| eurhythmic | adj. | harmoniously proportioned; of or related to system of exercises and body movements developed in early 20th Century | ||
| Eutychus | n. | youth who fell asleep (from boredom?) during one of Paul’s long sermons, fell out a 3rd-story window, died, and was brought back to life by Paul [Acts 20:7-12] | ||
| evanish | v. | to vanish, to disappear | ||
| evert | v. | to turn outward or inside out | ||
| evilfavoredness | n. | state of being ill favored | ||
| ewer | n. | wide mouthed jug | ||
| excelsior | n. | short thin curled shavings of wood used for packaging, etc. | ||
| excogitate | v. | to think over, to plan, to scheme | ||
| excrescent | adj. | growing out of something abnormally; superfluous; (phonetics) without grammatical or etymological justification | ||
| excurrent | adj. | exiting, running out | ||
| excursive | adj. | digressive | ||
| execrable | adj. | completely detestable; terrible | ||
| execrate | v. | to imprecate evil upon, to detest; to curse | ||
| exedra | n. | room or recess, often semicircular, with a bench or benches where discussions can take place; such a bench | ||
| exegesis | n. | critical or interpretative explanation of a text, esp. of The Bible | ||
| exequy | n. | funeral rite, obsequy | ||
| exiguous | adj. | scanty, meager | ||
| exiguously | adv. | meagerly, scantily | ||
| eximinous | adj. | noteworthy, excellent | obsolete | |
| exoculation | n. | putting out of an eye or eyes, blinding | ||
| exogamous | adj. | of or practicing the custom of marriage only outside one’s clan, tribe, or group | ||
| exonym | n. | name for place or people or language used only by people not of that grouping | ||
| exordium | n. | beginning, introductory matter to a treatise, disquisition, etc. | ||
| exoteric | adj. | of or related to information suitable for public consumption | ||
| expatiate | v. | to write or to speak copiously; to wander, to walk about at length | ||
| expectant | adj. | (in medical triage) expected to die | ||
| expectorate | v. | to expel from the chest or lungs (by hawking or spitting or coughing) | ||
| exponible | adj. | requiring explanation or restatement (particularly of a proposition) | ||
| exsert | v. | to stick out | ||
| extrados | n. | exterior or upper curve of an arch | ||
| extravasate | v. | to force out or flow out from usual vessel or channel | ||
| extrinsic | adj. | foreign; external | ||
| exuberate | v. | to be exuberant; to abound | ||
| exuviate | v. | to shed or cast off, to molt | ||
| eyas | n. | nestling hawk, esp. one removed from nest for training | ||
| eyetooth | n. | upper canine tooth of men and women | ||
| eyot | n. | small island, particularly in a river | ||
| facetiae | n. | witticisms, humorous remarks or writings, pleasantries | ||
| facetious | adj. | waggish, not meant to be taken seriously; humorous | ||
| facia | n. | dashboard, instrument panel in a car | ||
| factitious | adj. | artificially made; not spontaneous | ||
| factoid | n. | falsehood repeated in media so often it becomes accepted as true; minor or trivial item of information | ||
| facula | n. | bright spot upon the surface of the sun | ||
| fadge | v. | to fit, to be suitable; to put up with | obsolete | |
| faff | v. | to waste or spend time in useless activity; to dither | British | |
| fain | adv. | gladly | ||
| faintified | adj. | feeling faint, evincing propensity towards fainting | idiom | |
| fairy doctor | n. | ‘cunning’ man or woman supposed to have healing power over mystical ailments affecting people and beasts | ||
| faitour | n. | charlatan, cheat, esp. a fortune teller or one feigning illness | archaic | |
| falchion | n. | slightly curved broadsword |
