| 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 | ||
| epigastrium | n. | upper abdomen situated just above the stomach | ||
| epigenesis | n. | the process by which genetic information, as modified by environment, is transformed into an organism’s substance and behaviors | ||
| epigraph | n. | an inscription, on a building, statue, or the like | ||
| epistaxis | n. | nosebleed | ||
| epistemology | n. | theory of knowledge, study of how we know things we think we know | ||
| epithalamium | n. | song or poem in honor of newly married couple (also epithalamion) | ||
| epizootic | n. | disease which propagates quickly among animals; outbreak of a disease in an animal population (an “animal epidemic”) | ||
| epoche | n. | suspended judgment; cessation of action | ||
| epopt | n. | initiate of the Eleusinian Mysteries; any initiate of a secret order | ||
| epos | n. | epic | ||
| equerry | n. | officer in charge of the horses of a royal or an exalted noble; groom | ||
| equipage | n. | carriage | ||
| equiparable | adj. | equal in comparison, equivalent | ||
| equipartition | n. | division into equal parts; equal contribution to total energy by each form of a system | ||
| equipollent | adj. | of equal power; logically equivalent | ||
| equitation | n. | horse riding, horsemanship | ||
| equivoque | n. | double meaning word or expression, pun; ambiguous speech | ||
| eremite | n. | anchoret, religious hermit or recluse | ||
| ergodic | adj. | of or related to processes where large enough samples are statistically representative of the whole; of systems which will return to previously states given sufficient time | ||
| eristic | adj. | of or related to disputation, argumentative for argument’s sake | ||
| erotetic | adj. | of or pertaining to questions or questioning | ||
| erst | adv. | once, formerly | archaic | |
| erstwhile | adv. | formerly | ||
| erubescent | adj. | blushing, red or reddish; rubescent | ||
| eruct | v. | to belch | ||
| erudite | adj. | having or showing lots of knowledge or learning | ||
| erumpent | adj. | bursting forth | ||
| erysipelas | n. | acute disease of bacterial origin characterized by fever and rough red patches on the skin | ||
| erythema | n. | redness of the skin caused by increased capillary flow | ||
| escalade | n. | scaling of walls by means of ladders | ||
| eschar | n. | dark crusty dead tissue, as a scab or resulting from a burn | ||
| eschatological | adj. | of or pertaining to the science or study of last things: death, judgment, heaven, hell |
