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EAR (3) [noun] The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea. | [noun] The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle. | [noun] A police informant. | [noun] The fruiting body of a grain plant. | [verb] To plough. EAT (3) [noun] Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item. | [verb] To ingest; to be ingested. | [verb] To use up. EAU (3) [proper noun] Misspelling of Eau EBB (7) [noun] The receding movement of the tide. | [noun] A gradual decline. | [noun] A low state; a state of depression. ECU (5) [noun] The European Currency Unit (symbol ₠), a currency used in the European Community before the euro. EDH (7) [noun] A letter (capital Ð, small ð) introduced into Old English to represent its dental fricative, then not distinguished from the letter thorn, no longer used in English but still in modern use in Icelandic, the IPA and other phonetic alphabets to represent the voiced dental fricative "th" sound as in the English word then. The letter is also used in Faroese, but is generally silent in that language. EEL (3) [noun] Any freshwater or marine fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes. | [noun] The European eel, Anguilla anguilla. | [verb] To fish for eels. EFF (9) [verb] Fuck (the taboo swear word, but not in the sense "to copulate") EFS (6) EFT (6) [noun] A newt, especially the European smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris, syn. Triturus punctatus). | [adverb] Again; afterwards EGG (5) [noun] An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, reptiles, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development. | [noun] The egg of a domestic fowl (especially a hen) or its contents, used as food. | [noun] The female primary cell, the ovum. | [verb] To encourage, incite. EGO (4) [noun] The self, especially with a sense of self-importance. | [noun] (Freudian) The most central part of the mind, which mediates with one's surroundings. EKE (7) [noun] (obsolete except Britain) An addition. | [noun] A small stand on which a beehive is placed. | [noun] A spacer put between or over or under hive parts to make more space: see http//www.dave-cushman.net/bee/eke.html | [adverb] Also; in addition to. ELD (4) [noun] One's age, age in years, period of life. | [noun] Old age, senility; an old person. | [noun] Time; an age, an indefinitely long period of time. ELF (6) [noun] A luminous spirit presiding over nature and fertility and dwelling in the world of Álfheim (Elfland). Compare angel, nymph, fairy. | [noun] Any from a race of mythical, supernatural beings resembling but seen as distinct from human beings. They are usually delicate-featured and skilled in magic or spellcrafting; sometimes depicted as clashing with dwarves, especially in modern fantasy literature. | [noun] Any of the magical, typically forest-guarding races bearing some similarities to the Norse álfar (through Tolkien's Eldar). ELK (7) [noun] Any of various large species of deer such as the red deer, moose or wapiti (see usage notes). | [noun] The European wild, whistling, or common swan (Cygnus cygnus, syn. Cygnus ferus). ELL (3) [noun] A measure for cloth. An English ell was 1 1/4 yards (45 inches), whereas a Scottish ell measured only about 37 inches and a Flemish ell was 3/4 yard (27 inches). | [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter L. | [noun] An extension usually at right angles to one end of a building. ELM (5) [noun] A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers. | [noun] (usually attributive) Wood from an elm tree. ELS (3) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter L. | [noun] An elevated railway, especially for specific systems such as the metro in Chicago. | [noun] The | [adjective] (used only with indefinite or interrogative pronouns) Other; in addition to previously mentioned items. EME (5) [noun] (obsolete outside Scotland) An uncle. | [noun] Friend. EMF (8) EMS (5) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter M. | [noun] A unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use. EMU (5) [noun] A cassowary (genus Casuarius). | [noun] A large flightless bird native to Australia, Dromaius novaehollandiae. | [noun] Any of the various units to measure electricity and magnetism in the CGS (now replaced by SI) system of units; abbreviated emu or EMU. | [noun] A person or thing that emulates. END (4) [noun] The terminal point of something in space or time. | [noun] (by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion. | [noun] (by extension) Death. ENG (4) [adjective] Narrow. | [noun] Roman alphabet ŋ: The Latin-based letter formed by combining the letters n and g, used in the IPA, Saami, Mende, and some Australian aboriginal languages. In the IPA, it represents the voiced velar nasal, the ng sound in running and rink. ENS (3) [noun] An entity or being; an existing thing, as opposed to a quality or attribute. | [noun] Something supposed to condense within itself all the virtues and qualities of a substance from which it is extracted; an essence, an active principle. | [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter N. EON (3) [noun] Eternity. | [noun] A period of 1,000,000,000 years. | [noun] The longest time period used in geology. ERA (3) [noun] A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year. | [noun] A unit of time, smaller than eons and greater than periods. ERE (3) [adverb] At an earlier time. | [preposition] Before; sooner than. | [conjunction] Before | [noun] The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea. ERG (4) [noun] The unit of work or energy, being the amount of work done by a force of one dyne applied through a distance of one centimeter. Equal to 10−7 joules. | [noun] A large desert region of sand dunes with little or no vegetation, especially in the Sahara. | [noun] An ergometer. ERN (3) [noun] A sea eagle (Haliaeetus), especially the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) | [noun] An eagle. | [verb] To run; flow. | [verb] To stir with strong emotion; grieve; mourn. ERR (3) [verb] To make a mistake. | [verb] To sin. | [verb] To stray. ERS (3) [verb] To utter the word "er" when hesitating in speech, found in the phrase um and er. ESS (3) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter S. | [noun] Something shaped like the letter S. | [verb] To move in a changing direction, forming the shape of a letter S. ETA (3) [noun] The seventh letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, the eighth in Old Greek. | [noun] A kind of electrically neutral meson having zero spin and isospin. | [noun] A social outcast in Japan who is subjected to menial work, making up a class or caste of such people. ETH (6) [noun] A letter (capital Ð, small ð) introduced into Old English to represent its dental fricative, then not distinguished from the letter thorn, no longer used in English but still in modern use in Icelandic, the IPA and other phonetic alphabets to represent the voiced dental fricative "th" sound as in the English word then. The letter is also used in Faroese, but is generally silent in that language. EVE (6) [noun] The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve. | [noun] Evening, night. | [noun] The period of time when something is just about to happen or to be introduced EWE (6) [noun] A female sheep, as opposed to a ram. EYE (6) [noun] An organ through which animals see (perceive surroundings via light). | [noun] The visual sense. | [noun] The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour. | [noun] A brood.

EACH (9) [noun] (operations) An individual item: the least quantitative unit in a grouping. | [adverb] For one; apiece; per. | [pronoun] Every one; every thing. EARL (4) [noun] (nobility) A British or Irish nobleman next in rank above a viscount and below a marquess; equivalent to a European count. A female using the style is termed a countess. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called counts and viscounts. EARN (4) [verb] To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work. | [verb] To receive payment for work. | [verb] To receive payment for work. | [verb] To curdle, as milk. | [verb] To long; to yearn. | [noun] A sea eagle (Haliaeetus), especially the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) EARS (4) [noun] The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea. | [noun] The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle. | [noun] A police informant. EASE (4) [noun] Ability, the means to do something, particularly: | [noun] Comfort, a state or quality lacking unpleasantness, particularly: | [noun] Relief, an end to discomfort, particularly: EAST (4) [noun] One of the four principal compass points, specifically 90°, conventionally directed to the right on maps; the direction of the rising sun at an equinox. Abbreviated as E. | [adjective] Situated or lying in or towards the east; eastward. | [adjective] Wind from the east EASY (7) [noun] Something that is easy | [adjective] Comfortable; at ease. | [adjective] Requiring little skill or effort. EATH (7) EATS (4) [verb] To ingest; to be ingested. | [verb] To use up. | [verb] To cause (someone) to worry. EAUX (11) EAVE (7) [noun] Eaves: the underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls of a building. EBBS (8) [noun] The receding movement of the tide. | [noun] A gradual decline. | [noun] A low state; a state of depression. EBON (6) [noun] (now poetic) Ebony; an ebony tree. | [adjective] Made of ebony. | [adjective] Black in colour. ECHE (9) ECHO (9) [noun] A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer. | [noun] An utterance repeating what has just been said. | [noun] A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line. ECRU (6) [noun] A beige colour. | [adjective] Of a beige colour. ECUS (6) [noun] The European Currency Unit (symbol ₠), a currency used in the European Community before the euro. EDDO (6) [noun] A plant (Colocasia esculenta, but often identified as Colocasia antiquorum, among numerous other synonyms), which is usually considered a variety of C. esculenta, with edible starchy tubers. | [noun] The tubers of this plant. EDDY (9) [noun] A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current. | [noun] A circular current; a whirlpool. | [verb] To form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle. EDGE (6) [noun] The boundary line of a surface. | [noun] A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet. | [noun] An advantage. EDGY (9) [adjective] Nervous, apprehensive. | [adjective] (entertainment) Creatively challenging; cutting edge; leading edge. | [adjective] (entertainment) On the edge between acceptable and offensive; pushing the boundaries of good taste; risqué. EDHS (8) [noun] A letter (capital Ð, small ð) introduced into Old English to represent its dental fricative, then not distinguished from the letter thorn, no longer used in English but still in modern use in Icelandic, the IPA and other phonetic alphabets to represent the voiced dental fricative "th" sound as in the English word then. The letter is also used in Faroese, but is generally silent in that language. EDIT (5) [noun] A change to the text of a document. | [noun] A change in the text of a file, a website or the code of software. | [noun] An interruption or change to an improvised scene. EELS (4) [noun] Any freshwater or marine fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes. | [noun] The European eel, Anguilla anguilla. | [verb] To fish for eels. EELY (7) EERY (7) EFFS (10) [verb] Fuck (the taboo swear word, but not in the sense "to copulate") EFTS (7) [noun] A newt, especially the European smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris, syn. Triturus punctatus). EGAD (6) [interjection] A mild exclamation of surprise, contempt, outrage, etc. EGAL (5) EGER (5) EGGS (6) [noun] An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, reptiles, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development. | [noun] The egg of a domestic fowl (especially a hen) or its contents, used as food. | [noun] The female primary cell, the ovum. EGGY (9) [adjective] Covered with or dipped in egg. | [adjective] Resembling eggs in some way. | [adjective] Of or relating to an egg or eggs. | [adjective] Slightly annoyed. EGIS (5) EGOS (5) [noun] The self, especially with a sense of self-importance. | [noun] (Freudian) The most central part of the mind, which mediates with one's surroundings. EIDE (5) EKED (9) [verb] Chiefly in the form eke out: to add to, to augment; to increase; to lengthen. EKES (8) [verb] Chiefly in the form eke out: to add to, to augment; to increase; to lengthen. ELAN (4) [noun] Ardor or zeal inspired by passion or enthusiasm. ELDS (5) ELHI (7) ELKS (8) [noun] Any of various large species of deer such as the red deer, moose or wapiti (see usage notes). | [noun] The European wild, whistling, or common swan (Cygnus cygnus, syn. Cygnus ferus). ELLS (4) [noun] A measure for cloth. An English ell was 1 1/4 yards (45 inches), whereas a Scottish ell measured only about 37 inches and a Flemish ell was 3/4 yard (27 inches). | [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter L. | [noun] An extension usually at right angles to one end of a building. ELMS (6) [noun] A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers. | [noun] (usually attributive) Wood from an elm tree. ELMY (9) ELSE (4) [adjective] (used only with indefinite or interrogative pronouns) Other; in addition to previously mentioned items. | [adverb] (follows interrogative adverbs) Otherwise, if not. | [conjunction] For otherwise; or else. EMES (6) EMEU (6) EMFS (9) EMIC (8) [adjective] Of or pertaining to the analysis of a cultural system or its features from the perspective of a participant in that culture. EMIR (6) [noun] A prince, commander or other leader or ruler in an Islamic nation. | [noun] A descendant of the prophet Muhammad. EMIT (6) [verb] To send out or give off EMUS (6) [noun] A cassowary (genus Casuarius). | [noun] A large flightless bird native to Australia, Dromaius novaehollandiae. | [noun] A person or thing that emulates. EMYD (10) ENDS (5) [noun] The terminal point of something in space or time. | [noun] (by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion. | [noun] (by extension) Death. ENGS (5) ENOL (4) ENOW (7) ENVY (10) [noun] Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions). | [noun] An object of envious notice or feeling. | [noun] Hatred, enmity, ill-feeling. EONS (4) [noun] Eternity. | [noun] A period of 1,000,000,000 years. | [noun] The longest time period used in geology. EPEE (6) [noun] A sharp-pointed dueling sword with a bell-shaped guard, used (with the end blunted) in sport fencing. EPHA (9) EPIC (8) [noun] An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero. | [noun] A series of events considered appropriate to an epic. | [noun] In software development, a large or extended user story. | [adjective] (of a morphism) That is an epimorphism. EPOS (6) [noun] An epic. ERAS (4) [noun] A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year. | [noun] A unit of time, smaller than eons and greater than periods. ERGO (5) [adverb] Consequently, therefore, thus. | [conjunction] Therefore (especially in syllogisms). | [noun] An ergometer (rowing machine). ERGS (5) [noun] The unit of work or energy, being the amount of work done by a force of one dyne applied through a distance of one centimeter. Equal to 10−7 joules. | [noun] A large desert region of sand dunes with little or no vegetation, especially in the Sahara. | [noun] An ergometer. ERNE (4) [noun] A sea eagle (Haliaeetus), especially the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) | [noun] An eagle. | [verb] To long; to yearn. ERNS (4) EROS (4) ERRS (4) [verb] To make a mistake. | [verb] To sin. | [verb] To stray. ERST (4) [adjective] First. | [adverb] First of all, before (some other specified thing). | [adverb] Sooner (than); before. ESES (4) [noun] Dude, man. (Usually used vocatively.) ESPY (9) [verb] To catch sight of; to see; to spot (said especially of something not easy to see) | [verb] To examine and keep watch upon; to watch; to observe. | [verb] To look or search narrowly; to look about; to watch; to take notice; to spy. ETAS (4) [noun] The seventh letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, the eighth in Old Greek. | [noun] A kind of electrically neutral meson having zero spin and isospin. | [noun] A social outcast in Japan who is subjected to menial work, making up a class or caste of such people. ETCH (9) [verb] To cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern. Best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards. | [verb] To engrave a surface. | [verb] To make a lasting impression. | [noun] An aftergrowth of grass (or other plants) which grows after it has been been mowed; also, a field of such growth. ETHS (7) [noun] A letter (capital Ð, small ð) introduced into Old English to represent its dental fricative, then not distinguished from the letter thorn, no longer used in English but still in modern use in Icelandic, the IPA and other phonetic alphabets to represent the voiced dental fricative "th" sound as in the English word then. The letter is also used in Faroese, but is generally silent in that language. ETIC (6) [adjective] Of or pertaining to analysis of a culture from a perspective situated outside all cultures. ETNA (4) ETUI (4) [noun] A small, ornamental bag or rigid container used for holding articles such as needles. EURO (4) [noun] Person living or originating from Europe | [noun] Person who resides within the European Union | [noun] The currency unit of the European Monetary Union. Symbol: € | [noun] Macropus robustus, a wallaroo (macropod species). EVEN (7) [noun] (diminutive) An even number. | [verb] To make flat and level. | [verb] To equal. | [noun] Evening. EVER (7) [adjective] Occurring at any time, occurring even but once during a timespan. | [adverb] Always, frequently, forever. | [adverb] Continuously, constantly, all the time (for the complete duration). EVES (7) [noun] The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve. | [noun] Evening, night. | [noun] The period of time when something is just about to happen or to be introduced EVIL (7) [noun] Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good. | [noun] Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief. | [noun] A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula). | [adverb] Wickedly, evilly, iniquitously EWER (7) [noun] A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug with a shape like a vase and a handle. EWES (7) [noun] A female sheep, as opposed to a ram. EXAM (13) [noun] The act of examining. | [noun] Particularly, an inspection by a medical professional to establish the extent and nature of any sickness or injury. | [noun] A formal test involving answering written or oral questions under a time constraint and usually without access to textbooks. EXEC (13) [noun] Executive, executive officer | [verb] To execute; to run. EXES (11) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter X. | [noun] A former partner or spouse, usually short for ex-girlfriend, ex-boyfriend, ex-wife or ex-husband. | [verb] To delete; to cross out | [noun] (costers) The number six. EXIT (11) [noun] An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure. | [noun] A way out. | [noun] The act of departing from life; death. EXON (11) [noun] An officer of the Queen's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard. | [noun] A region of a transcribed gene present in the final functional RNA molecule. EXPO (13) [noun] An exposition. | [noun] An expediter; a restaurant worker who prepares food to be taken to tables. EYAS (7) [noun] A young hawk or falcon in the nest, or that has not yet fledged, especially one that will be trained for falconry. EYED (8) [verb] To observe carefully or appraisingly. | [verb] To appear; to look. | [adjective] Having eyes. EYEN (7) EYER (7) EYES (7) [noun] An organ through which animals see (perceive surroundings via light). | [noun] The visual sense. | [noun] The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour. EYNE (7) EYRA (7) [noun] A slender, reddish-yellow wild cat (Puma yagouaroundi eyra) ranging from southern Brazil to Texas. EYRE (7) [noun] A journey in circuit of certain itinerant judges called justices in eyre (or in itinere). EYRY (10)

