Word origins

• endeixisA legal procedure in Ancient Greece in which a wrongdoer is denounced to the magistrate.
• endermicActing through the skin, or by direct application to the skin.
• enderonThe deep sensitive and vascular layer of the skin and mucous membranes.
• endognatharyAn arm in eurypterids used to handle food
• endonyxRelated to the deeper layers of nails.
• endorheicOf a basin or lake: having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation or seepage into the ground.
• endosarcEntoplasm.
• endosteumA membranous vascular layer of cells which line the medullary cavity of a bone; an internal periosteum.
• endotenonThe fine connective tissue between the strands of a tendon.
• endysisThe growing of a new coat of hair, or a new set of feathers, scales, etc.
• enigmatographyThe art of making or solving puzzles.
• enn-Used for the digit nine to form systematic element names of elements whose existence has been predicted, and which have not yet been given a trivial name.
• ennea-Nine.
• enneadThe number nine.
• EnneapylonA wall or fortress supposed to have been built by the Pelasgians, after levelling the summit of the rock on the Acropolis of Athens.
• enneaticalOccurring once in every nine times, days, years, etc.; every ninth.
• enomotyA band of sworn soldiers; a division of the Spartan army ranging from twenty-five to thirty-six men, bound together by oath.
• enoptromancyDivination by means of a mirror or other reflective surfaces.
• enorthotropeA toy consisting of a card on which confused objects are transformed into various pictures, by causing it to revolve rapidly.
• enstasisContemplation of one's own self.
• ent-enantiomeric
• enter-Between, in the process of, intermediate; inter-.
• enterocleisisBlockage of the intestines.
• enterolithA mineral concretion in the intestinal tract.
• enteronThe gut, the whole intestine (alimentary) canal
• enthealDivinely inspired; causing great enthusiasm.
• entheasminspiration; enthusiasm, especially religious
• entheasticHaving godlike energy; inspired or divine-esque.
• enthesisThe insertion point at which a tendon, ligament, or muscle inserts into a bone.
• entheticcontagious; catching
• enthymemeA by and large statement, a maxim, an argument that is intended to be generally true and not apply to every case universally.
• ento-Synonym of end-.
• entomicRelating to insects; entomological.
• entomo-insect
• entomolinchitin
• entonicHaving great tension, or exaggerated action.
• entosthoblastThe granule within the nucleolus or entoblast of a nucleated cell.
• EnyoGoddess of violent war, acting as a counterpart and companion to the war god Ares. Identified with Bellona in Roman mythology.
• eo-earliest
• eohippusAn extinct early Eocene mammal (Hyracotherium leporinum), ancestral to the modern horse.
• eolithCrudely chopped flints, believed to be naturally produced by geological processes such as glaciation.
• eonialSynonym of eonian.
• eonianOf or pertaining to an eon
• eophyteA fossil plant from the Silurian age
• eosphoriteAn orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, and phosphorus.
• EosphorusVenus as the morning star.
• epacridAny of the family Ericaceae (syn. Epacridaceae) of heathers.
• epæneticEncomiastic; laudatory; panegyrical; praiseful.
• epagomenaTime (usually five days) appended to a calendar year, outside of any regular month, to make the year 365 days long (in e.g. the ancient Egyptian calendar and in the French Republican calendar).
• epagomenalinduced, provided
• epanaphoraanaphora
• epanastropheAnadiplosis.
• epanodosThe repetition of a sequence of words or phrases in reverse order.
• epanorthosisA rhetorical device or element in which a speaker or writer retracts a word that has been spoken and substitutes a stronger or more suitable word; often done for emphasis or sarcasm.
• EpeiphThe eleventh month of the later ancient Egyptian civil calendar and Coptic calendar, corresponding to the third month of the season of Shemu. Since 25 BCE, when the calendar was reformed to include leap-days, Epeiph has been in roughly July.
• epeiricDescribing the part of a sea that lies over a continental shelf
• epeirogenesisFormation of continents, ocean basins and plateaus via movements of earth's crust.
• ependymaThe thin membrane of glial cells lining the ventricles of the brain and the central canal of the spinal cord.
• epentheticOf or pertaining to epenthesis.
• epeolatryThe worship of words.
• epexegesisAn additional explanation or explanatory material.
• ephapseA point of contact or significant electrical influence between neurons, other than at a synapse.
• ephebeionA room for young men in an Ancient Greek gymnasium.
• ephebiphobiaAn irrational fear of adolescent people.
• ephebocracyGovernment by young people.
• ephebophileA person who exhibits ephebophilia.
• ephebophiliaA sexual attraction towards postpubescent adolescents.
• ephecticDelaying or withholding judgement.
• ephelcysticBeing or relating to the movable nu.
• ephelcystic nuEuphonic nu ⟨ν⟩ (n). Consonant ⟨ν⟩ affixed to vowel endings of some Ancient Greek grammatical forms to produce euphony: in prevocalic position, to avoid sounding two vowels in a row (hiatus), and prevent elision or fusion of vowels contracting into one sound (crasis). In preconsonantal coda position, ⟨ν⟩ may be added to create a long syllable in poetic meter. Nu is also usually written before a pause at the end of a clause in prose or the end of a verse in poetry.
• ephemeronSomething short-lived or transitory.
• ephialtesan incubus; a nightmare
• ephidrosisMorbid or excessive secretion of sweat; hyperhidrosis.
• ephorOne of the five annually-elected senior magistrates in various Dorian states, especially in ancient Sparta, where they oversaw the actions of Spartan kings.
• ephydriadA dryad, a water nymph.
• epi-Above in location or position.
• epiblemaThe epidermal cells of rootlets, specially adapted to absorb liquids.
• epibolyThe expansion of one cell sheet over other cells, as takes place during gastrulation or secondary intention wound healing.
• epicanthicThat partially covers the inner angle of the eye.
• epicaricacyRejoicing at or deriving pleasure from the misfortunes of others.
• epicarpExocarp.
• Epic CycleA collection of Ancient Greek epic poems, now mostly lost, telling the story of the Trojan War and its participants.
• epicerasticRelieving the harshness or bitterness of certain bodily humours; (loosely), soothing, emollient.
• epichiremaA syllogism in which the proof of the major or minor premise, or both, is introduced with the premises themselves, and the conclusion is derived in the ordinary manner.
• epichiremeA dialectical inference; a syllogism based on probable premises (endoxa), as opposed to a philosopheme which is a demonstrative or scientific syllogism based on true premises.
• epichorialIn or of the country; rural.
• epiclesisA prayer invoking the Holy Spirit, especially one offered in the liturgical context of the Eucharist so as to change the elements of bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus.
• epicrisisA critical or analytical study, evaluation, or summing up, especially of a medical case history.
• EpictetianOf or relating to the Ancient Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus (AD 55–AD 135).
• epideicticOf or pertaining to rhetoric of ceremony, declamation, and demonstration, most often the rhetoric of funerals and other formal events. One of the three branches, or "species" (eidē), of rhetoric as outlined by Aristotle.
• epigealLiving near the surface of the ground
• epigeanThat lives on or near the surface of the land.
• epignosisclear and precise knowledge
• epigonionAn ancient stringed instrument, apparently a harp or psaltery.
• epigyneThe external female sex organ in arachnids.
• epihyalRelated to the segment located above the ceratohyal of the hyoid arch.
• epikeiaThe principle in ethics that a law can be broken to achieve a greater good.
• epilogismenumeration; computation
• EpimenidesEpimenides of Knossos.
• epimonePersistent repetition of the same plea in much the same words.