Word origins

• eulogiaThe practice of sending the consecrated Eucharist to those not present, or the Eucharist itself so sent.
• -eumNoun-forming suffix found in words of Greek origin meaning “place or building associated with a specific purpose or person” (indicated by the root word)
• EuneusSon of Jason and Hypsipyle.
• 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.
• EuricA king of the Visigoths from 466 to 484.
• EuripideanOf or relating to Euripides (an ancient Greek tragedian).
• euripusA strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide or a current flows and reflows with violence, like the ancient firth of this name between Euboea and Boeotia.
• EuropantoAn artificial language originally created by Diego Marani in 1996, combining vocabulary from a number of European languages.
• EurycleaThe daughter of Ops, granddaughter of Peisenor, and wet-nurse of Odysseus.
• EurystheusA Mycenaean king of Tiryns (or, according to some authors, of Argos), in Argolis, son of Sthenelus and grandson of Perseus, who imposed the twelve labours on Heracles.
• Eutropiusa male given name from Ancient Greek.
• EuxineThe Black Sea.
• Euxine SeaThe Black Sea.
• evagateTo wander.
• evaginateTo evert a bodily organ inside surface to outside.
• evaginationThe act of evaginating.
• evanesceTo disappear into a mist or dissipate in vapor
• evangelyThe "good news" revealed by the Gospel; redemption.
• evanidLiable to vanish; faint; weak; evanescent.
• 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.
• evestrumAn astral body that originates at birth and is responsible for visions of the future, according to literature attributed to Paracelsus.
• 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
• evocatrixA female evocator.
• 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.
• evulsionThe action of forcibly pulling something out.
• ex-out of
• ex abundante cautelaout of an abundance of caution.
• exacerbescenceexacerbation (particularly of a fever or disease)
• exacervationThe act of heaping up.
• exactinioSynonym of actinon (“radon-219”).
• exacuateTo hone, whet or sharpen.
• exagitateTo excite, stir up.
• exagitationagitation
• examinantOne who examines; an examiner.
• examinateOne who is subjected to examination.
• examinatorAn examiner.
• exanimateLifeless, not or no longer living, dead.
• exanimationDeprivation of life or spirits.
• exanimouslifeless; dead
• ex antepredicted; forecast
• exanthemA widespread rash usually occurring in children.
• exantlateTo exhaust or wear out.
• exarateHaving the appendages free and not attached to the body wall.
• exarationThe act of writing.
• exaugurateTo annul the consecration of: to deconsecrate, secularize, profane, or otherwise unhallow (historical) particularly in ancient Roman contexts.
• exaugurationThe act of exaugurating; desecration.
• exauthorateTo deprive of authority or power
• exauthorationDeprivation of authority or dignity; degradation.
• excalceationThe removal of the shoes.
• excantationDisenchantment by a countercharm.
• excarnificateTo strip (something or someone) of flesh, perhaps as a form of torture.
• ex cathedraWith authority based on one's rank or office.
• excaveTo excavate.
• excecateTo blind.
• excedentexcess (of spending, people, goods, etc.)
• exceptio quod metus causaThe exceptio metus; an exception based on the fact that the underlying cause of action was based on duress or intimidation by the plaintiff of the defendant.
• excerebrationThe act of removing a person's brains.
• excernexcrete; give off
• excerpTo pick out.
• excerptionThe act of excerpting or selecting.
• excideTo cut off.
• excisorOne who excises, especially one who performs female genital cutting.
• excitateTo excite.
• excoctionThe act of excocting or boiling out.
• excogitateTo think over something carefully; to consider fully; cogitate.
• excogitationCareful thought or consideration.
• ex contractuOf a legal obligation: arising from a contractual relationship.
• ex copulaNot during copulation; not in the copulative state.
• excorticateTo strip of bark, shell or skin.
• excreateTo spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting.
• excreationThe act of spitting out.
• excrescenceSomething, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.
• excrescentA growing mutation, usually abnormal.
• excruciableLiable to torment.
• excruciateTo inflict intense pain or mental distress on (someone); to torture.
• excubationA keeping watch; a vigil.
• excubitoriumA gallery in a church, used for all-night vigils.
• excurTo digress.
• excurseA fuller discussion (usually in a separate section at the end of a chapter or book) of a particular part of the text of a work, especially a Bible commentary or classical Greek or Latin text.
• excusatorOne who makes, or is authorized to make, an excuse; an apologist.