EAGER (6) [adjective] Sharp; sour; acid. | [adjective] Sharp; keen; bitter; severe. | [adjective] Desirous; keen to do or obtain something. | [noun] A tidal bore EAGLE (6) [noun] Any of several large carnivorous and carrion-eating birds in the family Accipitridae, having a powerful hooked bill and keen vision. | [noun] A gold coin with a face value of ten dollars, formerly used in the United States. | [noun] A 13th-century coin minted in Europe and circulated in England as a debased sterling silver penny, outlawed under Edward I. EAGRE (6) [adjective] Sharp; sour; acid. | [adjective] Sharp; keen; bitter; severe. | [adjective] Desirous; keen to do or obtain something. | [noun] A tidal bore EARED (6) EARLS (5) [noun] (nobility) A British or Irish nobleman next in rank above a viscount and below a marquess; equivalent to a European count. A female using the style is termed a countess. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called counts and viscounts. EARLY (8) [noun] A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place early in the day. | [adjective] At a time in advance of the usual or expected event. | [adjective] Arriving a time before expected; sooner than on time. EARNS (5) [verb] To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work. | [verb] To receive payment for work. | [verb] To receive payment for work. EARTH (8) [proper noun] The third planet of the Solar System; the world upon which humans live. | [proper noun] The personification of the Earth or earth, as a fertile woman or goddess. | [noun] Soil. EASED (6) [verb] To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc. | [verb] To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain). | [verb] To give respite to (someone). EASEL (5) [noun] An upright frame, typically on three legs, for displaying or supporting something, such as an artist's canvas. EASES (5) [verb] To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc. | [verb] To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain). | [verb] To give respite to (someone). EASTS (5) EATEN (5) [verb] To ingest; to be ingested. | [verb] To use up. | [verb] To cause (someone) to worry. EATER (5) [noun] One who eats. | [noun] An eating apple. | [noun] One who performs fellatio or cunnilingus. EAVED (9) EAVES (8) [noun] The underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls of a building. EBBED (10) [verb] To flow back or recede | [verb] To fall away or decline | [verb] To fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb EBBET (9) EBONS (7) EBONY (10) [noun] A hard, dense, deep black wood from various subtropical and tropical trees, especially of the genus Diospyros. | [noun] A tree that yields such wood. | [noun] A deep, dark black colour. ECHED (11) ECHES (10) ECHOS (10) ECLAT (7) [noun] A brilliant or successful effect; brilliance of success or effort; splendor; brilliant show; striking effect; glory; renown. ECRUS (7) EDEMA (8) [noun] An excessive accumulation of serum in tissue spaces or a body cavity. | [noun] A similar swelling in plants caused by excessive accumulation of water. EDGED (8) [verb] To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction. | [verb] To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction. | [verb] (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin. EDGER (7) EDGES (7) [noun] The boundary line of a surface. | [noun] A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet. | [noun] An advantage. EDICT (8) [noun] A proclamation of law or other authoritative command. EDIFY (12) [verb] To build, construct. | [verb] To instruct or improve morally or intellectually. EDILE (6) EDITS (6) [noun] A change to the text of a document. | [noun] A change in the text of a file, a website or the code of software. | [noun] An interruption or change to an improvised scene. EDUCE (8) [noun] An inference. | [verb] To direct the course of (a flow, journey etc.); to lead in a particular direction. | [verb] To infer or deduce (a result, theory etc.) from existing data or premises. EDUCT (8) EERIE (5) [adjective] Strange, weird, fear-inspiring. | [adjective] Frightened, timid. EGADS (7) [interjection] A mild exclamation of surprise, contempt, outrage, etc. EGERS (6) EGEST (6) [verb] To eliminate undigested food or waste from the body (as feces). EGGAR (7) [noun] Any moth of the family Lasiocampidae. EGGED (8) [verb] To throw eggs at. | [verb] To dip in or coat with beaten egg. | [verb] To distort a circular cross-section (as in a tube) to an elliptical or oval shape, either inadvertently or intentionally. EGGER (7) [noun] One who gathers eggs. | [noun] Any of various species of moth, especially the oak egger-moth, Lasiocampa quercus. | [noun] One who eggs or incites. EGRET (6) [noun] Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea that includes herons, many of which are white or buff, and several of which develop fine plumes during the breeding season. | [noun] A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament. | [noun] The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, such as the down of the thistle. EIDER (6) [noun] Any of the species of the genera Polysticta or Somateria, in the seaduck subfamily Merginae, which line their nests with fine down (taken from their own bodies). EIDOS (6) [noun] Form; essence; type; species. EIGHT (9) [noun] The digit/figure 8. | [noun] Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight. | [noun] A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which eight rowers each have two oars. | [noun] An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England. EIKON (9) EJECT (14) [verb] To compel (a person or persons) to leave. | [verb] To throw out or remove forcefully. | [verb] To compel (a sports player) to leave the field because of inappropriate behaviour. | [noun] An inferred object of someone else's consciousness EKING (10) [noun] The act or process of adding. | [noun] That which is added. | [noun] A supplementary piece of timber used to lengthen another. | [verb] Chiefly in the form eke out: to add to, to augment; to increase; to lengthen. ELAIN (5) ELAND (6) [noun] A genus of large South African antelope (Taurotragus), valued both for its hide and flesh. ELANS (5) ELATE (5) [verb] To make joyful or proud. | [verb] To lift up; raise; elevate. | [adjective] Elated; exultant ELBOW (10) [noun] The joint between the upper arm and the forearm. | [noun] (by extension) Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, coastline, etc.; an angular or jointed part of any structure, such as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent. | [noun] A detective. ELDER (6) [noun] An older person or an older member, usually a leader, of some community. | [noun] One who is older than another. | [noun] One who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor. | [noun] A small tree, Sambucus nigra, having white flowers in a cluster, and edible purple berries ELECT (7) [noun] One chosen or set apart. | [noun] In Calvinist theology, one foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies, someone chosen by God for salvation. | [verb] To choose or make a decision (to do something) ELEGY (9) [noun] A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation. | [noun] A composition of mournful character. ELEMI (7) [noun] A tree, Canarium luzonicum, native to the Philippines. | [noun] A resin harvested from the elemi tree. ELFIN (8) [noun] An elf; an inhabitant of fairy-land. | [noun] A little urchin or child. | [noun] Any of the butterflies in the subgenus Incisalia of the North American lycaenid genus Callophrys. | [adjective] Relating to or resembling an elf or elves, especially in its tiny size or features. ELIDE (6) [verb] To leave out or omit (something). | [verb] To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable. | [verb] To conflate; to smear together; to blur the distinction between. ELINT (5) ELITE (5) [noun] A special group or social class of people which have a superior intellectual, social or economic status as, the elite of society. | [noun] Someone who is among the best at a certain task. | [adjective] Of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician. ELOIN (5) ELOPE (7) [verb] (of a married person) To run away from home with a paramour. | [verb] (of an unmarried person) To run away secretly for the purpose of getting married with one's intended spouse; to marry in a quick or private fashion, especially without a public period of engagement. | [verb] To run away from home (for any reason). ELUDE (6) [verb] To evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill | [verb] To shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip | [verb] To escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to ELUTE (5) [verb] To separate one substance from another by means of a solvent; to wash; to cleanse. ELVER (8) [noun] A young eel. ELVES (8) [noun] A luminous spirit presiding over nature and fertility and dwelling in the world of Álfheim (Elfland). Compare angel, nymph, fairy. | [noun] Any from a race of mythical, supernatural beings resembling but seen as distinct from human beings. They are usually delicate-featured and skilled in magic or spellcrafting; sometimes depicted as clashing with dwarves, especially in modern fantasy literature. | [noun] Any of the magical, typically forest-guarding races bearing some similarities to the Norse álfar (through Tolkien's Eldar). EMBAR (9) EMBAY (12) [verb] To bathe; to steep. | [verb] To shut in, enclose, shelter or trap, such as ships in a bay. EMBED (10) [noun] An embedded reporter or journalist, such as a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit, or a political reporter assigned to follow and report on the campaign of a candidate. | [noun] An element of an advertisement, etc. serving as a subliminal message. | [noun] An item embedded in another document. EMBER (9) [noun] A glowing piece of coal or wood. | [noun] Smoldering ash. | [adjective] Making a circuit of the year or the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year, as certain religious days set apart for fasting and prayer. EMBOW (12) EMCEE (9) [noun] A rapper. | [noun] Initialism of main colour. | [noun] Initialism of matching colour. EMEER (7) EMEND (8) [verb] To correct and revise (text or a document). EMERY (10) [noun] An impure type of corundum, often used for sanding or polishing. | [verb] To sand or polish with emery. | [verb] To coat with emery. EMEUS (7) EMIRS (7) [noun] A prince, commander or other leader or ruler in an Islamic nation. | [noun] A descendant of the prophet Muhammad. EMITS (7) [verb] To send out or give off EMMER (9) [noun] A species of wheat, Triticum dicoccon, one of a group of hulled wheats that are important food grains. EMMET (9) [noun] An ant. | [noun] (Cornish dialect) A tourist. EMOTE (7) [noun] A virtual action, presented to other users as reported speech, rather than a direct message. | [noun] (Twitch-speak) Short for emoticon. | [verb] To display emotions openly, especially while acting. EMPTY (12) [noun] (usually plural) A container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty. | [verb] To make empty; to void; to remove the contents of. | [verb] Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination. EMYDE (11) EMYDS (11) ENACT (7) [noun] Purpose; determination | [verb] To make (a bill) into law | [verb] To act the part of; to play ENATE (5) ENDED (7) [verb] To come to an end | [verb] To finish, terminate. | [adjective] (in combination) Having (a specified kind or number of) ends. ENDER (6) ENDOW (9) [verb] To provide with a dower or a dowry. | [verb] To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits. | [verb] Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality. ENDUE (6) [verb] To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb. | [verb] To take on, to take the form of. | [verb] To put on (a piece of clothing); to clothe (someone with something). ENEMA (7) [noun] An injection of fluid into the large intestine by way of the rectum, usually for medical purposes. | [noun] The fluid so injected. | [noun] A device for administering such an injection. ENEMY (10) [noun] Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else. | [noun] A hostile force or nation; a fighting member of such a force or nation. | [noun] Something harmful or threatening to another ENJOY (15) [verb] To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something | [verb] To have the use or benefit of something. | [verb] To be satisfied or receive pleasure. ENNUI (5) [noun] A gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom; depression. | [verb] To make bored or listless; to weary. ENOKI (9) [noun] An enoki mushroom, Flammulina velutipes. ENOLS (5) ENORM (7) ENOWS (8) ENROL (5) [verb] To enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list | [verb] To enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of | [verb] To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something) ENSKY (12) ENSUE (5) [verb] To follow (a leader, inclination etc.). | [verb] To follow (in time), to be subsequent to. | [verb] To occur afterwards, as a result or effect. ENTER (5) [noun] The "Enter" key on a computer keyboard. | [noun] A stroke of the Enter key. | [verb] To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space. ENTIA (5) ENTRY (8) [noun] The act of entering. | [noun] Permission to enter. | [noun] A doorway that provides a means of entering a building. ENURE (5) [verb] To inure; to make accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant due to constant exposure. | [verb] To take effect, to be operative; used with to. ENVOI (8) [noun] A short stanza at the end of a poem, used either to address a person or to comment on the preceding body of the poem. ENVOY (11) [noun] A short stanza at the end of a poem, used either to address a person or to comment on the preceding body of the poem. | [noun] A diplomatic agent of the second rank, next in status after an ambassador. | [noun] A representative. ENZYM (19) EOSIN (5) [noun] A red, acidic dye commonly used in histological stains. EPACT (9) [noun] The time (number of days) by which a solar year exceeds twelve lunar months; it is used in the calculation of the date of Easter EPEES (7) [noun] A sharp-pointed dueling sword with a bell-shaped guard, used (with the end blunted) in sport fencing. EPHAH (13) [noun] A former Hebrew unit of dry volume (about 23 L). EPHAS (10) EPHOD (11) [noun] A priestly apron, or breastplate, described in the Bible in Exodus 28: vi - xxx, which only the chief priest of ancient Israel was allowed to wear. EPHOR (10) [noun] One of the five annually-elected senior magistrates in various Dorian states, especially in ancient Sparta, where they oversaw the actions of Spartan kings. | [noun] (in modern Greece) A superintendent or curator. EPICS (9) [noun] An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero. | [noun] A series of events considered appropriate to an epic. | [noun] In software development, a large or extended user story. EPOCH (12) [noun] A particular period of history, especially one considered noteworthy or remarkable. | [noun] A notable event which marks the beginning of such a period. | [noun] A precise instant of time that is used as a point of reference. EPODE (8) [noun] The after song; the part of a lyric ode which follows the strophe and antistrophe. | [noun] A kind of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one. EPOXY (17) [noun] A thermosetting polyepoxide resin used chiefly in strong adhesives, coatings and laminates; epoxy resin. | [verb] To glue with epoxy. | [adjective] Derived from an epoxide. EQUAL (14) [noun] A person or thing of equal status to others. | [noun] State of being equal; equality. | [verb] To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to. EQUID (15) [noun] Any animal of the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine (horse, zebra, ass, mule, etc.) EQUIP (16) [verb] To supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action or task; to provide with (e.g. weapons, provisions, munitions, rigging) | [verb] To dress up; to array; to clothe. | [verb] To prepare (someone) with a skill. ERASE (5) [noun] The operation of deleting data. | [verb] To remove markings or information | [verb] To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize. ERECT (7) [adjective] Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards. | [adjective] (of body parts) Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation. | [adjective] (of a man) Having an erect penis | [verb] To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts. ERGOT (6) [noun] Any fungus in the genus Claviceps which are parasitic on grasses. | [noun] The sclerotium (wintering stage) of certain fungi in the genus Claviceps, appearing as a deformed grain in certain cereals and grasses infected by the fungi. ERICA (7) [noun] Any of many heathers, of the genus Erica, used as garden plants ERNES (5) [noun] A sea eagle (Haliaeetus), especially the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) | [noun] An eagle. ERODE (6) [verb] To wear