| escritoire | n. | desk with drop-down surface for writing upon | ||
| esculent | adj. | edible | ||
| esker | n. | gravel ridges formed by glaciers | ||
| espalier | n. | fruit-bearing tree or bush trained so that its branches form a flat surface, as against a wall or to form a hedge | ||
| estaminet | n. | small café | ||
| estivate | v. | to spend the summer; (of animals) to be dormant or in a state of torpor through the summer | ||
| estoppel | n. | judicial limitation on a party from making a claim or statement at odds with a previous position | ||
| estrus | n. | a female’s period of sexual receptivity | ||
| esurient | adj. | ravenously hungry | ||
| eterne | adj. | eternal | archaic | |
| etiolate | v. | to blanch (a plant) by keeping light from it; to induce a pale, sickly hue in (a person or a person’s skin) | ||
| etiologic | adj. | of or relating to causes | ||
| etiologic agent | n. | infectious substance, material likely to contain a pathogen | ||
| Eton crop | n. | severely short woman’s hairstyle of the late 1920s | ||
| etymon | n. | primary word or word form from which other words or forms are derived | ||
| euchre | v. | to trick, to outwit | ||
| eulogium | n. | speech or writing praising some person or thing | ||
| eupeptic | adj. | having good digestion; of or related to a good digestion | ||
| euphuistic | adj. | high-flown, overly ornate style in speech or writing | ||
| 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 |
