Word origins

• elderfatherSynonym of eldfather.
• eldernElder; elderly; aged; old.
• eldfatherOne's grandfather or forefather.
• eldingfirewood; fuel
• eldmotherOne's grandmother or other female ancestor, or one's mother-in-law.
• eldningEnvy; jealousy; suspicion.
• electuaryAny preparation of a medicine mixed with honey or other sweetener in order to make it more palatable to swallow.
• elflandThe land of the elves; home of the elves.
• ElkoshiteA member of a minor biblical tribe mentioned in Nahum 1:1.
• ellingeIsolated, lonely, dreary, unsettling.
• elmenOf or pertaining to an elm tree.
• elneTo strengthen; hearten; comfort; encourage.
• elningComfort; grace.
• eloignTo remove (something) to a distance.
• elsewhatSomething else; anything else.
• elsewhenAt some other time or times; somewhen else.
• elsinA shoemaker's awl.
• Elton on the HillA small village and civil parish in Rushcliffe borough, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK7638).
• elverA young eel.
• 'emThem (now only in unstressed position).
• embattleTo arrange in order of battle; to array for battle.
• embelifOblique.
• Ember dayAny of the three days within the same week, four separate sets of which occur roughly equidistant in the circuit of the year, that are set aside for fasting and prayer. In Western Christianity they are usually the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday following the first Sunday in Lent, Whitsunday, Holy Cross Day (14 September), and Saint Lucy's Day (13 December).
• emblemishSynonym of blemish.
• embracementAn act of encircling another with one's arms and pulling them to one's chest, a hug.
• embushTo place or hide in a thicket; to ambush.
• embushmentAn ambush.
• empanelA list of jurors; a panel.
• emperyAn empire; the status or dominion of an emperor.
• empoisonTo poison.
• 'emselvesThemselves (in unstressed position following a consonant).
• emulousAmbitious or competitive.
• -enDenotes the past participle form when attached to a verb.
• en-in, into
• enamorTo cause to be in love.
• enaunterLest.
• -enceSame as -ance; having the state or condition of.
• enchafeTo make warm, to heat.
• encharmTo charm.
• enchaseTo set (a gemstone, etc.) into.
• encheasonA cause, reason.
• encumbererOne who, or that which, encumbers; an encumbrance.
• encumbermentencumbrance
• encumbrousOf, pertaining to, or causing an encumbrance; cumbersome; troublesome.
• encurseto place or bring a curse upon; curse
• endamageTo damage.
• endfulFull of ends or aims; characteristic of having a goal, target, or specific agenda; ambitious; busy.
• endlangLengthways; along.
• endlyFinal, terminal; of or pertaining to the end; conclusive.
• endossTo write on the back of (a document); to endorse.
• endowableEligible for endowment; able to be endowed or endowed upon.
• endreeTo suffer.
• endueOf a person or thing: to take on (a different form); to adopt, to assume.
• endwareA hamlet or township; a small settlement or locality.
• enfeebleTo make feeble.
• enfeoffTo transfer a fief to, to endow with a fief; to put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest.
• enhortTo encourage, to insist upon.
• enknitTo knit in; intwine; (by extension) to interweave
• enlargenTo enlarge.
• ensampleAn example; a pattern or model for imitation.
• ensealTo mark with, or as if with, a seal (stamp)
• ensearchTo search; to try to find something.
• ensiegeSynonym of besiege.
• -entCausing, doing, or promoting a certain action.
• entrailTo interweave or bind.
• envenomTo inject or put venom onto or into (someone or something).
• envenomingThe act by which someone is envenomed.
• enwrapTo wrap around, surround; to envelop.
• enwriteTo write upon something; inscribe; imprint.
• -erA person or thing that does an action indicated by the root verb; used to form an agent noun.
• ererFormer; previous.
• 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.
• ettleTo propose, intend.
• 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.