away by abrasion, corrosion or chemical reaction. | [verb] To destroy gradually by an ongoing process. EROSE (5) ERRED (6) [verb] To make a mistake. | [verb] To sin. | [verb] To stray. | [verb] To utter the word "er" when hesitating in speech, found in the phrase um and er. ERROR (5) [noun] The state, quality, or condition of being wrong. | [noun] A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately. | [noun] Sin; transgression. ERSES (5) ERUCT (7) [verb] To burp or belch. ERUGO (6) ERUPT (7) [verb] To eject something violently (such as lava or water, as from a volcano or geyser). | [verb] To burst forth; to break out. | [verb] To spontaneously release pressure or tension. ERVIL (8) ESCAR (7) ESCOT (7) ESKAR (9) ESKER (9) [noun] A long, narrow, sinuous ridge created by deposits from a stream running beneath a glacier. ESSAY (8) [noun] (authorship) A written composition of moderate length, exploring a particular issue or subject. | [noun] A test, experiment; an assay. | [noun] An attempt. | [verb] To try. ESSES (5) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter S. | [noun] Something shaped like the letter S. | [verb] To move in a changing direction, forming the shape of a letter S. ESTER (5) [noun] A compound most often formed by the condensation of an alcohol and an acid, with elimination of water, which contains the functional group carbon-oxygen double bond joined via carbon to another oxygen atom. ESTOP (7) [verb] To impede or bar by estoppel. | [verb] To stop up, to plug ETAPE (7) ETHER (8) [noun] The substance formerly supposed to fill the upper regions of the atmosphere above the clouds, in particular as a medium breathed by deities. | [noun] Often as aether and more fully as luminiferous aether: a substance once thought to fill all unoccupied space that allowed electromagnetic waves to pass through it and interact with matter, without exerting any resistance to matter or energy; its existence was disproved by the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment and the theory of relativity propounded by Albert Einstein (1879–1955). | [noun] The atmosphere or space as a medium for broadcasting radio and television signals; also, a notional space through which Internet and other digital communications take place; cyberspace. | [verb] To viciously humiliate or insult. ETHIC (10) [noun] A set of principles of right and wrong behaviour guiding, or representative of, a specific culture, society, group, or individual. | [noun] The morality of an action. | [adjective] Moral, relating to morals. ETHOS (8) [noun] The character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture, or movement. | [noun] A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker invokes their authority, competence or expertise in an attempt to persuade others that their view is correct. | [noun] (aesthetics) The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character, as influenced by the ethos (character or fundamental values) of a people, rather than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense; opposed to pathos. ETHYL (11) [noun] The univalent hydrocarbon radical, C2H5, formally derived from ethane by the loss of a hydrogen atom. ETNAS (5) ETUDE (6) [noun] A short piece of music, designed to give a performer practice in a particular area or skill. ETUIS (5) [noun] A small, ornamental bag or rigid container used for holding articles such as needles. ETWEE (8) ETYMA (10) [noun] The source word, or words, of a given word or expression. EUROS (5) [noun] Person living or originating from Europe | [noun] Person who resides within the European Union | [noun] The currency unit of the European Monetary Union. Symbol: € EVADE (9) [verb] To get away from by cunning; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to cleverly escape from | [verb] To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from. | [verb] To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding. EVENS (8) [noun] (diminutive) An even number. | [verb] To make flat and level. | [verb] To equal. EVENT (8) [noun] An occurrence; something that happens. | [noun] A prearranged social activity (function, etc.) | [noun] One of several contests that combine to make up a competition. | [verb] To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate. EVERT (8) [verb] To turn inside out (like a pocket being emptied) or outwards. | [verb] To move (someone or something) out of the way. | [verb] To turn upside down; to overturn. EVERY (11) EVICT (10) [verb] To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out. EVILS (8) [noun] Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good. | [noun] Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief. | [noun] A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula). EVITE (8) [verb] To avoid. EVOKE (12) [verb] To call out; to draw out or bring forth. | [verb] To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination. | [verb] To elicit a response. EWERS (8) [noun] A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug with a shape like a vase and a handle. EXACT (14) [verb] To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way. | [verb] To make desirable or necessary. | [verb] To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce. EXALT (12) [verb] To honor; to hold in high esteem. | [verb] To raise in rank, status etc., to elevate. | [verb] To elate, or fill with the joy of success. EXAMS (14) [noun] The act of examining. | [noun] Particularly, an inspection by a medical professional to establish the extent and nature of any sickness or injury. | [noun] A formal test involving answering written or oral questions under a time constraint and usually without access to textbooks. EXCEL (14) [verb] To surpass someone or something; to be better or do better than someone or something. | [verb] To be much better than others. | [verb] To exceed, to go beyond EXECS (14) [noun] Executive, executive officer EXERT (12) [verb] To put in vigorous action. | [verb] To make use of, to apply, especially of something non-material. EXILE (12) [noun] The state of being banished from one's home or country. | [noun] Someone who is banished from their home or country. | [verb] To send into exile. EXINE (12) [noun] The outer layer of a pollen grain or spore; the exosporium EXIST (12) [verb] (stative) to be; have existence; have being or reality EXITS (12) [noun] An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure. | [noun] A way out. | [noun] The act of departing from life; death. EXONS (12) [noun] An officer of the Queen's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard. | [noun] A region of a transcribed gene present in the final functional RNA molecule. EXPAT (14) [noun] An expatriate; a person who lives outside their own country. EXPEL (14) [verb] To eject or erupt. | [verb] To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.). | [verb] To remove from membership. EXPOS (14) [noun] An exposition. | [noun] An expediter; a restaurant worker who prepares food to be taken to tables. EXTOL (12) [verb] To praise; to make high. EXTRA (12) [noun] Something additional, such as an item above and beyond the ordinary school curriculum, or added to the usual charge on a bill. | [noun] An extra edition of a newspaper, which is printed outside of the normal printing cycle. | [noun] A run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat - a wide, bye, leg bye or no ball. EXUDE (13) [verb] To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out. | [verb] To flow out through the pores. EXULT (12) [verb] To rejoice; to be very happy, especially in triumph. EXURB (14) [noun] A residential area beyond the suburbs. EYERS (8) EYING (9) [verb] To observe carefully or appraisingly. | [verb] To appear; to look. EYRAS (8) [noun] A slender, reddish-yellow wild cat (Puma yagouaroundi eyra) ranging from southern Brazil to Texas. EYRES (8) [noun] A journey in circuit of certain itinerant judges called justices in eyre (or in itinere). EYRIE (8) [noun] The nest of a bird of prey. | [noun] Any high and remote but commanding place. EYRIR (8) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Icelandic króna

EAGERS (7) EAGLES (7) [noun] Any of several large carnivorous and carrion-eating birds in the family Accipitridae, having a powerful hooked bill and keen vision. | [noun] A gold coin with a face value of ten dollars, formerly used in the United States. | [noun] A 13th-century coin minted in Europe and circulated in England as a debased sterling silver penny, outlawed under Edward I. EAGLET (7) [noun] The immature young of an eagle; an eagle chick. EAGRES (7) [noun] A tidal bore EARFUL (9) [noun] An angry reprimand, castigation or telling off | [noun] Intimate gossip EARING (7) EARLAP (8) EARNED (7) [verb] To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work. | [verb] To receive payment for work. | [verb] To receive payment for work. EARNER (6) [noun] One who earns money. | [noun] A profitable product or scheme. EARTHS (9) [noun] Soil. | [noun] Any general rock-based material. | [noun] The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea). EARTHY (12) [adjective] Resembling dirt or soil (i.e. earth). | [adjective] Down-to-earth, not artificial, natural. | [adjective] Coarse and unrefined, crude. EARWAX (16) [noun] A waxy substance secreted by the ear. EARWIG (10) [noun] Any of various insects of the order Dermaptera that have elongated bodies, large membranous wings folded underneath short leathery forewings and a pair of large pincers protruding from the rear of the abdomen. | [noun] One who whispers insinuations; a secret counsellor. | [noun] A flatterer. EASELS (6) [noun] An upright frame, typically on three legs, for displaying or supporting something, such as an artist's canvas. EASIER (6) [adjective] Comfortable; at ease. | [adjective] Requiring little skill or effort. | [adjective] Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour. EASIES (6) EASILY (9) [adverb] Comfortably, without discomfort or anxiety. | [adverb] Without difficulty. | [adverb] Absolutely, without question. EASING (7) [verb] To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc. | [verb] To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain). | [verb] To give respite to (someone). EASTER (6) [adjective] Eastern. EATERS (6) [noun] One who eats. | [noun] An eating apple. | [noun] One who performs fellatio or cunnilingus. EATERY (9) [noun] A restaurant or café; a place to purchase and eat food. EATING (7) [verb] To ingest; to be ingested. | [verb] To use up. | [verb] To cause (someone) to worry. | [noun] The act of ingesting food. EBBETS (10) EBBING (11) [verb] To flow back or recede | [verb] To fall away or decline | [verb] To fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb ECARTE (8) [noun] A card game for two persons, with 32 cards, ranking K, Q, J, A, 10, 9, 8, 7. Five cards are dealt each player, and the 11th turned as trump. Five points constitute a game. ECESIS (8) ECHARD (12) ECHING (12) ECHINI (11) ECHOED (12) [verb] (of a sound or sound waves) To reflect off a surface and return. | [verb] To reflect back (a sound). | [verb] (by extension) To repeat (another's speech, opinion etc.). ECHOER (11) ECHOES (11) [noun] A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer. | [noun] An utterance repeating what has just been said. | [noun] A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line. ECHOEY (14) [adjective] (of a sound) That echoes. ECHOIC (13) [adjective] Of or pertaining to an echo | [adjective] Imitative of a sound; onomatopoeic. ECLAIR (8) [noun] An oblong, chocolate-covered, cream-filled pastry. ECLATS (8) ECTYPE (13) ECZEMA (19) [noun] A non-contagious acute or chronic inflammation of the skin, characterized by redness, itching, and the outbreak of oozing vesicular lesions which become encrusted and scaly. EDDIED (9) [verb] To form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle. EDDIES (8) [noun] A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current. | [noun] A circular current; a whirlpool. | [verb] To form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle. EDDOES (8) [noun] A plant (Colocasia esculenta, but often identified as Colocasia antiquorum, among numerous other synonyms), which is usually considered a variety of C. esculenta, with edible starchy tubers. | [noun] The tubers of this plant. EDEMAS (9) EDENIC (9) [adjective] Of or suggesting Eden, the paradise of the Bible. EDGERS (8) EDGIER (8) [adjective] Nervous, apprehensive. | [adjective] (entertainment) Creatively challenging; cutting edge; leading edge. | [adjective] (entertainment) On the edge between acceptable and offensive; pushing the boundaries of good taste; risqué. EDGILY (11) EDGING (9) [verb] To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction. | [verb] To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction. | [verb] (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin. EDIBLE (9) [noun] Anything edible. | [noun] (marijuana) a foodstuff, usually a baked good, infused with tetrahydrocannabinol from cannabutter etc. | [adjective] That can be eaten without harm; innocuous to humans; suitable for consumption. EDICTS (9) [noun] A proclamation of law or other authoritative command. EDILES (7) EDITED (8) [verb] To change a text, or a document. | [verb] To be the editor of a publication. | [verb] To change the contents of a file, website, etc. EDITOR (7) [noun] A person who edits or makes changes to documents. | [noun] A copy editor. | [noun] A person who edited a specific document. EDUCED (10) [verb] To direct the course of (a flow, journey etc.); to lead in a particular direction. | [verb] To infer or deduce (a result, theory etc.) from existing data or premises. | [verb] To draw out or bring forth from some basic or potential state; to elicit, to develop. EDUCES (9) [verb] To direct the course of (a flow, journey etc.); to lead in a particular direction. | [verb] To infer or deduce (a result, theory etc.) from existing data or premises. | [verb] To draw out or bring forth from some basic or potential state; to elicit, to develop. EDUCTS (9) EELIER (6) EERIER (6) [adjective] Strange, weird, fear-inspiring. | [adjective] Frightened, timid. EERILY (9) [adverb] In an eerie manner. EFFACE (14) [verb] To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible. | [verb] To cause to disappear as if by rubbing out or striking out. | [verb] To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence. EFFECT (14) [noun] The result or outcome of a cause. | [noun] Impression left on the mind; sensation produced. | [noun] Execution; performance; realization; operation. EFFETE (12) [adjective] Of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out. | [adjective] Lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent. | [adjective] Decadent, weak through self-indulgence. EFFIGY (16) [noun] A dummy or other crude representation of a person, group or object that is hated. | [noun] A likeness of a person. EFFLUX (19) [noun] The process of flowing out. | [noun] That which has flowed out. | [verb] To run out; to flow forth. EFFORT (12) [noun] The work involved in performing an activity; exertion. | [noun] An endeavour. | [noun] A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion. EFFUSE (12) [noun] Effusion; loss | [verb] To emit; to give off | [verb] To gush; to be excitedly talkative and enthusiastic about something EGESTA (7) [noun] The waste which is carried out from a cell or an organism; the result of egestion; excrement EGESTS (7) [verb] To eliminate undigested food or waste from the body (as feces). EGGARS (8) [noun] Any moth of the family Lasiocampidae. EGGCUP (12) [noun] A small dish used to support a boiled egg while it is eaten. EGGERS (8) [noun] One who gathers eggs. | [noun] Any of various species of moth, especially the oak egger-moth, Lasiocampa quercus. | [noun] One who eggs or incites. EGGING (9) [verb] To throw eggs at. | [verb] To dip in or coat with beaten egg. | [verb] To distort a circular cross-section (as in a tube) to an elliptical or oval shape, either inadvertently or intentionally. EGGNOG (9) [noun] A beverage based on milk, eggs, sugar, and nutmeg; often made alcoholic with rum, brandy or whisky; popular at Christmas. EGISES (7) EGOISM (9) [noun] The tendency to think selfishly with exclusive self-interest in mind. | [noun] The belief that moral behavior should be directed toward one's self-interest only. | [noun] (by confusion of the similar words) Egotism. EGOIST (7) EGRESS (7) [noun] An exit or way out. | [noun] The process of exiting or leaving. | [noun] The end of the apparent transit of a small astronomical body over the disk of a larger one. | [verb] To exit or leave; to go or come out. EGRETS (7) [noun] Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea that includes herons, many of which are white or buff, and several of which develop fine plumes during the breeding season. | [noun] A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament. | [noun] The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, such as the down of the thistle. EIDERS (7) [noun] Any of the species of the genera Polysticta or Somateria, in the seaduck subfamily Merginae, which line their nests with fine down (taken from their own bodies). EIDOLA (7) [noun] An image or representation of an idea; a representation of an ideal form; an apparition of some actual or imaginary entity, or of some aspect of reality. | [noun] A phantom, a ghost or elusive entity. EIGHTH (13) [noun] The person or thing in the eighth position. | [noun] One of eight equal parts of a whole. | [noun] An eighth of an ounce, or approximately 3.5 grams, of marijuana or other drugs. EIGHTS (10) [noun] An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England. | [noun] The digit/figure 8. | [noun] Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight. EIGHTY (13) [numeral] The cardinal number occurring after seventy-nine and before eighty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXXX and in Arabic numerals as 80. EIKONS (10) EITHER (9) [adverb] (after a negative) As well. | [pronoun] One or other of two people or things. | [pronoun] Both, each of two or more. EJECTA (15) [noun] Material which has been ejected, especially from a volcano or an impact crater. EJECTS (15) [verb] To compel (a person or persons) to leave. | [verb] To throw out or remove forcefully. | [verb] To compel (a sports player) to leave the field because of inappropriate behaviour. EKUELE (10) ELAINS (6) ELANDS (7) [noun] A genus of large South African antelope (Taurotragus), valued both for its hide and flesh. ELAPID (9) ELAPSE (8) [verb] (of time) To pass or move by. ELATED (7) [verb] To make joyful or proud. | [verb] To lift