Word origins

• epilogationA brief concluding summary.
• EpioneAncient Greek goddess of soothing of pain.
• epiphonemaAn exclamatory phrase or reflection used to round off or summarize an argument or discourse; an exclamation.
• epiplexisA rhetorical device where a sequence of rhetorical questions is used to criticise or blame, or more generally, to elicit an emotional response.
• epiploceA figure of speech by which one striking circumstance is added, in due gradation, to another; escalation to a climax.
• episcopophobiaFear or hatred of bishops.
• epistolicRelating to letters or epistles, or in the form or style of them
• epistologyThe study of letters and epistles.
• epistyleA massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; an architrave.
• epitomateSynonym of epitomize (“make an epitome of”).
• epitropeA figure by which permission is either seriously or ironically granted to someone to do what he or she proposes to do, e.g. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still.
• epotationA drinking up; a quaffing.
• epulationA feast or banquet.
• equ-Equal; balanced; identical.
• equabilityThe condition of being equable.
• equanimousCalm and composed; of stable disposition.
• equi-Equal, equally.
• equicruralHaving legs of equal size; isosceles.
• equiformHaving the same form; uniform, equiformal
• equilibrityThe state of being balanced; equality of weight; equilibrium.
• equinologistA person who studies horses.
• equiphileOne who loves horses.
• equipluveA line, drawn on a map, that connects places having the same amount of rainfall in a particular time period
• equipondiousOf equal weight on both sides; balanced.
• equisonAn equisonant note.
• equitantMounted on, or sitting upon, a horse; riding on horseback.
• equivorousThat eats horsemeat.
• equuleusAn ancient torture device, possibly resembling a wooden horse, or possibly a rack.
• eradicableCapable of being eradicated.
• erasionThe act of erasing; a rubbing out or obliteration; erasure.
• ErasmineOf or pertaining to Desiderius Erasmus’s Novum Instrumentum omne (his authoritative revision of the Bible’s New Testament [five eds., 1516–1535]), its text, or its variae lectiones.
• erinaceousOf, pertaining to, or resembling a hedgehog.
• erogateto lay out, deal out or give out
• erogationThe act of giving out, or bestowing.
• erogatoryDoing the good that is required in a situation; meeting the moral obligations.
• errabundErratic, prone to error.
• errhineCausing an increase in mucus within the nose, and hence causing one to sneeze.
• erubescenceThe act of becoming red; reddening.
• erubescentRed; reddish.
• erubesciteSynonym of bornite.
• eruciformShaped like a caterpillar; the term is loosely applied to some larvae with little resemblance to typical caterpillars.
• eructTo burp or belch.
• erumnyHardship, trouble, calamity.
• erumpentThat emerges, or bursts through; breaking forth.
• ervilbitter vetch, blister vetch (Vicia ervilia).
• eryngoThe root of sea holly, Eryngium maritimum, formerly candied and taken as confectionery and held to have aphrodisiac properties.
• ErythraeanOf, from or relating to Erythrae, Beotia
• escambioA licence formerly required for the making over a bill of exchange to another person overseas.
• -escenceA process of becoming (growing or increasing in the trait specified by the prefixed stem).
• esculic acidAn acid obtained from the horse chestnut
• esculinA coumarin glucoside which exists in horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum), California buckeye (Aesculus californica), prickly box (Bursaria spinosa) and in daphnin (the dark green resin of Daphne mezereum).
• espleesThe full profits or products yielded by land, such as hay, pasturage, grain, rents, services, and the like.
• estimandthat which is being estimated.
• estoileA six-pointed star whose rays are wavy, as opposed to the straight lines of a mullet.
• et aliaAnd others; used of things; neuter plural
• et aliaeAnd others; used of females; feminine plural.
• et alibiand elsewhere; used to terminate lists of passages in a text
• et aliosAnd others; used of people, unless exclusively of female gender
• état majorThe staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, and judge advocates, and their noncommissioned assistants.
• etesianPertaining to a dry north wind which blows in the eastern Mediterranean.
• ethereousFormed of ether; ethereal.
• et hoc genus omneAnd all this kind.
• et id genus omneAnd everything of that sort.
• -etyOften with frequentative force.
• EudoA male given name of historical usage.
• euhemerismThe belief that legends and mythology arise from exaggerated descriptions of historical people and events.
• euhemeristSomeone who practices or upholds euhemerism, a person who believes all or most myths and legends arose from historical origins.
• euhemeristicOf or relating to euhemerism.
• eunuchateTo make a eunuch of; to castrate (a man).
• eunuchismThe condition of being a eunuch.
• euphorbiumAn acrid dull yellow or brown resin consisting of the concreted milky juice of several species of Euphorbia, formerly used as a purgative and emetic.
• EuripideanOf or relating to Euripides (an ancient Greek tragedian).
• EuropantoAn artificial language originally created by Diego Marani in 1996, combining vocabulary from a number of European languages.
• evagateTo wander.
• evanesceTo disappear into a mist or dissipate in vapor
• evangelyThe "good news" revealed by the Gospel; redemption.
• evaporometerAn instrument for measuring evaporation; an atmometer.
• evectionModification of the lunar orbit due to the gravitational effects of the Sun.
• eveneTo occur; to happen; to come to pass.
• eventilateTo winnow out; to fan.
• everseto evert (overthrow, subvert, or turn inside out)
• eversiveTending to evert or overthrow; subversive.
• evestigateTo investigate.
• evibrateTo vibrate.
• evirateTo castrate.
• evirationEmasculation; effeminacy.
• evitateTo shun; to avoid.
• evitationAn avoidance.
• evitativegrammatically expressing the notion that something is avoided or feared: a grammatical mood found in some Australian Aboriginal languages.
• eviternaleternal; everlasting
• evocateTo evoke
• evolationA flying out or up, such as evaporation.
• evolventThe involute of a curve.
• evomitTo vomit.
• evulgateTo publish or divulge.
• evulgationA divulging, or publication (act of publishing).
• evulgeTo promulgate or spread abroad.
• ex-out of
• exacerbescenceexacerbation (particularly of a fever or disease)
• exacervationThe act of heaping up.