| ell | n. | measure of length equal to 45 inches in England (the Scotch = 37.2 in., the Flemish = 27 in.) | ||
| emblematic | adj. | symbolizing, representative | ||
| embonpoint | n. | healthy plumpness; fleshy part of the body, esp. of the bosom | ||
| embranglement | n. | state of being embroiled, implicated, or entangled | ||
| embrocation | n. | liniment; action of applying a liniment | ||
| emerods | n. | hemorrhoids | archaic | |
| emesis | n. | vomiting | ||
| emissile | adj. | capable of being protruded | ||
| emmet | n. | ant | ||
| emollient | n. | salve or lotion with such a softening effect | ||
| emollient | adj. | softening or relaxing | ||
| empennage | n. | the stern of an airplane or airship, usually including the tail fin, rudder, stabilizer, and elevator | ||
| empery | n. | absolute dominion | ||
| empiric | n. | one who relies solely upon experience; quack, charlatan | ||
| empyema | n. | condition wherein pus collects in bodily cavity, particularly in the pleural cavity | ||
| empyrean | n. | the highest heaven, the sphere of pure fire; the firmament | ||
| emulous | adj. | desirous of rivaling or imitating | ||
| en grande tenue | adj. | in full dress uniform, in elegant style | ||
| en travesti | adj. | dressed as the opposite sex for theatrical role, lit. “in disguise” | ||
| enantiodromia | n. | supposed tendency for any extreme in a system to arrive or to turn into its opposite | ||
| enchafe | v. | to make warm or hot | ||
| enchiridion | n. | handbook, manual | ||
| encomiastic | adj. | of or related to one giving a eulogy; laudatory | ||
| endogamy | n. | marriage within only a given tribe or social group | ||
| endopsychic | adj. | extant within the mind | ||
| endore | v. | to make a bright golden color in cooking | ||
| endue | v. | (of a hawk) to digest | ||
| enfeoff | v. | to give a fiefdom | ||
| enfleurage | n. | method of perfume extraction through transfer of scent into fats or oils | ||
| enkindle | v. | to make to blaze up; to set on fire | ||
| enosis | n. | political union of Greece and Cyprus; movement seeking such a union | ||
| ensample | n. | example | obsolete | |
| enshittification | n. | process by which tech products go from initially good offerings to successively worse iterations until they become nearly unusable, in response to business customer needs and then shareholder demands for greater and greater profitability | ||
| entablature | n. | horizontal construction supported by columns in classical temples and the like, consisting of an architrave, a frieze, and a cornice | architecture | |
| enteric | adj. | of, related to, or occurring in the intestines | ||
| enteric fever | n. | typhoid fever | ||
| enthymeme | n. | logical argument with one premise or conclusion not explicitly stated, imperfect syllogism | ||
| entrepôt | n. | transshipment place for goods, warehouse; commercial distribution point | ||
| enucleate | v. | to remove the nucleus; to remove (kernel, tumor, eyeball) from its surrounding cover | ||
| envoi | n. | closing stanza of poem; author’s concluding remarks (also envoy) | ||
| eo ipso | adv. | by that very fact, thereby | Latin | |
| epagogic | adj. | inductive, of or relating to argument from particular instances to a general conclusion | ||
| epagomenal | adj. | intercalary, particularly of the calendar of ancient Egypt (also epagomenic) | ||
| epechist | adj. | of or related to Pyrrhonism, entirely skeptical of all claimed truth | ||
| epenthesis | n. | insertion of a sound or sounds in the middle of a word | ||
| epergne | n. | table centerpiece designed to hold fruit or flowers | ||
| ephebe | n. | young man; male citizen in ancient Greece between the ages of eighteen and twenty | ||
| epicene | adj. | having both male and female characteristics; weak, feeble | ||
| epicondyle | n. | rounded protuberance on or above the condyle of a long bone | ||
| epidiascope | n. | projector capable of casting images of both transparent and opaque objects |