up; raise; elevate. | [adjective] Extremely happy and excited; delighted; pleased, euphoric. ELATER (6) ELATES (6) [verb] To make joyful or proud. | [verb] To lift up; raise; elevate. ELBOWS (11) [noun] The joint between the upper arm and the forearm. | [noun] (by extension) Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, coastline, etc.; an angular or jointed part of any structure, such as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent. | [noun] A detective. ELDERS (7) [noun] An older person or an older member, usually a leader, of some community. | [noun] One who is older than another. | [noun] One who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor. ELDEST (7) [noun] The eldest child in a family, or individual in a group. | [adjective] (of a player) Receiving cards from the dealer first, before any other players. | [adjective] (of a hand) Having higher, or superior cards. ELECTS (8) [noun] One chosen or set apart. | [noun] In Calvinist theology, one foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies, someone chosen by God for salvation. | [verb] To choose or make a decision (to do something) ELEGIT (7) ELEMIS (8) ELEVEN (9) [noun] A cricket team of eleven players. Hence first eleven - the team of best cricket players (at a school), second eleven - the "B" team, etc. | [noun] A football team of eleven players; the starting lineup. | [noun] Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, imitating someone who forgets to press the shift key while typing exclamation points. ELEVON (9) [noun] A moveable surface at the trailing edge of a tailless airplane (such as the space shuttle) that provides pitch and roll control. ELFINS (9) [noun] An elf; an inhabitant of fairy-land. | [noun] A little urchin or child. | [noun] Any of the butterflies in the subgenus Incisalia of the North American lycaenid genus Callophrys. ELFISH (12) [adjective] Characteristic of an elf; elfin, elven. | [adjective] Mischievous. ELICIT (8) [verb] To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer. | [verb] To draw out, bring out, bring forth (something latent); to obtain information from someone or something. | [verb] To use logic to arrive at truth; to derive by reason ELIDED (8) [verb] To leave out or omit (something). | [verb] To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable. | [verb] To conflate; to smear together; to blur the distinction between. ELIDES (7) [verb] To leave out or omit (something). | [verb] To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable. | [verb] To conflate; to smear together; to blur the distinction between. ELINTS (6) ELITES (6) [noun] A special group or social class of people which have a superior intellectual, social or economic status as, the elite of society. | [noun] Someone who is among the best at a certain task. ELIXIR (13) [noun] A liquid which converts lead to gold. | [noun] A substance or liquid which is believed to cure all ills and give eternal life. | [noun] (by extension) The alleged cure for all ailments; cure-all, panacea. ELMIER (8) ELODEA (7) [noun] Any of several underwater freshwater perennials, of the genus Elodea, that have grasslike leaves; ditchmoss or pondweed. ELOIGN (7) ELOINS (6) ELOPED (9) [verb] (of a married person) To run away from home with a paramour. | [verb] (of an unmarried person) To run away secretly for the purpose of getting married with one's intended spouse; to marry in a quick or private fashion, especially without a public period of engagement. | [verb] To run away from home (for any reason). ELOPER (8) ELOPES (8) [verb] (of a married person) To run away from home with a paramour. | [verb] (of an unmarried person) To run away secretly for the purpose of getting married with one's intended spouse; to marry in a quick or private fashion, especially without a public period of engagement. | [verb] To run away from home (for any reason). ELUANT (6) [noun] The product of elution | [noun] In chromatography, a solvent used in order to effect separation by elution. ELUATE (6) [noun] A liquid solution that results from elution | [verb] To subject or be subjected to elution ELUDED (8) [verb] To evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill | [verb] To shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip | [verb] To escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to ELUDER (7) ELUDES (7) [verb] To evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill | [verb] To shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip | [verb] To escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to ELUENT (6) [noun] In chromatography, a solvent used in order to effect separation by elution. ELUTED (7) [verb] To separate one substance from another by means of a solvent; to wash; to cleanse. ELUTES (6) [verb] To separate one substance from another by means of a solvent; to wash; to cleanse. ELUVIA (9) ELVERS (9) [noun] A young eel. ELVISH (12) [adjective] Of or having to do with elves; elven. ELYTRA (9) [noun] A sheath or outer covering, especially around the spinal cord or over the hindwings of certain insects. EMBALM (12) [verb] To treat a corpse with preservatives in order to prevent decomposition. | [verb] To perfume or add fragrance to something. EMBANK (14) [verb] To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone EMBARK (14) [verb] To get on a boat or ship or (outside the USA) an aeroplane. | [verb] To start, begin. | [verb] To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard. EMBARS (10) EMBAYS (13) [verb] To bathe; to steep. | [verb] To shut in, enclose, shelter or trap, such as ships in a bay. EMBEDS (11) [noun] An embedded reporter or journalist, such as a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit, or a political reporter assigned to follow and report on the campaign of a candidate. | [noun] An element of an advertisement, etc. serving as a subliminal message. | [noun] An item embedded in another document. EMBERS (10) [noun] A glowing piece of coal or wood. | [noun] Smoldering ash. | [noun] The smoldering or glowing remains of a fire, smoldering ash. EMBLEM (12) [noun] A representative symbol, such as a trademark or logo. | [noun] Something which represents a larger whole. | [noun] Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface. EMBODY (14) [verb] To represent in a physical or concrete form; to incarnate or personify. | [verb] To represent in some other form, such as a code of laws. | [verb] To comprise or include as part of a cohesive whole; to be made up of. EMBOLI (10) [noun] An obstruction causing an embolism: a blood clot, air bubble or other matter carried by the bloodstream and causing a blockage or occlusion of a blood vessel. | [noun] The structure on the end of the palp of male arachnids which contains the opening to the ejaculatory duct. EMBOLY (13) EMBOSK (14) EMBOSS (10) [verb] To mark or decorate with a raised design or symbol. | [verb] To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, etc. | [verb] Of a hunted animal: to take shelter in a wood or forest. EMBOWS (13) EMBRUE (10) [verb] To stain (in, with, blood, slaughter, etc.). EMBRYO (13) [noun] In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus. | [noun] An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis. | [noun] In viviparous animals, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body EMCEED (11) [verb] To act as the master of ceremonies (for). | [verb] To rap as part of a hip-hop performance. EMCEES (10) [noun] A rapper. | [noun] Initialism of main colour. | [noun] Initialism of matching colour. EMEERS (8) EMENDS (9) [verb] To correct and revise (text or a document). EMERGE (9) [verb] To come into view. | [verb] To come out of a situation, object or a liquid. | [verb] To become known. EMEROD (9) EMESES (8) EMESIS (8) [noun] The act or process of vomiting. EMETIC (10) [noun] An agent that induces vomiting | [adjective] (pharmaceutical effect) causing nausea and vomiting EMETIN (8) EMEUTE (8) EMIGRE (9) [noun] One who has departed their native land, often as a refugee. | [noun] An emigrant, one who departs their native land to become an immigrant in another. EMMERS (10) EMMETS (10) [noun] An ant. | [noun] (Cornish dialect) A tourist. EMODIN (9) EMOTED (9) [verb] To display emotions openly, especially while acting. | [verb] To induce an emotion in. | [verb] To perform a virtual action, presented to other users as reported speech, rather than sending a direct message. EMOTER (8) EMOTES (8) [noun] A virtual action, presented to other users as reported speech, rather than a direct message. | [noun] (Twitch-speak) Short for emoticon. | [verb] To display emotions openly, especially while acting. EMPALE (10) EMPERY (13) EMPIRE (10) [adjective] (furniture) Following or imitating a style popular during the First French Empire (1804–1814). | [adjective] (of wine) Produced in a dependency of the British Empire or Commonwealth of Nations. | [noun] A political unit, typically having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations (especially one comprising one or more kingdoms) and ruled by a single supreme authority. EMPLOY (13) [noun] The state of being an employee; employment. | [noun] The act of employing someone or making use of something; employment. | [verb] To hire (somebody for work or a job). EMYDES (12) ENABLE (8) [verb] To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to. | [verb] To affirm; to make firm and strong. | [verb] To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for. ENACTS (8) [verb] To make (a bill) into law | [verb] To act the part of; to play | [verb] To do; to effect ENAMEL (8) [noun] An opaque, glassy coating baked onto metal or ceramic objects. | [noun] A coating that dries to a hard, glossy finish. | [noun] The hard covering on the exposed part of a tooth. | [verb] To coat or decorate with enamel. ENAMOR (8) [verb] (mostly in the passive, followed by "of" or "with") To cause to be in love. | [verb] (mostly in the passive) To captivate. ENATES (6) ENATIC (8) ENCAGE (9) [verb] To lock inside a cage; to imprison. ENCAMP (12) [verb] To establish a camp or temporary shelter. | [verb] To form into a camp. ENCASE (8) [verb] To enclose, as in a case. ENCASH (11) [verb] To convert a financial instrument or funding source into cash. ENCINA (8) ENCODE (9) [verb] To convert (plain text) into code. | [verb] (communication) To convert source information into another form. | [verb] To constitute the code necessary for the biosynthesis of a protein by means of a matrix so as to transcribe DNA material. ENCORE (8) [noun] A brief extra performance, done after the main performance is complete. | [noun] A call or demand (as by continued applause) for a repeat performance. | [verb] To call for an extra performance or repetition of, or by. ENCYST (11) [verb] To enclose within a cyst. | [verb] To be enclosed within a cyst. ENDEAR (7) [verb] To make (something) more precious or valuable. | [verb] To make (something) more expensive; to increase the cost of. | [verb] To stress (something) as important; to exaggerate. ENDERS (7) ENDING (8) [noun] A termination or conclusion. | [noun] The last part of something. | [noun] (grammar) The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -ing in "ending"). | [verb] To come to an end ENDITE (7) [noun] One of the mouthparts of a spider or other arachnids, specifically the lobe of the palpal coxa lateral to the labium. | [verb] To physically make letters and words on a writing surface; to inscribe. | [verb] To write, especially a literary or artistic work; to compose. ENDIVE (10) [noun] A leafy salad vegetable, Cichorium endivia, which is often confused with common chicory (Cichorium intybus). ENDOWS (10) [verb] To provide with a dower or a dowry. | [verb] To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits. | [verb] Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality. ENDRIN (7) [noun] A toxic chlorinated polycyclic epoxide previously used as a pesticide and now considered a persistent organic pollutant. ENDUED (8) [verb] To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb. | [verb] To take on, to take the form of. | [verb] To put on (a piece of clothing); to clothe (someone with something). ENDUES (7) [verb] To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb. | [verb] To take on, to take the form of. | [verb] To put on (a piece of clothing); to clothe (someone with something). ENDURE (7) [verb] To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist. | [verb] To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant. | [verb] To last. ENDURO (7) [noun] A motorcycle sport run on predominantly off-road courses, with many obstacles and challenges. | [noun] A particular race or event in the sport of enduro. ENEMAS (8) [noun] An injection of fluid into the large intestine by way of the rectum, usually for medical purposes. | [noun] The fluid so injected. | [noun] A device for administering such an injection. ENERGY (10) [noun] The impetus behind all motion and all activity. | [noun] The capacity to do work. | [noun] A quantity that denotes the ability to do work and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance²/time² (ML²/T²) or the equivalent. ENFACE (11) ENFOLD (10) [verb] To fold something around; to envelop | [verb] To embrace ENGAGE (8) [verb] (heading) To interact socially. | [verb] (heading) To interact antagonistically. | [verb] (heading) To interact contractually. ENGILD (8) ENGINE (7) [noun] A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc. | [noun] A tool; a utensil or implement. | [noun] A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects. ENGIRD (8) [verb] To gird around; to ingirt. ENGIRT (7) ENGLUT (7) ENGRAM (9) [noun] A postulated physical or biochemical change in neural tissue that represents a memory. | [noun] A painful, negative mental image representing a past event. ENGULF (10) [verb] To overwhelm. | [verb] To surround; to cover. | [verb] To cast into a gulf. ENHALO (9) ENIGMA (9) [noun] Something or someone puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable. | [noun] A riddle, or a difficult problem. ENISLE (6) [verb] To make into an island. | [verb] (by extension) To isolate. ENJOIN (13) [verb] To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge. | [verb] To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on. ENJOYS (16) [verb] To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something | [verb] To have the use or benefit of something. | [verb] To be satisfied or receive pleasure. ENLACE (8) [verb] To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace | [verb] (by extension) To entangle. ENLIST (6) [noun] One who is enlisted, usually in a military service. | [verb] To enter on a list; to enroll; to register. | [verb] To join a cause or organization, especially military service. ENMESH (11) [verb] To mesh; to tangle or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated, particularly in a mesh or net like manner. | [verb] To involve in such complications as to render extrication difficult | [verb] To involve in difficulties. ENMITY (11) [noun] The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition. | [noun] A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity. ENNEAD (7) [noun] The number nine. | [noun] Any grouping or system containing nine objects. ENNUIS (6) ENNUYE (9) ENOKIS (10) [noun] An enoki mushroom, Flammulina velutipes. ENOLIC (8) ENOSIS (6) ENOUGH (10) [adverb] Sufficiently. | [adverb] Fully; quite; used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very. | [pronoun] A sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc. ENRAGE (7) [verb] To fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious. ENRAPT (8) [adjective] Fascinated, enraptured ENRICH (11) [verb] To enhance. | [verb] To make (someone or something) rich or richer. | [verb] To adorn, ornate more richly. ENROBE (8) [verb] To invest or adorn with a robe or vestment; to attire. | [verb] To coat or cover. ENROLL (6) [verb] To enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list | [verb] To enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of | [verb] To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something) ENROLS (6) [verb] To enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list | [verb] To enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of | [verb] To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something) ENROOT (6) ENSERF (9) ENSIGN (7) [noun] A badge of office, rank, or power. | [noun] The lowest grade of commissioned officer in the United States Navy, junior to a lieutenant junior grade. | [noun] A flag or banner carried by military units; a standard or color/colour. ENSILE (6) [verb] To preserve (forage) in a silo. ENSOUL (6) [verb] To give a soul or place in the soul. ENSUED (7) [verb] To follow (a leader, inclination etc.). | [verb] To follow (in time), to be subsequent to. | [verb] To occur afterwards, as a result or effect. ENSUES (6) [verb] To follow (a leader, inclination etc.). | [verb] To follow (in time), to be subsequent to. | [verb] To occur afterwards, as a result or effect. ENSURE (6) [verb] To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure. | [verb] To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition). ENTAIL (6) [verb] To imply or require. | [verb] To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage. | [verb] To appoint hereditary possessor. | [noun] That which is entailed. Hence: ENTERA (6) ENTERS (6) [noun] The "Enter" key on a computer keyboard. | [noun] A stroke of the Enter key. | [verb] To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space. ENTICE (8) [verb] To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope. ENTIRE (6) [noun] The whole of something; the entirety. | [noun] An uncastrated horse; a stallion. | [noun] A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted. ENTITY (9) [noun] That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit. Often used for organisations which have no physical form. | [noun] The existence of something considered apart from its properties. | [noun] Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, an organised array or set of individual elements or parts. ENTOIL (6) ENTOMB (10) [verb] To deposit in a tomb. | [verb] To confine in restrictive surroundings. ENTRAP (8) [verb] To catch in a trap or snare. | [verb] To lure (someone), either into a dangerous situation, or into performing an illegal act. ENTREE (6) [noun] (French Canada) A smaller dish served before the main course of a meal. | [noun] The main course or main dish of a meal. | [noun] The act of entering somewhere, or permission to enter; admittance. ENURED (7) [verb] To inure; to make accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant due to constant exposure. | [verb] To