Word origins

• emacityDesire or fondness for buying
• 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.
• emancipatrixA woman, girl, or any other entity treated as female who emancipates; a female emancipator.
• emblemaAn inlaid ornament.
• 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.
• emendableCapable of being emended, corrigible.
• emendateEmended, corrected, restored.
• emendatorSomeone who emends.
• emendicateTo beg.
• EmerentiaA female given name from Latin, of rare usage.
• EmerentianaA female given name from Latin, of rare usage.
• emeritumA bounty awarded to a soldier upon the completion of his term of service.
• EmesaFormer name of Homs: a city in Syria.
• EmeseneOf or pertaining to Emesa or its region.
• emicantshining forth or flashing.
• emicationA spark, flickering or scintillation.
• emictionUrination.
• EmilianOf or relating to Emilia, a historical region of northern Italy.
• emissariumA drain or outlet.
• emissitiousLooking, or narrowly examining; prying, nosy or meticulous.
• emittentSending forth; emissive.
• emollescenceThat degree of softness in a body beginning to melt which alters its shape; the first or lowest degree of fusibility.
• emphyteusisA right to enjoyment of property with a given stipulation that the property will be improved or maintained in an agreed upon manner; long leasehold
• emphyteuticarySomeone who holds land by way of emphyteusis.
• emplastrationGrafting by inoculation; budding.
• 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.
• empuseA phantom; ghost; spectre.
• empyricalContaining the combustible principle of coal.
• emulatrixA female who emulates.
• emulgeTo milk out; to drain.
• emulgentOf a straining or purifying process.
• emunctoryPertaining to the elimination of waste from the body.
• emundationCleaning; disinfection.
• emungeTo wipe or cleanse, especially one's nose.
• emysAny member of the small Emys genus of freshwater pond tortoises.
• enargiaVivid, lively description.
• enarrationA detailed exposition; relation.
• enascentJust coming into being; nascent.
• enationA small outgrowth on the surface of a plant organ.
• encaeniaThe eight days of celebration for the dedication of the church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
• EncratiteOne of an ascetic 2nd-century sect of Christians who forbade marriage and counselled abstinence from meat.
• -encyForming abstract nouns denoting conditions, qualities, or states.
• -endForming nouns denoting patients or recipients of actions.
• -eneForms adjectives relating to places and nouns for their inhabitants.
• enecateTo kill off; to destroy.
• enemy of the peopleA political or class opponent of the subgroup in power within a larger group.
• energumenA person possessed by an evil ghost, spirit, or entity.
• enervateTo reduce strength or energy; debilitate.
• enervousLacking nerve or force
• -ennialCombining form denoting years.
• enodationAn unknotting; the act or operation of clearing of knots, or untying.
• enodeTo clear of knots; to make clear.
• enomotarchThe commander of an enomoty.
• ens entiumThe ‘being of beings’; God.
• ensiferA member of the genus Ensifer, of the bacteria family Rhizobiaceae.
• ensiferanAny insect of the suborder Ensifera.
• ensiformshaped like a sword blade
• entasisA slight convex curvature introduced into the shaft of a column for aesthetic reasons, or to compensate for the illusion of concavity.
• entheateDivinely inspired.
• enubilateTo clear from mist, clouds, or obscurity.
• enucleateTo remove the nucleus from (a cell).
• enunciatorSomeone who enunciates.
• eoanRelating to the dawn.
• eo ipsoThrough or by that very act or quality; thereby.
• eolationAny effect of wind on land.
• eolicOf the wind; referring to the action or the power of wind.
• epagogeThe adducing of particular examples so as to lead to a universal conclusion; the argument by induction.
• epanadiplosisA figure of speech by which the same word is used both at the beginning and at the end of a sentence.
• epanalepsisThe repetition of the same word or clause after intervening matter.
• eparchA regional ruler or provincial governor, particularly in the context of Ancient Greece or heavily hellenized cultures.
• epershandampersand
• ephebeAn 18- to 20-year-old man in ancient Greece undergoing military training.
• ephelisSynonym of freckle.
• ephippiumA depression in the sphenoid bone; the pituitary fossa.
• 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.
• epicedeAn elegy; an ode to someone deceased.
• epicediumAn epicede: a dirge, lament, elegy.
• Epicharmuscomic playwright and moralist from Kos (c. 530 – 450 BCE)
• epicoriumThe pattern of cell wall thickening which forms the ornamentation on spores of certain types of mushroom (especially of family Entolomataceae).
• epicurismSynonym of Epicureanism.
• 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.
• epidicticServing to explain; demonstrative.
• epilateTo remove hair from the skin in such a way that removes or destroys the root, especially by plucking it out.
• epilogationA brief concluding summary.
• EpioneAncient Greek goddess of soothing of pain.
• EpiphaniaThe ancient city of Hama.
• 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.
• EpirotAn inhabitant or a resident of ancient or modern Epirus, in northwest Greece and southern Albania.
• EpiroteAn inhabitant or descendant of Epirus.
• EpiroticOf or pertaining to Epirus.
• episcopophobiaFear or hatred of bishops.
• epistolicRelating to letters or epistles, or in the form or style of them
• epistologyThe study of letters and epistles.
• epistropheThe repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences.