| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| escalade | verb t. | A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart., To mount and pass or enter by means of ladders; to scale; as, to escalate a wall. |
| escallop | noun | See Escalop. |
| escambio | noun | A license formerly required for the making over a bill of exchange to another over sea. |
| escapade | noun | The fling of a horse, or ordinary kicking back of his heels; a gambol., Act by which one breaks loose from the rules of propriety or good sense; a freak; a prank. |
| escaping | present participle & vb. noun | of Escape |
| escarped | imp. & past participle | of Escarp |
| eschalot | noun | See Shallot. |
| esheated | imp. & past participle | of Escheat |
| eschevin | noun | The alderman or chief officer of an ancient guild. |
| eshewing | present participle & vb. noun | of Eschew |
| eschewer | noun | One who eschews. |
| escorial | noun | See Escurial. |
| escorted | imp. & past participle | of Escort |
| escouade | noun | See Squad, |
| escribed | adjective | Drawn outside of; — used to designate a circle that touches one of the sides of a given triangle, and also the other two sides produced. |
| esculent | adjective | Suitable to be used by man for food; eatable; edible; as, esculent plants; esculent fish., Anything that is fit for eating; that which may be safely eaten by man. |
| escurial | noun | A palace and mausoleum of the kinds of Spain, being a vast and wonderful structure about twenty-five miles northwest of Madrid. |
| esoteric | adjective | Designed for, and understood by, the specially initiated alone; not communicated, or not intelligible, to the general body of followers; private; interior; acroamatic; — said of the private and more recondite instructions and doctrines of philosophers. Opposed to exoteric. |
| espalier | noun | A railing or trellis upon which fruit trees or shrubs are trained, as upon a wall; a tree or row of trees so trained., To form an espalier of, or to protect by an espalier. |
| esparcet | noun | The common sainfoin (Onobrychis sativa), an Old World leguminous forage plant. |
| especial | adjective | Distinguished among others of the same class or kind; special; concerning a species or a single object; principal; particular; as, in an especial manner or degree. |
| espousal | noun | The act of espousing or betrothing; especially, in the plural, betrothal; plighting of the troths; a contract of marriage; sometimes, the marriage ceremony., The uniting or allying one’s self with anything; maintenance; adoption; as, the espousal of a quarrel. |
| espoused | imp. & past participle | of Espouse |
| espouser | noun | One who espouses; one who embraces the cause of another or makes it his own. |
| esquimau | noun | Same as Eskimo. |
| esquired | imp. & past participle | of Esquire |
| esquisse | noun | The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue. |
| essaying | present participle & vb. noun | of Essay |
| essayist | noun | A writer of an essay, or of essays. |
| essenced | imp. & past participle | of Essence |
| essenism | noun | The doctrine or the practices of the Essenes. |
| esential | noun | Existence; being., That which is essential; first or constituent principle; as, the essentials or religion. |
| essoiner | noun | An attorney who sufficiently excuses the absence of another. |
| essonite | noun | Cinnamon stone, a variety of garnet. See Garnet. |
| essorant | adjective | Standing, but with the wings spread, as if about to fly; — said of a bird borne as a charge on an escutcheon. |
| estacade | noun | A dike of piles in the sea, a river, etc., to check the approach of an enemy. |
| estancia | noun | A grazing; a country house. |
| esteemed | imp. & past participle | of Esteem |
| esteemer | noun | One who esteems; one who sets a high value on any thing. |
| esthetic | noun | Alt. of Esthetics |
| estimate | verb t. | To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data, — either the extrinsic (money), or intrinsic (moral), value; to fix the worth of roughly or in a general way; as, to estimate the value of goods or land; to estimate the worth or talents of a person., To from an opinion of, as to amount,, number, etc., from imperfect data, comparison, or experience; to make an estimate of; to calculate roughly; to rate; as, to estimate the cost of a trip, the number of feet in a piece of land., A valuing or rating by the mind, without actually measuring, weighing, or the like; rough or approximate calculation; as, an estimate of the cost of a building, or of the quantity of water in a pond. |
| estivate | noun | Alt. of Estivation |
| estophed | imp. & past participle | of Estop |
| estoppel | noun | A stop; an obstruction or bar to one’s alleging or denying a fact contrary to his own previous action, allegation, or denial; an admission, by words or conduct, which induces another to purchase rights, against which the party making such admission can not take a position inconsistent with the admission., The agency by which the law excludes evidence to dispute certain admissions, which the policy of the law treats as indisputable. |
| estovers | noun pl. | Necessaries or supples; an allowance to a person out of an estate or other thing for support; as of wood to a tenant for life, etc., of sustenance to a man confined for felony of his estate, or alimony to a woman divorced out of her husband’s estate. |
| estrange | verb t. | To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with., To divert from its original use or purpose, or from its former possessor; to alienate., To alienate the affections or confidence of; to turn from attachment to enmity or indifference. |
| estuance | noun | Heat. |
| estuated | imp. & past participle | of Estuate |
| esurient | adjective | Inclined to eat; hungry; voracious., One who is hungry or greedy. |