take effect, to be operative; used with to. ENURES (6) [verb] To inure; to make accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant due to constant exposure. | [verb] To take effect, to be operative; used with to. ENVIED (10) [adjective] That is the object of envy. | [verb] To feel displeasure or hatred towards (someone) for their good fortune or possessions. | [verb] To have envious feelings (at). ENVIER (9) ENVIES (9) [noun] Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions). | [noun] An object of envious notice or feeling. | [noun] Hatred, enmity, ill-feeling. ENVOIS (9) [noun] A short stanza at the end of a poem, used either to address a person or to comment on the preceding body of the poem. ENVOYS (12) [noun] A short stanza at the end of a poem, used either to address a person or to comment on the preceding body of the poem. | [noun] A diplomatic agent of the second rank, next in status after an ambassador. | [noun] A representative. ENWIND (10) ENWOMB (13) ENWRAP (11) [verb] To wrap around, surround; to envelop | [verb] To absorb completely or engross ENZYME (20) [noun] A globular protein that catalyses a biological chemical reaction. | [noun] Leavened bread, as opposed to azyme ENZYMS (20) EOLIAN (6) [adjective] Of, or relating to the wind. | [adjective] Carried, deposited or eroded by the wind. | [adjective] Aeolian mode EOLITH (9) [noun] Crudely chopped flints, believed to be naturally produced by geological processes such as glaciation. EONIAN (6) EONISM (8) EOSINE (6) EOSINS (6) EPACTS (10) [noun] The time (number of days) by which a solar year exceeds twelve lunar months; it is used in the calculation of the date of Easter EPARCH (13) [noun] The governor or prefect of a province. | [noun] The ruler of an eparchy. | [noun] The metropolitan bishop of a province or eparchy. EPHAHS (14) [noun] A former Hebrew unit of dry volume (about 23 L). EPHEBE (13) [noun] A 18- to 20-year-old man in ancient Greece undergoing military training. | [noun] (by extension) A young man; a youth. EPHEBI (13) EPHODS (12) [noun] A priestly apron, or breastplate, described in the Bible in Exodus 28: vi - xxx, which only the chief priest of ancient Israel was allowed to wear. EPHORI (11) EPHORS (11) [noun] One of the five annually-elected senior magistrates in various Dorian states, especially in ancient Sparta, where they oversaw the actions of Spartan kings. | [noun] (in modern Greece) A superintendent or curator. EPICAL (10) EPIGON (9) EPILOG (9) [noun] A short speech, spoken directly at the audience at the end of a play | [noun] The performer who gives this speech | [noun] A brief oration or script at the end of a literary piece; an afterword EPIMER (10) [noun] Any diastereoisomer that has the opposite configuration at only one of the stereogenic centres. EPIZOA (17) [noun] An external animal parasite. EPOCHS (13) [noun] A particular period of history, especially one considered noteworthy or remarkable. | [noun] A notable event which marks the beginning of such a period. | [noun] A precise instant of time that is used as a point of reference. EPODES (9) [noun] The after song; the part of a lyric ode which follows the strophe and antistrophe. | [noun] A kind of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one. EPONYM (13) [noun] A real or fictitious person's name that has given rise to the name of a particular item. | [noun] A word formed from a real or fictive person’s name. | [noun] (by extension) A word formed from a real or fictive place or thing. EPOPEE (10) EPOSES (8) EQUALS (15) [noun] A person or thing of equal status to others. | [noun] State of being equal; equality. | [verb] To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to. EQUATE (15) [noun] A statement in assembly language that defines a symbol having a particular value. | [verb] To consider equal or equivalent. | [verb] To set as equal. EQUIDS (16) [noun] Any animal of the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine (horse, zebra, ass, mule, etc.) EQUINE (15) [noun] Any horse or horse-like animal, especially one of the genus Equus. | [adjective] Of or relating to a horse or horses. | [adjective] Of or relating to any member or members of the genus Equus. EQUIPS (17) [verb] To supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action or task; to provide with (e.g. weapons, provisions, munitions, rigging) | [verb] To dress up; to array; to clothe. | [verb] To prepare (someone) with a skill. EQUITY (18) [noun] Fairness, impartiality, or justice as determined in light of "natural law" or "natural right". | [noun] Various related senses originating with the Court of Chancery in late Medieval England | [noun] Various senses related to net value ERASED (7) [verb] To remove markings or information | [verb] To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize. | [verb] To obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite. ERASER (6) [noun] One who erases. | [noun] A thing used to erase or remove something written or drawn by a pen or a pencil. | [noun] A thing used to erase something written by chalk on a chalkboard, by marker on a whiteboard, or by some other erasable implement; a chalkboard eraser, whiteboard eraser, etc. ERASES (6) [noun] The operation of deleting data. | [verb] To remove markings or information | [verb] To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize. ERBIUM (10) [noun] A chemical element (symbol Er) with atomic number 68: a silvery-white metal, in nature always found in combination with other elements. | [noun] A single atom of this element. ERECTS (8) [verb] To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts. | [verb] To cause to stand up or out. | [verb] To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise. ERENOW (9) ERGATE (7) ERGOTS (7) [noun] Any fungus in the genus Claviceps which are parasitic on grasses. | [noun] The sclerotium (wintering stage) of certain fungi in the genus Claviceps, appearing as a deformed grain in certain cereals and grasses infected by the fungi. ERICAS (8) [noun] Any of many heathers, of the genus Erica, used as garden plants ERINGO (7) ERMINE (8) [noun] A weasel, Mustela erminea, found in northern latitudes; its dark brown fur turns white in winter (apart from the black tip of the tail). | [noun] The white fur of this animal, traditionally seen as a symbol of purity and used for judges' robes. | [noun] (by extension) The office of a judge. ERODED (8) [verb] To wear away by abrasion, corrosion or chemical reaction. | [verb] To destroy gradually by an ongoing process. | [adjective] Worn down or worn away. ERODES (7) [verb] To wear away by abrasion, corrosion or chemical reaction. | [verb] To destroy gradually by an ongoing process. EROSES (6) EROTIC (8) [noun] An amorous composition or poem. | [adjective] Relating to or tending to arouse sexual desire or excitement. ERRAND (7) [noun] A journey undertaken to accomplish some task. | [noun] The purpose of such a journey. | [noun] An oral message trusted to a person for delivery. ERRANT (6) [noun] A knight-errant. | [adjective] Straying from the proper course or standard, or outside established limits. | [adjective] Wandering; roving around. ERRATA (6) [noun] An added page in a printed work where errors which are discovered after printing and their corrections (corrigenda) are listed. | [noun] An error, especially one in a printed work. ERRING (7) [verb] To make a mistake. | [verb] To sin. | [verb] To stray. | [verb] To utter the word "er" when hesitating in speech, found in the phrase um and er. ERRORS (6) [noun] The state, quality, or condition of being wrong. | [noun] A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately. | [noun] Sin; transgression. ERSATZ (15) [noun] Something made in imitation; an effigy or substitute | [adjective] Made in imitation; artificial, especially of a poor quality ERUCTS (8) [verb] To burp or belch. ERUGOS (7) ERUPTS (8) [verb] To eject something violently (such as lava or water, as from a volcano or geyser). | [verb] To burst forth; to break out. | [verb] To spontaneously release pressure or tension. ERVILS (9) ERYNGO (10) [noun] The root of sea holly, Eryngium maritimum, formerly candied and taken as confectionery and held to have aphrodisiac properties. | [noun] Any other plant of the same genus, Eryngium. ESCAPE (10) [noun] The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation. | [noun] Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation. | [noun] Something that has escaped; an escapee. ESCARP (10) [noun] The side of the ditch next to the parapet in a fortification; the scarp. | [verb] To make into, or furnish with, a steep slope, like that of a scarp. ESCARS (8) ESCHAR (11) [noun] A superficial structure of dead tissue, usually hardened, commonly, but not necessarily dark, adhering to underlying living or necrotic tissue, caused by gangrene or a burn | [noun] (loose or obsolete) Any hard, dark, commonly flattened or sunken lesion or crust, especially on a burn, abscess, infection, wound; commonly a coagulation of blood or exudations, not necessarily involving dead or necrotic tissue. | [noun] (figurative or literary) The emotional imprint of a trauma such as grief, loss, or degradation ESCHEW (14) [verb] To avoid; to shun, to shy away from. ESCORT (8) [noun] A group of people or vehicles, generally armed, who go with a person or people of importance to safeguard them on a journey or mission. | [noun] An accompanying person in such a group. | [noun] A guard who travels with a dangerous person, such as a criminal, for the protection of others. ESCOTS (8) ESCROW (11) [noun] A written instrument, such as a deed, temporarily deposited with a neutral third party (the escrow agent), by the agreement of two parties to a valid contract. The escrow agent will deliver the document to the benefited party when the conditions of the contract have been met. The depositor has no control over the instrument in escrow. | [noun] In common law, escrow applied to the deposits only of instruments for conveyance of land, but it now applies to all instruments so deposited. | [noun] Money or other property so deposited is also loosely referred to as escrow. ESCUDO (9) [noun] The state currency formerly used in Portugal, divided into 100 centavos. The symbol is $ which is positioned between the escudos & centavos, 2$50. | [noun] The currency formerly used in Chile and replaced by the Peso. | [noun] The current currency of Cape Verde. ESKARS (10) ESKERS (10) [noun] A long, narrow, sinuous ridge created by deposits from a stream running beneath a glacier. ESPIAL (8) [noun] Act of noticing or observing. | [noun] The fact of noticing or observing; a discovery. | [noun] A spy; a scout. ESPIED (9) [verb] To catch sight of; to see; to spot (said especially of something not easy to see) | [verb] To examine and keep watch upon; to watch; to observe. | [verb] To look or search narrowly; to look about; to watch; to take notice; to spy. ESPIES (8) [verb] To catch sight of; to see; to spot (said especially of something not easy to see) | [verb] To examine and keep watch upon; to watch; to observe. | [verb] To look or search narrowly; to look about; to watch; to take notice; to spy. ESPRIT (8) [noun] Spirit, enthusiasm. | [noun] A wit. | [noun] Liveliness, or active mind and spirit. ESSAYS (9) [noun] (authorship) A written composition of moderate length, exploring a particular issue or subject. | [noun] A test, experiment; an assay. | [noun] An attempt. ESSOIN (6) ESTATE (6) [noun] The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person. | [noun] State; condition. | [noun] Status, rank. ESTEEM (8) [noun] Favourable regard. | [verb] To set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence. | [verb] To regard something as valuable; to prize. ESTERS (6) [noun] A compound most often formed by the condensation of an alcohol and an acid, with elimination of water, which contains the functional group carbon-oxygen double bond joined via carbon to another oxygen atom. ESTOPS (8) [verb] To impede or bar by estoppel. | [verb] To stop up, to plug ESTRAL (6) ESTRAY (9) ESTRIN (6) ESTRUM (8) [noun] A biting fly of the genus Oestrus; a botfly. | [noun] A bite or sting. | [noun] A passion or frenzy. ESTRUS (6) [noun] A biting fly of the genus Oestrus; a botfly. | [noun] A bite or sting. | [noun] A passion or frenzy. ETALON (6) [noun] An optical device containing parallel mirrors, used as a narrow band filter, often in laser design. ETAMIN (8) ETAPES (8) ETCHED (12) [verb] To cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern. Best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards. | [verb] To engrave a surface. | [verb] To make a lasting impression. ETCHER (11) ETCHES (11) [verb] To cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern. Best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards. | [verb] To engrave a surface. | [verb] To make a lasting impression. ETERNE (6) ETHANE (9) [noun] An aliphatic hydrocarbon, C2H6, gaseous at normal temperatures and pressures, being a constituent of natural gas. | [noun] The same compound, subjected to modification by replacing one or more of the hydrogen atoms with other radicals. ETHENE (9) [noun] (IUPAC name) The organic chemical compound ethylene. The simplest alkene, a colorless gaseous (at room temperature and pressure) hydrocarbon with the chemical formula C2H4 | [noun] Any alkene derived from ethylene ETHERS (9) [noun] The substance formerly supposed to fill the upper regions of the atmosphere above the clouds, in particular as a medium breathed by deities. | [noun] Often as aether and more fully as luminiferous aether: a substance once thought to fill all unoccupied space that allowed electromagnetic waves to pass through it and interact with matter, without exerting any resistance to matter or energy; its existence was disproved by the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment and the theory of relativity propounded by Albert Einstein (1879–1955). | [noun] The atmosphere or space as a medium for broadcasting radio and television signals; also, a notional space through which Internet and other digital communications take place; cyberspace. ETHICS (11) [noun] The study of principles relating to right and wrong conduct. | [noun] Morality. | [noun] The standards that govern the conduct of a person, especially a member of a profession. ETHION (9) ETHNIC (11) [noun] An ethnic person, especially a foreigner or member of an immigrant community. | [noun] An ethnic minority. | [noun] A heathen, a pagan. ETHNOS (9) ETHOXY (19) ETHYLS (12) [noun] The univalent hydrocarbon radical, C2H5, formally derived from ethane by the loss of a hydrogen atom. ETHYNE (12) [noun] (official IUPAC name) The organic compound acetylene. The simplest alkyne, a colorless gaseous (at room temperature and pressure) hydrocarbon with the chemical formula C2H2. ETOILE (6) ETUDES (7) [noun] A short piece of music, designed to give a performer practice in a particular area or skill. ETWEES (9) ETYMON (11) [noun] The source word, or words, of a given word or expression. EUCHRE (11) [noun] A trump card game played by four players in two partnerships with a reduced deck of 24 cards. | [verb] To deceive or outwit. EULOGY (10) [noun] An oration to honor a deceased person, usually at a funeral. | [noun] Speaking highly of someone or something; the act of praising or commending someone or something. EUNUCH (11) [noun] A castrated human male. | [noun] Such a man employed as harem guard or in certain (mainly Eastern) monarchies (e.g. late Roman and Chinese Empires) as court or state officials. | [noun] (in translations of ancient texts) A man who is not inclined to marry and procreate. EUPNEA (8) EUREKA (10) [noun] An alloy of copper and nickel whose resistivity is constant over a wide temperature range | [interjection] An exclamation indicating sudden discovery. EURIPI (8) EUROKY (13) EUTAXY (16) EVADED (11) [verb] To get away from by cunning; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to cleverly escape from | [verb] To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from. | [verb] To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding. EVADER (10) EVADES (10) [verb] To get away from by cunning; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to cleverly escape from | [verb] To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from. | [verb] To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding. EVENED (10) [verb] To make flat and level. | [verb] To equal. | [verb] To be equal. | [verb] To occur; to happen; to come to pass. EVENER (9) [noun] One who, or that which, makes even. | [noun] In vehicles, a swinging crossbar, to the ends of which other crossbars, or whiffletrees, are hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast. | [noun] A raddle (instrument used by weavers). EVENLY (12) [adverb] So as to form a flat surface. | [adverb] In a fair manner of distribution, giving the same amount or number to each; equally. | [adverb] In a manner that leaves no remainder. EVENTS (9) [noun] An occurrence; something that happens. | [noun] A prearranged social activity (function, etc.) | [noun] One of several contests that combine to make up a competition. EVERTS (9) [verb] To turn inside out (like a pocket being emptied) or outwards. | [verb] To move (someone or something) out of the way. | [verb] To turn upside down; to overturn. EVICTS (11) [verb] To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out. EVILER (9) EVILLY (12) EVINCE (11) [verb] To show or demonstrate clearly; to manifest. EVITED (10) [verb] To avoid. EVITES (9) [verb] To avoid. EVOKED (14) [verb] To call out; to draw out or bring forth. | [verb] To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination. | [verb] To elicit a response. EVOKER (13) EVOKES (13) [verb] To call out; to draw out or bring forth. | [verb] To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination. | [verb] To elicit a response. EVOLVE (12) [verb] To move in regular procession through a system. | [verb] To change; transform. | [verb] To come into being; develop. EVZONE (18) [noun] A member of the Greek presidential guard. | [noun] An infantryman of a select corps of the Greek army. EXACTA (15) [noun] A bet in which the bettor must correctly pick the two runners who finish first and second, in the correct order. EXACTS (15) [verb] To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way. | [verb] To make desirable or necessary. | [verb] To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce. EXALTS (13) [verb] To honor; to hold in high esteem. | [verb] To raise in rank, status etc., to elevate. | [verb] To elate, or fill with the joy of success. EXAMEN (15) [noun] Examination; inquiry EXARCH (18) [noun] In