, and in monoclinic crystals. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and oxide of iron, or manganese. |
| epigaea | noun | An American genus of plants, containing but a single species (E. repens), the trailing arbutus. |
| epigeal | adjective | Epigaeous. |
| epigene | adjective | Foreign; unnatural; unusual; — said of forms of crystals not natural to the substances in which they are found., Formed originating on the surface of the earth; — opposed to hypogene; as, epigene rocks. |
| epigeum | noun | See Perigee. |
| epigram | noun | A short poem treating concisely and pointedly of a single thought or event. The modern epigram is so contrived as to surprise the reader with a witticism or ingenious turn of thought, and is often satirical in character., An effusion of wit; a bright thought tersely and sharply expressed, whether in verse or prose., The style of the epigram. |
| epihyal | noun | A segment next above the ceratohyal in the hyoidean arch. |
| epimera | noun pl. | See Epimeron., of Epimeron |
| epimere | noun | One of the segments of the transverse axis, or the so called homonymous parts; as, for example, one of the several segments of the extremities in vertebrates, or one of the similar segments in plants, such as the segments of a segmented leaf. |
| epiotic | noun | The upper and outer element of periotic bone, — in man forming a part of the temporal bone. |
| epiploa | plural | of Epiploon |
| episode | noun | A separate incident, story, or action, introduced for the purpose of giving a greater variety to the events related; an incidental narrative, or digression, separable from the main subject, but naturally arising from it. |
| epistle | noun | A writing directed or sent to a person or persons; a written communication; a letter; — applied usually to formal, didactic, or elegant letters., One of the letters in the New Testament which were addressed to their Christian brethren by Apostles., To write; to communicate in a letter or by writing. |
| epitaph | noun | An inscription on, or at, a tomb, or a grave, in memory or commendation of the one buried there; a sepulchral inscription., A brief writing formed as if to be inscribed on a monument, as that concerning Alexander: “Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis.”, To commemorate by an epitaph., To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph. |
| epithem | noun | Any external topical application to the body, except ointments and plasters, as a poultice, lotion, etc. |
| epithet | noun | An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn., Term; expression; phrase., To describe by an epithet. |
| epitome | noun | A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a brief summary; an abridgement., A compact or condensed representation of anything. |
| epozoan | noun | An epizoon. |
| epozoic | adjective | Living upon the exterior of another animal; ectozoic; — said of external parasites. |
| epizoon | noun | One of the artificial group of invertebrates of various kinds, which live parasitically upon the exterior of other animals; an ectozoon. Among them are the lice, ticks, many acari, the lerneans, or fish lice, and other crustaceans. |
| epochal | adjective | Belonging to an epoch; of the nature of an epoch. |
| eponyme | noun | The hypothetical individual who is assumed as the person from whom any race, city, etc., took its name; as, Hellen is an eponym of the Hellenes., A name, as of a people, country, and the like, derived from that of an individual. |
| eponymy | noun | The derivation of the name of a race, tribe, etc., from that of a fabulous hero, progenitor, etc. |
| epulary | adjective | Of or pertaining to a feast or banquet. |
| epulose | adjective | Feasting to excess. |