| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| ecaudate | adjective | Without a tail or spur., Tailless. |
| ecboline | noun | An alkaloid constituting the active principle of ergot; — so named from its power of producing abortion. |
| ecclesia | noun | The public legislative assembly of the Athenians., A church, either as a body or as a building. |
| eccritic | noun | A remedy which promotes discharges, as an emetic, or a cathartic. |
| ecgonine | noun | A colorless, crystalline, nitrogenous base, obtained by the decomposition of cocaine. |
| echinate | adjective | Alt. of Echinated |
| echinite | noun | A fossil echinoid. |
| echinoid | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Echinoidea., One of the Echinoidea. |
| echoless | adjective | Without echo or response. |
| eclampsy | noun | Same as Eclampsia. |
| eclectic | adjective | Selecting; choosing (what is true or excellent in doctrines, opinions, etc.) from various sources or systems; as, an eclectic philosopher., Consisting, or made up, of what is chosen or selected; as, an eclectic method; an eclectic magazine., One who follows an eclectic method. |
| eclipsed | imp. & past participle | of Eclipse |
| ecliptic | adjective | A great circle of the celestial sphere, making an angle with the equinoctial of about 23¡ 28′. It is the apparent path of the sun, or the real path of the earth as seen from the sun., A great circle drawn on a terrestrial globe, making an angle of 23¡ 28′ with the equator; — used for illustrating and solving astronomical problems., Pertaining to the ecliptic; as, the ecliptic way., Pertaining to an eclipse or to eclipses. |
| eclogite | noun | A rock consisting of granular red garnet, light green smaragdite, and common hornblende; — so called in reference to its beauty. |
| economic | adjective | Alt. of Economical |
| ecostate | adjective | Having no ribs or nerves; — said of a leaf. |
| ecphasis | noun | An explicit declaration. |
| ecraseur | noun | An instrument intended to replace the knife in many operations, the parts operated on being severed by the crushing effect produced by the gradual tightening of a steel chain, so that hemorrhage rarely follows. |
| ecstatic | noun | Pertaining to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion; of the nature, or in a state, of ecstasy; as, ecstatic gaze; ecstatic trance., Delightful beyond measure; rapturous; ravishing; as, ecstatic bliss or joy., An enthusiast. |
| ectental | adjective | Relating to, or connected with, the two primitive germ layers, the ectoderm and ectoderm; as, the “ectental line” or line of juncture of the two layers in the segmentation of the ovum. |
| ecthorea | plural | of Ecthoreum |
| ectocyst | noun | The outside covering of the Bryozoa. |
| ectoderm | noun | The outer layer of the blastoderm; epiblast., The external skin or outer layer of an animal or plant, this being formed in an animal from the epiblast. See Illust. of Blastoderm. |
| ectomere | noun | The more transparent cells, which finally become external, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals. |
| ectosarc | noun | The semisolid external layer of protoplasm in some unicellular organisms, as the amoeba; ectoplasm; exoplasm. |
| ectozoic | adjective | See Epizoic. |
| ectozoon | noun | See Epizoon. |
| ectrotic | adjective | Having a tendency to prevent the development of anything, especially of a disease. |
| ecumenic | adjective | Alt. of Ecumenical |