the Byzantine Empire, a governor of a distant province. | [noun] In the Eastern Christian Churches, the deputy of a patriarch, or a bishop who holds authority over other bishops without being a patriarch. | [noun] In these same churches, a bishop appointed over a group of the faithful not yet large enough or organized enough to constitute an eparchy or diocese. EXCEED (16) [verb] To be larger, greater than (something). | [verb] To be better than (something). | [verb] To go beyond (some limit); to surpass; to be longer than. EXCELS (15) [verb] To surpass someone or something; to be better or do better than someone or something. | [verb] To be much better than others. | [verb] To exceed, to go beyond EXCEPT (17) [verb] To exclude; to specify as being an exception. | [verb] To take exception, to object (to or against). | [preposition] With the exception of; but. EXCESS (15) [noun] The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or proper | [noun] The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder. | [noun] An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation. EXCIDE (16) EXCISE (15) [noun] A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country). | [verb] To impose an excise tax on something. | [verb] To cut out; to remove. EXCITE (15) [verb] To stir the emotions of. | [verb] To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate. | [verb] To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level. EXCUSE (15) [noun] Explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault. | [noun] A defense to a criminal or civil charge wherein the accused party admits to doing acts for which legal consequences would normally be appropriate, but asserts that special circumstances relieve that party of culpability for having done those acts. | [noun] (with preceding negative adjective, especially sorry, poor or lame) An example of something that is substandard or of inferior quality. EXEDRA (14) [noun] A semicircular recess, with stone benches, used as a place for discussion. | [noun] (by extension) A curved bench with a high back. EXEMPT (17) [noun] One who has been released from something. | [noun] A type of French police officer. | [noun] One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an exon. EXEQUY (25) [noun] (now only in plural) Funeral rites. EXERTS (13) [verb] To put in vigorous action. | [verb] To make use of, to apply, especially of something non-material. EXEUNT (13) [noun] A stage direction for more than one actor to leave the stage. | [noun] An act of one or more actors leaving the stage. | [verb] They leave the stage (a stage direction to two or more actors, the plural counterpart of exit). EXHALE (16) [noun] An exhalation. | [verb] To expel air from the lungs through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm, to breathe out. | [verb] To expel (something, such as tobacco smoke) from the lungs by action of the diaphragm. EXHORT (16) [verb] To urge; to advise earnestly. EXHUME (18) [verb] To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter. | [verb] To uncover; to bring to light. EXILED (14) [verb] To send into exile. EXILES (13) [noun] The state of being banished from one's home or country. | [noun] Someone who is banished from their home or country. | [verb] To send into exile. EXILIC (15) [adjective] Of or pertaining to exile. EXINES (13) [noun] The outer layer of a pollen grain or spore; the exosporium EXISTS (13) [verb] (stative) to be; have existence; have being or reality EXITED (14) [verb] To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave. | [verb] To depart from life; to die. | [verb] To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.) EXODOI (14) EXODOS (14) EXODUS (14) [noun] A sudden departure of a large number of people. | [verb] To depart from a place in a large group. EXOGEN (14) EXONIC (15) EXOTIC (15) [noun] An organism that is exotic to an environment. | [noun] An exotic dancer; a stripteaser. | [noun] Any exotic particle. EXPAND (16) [verb] To change (something) from a smaller form and/or size to a larger one; to spread out or lay open. | [verb] To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something). | [verb] To express (something) at length and/or in detail. EXPATS (15) [noun] An expatriate; a person who lives outside their own country. EXPECT (17) [verb] To predict or believe that something will happen | [verb] To consider obligatory or required. | [verb] To consider reasonably due. EXPELS (15) [verb] To eject or erupt. | [verb] To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.). | [verb] To remove from membership. EXPEND (16) [verb] To consume, exhaust (some resource) | [verb] (of money) to spend, disburse EXPERT (15) [noun] A person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given subject. | [noun] A player ranking just below master. | [adjective] Extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable. EXPIRE (15) [verb] To die. | [verb] To lapse and become invalid. | [verb] To exhale; to breathe out. EXPIRY (18) [noun] A date by which an object either should not be used or loses its value, depending upon the item. | [noun] End; termination; expiration. | [noun] Death. EXPORT (15) [noun] Something that is exported | [noun] The act of exporting | [verb] To carry away EXPOSE (15) [verb] To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce to. | [verb] To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image. | [verb] To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness. EXSECT (15) EXSERT (13) [verb] To thrust out; to cause to protrude. | [adjective] Standing out; projecting beyond some other part. EXTANT (13) [adjective] Still in existence. | [adjective] Currently existing; not having disappeared. | [adjective] Still alive; not extinct. EXTEND (14) [verb] To increase in extent. | [verb] To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space. | [verb] To cause to increase in extent. EXTENT (13) [noun] A range of values or locations. | [noun] The space, area, volume, etc., to which something extends. | [noun] A contiguous area of storage in a file system. EXTERN (13) [noun] A person affiliated with an institution in a lesser capacity, for example, as a non-resident or as a part-time affiliate. | [noun] Outward form or part; exterior. | [adjective] External; outward; not inherent | [noun] In the C and C++ programming languages, a variable that can be separately declared in many places, all of them referring to the same variable. EXTOLL (13) EXTOLS (13) [verb] To praise; to make high. EXTORT (13) [verb] To take or seize off an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity | [verb] To obtain by means of the offense of extortion. | [verb] To twist outwards. EXTRAS (13) [noun] Something additional, such as an item above and beyond the ordinary school curriculum, or added to the usual charge on a bill. | [noun] An extra edition of a newspaper, which is printed outside of the normal printing cycle. | [noun] A run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat - a wide, bye, leg bye or no ball. EXUDED (15) [verb] To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out. | [verb] To flow out through the pores. EXUDES (14) [verb] To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out. | [verb] To flow out through the pores. EXULTS (13) [verb] To rejoice; to be very happy, especially in triumph. EXURBS (15) [noun] A residential area beyond the suburbs. EXUVIA (16) EYASES (9) EYEBAR (11) EYECUP (13) [noun] An eyebath | [noun] Coon eyes | [noun] A shield surrounding the eyepiece of a camera. EYEFUL (12) [noun] A full or complete view; a good look. | [noun] (sometimes ironic) A remarkable sight or a very attractive person. | [noun] An amount of material blown into the eye. | [adjective] Filling or attractive to the eye; visible; remarkable. EYEING (10) [verb] To observe carefully or appraisingly. | [verb] To appear; to look. EYELET (9) [noun] An object that consists of a rim and small hole or perforation to receive a cord or fastener, as in garments, sails, etc. An eyelet may reinforce a hole. | [noun] A shaped metal embellishment containing a hole, used in scrapbook. Eyelets are typically set by punching a hole in the page, placing the smooth side of the eyelet on a table, positioning the paper over protruding edge and curling the edge down using a hammer and eyelet setter. | [noun] Cotton fabric with small holes. EYELID (10) [noun] A thin skin membrane that covers and moves over an eye. EYRIES (9) [noun] The nest of a bird of prey. | [noun] Any high and remote but commanding place.

EAGERER (8) EAGERLY (11) [adverb] In an eager manner. EAGLETS (8) [noun] The immature young of an eagle; an eagle chick. EANLING (8) EARACHE (12) [noun] A pain in the middle or inner ear. EARDROP (10) [noun] Medicine to be administered to the ear. | [noun] A pendant for the ear; an earring. | [noun] A plant of the genus Ehrendorferia in the family Papaveraceae, native to California. EARDRUM (10) [noun] A thin membrane that separates the outer ear from the middle ear and transmits sound from the air to the malleus. EARFLAP (12) EARFULS (10) [noun] An angry reprimand, castigation or telling off | [noun] Intimate gossip EARINGS (8) EARLAPS (9) EARLDOM (10) [noun] The rank of being an earl. | [noun] The territory controlled by an earl. EARLESS (7) EARLIER (7) [adjective] At a time in advance of the usual or expected event. | [adjective] Arriving a time before expected; sooner than on time. | [adjective] Near the start or beginning. EARLOBE (9) [noun] The lower, exterior, fleshy, bulbous part of the human ear. EARLOCK (13) [noun] A lock of curly hair worn by the ear, often by Jewish men for religious reasons, and formerly by Elizabethan dandies. EARMARK (13) [noun] A mark or deformation of the ear of an animal, intended to indicate ownership. | [noun] The designation of specific projects in appropriations of funding for general programs. | [noun] A mark for identification; a distinguishing mark. EARMUFF (15) [noun] A garment to keep the ears warm. | [noun] A garment or part worn over a single ear. | [noun] A sound-deadening cup or a pair of such cups worn over the ear or ears. EARNERS (7) [noun] One who earns money. | [noun] A profitable product or scheme. 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ELEGIAC (10) [noun] A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter. | [adjective] Of or relating to an elegy. | [adjective] Expressing sorrow or mourning. ELEGIES (8) [noun] A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation. | [noun] A composition of mournful character. ELEGISE (8) [verb] To compose an elegy for. | [verb] To compose an elegy. | [verb] To praise, as if in an elegy. ELEGIST (8) ELEGITS (8) ELEGIZE (17) [verb] To compose an elegy for. | [verb] To compose an elegy. | [verb] To praise, as if in an elegy. ELEMENT (9) [noun] One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. | [noun] A small part of the whole. | [noun] The sky. 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ELIXIRS (14) [noun] A liquid which converts lead to gold. | [noun] A substance or liquid which is believed to cure all ills and give eternal life. | [noun] (by extension) The alleged cure for all ailments; cure-all, panacea. ELLIPSE (9) [noun] A closed curve, the locus of a point such that the sum of the distances from that point to two other fixed points (called the foci of the ellipse) is constant; equivalently, the conic section that is the intersection of a cone with a plane that does not intersect the base of the cone. | [verb] (grammar) To remove from a phrase a word which is grammatically needed, but which is clearly understood without having to be stated. 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EMBANKS (15) [verb] To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone EMBARGO (12) [noun] An order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port. | [noun] A ban on trade with another country. | [noun] A temporary ban on making certain information public. EMBARKS (15) [verb] To get on a boat or ship or (outside the USA) an aeroplane. | [verb] To start, begin. | [verb] To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard. EMBASSY (14) [noun] The function or duty of an ambassador. | [noun] An organization or group of officials who permanently represent a sovereign state in a second sovereign state or with respect to an international organization such as the United Nations. | [noun] A temporary mission representing a sovereign state. EMBAYED (15) [verb] To bathe; to steep. | [verb] To shut in, enclose, shelter or trap, such as ships in a bay. | [adjective] Enclosed in (or as though in) a bay; harboured. 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EMOTION (9) [noun] A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data. | [noun] A reaction by a non-human organism with behavioral and physiological elements similar to a person's response. EMOTIVE (12) [noun] (grammar) A word or construct that expresses an emotion. | [adjective] Of or relating to emotion. | [adjective] Appealing to the emotions. EMPALED (12) EMPALER (11) EMPALES (11) EMPANEL (11) [noun] A list of jurors; a panel. | [verb] To enrol (jurors), e.g. from a jury pool; to register (the names of jurors) on a "panel" or official list. EMPATHY (17) [noun] Identification with or understanding of the thoughts, feelings, or emotional state of another person. | [noun] Capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding. | [noun] A paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions. EMPEROR (11) [noun] The male monarch or ruler of an empire. | [noun] Any monarch ruling an empire, irrespective of gender, with "empress" contrasting to mean when consort to emperor | [noun] (political theory) Specifically, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire; the world-monarch. EMPIRES (11) [noun] A political unit, typically having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations (especially one comprising one or more kingdoms) and ruled by a single supreme authority. | [noun] A political unit ruled by an emperor or empress. | [noun] A group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to a foreign power. EMPIRIC (13) [noun] A member of a sect of ancient physicians who based their theories solely on experience. | [noun] Someone who is guided by empiricism; an empiricist. | [noun] Any unqualified or dishonest practitioner; a charlatan; a quack. EMPLACE (13) EMPLANE (11) [verb] To board an airplane EMPLOYE (14) EMPLOYS (14) [verb] To hire (somebody for work or a job). | [verb] To use (somebody for a job, or something for a task). | [verb] To make busy. EMPORIA (11) [noun] A city or region which is a major trading centre; also, a place within a city for commerce and trading; a marketplace. | [noun] A shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale; a department store; (with a descriptive word) a shop specializing in particular goods. | [noun] A business set up to enable foreign traders to engage in commerce in a country; a factory (now the more common term). EMPOWER (14) [verb] To give permission, power, or the legal right to do something. | [verb] To give someone more confidence and/or strength to do something, often by enabling them to increase their control over their own life or situation. EMPRESS (11) [noun] The female monarch (ruler) of an empire. | [noun] The wife or widow of an emperor or equated ruler. | [noun] The third trump or major arcana card of most tarot decks. | [verb] To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably. EMPRISE (11) EMPRIZE (20) EMPTIED (12) [verb] To make empty; to void; to remove the contents of. | [verb] Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination. EMPTIER (11) [noun] A person who, or device which empties | [adjective] Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant. | [adjective] Containing no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value). EMPTIES (11) [noun] (usually plural) A container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty. | [verb] To make empty; to void; to remove the contents of. | [verb] Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination. EMPTILY (14) EMPTINS (11) EMPYEMA (16) [noun] A collection of pus within a naturally existing anatomical cavity (as opposed to an abscess, which occurs in a newly formed cavity). EMULATE (9) [verb] To attempt to equal or be the same as. | [verb] To copy or imitate, especially a person. | [verb] To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy. EMULOUS (9) [adjective] Ambitious or competitive. ENABLED (10) [verb] To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to. | [verb] To affirm; to make firm and strong. | [verb] To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for. ENABLER (9) [noun] One who or that which helps something to happen. | [noun] One who encourages a bad habit in another (typically drug addiction) by their behaviour. | [noun] One who gives someone else the power to behave in a certain way. ENABLES (9) [verb] To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to. | [verb] To affirm; to make firm and strong. | [verb] To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for. ENACTED (10) [verb] To make (a bill) into law | [verb] To act the part of; to play | [verb] To do; to effect ENACTOR (9) ENAMELS (9) [noun] An opaque, glassy coating baked onto metal or ceramic objects. | [noun] A coating that dries to a hard, glossy finish. | [noun] The hard covering on the exposed part of a tooth. ENAMINE (9) ENAMORS (9) [verb] (mostly in the passive, followed by "of" or "with") To cause to be in love. | [verb] (mostly in the passive) To captivate. ENAMOUR (9) [verb] (mostly in the passive, followed by "of" or "with") To cause to be in love. | [verb] (mostly in the passive) To captivate. ENATION (7) [noun] A small outgrowth on the surface of a plant organ. | [noun] The generation of such an outgrowth. ENCAGED (11) [verb] To lock inside a cage; to imprison. ENCAGES (10) [verb] To lock inside a cage; to imprison. ENCAMPS (13) [verb] To establish a camp or temporary shelter. | [verb] To form into a camp. ENCASED (10) [verb] To enclose, as in a case. ENCASES (9) [verb] To enclose, as in a case. ENCHAIN (12) [verb] To restrain with, or as if with, chains. | [verb] To link together. ENCHANT (12) [verb] To attract and delight, to charm. | [verb] To cast a spell upon (often one that attracts or charms). | [verb] To magically enhance or degrade an item. ENCHASE (12) [verb] To set (a gemstone etc.) into. | [verb] To be a setting for. | [verb] To decorate with jewels, or with inlaid ornament. ENCINAL (9) ENCINAS (9) ENCLASP (11) [verb] To hold in (or as if in) a clasp; to embrace ENCLAVE (12) [noun] A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another. | [noun] A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior. | [noun] An isolated portion of an application's address space, such that data in an enclave can only be accessed by code in the same enclave. ENCLOSE (9) [verb] To surround with a wall, fence, etc. | [verb] To insert into a container, usually an envelope or package ENCODED (11) [verb] To convert (plain text) into code. | [verb] (communication) To convert source information into another form. | [verb] To constitute the code necessary for the biosynthesis of a protein by means of a matrix so as to transcribe DNA material. ENCODER (10) ENCODES (10) [verb] To convert (plain text) into code. | [verb] (communication) To convert source information into another form. | [verb] To constitute the code necessary for the biosynthesis of a protein by means of a matrix so as to transcribe DNA material. ENCOMIA (11) [noun] Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute. | [noun] A general category of oratory. | [noun] A method within rhetorical pedagogy. ENCORED (10) [verb] To call for an extra performance or repetition of, or by. | [verb] To call for an encore. | [verb] To perform an encore. ENCORES (9) [noun] A brief extra performance, done after the main performance is complete. | [noun] A call or demand (as by continued applause) for a repeat performance. | [verb] To call for an extra performance or repetition of, or by. ENCRUST (9) [verb] To cover with a hard crust. | [verb] To form a crust. | [verb] To inset or affix decorative materials upon (a surface); to inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object. ENCRYPT (14) [verb] To conceal information by means of a code or cipher. ENCYSTS (12) [verb] To enclose within a cyst. | [verb] To be enclosed within a cyst. ENDARCH (13) ENDEARS (8) [verb] To make (something) more precious or valuable. | [verb] To make (something) more expensive; to increase the cost of. | [verb] To stress (something) as important; to exaggerate. ENDEMIC (12) [noun] An individual or species that is endemic to a region. | [noun] A disease affecting a number of people simultaneously, so as to show a distinct connection with certain localities. | [adjective] Native to a particular area or culture; originating where it occurs. ENDGAME (11) [noun] The final stage of a game of chess, when there are few pieces left. | [noun] The final stage of a game of bridge, when there are few cards left. | [noun] The final stage of an extended process or course of events, especially with the implication of the imminent realization of a masterful strategy or plan. ENDINGS (9) [noun] A termination or conclusion. | [noun] The last part of something. | [noun] (grammar) The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -ing in "ending"). ENDITED (9) ENDITES (8) [noun] One of the mouthparts of a spider or other arachnids, specifically the lobe of the palpal coxa lateral to the labium. ENDIVES (11) [noun] A leafy salad vegetable, Cichorium endivia, which is often confused with common chicory (Cichorium intybus). ENDLEAF (11) ENDLESS (8) [adjective] Having no end. | [adjective] Extending indefinitely. | [adjective] Without profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying. ENDLONG (9) ENDMOST (10) [adjective] Last in a series, furthest away ENDNOTE (8) [noun] An annotation placed at the end of a document or chapter of a document. ENDOGEN (9) ENDOPOD (11) [noun] Endopodite ENDORSE (8) [noun] A diminutive of the pale, usually appearing in pairs on either side of a pale. | [verb] To support, to back, to give one's approval to, especially officially or by signature. | [verb] To write one's signature on the back of a cheque, or other negotiable instrument, when transferring it to a third party, or cashing it. ENDOWED (12) [verb] To provide with a dower or a dowry. | [verb] To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits. | [verb] Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality. ENDOWER (11) ENDRINS (8) ENDUING (9) [verb] To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb. | [verb] To take on, to take the form of. | [verb] To put on (a piece of clothing); to clothe (someone with something). ENDURED (9) [verb] To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist. | [verb] To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant. | [verb] To last. ENDURES (8) [verb] To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist. | [verb] To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant. | [verb] To last. ENDUROS (8) [noun] A motorcycle sport run on predominantly off-road courses, with many obstacles and challenges. | [noun] A particular race or event in the sport of enduro. ENDWAYS (14) [adverb] Endwise ENDWISE (11) [adjective] On-end; upright; pertaining or relating to the end. | [adverb] Upright, or standing on end | [adverb] With the end towards the front or towards the observer ENEMATA (9) [noun] An injection of fluid into the large intestine by way of the rectum, usually for medical purposes. | [noun] The fluid so injected. | [noun] A device for administering such an injection. ENEMIES (9) [noun] Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else. | [noun] A hostile force or nation; a fighting member of such a force or nation. | [noun] Something harmful or threatening to another ENERGID (9) ENFACED (13) ENFACES (12) ENFEOFF (16) [verb] To transfer a fief to, to endow with a fief; to put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest. | [verb] To give up completely; to surrender, to yield. ENFEVER (13) ENFLAME (12) ENFOLDS (11) [verb] To fold something around; to envelop | [verb] To embrace ENFORCE (12) [verb] To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force. | [verb] To give strength or force to; to affirm, to emphasize. | [verb] To strengthen (a castle, town etc.) with extra troops, fortifications etc. ENFRAME (12) ENGAGED (10) [verb] (heading) To interact socially. | [verb] (heading) To interact antagonistically. | [verb] (heading) To interact contractually. ENGAGER (9) ENGAGES (9) [verb] (heading) To interact socially. | [verb] (heading) To interact antagonistically. | [verb] (heading) To interact contractually. ENGILDS (9) ENGINED (9) ENGINES (8) [noun] A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc. | [noun] A tool; a utensil or implement. | [noun] A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects. ENGIRDS (9) [verb] To gird around; to ingirt. ENGLISH (11) [noun] Spinning or rotary motion given to a ball around the vertical axis, as in billiards or bowling. | [noun] An unusual or unexpected interpretation of a text or idea, a spin, a nuance. ENGLUTS (8) ENGORGE (9) [verb] To devour something greedily, gorge, glut. | [verb] To feed ravenously. | [verb] To fill excessively with a body liquid, especially blood. ENGRAFT (11) [verb] To insert, as a scion of one tree or plant into another, for the purpose of propagation; graft onto a plant | [verb] To fix firmly into place | [adjective] Engrafted. ENGRAIL (8) ENGRAIN (8) [verb] To dye with a fast or lasting colour. | [verb] To make (something) deeply part of something else. ENGRAMS (10) [noun] A postulated physical or biochemical change in neural tissue that represents a memory. | [noun] A painful, negative mental image representing a past event. ENGRAVE (11) [verb] To carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art. | [verb] To carve (something) into a material. | [verb] To put in a grave, to bury. ENGROSS (8) [verb] To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of. | [verb] To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity etc.). | [verb] To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially unfairly. ENGULFS (11) [verb] To overwhelm. | [verb] To surround; to cover. | [verb] To cast into a gulf. ENHALOS (10) ENHANCE (12) [verb] To lift, raise up. | [verb] To augment or make something greater. | [verb] To improve something by adding features. ENIGMAS (10) [noun] Something or someone puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable. | [noun] A riddle, or a difficult problem. ENISLED (8) [verb] To make into an island. | [verb] (by extension) To isolate. | [adjective] Placed alone or apart, as if on an island. ENISLES (7) [verb] To make into an island. | [verb] (by extension) To isolate. ENJOINS (14) [verb] To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge. | [verb] To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on. ENJOYED (18) [verb] To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something | [verb] To have the use or benefit of something. | [verb] To be satisfied or receive pleasure. ENJOYER (17) ENLACED (10) [verb] To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace | [verb] (by extension) To entangle. ENLACES (9) [verb] To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace | [verb] (by extension) To entangle. ENLARGE (8) [verb] To make larger. | [verb] To grow larger. | [verb] To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc. ENLISTS (7) [noun] One who is enlisted, usually in a military service. | [verb] To enter on a list; to enroll; to register. | [verb] To join a cause or organization, especially military service. ENLIVEN (10) [verb] To give life or spirit to; to revive or animate. | [verb] To make more lively, cheerful or interesting. ENNEADS (8) [noun] The number nine. | [noun] Any grouping or system containing nine objects. ENNOBLE (9) [verb] To bestow with nobility, honour or grace. | [verb] To perform on a fabric the industrial processes of dry-cleaning, printing and embossing, and sizing and finishing. ENNUYEE (10) ENOLASE (7) ENOLOGY (11) [noun] The scientific study of wines and winemaking. ENOUGHS (11) ENOUNCE (9) [verb] To say or pronounce; to enunciate. | [verb] To declare or proclaim. | [verb] To state unequivocally. ENPLANE (9) [verb] To board an airplane ENQUIRE (16) [verb] To make an enquiry. | [verb] To ask about (something). ENQUIRY (19) [noun] A question. | [noun] Search for truth, information or knowledge. ENRAGED (9) [verb] To fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious. | [adjective] Angered, made furious, made full of rage. | [adjective] Insane, mad. ENRAGES (8) [verb] To fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious. ENROBED (10) [verb] To invest or adorn with a robe or vestment; to attire. | [verb] To coat or cover. ENROBER (9) ENROBES (9) [verb] To invest or adorn with a robe or vestment; to attire. | [verb] To coat or cover. ENROLLS (7) [verb] To enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list | [verb] To enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of | [verb] To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something) ENROOTS (7) ENSERFS (10) ENSIGNS (8) [noun] A badge of office, rank, or power. | [noun] The lowest grade of commissioned officer in the United States Navy, junior to a lieutenant junior grade. | [noun] A flag or banner carried by military units; a standard or color/colour. ENSILED (8) [verb] To preserve (forage) in a silo. ENSILES (7) ENSKIED (12) ENSKIES (11) ENSKYED (15) ENSLAVE (10) [verb] To make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall. ENSNARE (7) [verb] To entrap; to catch in a snare or trap. | [verb] To entangle; to enmesh. ENSNARL (7) [verb] To entangle; to trap. ENSOULS (7) [verb] To give a soul or place in the soul. ENSUING (8) [verb] To follow (a leader, inclination etc.). | [verb] To follow (in time), to be subsequent to. | [verb] To occur afterwards, as a result or effect. ENSURED (8) [verb] To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure. | [verb] To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition). ENSURER (7) ENSURES (7) [verb] To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure. | [verb] To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition). ENTAILS (7) [verb] To imply or require. | [verb] To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage. | [verb] To appoint hereditary possessor. ENTASES (7) [noun] A slight convex curvature introduced into the shaft of a column for aesthetic reasons, or to compensate for the illusion of concavity. ENTASIA (7) ENTASIS (7) [noun] A slight convex curvature introduced into the shaft of a column for aesthetic reasons, or to compensate for the illusion of concavity. ENTENTE (7) [noun] An informal alliance or friendly understanding between two states. ENTERAL (7) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, within, or by way of the intestine; enteric. ENTERED (8) [verb] To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space. | [verb] To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted. | [verb] To go or come into (a state or profession). ENTERER (7) ENTERIC (9) [adjective] Of, relating to, within, or by way of the intestines | [adjective] Staying intact in the stomach, then dissolving in the intestine ENTERON (7) ENTHRAL (10) [verb] To hold spellbound; to bewitch, charm or captivate. | [verb] To make subservient; to enslave or subjugate. ENTHUSE (10) [verb] To show enthusiasm | [verb] To cause (someone) to feel enthusiasm or to be enthusiastic ENTICED (10) [verb] To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope. ENTICER (9) ENTICES (9) [verb] To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope. ENTIRES (7) [noun] The whole of something; the entirety. | [noun] An uncastrated horse; a stallion. | [noun] A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted. ENTITLE (7) [verb] To give a title to. | [verb] To dignify by an honorary designation. | [verb] To give power or authority (to do something). ENTOILS (7) ENTOMBS (11) [verb] To deposit in a tomb. | [verb] To confine in restrictive surroundings. ENTOPIC (11) ENTOZOA (16) ENTRAIN (7) [verb] To draw along as a current does. | [verb] To suspend small particles in the current of a fluid. | [verb] To set up or propagate a signal, such as an oscillation. | [verb] To get into or board a railway train. ENTRANT (7) [noun] A participant who enters something, such as a contest. | [noun] A newcomer. ENTRAPS (9) [verb] To catch in a trap or snare. | [verb] To lure (someone), either into a dangerous situation, or into performing an illegal act. ENTREAT (7) [noun] An entreaty. | [verb] To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask for earnestly. | [verb] To beseech or supplicate (a person); to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to try to persuade. ENTREES (7) [noun] (French Canada) A smaller dish served before the main course of a meal. | [noun] The main course or main dish of a meal. | [noun] The act of entering somewhere, or permission to enter; admittance. ENTRIES (7) [noun] The act of entering. | [noun] Permission to enter. | [noun] A doorway that provides a means of entering a building. ENTROPY (12) [noun] Strictly thermodynamic entropy. A measure of the amount of energy in a physical system that cannot be used to do work. | [noun] A measure of the disorder present in a system. | [noun] The capacity factor for thermal energy that is hidden with respect to temperature http//arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0004055. ENTRUST (7) [verb] To trust to the care of. ENTWINE (10) [verb] To twist or twine around something (or one another). ENTWIST (10) ENURING (8) [verb] To inure; to make accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant due to constant exposure. | [verb] To take effect, to be operative; used with to. ENVELOP (12) [verb] To surround or enclose. ENVENOM (12) [verb] To poison, to put or inject venom onto or into. | [verb] To acerbate. ENVIERS (10) ENVIOUS (10) [adjective] Feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging | [adjective] Excessively careful; cautious. | [adjective] Malignant; mischievous; spiteful. ENVIRON (10) [noun] (especially in plural) A surrounding area | [verb] To surround; to encircle. ENVYING (14) [verb] To feel displeasure or hatred towards (someone) for their good fortune or possessions. | [verb] To have envious feelings (at). | [verb] To give (something) to (someone) grudgingly or reluctantly; to begrudge. ENWHEEL (13) ENWINDS (11) ENWOMBS (14) ENWOUND (11) ENWRAPS (12) [verb] To wrap around, surround; to envelop | [verb] To absorb completely or engross ENZYMES (21) [noun] A globular protein that catalyses a biological chemical reaction. | [noun] Leavened bread, as opposed to azyme ENZYMIC (23) EOBIONT (9) EOLITHS (10) [noun] Crudely chopped flints, believed to be naturally produced by geological processes such as glaciation. EONISMS (9) EOSINES (7) EOSINIC (9) EPARCHS (14) [noun] The governor or prefect of a province. | [noun] The ruler of an eparchy. | [noun] The metropolitan bishop of a province or eparchy. EPARCHY (17) [noun] One of the districts of the Roman Empire at the third echelon | [noun] One of the administrative sub-provincial units of post-Ottoman independent Greece | [noun] In pre-schism Christian Church, name for a province under the supervision of the metropolitan EPAULET (9) [noun] An ornamentation, worn on the shoulders of a military uniform, as a sign of rank | [noun] A similar piece of trimming on a lady’s dress | [noun] A plate on the anterior wings of some insects EPAZOTE (18) [noun] A pungent herb used in Latin-American cooking and tea making, and in folk medicine; Dysphania ambrosioides. EPEEIST (9) EPEIRIC (11) EPERGNE (10) [noun] A table centerpiece, usually made of silver, generally consisting of a central bowl with radiating dishes or holders. EPHEBES (14) [noun] A 18- to 20-year-old man in ancient Greece undergoing military training. | [noun] (by extension) A young man; a youth. EPHEBIC (16) EPHEBOI (14) EPHEBOS (14) EPHEBUS (14) EPHEDRA (13) [noun] Any plant of the genus Ephedra of gymnosperm shrubs. | [noun] A stimulant derived from the plant Ephedra sinica used in traditional Chinese herbal medicine and in over-the-counter weight-loss aids. EPHORAL (12) EPIBOLY (14) EPICARP (13) [noun] Exocarp. EPICENE (11) [noun] An epicene word; preceded by the: the epicene words of a language as a class. | [noun] An epicene person, whether biologically asexual, androgynous, hermaphrodite, or intersex; an androgyne, a hermaphrodite. | [noun] (by extension) A transsexual; also, a transvestite. EPICURE (11) [noun] A person who takes particular pleasure in fine food and drink. EPIDERM (12) EPIDOTE (10) [noun] Any of a class of mixed calcium iron aluminium sorosilicates found in metamorphic rocks. 