ejusdem generisA canon of construction holding that when a general term follows a list of particular terms, the general term only applies to things similar to the particular terms.
elativeIn Semitic languages, the “adjective degree of superiority”. In some languages such as Arabic, the concepts of comparative and superlative degree of an adjective are merged into a single form, the elative. How this form is understood or translated depends upon context and definiteness. In the absence of comparison, the elative conveys the notion of “greatest”, “supreme.”
electantSomeone who has the power of choosing; an elector.
electrineOf or pertaining to amber, especially in having the ability to generate static electricity.
eleemosynousOf a gift or donation: made as an act of charity or almsgiving; charitable.
elenchThat part of an argument on which its conclusiveness depends; that which convinces or refutes an antagonist; a refutation.
elenchusA technique of argument associated with Socrates wherein the arguer asks the interlocutor to agree with a series of premises and conclusions, ending with the arguer's intended point.
emaculateTo clear from spots or stains, or from any imperfection.
emanataUnrealistic pictorial elements emanating from a character, symbolizing something about that character, such as a sweatdrop for anxiety or a question mark for confusion, or emanating from an object, such as heat rays from the sun.
emboliteA mineral consisting of silver chloride and silver bromide; a variety of bromian chlorargyrite.
embryophagyThe act of one embryo cannibalizing another for food in utero; at present only observed in some species of sharks.
emplectonA kind of masonry in which the outer faces of the wall are ashlar, the space between being filled with broken stone and mortar. Cross layers of stone are interlaid as binders.
ephebeAn 18- to 20-year-old man in ancient Greece undergoing military training.
EphraimiteAn allegiant of the Israelite tribal patriarch Ephraim, a member of the tribe purportedly descended from him, or an inhabitant of the Northern Kingdom of Israel (930–720 B.C.), in which the tribe of Ephraim was preëminent.
epibrassinolideA brassinosteroid isolated from Aegle marmelos
epicardiumThe layer of tissue between the pericardium and the heart.
epicycleA small circle whose centre is on the circumference of a larger circle; in Ptolemaic astronomy it was seen as the basis of revolution of the "seven planets", given a fixed central Earth.