| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| emaciate | verb i. | To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh., To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him., Emaciated. |
| emanated | imp. & past participle | of Emanate |
| embalmed | imp. & past participle | of Embalm |
| embalmer | noun | One who embalms. |
| embanked | imp. & past participle | of Embank |
| embarred | imp. & past participle | of Embar |
| embarked | imp. & past participle | of Embark |
| embattle | verb t. | To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle; also, to prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle., To be arrayed for battle., To furnish with battlements. |
| embaying | present participle & vb. noun | of Embay |
| embedded | imp. & past participle | of Embed |
| embetter | verb t. | To make better. |
| embezzle | verb t. | To appropriate fraudulently to one’s own use, as property intrusted to one’s care; to apply to one’s private uses by a breach of trust; as, to embezzle money held in trust., To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance. |
| embillow | verb i. | To swell or heave like a ///// of the sea. |
| embitter | verb t. | To make bitter or sad. See Imbitter. |
| emblanch | verb t. | To whiten. See Blanch. |
| emblazed | imp. & past participle | of Emblaze |
| emblazon | verb t. | To depict or represent; — said of heraldic bearings. See Blazon., To deck in glaring colors; to set off conspicuously; to display pompously; to decorate. |
| emblemed | imp. & past participle | of Emblem |
| embodier | noun | One who embodies. |
| embodied | imp. & past participle | of Embody |
| embolden | verb t. | To give boldness or courage to; to encourage. |
| embolism | noun | Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity; as, the embolism of a lunar month in the Greek year., Intercalated time., The occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus. Embolism in the brain often produces sudden unconsciousness and paralysis. |
| embolite | noun | A mineral consisting of both the chloride and the bromide of silver. |
| emborder | verb t. | To furnish or adorn with a border; to imborder. |
| embossed | imp. & past participle | of Emboss, Formed or covered with bosses or raised figures., Having a part projecting like the boss of a shield., Swollen; protuberant. |
| embosser | noun | One who embosses. |
| embottle | verb t. | To bottle. |
| embraced | imp. & past participle | of Embrace |
| embracer | noun | One who embraces. |
| embright | verb t. | To brighten. |
| embronze | verb t. | To embody in bronze; to set up a bronze representation of, as of a person., To color in imitation of bronze. See Bronze, v. t. |
| embroude | verb t. | Alt. of Embroyde |
| embrowde | verb t. | Alt. of Embroyde |
| embroyde | verb t. | To embroider; to adorn. |
| embryous | adjective | Embryonic; undeveloped. |
| emending | present participle & vb. noun | of Emend |
| emerging | present participle & vb. noun | of Emerge |
| emergent | adjective | Rising or emerging out of a fluid or anything that covers or conceals; issuing; coming to light., Suddenly appearing; arising unexpectedly; calling for prompt action; urgent. |
| emerited | adjective | Considered as having done sufficient public service, and therefore honorably discharged. |
| emeritus | adjective | Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; — said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church., A veteran who has honorably completed his service. |
| emeroids | noun pl. | Hemorrhoids; piles; tumors; boils. |
| emersion | noun | The act of emerging, or of rising out of anything; as, emersion from the sea; emersion from obscurity or difficulties., The reappearance of a heavenly body after an eclipse or occultation; as, the emersion of the moon from the shadow of the earth; the emersion of a star from behind the moon. |
| emetical | adjective | Inducing to vomit; producing vomiting; emetic. |
| emiction | noun | The voiding of urine., What is voided by the urinary passages; urine. |
| emictory | adjective & noun | Diuretic. |
| emigrant | verb i. | Removing from one country to another; emigrating; as, an emigrant company or nation., Pertaining to an emigrant; used for emigrants; as, an emigrant ship or hospital., One who emigrates, or quits one country or region to settle in another. |
| emigrate | verb i. | To remove from one country or State to another, for the purpose of residence; to migrate from home., Migratory; roving. |
| eminence | noun | That which is eminent or lofty; a high ground or place; a height., An elevated condition among men; a place or station above men in general, either in rank, office, or celebrity; social or moral loftiness; high rank; distinction; preferment., A title of honor, especially applied to a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church. |
| eminency | noun | State of being eminent; eminence. |
| emirship | noun | Alt. of Emeership |
| emissary | noun | An agent employed to advance, in a covert manner, the interests of his employers; one sent out by any power that is at war with another, to create dissatisfaction among the people of the latter., Exploring; spying., Applied to the veins which pass out of the cranium through apertures in its walls. |
| emission | noun | The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light from the sun; the emission of heat from a fire; the emission of bank notes., That which is sent out, issued, or put in circulation at one time; issue; as, the emission was mostly blood. |
| emissive | adjective | Sending out; emitting; as, emissive powers. |
| emissory | adjective | Same as Emissary, a., 2. |
| emitting | present participle & vb. noun | of Emit |
| emittent | adjective | Sending forth; emissive. |
| emmantle | verb t. | To cover over with, or as with, a mantle; to put about as a protection. |
| emmanuel | noun | See Immanuel. |
| emmarble | verb t. | To turn to marble; to harden. |
| empaling | present participle & vb. noun | of Empale |
| empeople | verb t. | To form into a people or community; to inhabit; to people. |
| emperess | noun | See Empress. |
| emperice | noun | An empress. |
| emphases | plural | of Emphasis |
| emphasis | noun | A particular stress of utterance, or force of voice, given in reading and speaking to one or more words whose signification the speaker intends to impress specially upon his audience., A peculiar impressiveness of expression or weight of thought; vivid representation, enforcing assent; as, to dwell on a subject with great emphasis. |
| emphatic | adjective | Alt. of Emphatical |
| empierce | verb t. | To pierce; to impierce. |
| employed | imp. & past participle | of Employ |
| employee | noun | One employed by another. |
| employer | noun | One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen. |
| emplumed | adjective | Plumed. |
| emplunge | verb t. | To plunge; to implunge. |
| empoison | verb t. | To poison; to impoison., Poison. |
| emporium | noun | A place of trade; a market place; a mart; esp., a city or town with extensive commerce; the commercial center of a country., The brain. |
| emprison | verb t. | See Imprison. |
| emptying | present participle & vb. noun | of Empty, The act of making empty., The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast. |
| empurple | verb t. | To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple. |
| empuzzle | verb t. | To puzzle. |
| empyesis | noun | An eruption of pustules. |
| empyreal | adjective | Formed of pure fire or light; refined beyond aerial substance; pertaining to the highest and purest region of heaven., Empyrean. |
| empyrean | noun | The highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to subsist., Empyreal. |
| emulable | adjective | Capable of being emulated. |
| emulated | imp. & past participle | of Emulate |
| emulator | noun | One who emulates, or strives to equal or surpass. |
| emulgent | adjective | Pertaining to the kidneys; renal; as, emulgent arteries and veins., An emulgent vessel, as a renal artery or vein., A medicine that excites the flow of bile. |
| emulsify | verb t. | To convert into an emulsion; to form an emulsion; to reduce from an oily substance to a milky fluid in which the fat globules are in a very finely divided state, giving it the semblance of solution; as, the pancreatic juice emulsifies the oily part of food. |
| emulsion | noun | Any liquid preparation of a color and consistency resembling milk; as: (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and water united by a mucilaginous substance. (b) In photography, a liquid preparation of collodion holding salt of silver, used in the photographic process. |
| emulsive | adjective | Softening; milklike., Yielding oil by expression; as, emulsive seeds., Producing or yielding a milklike substance; as, emulsive acids. |
| emu wren | A small wrenlike Australian bird (Stipiturus malachurus), having the tail feathers long and loosely barbed, like emu feathers. |