Word origins

• erfkinCattle.
• -ernAdded to the names of directions to form adjectives.
• errantryA wandering or roving around, especially in search of chivalrous adventure.
• -eryAdded to occupational etc. nouns to form other nouns meaning the "art, craft, or practice of."
• -esch, when pronounced as /tʃ/: glitch→glitches (but psych→psychs)
• escheatorA royal officer in medieval and early modern England, responsible for taking escheats from deceased subjects.
• eschelA troop or company.
• escuagePayment to a lord in lieu of military service.
• -eseUsed to form adjectives and nouns describing things and characteristics of a city, region, or country, such as the people and the language spoken by these people.
• -essUsed to form female equivalents.
• essoinTo excuse for failure to appear in court.
• -estUsed to form the superlative of adjectives and adverbs.
• estivalOf or relating to summer.
• estoverAn allowance provided from an estate for a person's support; an allowance of wood for repairs, firewood and fencing.
• estrangleTo strangle.
• estrayAn animal that has escaped from its owner; a wandering animal whose owner is unknown. An animal cannot be an estray when on the range where it was raised, and permitted by its owner to run. A lost animal whose owner is known to the party at hand is not an estray.
• estuationAn agitation or commotion.
• -etUsed to form diminutives, loosely construed.
• et ceteraSomething in addition, which can easily be understood.
• eterneEternal.
• -ethUsed to form the third-person singular present indicative of verbs.
• -etteUsed to form nouns meaning a smaller form of something.
• ettinA giant.
• ettlingThe act or process of intending; intention; purpose; endeavour.
• evanishTo vanish.
• even-Even in number, not odd.
• even-bishopA co-bishop; a coadjutor bishop.
• even-christianA fellow Christian.
• evenhoodEquality; equity; justice.
• evenlightThe light of evening; twilight.
• evenlikeEvenly.
• -everAttached to interrogatives, forms indefinite pronouns and adverbs.
• ever afterforever, for eternity
• every dayAs frequently as every day; daily.
• evetideevening
• evil eyeA wicked look conveying dislike or envy that in many cultures is believed to be able to cause bad luck or injury; also, the ability to cause bad luck or injury through such a look, supposed to be possessed by some people.
• evil-speakingThe act of speaking ill or maliciously of something or someone; blasphemy, slander; gossip.
• ewe lambA female lamb.
• ewererA servant responsible for linen, handwashing, and providing water for the bath.
• eweryAn office or place of household service where the ewers and table linen were kept.
• ewteTo pour; pour in.
• excitativeThat causes excitation
• exequyFuneral rites.
• exhortativeAppearing to exhort; in an urging manner.
• exponeTo expound; to explain.
• expounderA person who expounds or explains
• expugnTo take by storm; capture.
• eye-appleThe eyeball or pupil
• eyelyVisible or apparent to the eye; evident; obvious.
• eye-pitThe eye socket; the concave area of the face around each eye.
• eyesalveAn ointment for the eye.
• eyotA little island, especially in a river or lake.
• faintlessWithout faintness or fainting
• fair-manneredwell-mannered
• faithlyfaithfully; truly
• faitourA charlatan or imposter, especially one pretending to be ill, or to tell fortunes.
• fallow deerA ruminant mammal of the genus Dama belonging to the family Cervidae.
• falsedomThe sphere or realm of falseness.
• fambleA hand.
• famishTo starve (to death); to kill or destroy with hunger.
• fangleTo fashion, manufacture, invent, or create.
• fangtoothA beryciform fish of the monotypic family Anoplogastridae, with long sharp teeth.
• far and wideOver a great distance or large area; nearly everywhere.
• FarcetA village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England, south of Peterborough (OS grid ref TL2094).
• fardelA fourth part: a quarter of anything.
• farerOne who fares or travels, a traveller, tripper
• farewayA road, route, or passage used for travelling over or through.
• fareworthyHaving the right to go as one pleases; free to go; capable of leaving (a place); able to depart (at one's will); unrestrained.
• farfetfar-fetched
• farforthTo a great extent; far.
• farlieAn unusual or unexpected thing; a wonder.
• farnessThe state of being far off, or the degree to which something is far; distance, span; remoteness
• farterSomeone or something that farts.
• farthing loafA loaf (of bread) sold for a farthing.
• fastgangA fasting.
• father-in-lawOne's spouse's father.
• fathershipThe state of being a father
• father-slayerOne who kills or murders one's father; a patricide
• fattishSomewhat fat
• fauldA piece of armor worn below a breastplate to protect the waist and hips.
• favorerOne who favors.
• faxed starA comet; meteor.
• feastlyOf, relating to, or characteristic of a feast; festive.
• featherlessHaving no feathers.
• feathernRelating to or consisting of feathers.
• featlyProperly; suitably.
• featousNeat, pretty.
• feblessefeebleness; weakness; frailty
• feddleFiddle (musical instrument).
• feelefoldManifold; multiple, various; varied, diverse
• feelnessThe state, condition, or quality of feeling; perception; sensitivity
• feelsomeCharacterised or marked by feeling; pleasurable to the touch; nice to feel.
• fee tailAn estate in land in common law in which the land is inherited, but cannot be sold, devised by will, or otherwise alienated by the owner, but which passes by operation of law to the owner's heirs upon his death.
• feezeA state of worry or alarm.
• feignednessQuality of being feigned.
• felloeThe rim of a wooden wheel, supported by the spokes.
• fellowessA female fellow.
• fellowlyFellowlike; companionable, sociable or sympathetic.
• felonousEvil, wicked.
• femeA woman.