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EPINAOI (9) EPINAOS (9) EPISCIA (11) EPISODE (10) [noun] An incident, action, or time period standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events. | [noun] An instalment of a drama told in parts, as in a TV series. EPISOME (11) [noun] A segment of DNA that can exist and replicate either autonomously in the cytoplasm or as part of a chromosome, mainly found in bacteria | [noun] The upper half of the theca of a thecate protist such as a diatom or dinoflagellate. EPISTLE (9) [noun] A letter, or a literary composition in the form of a letter. | [noun] One of the letters included as a book of the New Testament. | [verb] To write; to communicate in a letter or by writing. EPITAPH (14) [noun] An inscription on a gravestone in memory of the deceased. | [noun] A poem or other short text written in memory of a deceased person. | [verb] To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph. EPITAXY (19) [noun] An overgrowth in which the overlying crystal is either induced into the same orientation, or otherwise grows under the influence of the underlying crystal into the same orientation. EPITHET (12) [noun] A term used to characterize a person or thing. | [noun] A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person. | [noun] One of many formulaic words or phrases used in the Iliad and Odyssey to characterize a person, a group of people, or a thing. EPITOME (11) [noun] The embodiment or encapsulation of a class of items. | [noun] A representative example. | [noun] The height; the best. EPITOPE (11) [noun] That part of a biomolecule (such as a protein) that is the target of an immune response EPIZOIC (20) [adjective] Living or growing on the external surface of an animal (typically not as a parasite) EPIZOON (18) [noun] An external animal parasite. EPOCHAL (14) [adjective] Of or pertaining to an epoch | [adjective] Highly important or significant; monumental, epoch-making EPONYMS (14) [noun] A real or fictitious person's name that has given rise to the name of a particular item. | [noun] A word formed from a real or fictive person’s name. | [noun] (by extension) A word formed from a real or fictive place or thing. EPONYMY (17) EPOPEES (11) EPOXIDE (17) [noun] Any of a class of organic compound, cyclic ethers, having a three-membered ring; they are prepared by the selective oxidation of alkenes or by ring-closure of halohydrins; used to make plastics | [noun] Any similar compound in which an ether linkage has been made across a larger ring EPOXIED (17) [verb] To glue with epoxy. EPOXIES (16) [noun] A thermosetting polyepoxide resin used chiefly in strong adhesives, coatings and laminates; epoxy resin. | [verb] To glue with epoxy. EPOXYED (20) EPSILON (9) [noun] The name for the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, ε or Ε, preceded by delta (Δ, δ) and followed by zeta (Ζ, ζ). | [noun] In IPA, the phonetic symbol ɛ that represents the open-mid front unrounded vowel. | [noun] An arbitrarily small quantity. EQUABLE (18) [adjective] Unvarying, calm and steady; constant and uniform. | [adjective] (of temperature) Free from extremes of heat or cold. | [adjective] (of emotions etc) Not easily disturbed; tranquil. EQUABLY (21) EQUALED (17) [verb] To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to. | [verb] To make equivalent to; to cause to match. | [verb] To have as its consequence. EQUALLY (19) [adverb] (manner) In an equal manner; in equal shares or proportion; with equal and impartial justice; evenly | [adverb] (degree) In equal degree or extent; just as. | [adverb] Used to link two or more coordinate elements EQUATED (17) [verb] To consider equal or equivalent. | [verb] To set as equal. EQUATES (16) [noun] A statement in assembly language that defines a symbol having a particular value. | [verb] To consider equal or equivalent. | [verb] To set as equal. EQUATOR (16) [noun] (often “the Equator”) An imaginary great circle around the Earth, equidistant from the two poles, and dividing earth's surface into the northern and southern hemisphere. | [noun] A similar great circle on any sphere, especially on a celestial body, or on other reasonably symmetrical three-dimensional body. | [noun] The midline of any generally spherical object, such as a fruit or vegetable, that has identifiable poles. EQUERRY (19) [noun] An officer responsible for the care and supervision of the horses of a person of rank. | [noun] A personal attendant to a head of state, a member of a royal family, or a national representative. EQUINES (16) [noun] Any horse or horse-like animal, especially one of the genus Equus. EQUINOX (23) [noun] The intersection of the apparent path of the sun in the sky (the ecliptic) with the celestial equator. | [noun] One of the two days on which this intersection occurs each year: (for the Northern hemisphere) March 20 or 21 in the spring and September 22 or 23 in the autumn. EQUITES (16) [noun] A member of the equestrian order (Latin: ordo equester), the lower of the two aristocratic classes of Ancient Rome, ranking below the patricians. ERASERS (7) [noun] One who erases. | [noun] A thing used to erase or remove something written or drawn by a pen or a pencil. | [noun] A thing used to erase something written by chalk on a chalkboard, by marker on a whiteboard, or by some other erasable implement; a chalkboard eraser, whiteboard eraser, etc. ERASING (8) [verb] To remove markings or information | [verb] To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize. | [verb] To obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite. ERASION (7) ERASURE (7) [noun] The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration. | [noun] The state of having been erased; total blankness. | [noun] The place where something has been erased. ERBIUMS (11) ERECTED (10) [verb] To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts. | [verb] To cause to stand up or out. | [verb] To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise. 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The aim is to argue for the sake of conflict, and often to see who can yell the loudest. | [adjective] Provoking strife, controversy or discord. ERLKING (12) ERMINED (10) ERMINES (9) [noun] A weasel, Mustela erminea, found in northern latitudes; its dark brown fur turns white in winter (apart from the black tip of the tail). | [noun] The white fur of this animal, traditionally seen as a symbol of purity and used for judges' robes. | [noun] (by extension) The office of a judge. ERODENT (8) ERODING (9) [verb] To wear away by abrasion, corrosion or chemical reaction. | [verb] To destroy gradually by an ongoing process. EROSELY (10) EROSION (7) [noun] The result of having been worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff face. | [noun] The changing of a surface by mechanical action, friction, thermal expansion contraction, or impact. | [noun] The gradual loss of something as a result of an ongoing process. 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ERYNGOS (11) [noun] The root of sea holly, Eryngium maritimum, formerly candied and taken as confectionery and held to have aphrodisiac properties. | [noun] Any other plant of the same genus, Eryngium. ESCALOP (11) ESCAPED (12) [verb] To get free; to free oneself. | [verb] To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from. | [verb] To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment. ESCAPEE (11) [noun] Someone who has become free through escaping imprisonment. | [noun] Someone who has escaped. | [noun] A plant that has escaped from cultivation. ESCAPER (11) ESCAPES (11) [noun] The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation. | [noun] Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation. | [noun] Something that has escaped; an escapee. ESCARPS (11) [verb] To make into, or furnish with, a steep slope, like that of a scarp. ESCHARS (12) [noun] A superficial structure of dead tissue, usually hardened, commonly, but not necessarily dark, adhering to underlying living or necrotic tissue, caused by gangrene or a burn | [noun] (loose or obsolete) Any hard, dark, commonly flattened or sunken lesion or crust, especially on a burn, abscess, infection, wound; commonly a coagulation of blood or exudations, not necessarily involving dead or necrotic tissue. | [noun] (figurative or literary) The emotional imprint of a trauma such as grief, loss, or degradation ESCHEAT (12) [noun] The return of property of a deceased person to the state (originally to a feudal lord) where there are no legal heirs or claimants. | [noun] The property so reverted. | [noun] Plunder, booty. ESCHEWS (15) [verb] To avoid; to shun, to shy away from. ESCOLAR (9) [noun] Lepidocybium flavobrunneum, one of the snake mackerels. | [noun] Any fish of species Ruvettus pretiosus, oilfish. | [noun] Any of several other perciform fish of the family Gempylidae (snake mackerels). ESCORTS (9) [noun] A group of people or vehicles, generally armed, who go with a person or people of importance to safeguard them on a journey or mission. | [noun] An accompanying person in such a group. | [noun] A guard who travels with a dangerous person, such as a criminal, for the protection of others. ESCOTED (10) ESCROWS (12) [noun] A written instrument, such as a deed, temporarily deposited with a neutral third party (the escrow agent), by the agreement of two parties to a valid contract. The escrow agent will deliver the document to the benefited party when the conditions of the contract have been met. The depositor has no control over the instrument in escrow. | [noun] In common law, escrow applied to the deposits only of instruments for conveyance of land, but it now applies to all instruments so deposited. | [noun] Money or other property so deposited is also loosely referred to as escrow. ESCUAGE (10) ESCUDOS (10) [noun] The state currency formerly used in Portugal, divided into 100 centavos. The symbol is $ which is positioned between the escudos & centavos, 2$50. | [noun] The currency formerly used in Chile and replaced by the Peso. | [noun] The current currency of Cape Verde. ESERINE (7) [noun] An alkaloid C₁₅H₂₁N₃O₂, originally extracted from the Calabar bean. ESPANOL (9) ESPARTO (9) [noun] Either of two species of perennial grasses used for fibre production, and for making paper: ESPIALS (9) [noun] Act of noticing or observing. | [noun] The fact of noticing or observing; a discovery. | [noun] A spy; a scout. ESPOUSE (9) [verb] To become/get married to. | [verb] To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause). ESPRITS (9) ESPYING (13) [verb] To catch sight of; to see; to spot (said especially of something not easy to see) | [verb] To examine and keep watch upon; to watch; to observe. | [verb] To look or search narrowly; to look about; to watch; to take notice; to spy. ESQUIRE (16) [noun] A lawyer. | [noun] A male member of the gentry ranking below a knight. | [noun] An honorific sometimes placed after a man's name. | [noun] A bearing somewhat resembling a gyron, but extending across the field so that the point touches the opposite edge of the escutcheon. ESSAYED (11) [verb] To try. | [verb] To move forth, as into battle. ESSAYER (10) ESSENCE (9) [noun] The inherent nature of a thing or idea. | [noun] The true nature of anything, not accidental or illusory. | [noun] Constituent substance. ESSOINS (7) ESTATED (8) ESTATES (7) [noun] The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person. | [noun] State; condition. | [noun] Status, rank. ESTEEMS (9) [verb] To set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence. | [verb] To regard something as valuable; to prize. | [verb] To look upon something in a particular way. ESTHETE (10) [noun] Someone who cultivates an unusually high sensitivity to beauty, as in art or nature. ESTIVAL (10) [adjective] Of or relating to summer. | [adjective] Coming forth in the summer. ESTRAYS (10) ESTREAT (7) [noun] A true copy, duplicate, or extract of an original writing or record, especially of amercements or penalties set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer. | [verb] To extract or take out from the records of a court, and send up to the court of exchequer to be enforced; said of a forfeited recognizance. | [verb] To bring in to the exchequer, as a fine. ESTRINS (7) ESTRIOL (7) [noun] A steroid hormone produced mostly during pregnancy. ESTRONE (7) [noun] An estrogenic hormone excreted by the ovaries; sometimes manufactured synthetically for use in cases of estrogen deficiency. ESTROUS (7) ESTRUAL (7) ESTRUMS (9) ESTUARY (10) [noun] Coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge, resulting in a brackish water zone. | [noun] An ocean inlet also fed by fresh river water. ETAGERE (8) [noun] A piece of furniture with open shelves for displaying ornaments. ETALONS (7) [noun] An optical device containing parallel mirrors, used as a narrow band filter, often in laser design. ETAMINE (9) ETAMINS (9) ETATISM (9) ETATIST (7) ETCHANT (12) [noun] An acid or corrosive chemical used in etching. ETCHERS (12) ETCHING (13) [verb] To cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern. Best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards. | [verb] To engrave a surface. | [verb] To make a lasting impression. ETERNAL (7) [noun] One who lives forever; an immortal. | [adjective] Lasting forever; unending. | [adjective] Existing outside time; as opposed to sempiternal, existing within time but everlastingly ETESIAN (7) [noun] A dry north wind which blows in the eastern Mediterranean. | [adjective] Pertaining to a dry north wind which blows in the eastern Mediterranean. ETHANES (10) ETHANOL (10) [noun] A simple aliphatic alcohol formally derived from ethane by replacing one hydrogen atom with a hydroxyl group: CH3-CH2-OH. | [noun] Specifically, this alcohol as a fuel. ETHENES (10) ETHERIC (12) ETHICAL (12) [noun] An ethical drug, one only dispensed on the prescription of a physician. | [adjective] Of or relating to the study of ethics. | [adjective] Of or relating to the accepted principles of right and wrong, especially those of some organization or profession. ETHINYL (13) ETHIONS (10) ETHMOID (13) [noun] (bone) A square bone at the root of the nose, forming part of the cranium, and having many perforations through which the olfactory nerves pass to the nose. | [adjective] (bone) Of or relating to the ethmoid bone. ETHNICS (12) [noun] An ethnic person, especially a foreigner or member of an immigrant community. | [noun] An ethnic minority. | [noun] A heathen, a pagan. ETHOSES (10) ETHOXYL (20) ETHYLIC (15) ETHYNES (13) [noun] (official IUPAC name) The organic compound acetylene. The simplest alkyne, a colorless gaseous (at room temperature and pressure) hydrocarbon with the chemical formula C2H2. ETHYNYL (16) ETOILES (7) ETYMONS (12) [noun] The source word, or words, of a given word or expression. EUCAINE (9) EUCHRED (13) [verb] To deceive or outwit. | [adjective] Exhausted; worn out EUCHRES (12) [noun] A trump card game played by four players in two partnerships with a reduced deck of 24 cards. EUCLASE (9) EUCRITE (9) [noun] An achondritic meteoritic rock consisting chiefly of pigeonite and anorthite EUDEMON (10) EUGENIA (8) EUGENIC (10) EUGENOL (8) [noun] The aromatic compound with chemical formula C10H12O2, an allyl chain-substituted guaiacol of the phenylpropanoids, found in essential oils such as clove, nutmeg, and cinnamon. EUGLENA (8) [noun] Any of several protists, of the genus Euglena, that contain chloroplasts and a single flagellum EULOGIA (8) [noun] The practice of sending the consecrated Eucharist to those not present, or the Eucharist itself so sent. EUNUCHS (12) [noun] A castrated human male. | [noun] Such a man employed as harem guard or in certain (mainly Eastern) monarchies (e.g. late Roman and Chinese Empires) as court or state officials. | [noun] (in translations of ancient texts) A man who is not inclined to marry and procreate. EUPEPSY (14) EUPHONY (15) [noun] A pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear. | [noun] Pleasant phonetic quality of certain words. EUPHROE (12) EUPLOID (10) [noun] Any organism having a chromosome number that is an exact multiple of the haploid number for the species. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to euploidy. EUPNEAS (9) EUPNEIC (11) EUPNOEA (9) EURIPUS (9) EURYOKY (17) EUSTACY (12) EUSTELE (7) EVACUEE (12) [noun] A person who has been evacuated, especially a civilian evacuated from a dangerous place in time of war EVADERS (11) EVADING (12) [verb] To get away from by cunning; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to cleverly escape from | [verb] To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from. | [verb] To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding. EVANGEL (11) [noun] The Christian gospel. | [noun] A salutary principle relating to morals, politics, etc. | [noun] An evangelist. EVANISH (13) [verb] To vanish. EVASION (10) [noun] The act of eluding or evading or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding. EVASIVE (13) [adjective] Tending to avoid speaking openly or making revelations about oneself. | [adjective] Directed towards avoidance or escape; evasive action. EVENERS (10) EVENEST (10) [verb] To make flat and level. | [verb] To equal. | [verb] To be equal. EVENING (11) [noun] The time of the day between dusk and night, when it gets dark. | [noun] The time of the day between the approximate time of midwinter dusk and midnight (compare afternoon); the period after the end of regular office working hours. | [noun] A concluding time period; a point in time near the end of something; the beginning of the end of something. | [verb] To make flat and level. | [verb] To occur; to happen; to come to pass. EVERTED (11) [verb] To turn inside out (like a pocket being emptied) or outwards. | [verb] To move (someone or something) out of the way. | [verb] To turn upside down; to overturn. EVERTOR (10) EVICTED (13) [verb] To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out. EVICTEE (12) EVICTOR (12) EVIDENT (11) [adjective] Obviously true by simple observation. EVILEST (10) EVILLER (10) EVINCED (13) [verb] To show or demonstrate clearly; to manifest. EVINCES (12) [verb] To show or demonstrate clearly; to manifest. EVITING (11) [verb] To avoid. EVOKERS (14) EVOKING (15) [verb] To call out; to draw out or bring forth. | [verb] To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination. | [verb] To elicit a response. EVOLUTE (10) [noun] A curve comprising the centres of curvature of another curve. | [adjective] Having or being a (mollusc) spiral shell in which the whorls touch along a surface. EVOLVED (14) [verb] To move in regular procession through a system. | [verb] To change; transform. | [verb] To come into being; develop. EVOLVER (13) EVOLVES (13) [verb] To move in regular procession through a system. | [verb] To change; transform. | [verb] To come into being; develop. EVZONES (19) [noun] A member of the Greek presidential guard. | [noun] An infantryman of a select corps of the Greek army. EXACTAS (16) [noun] A bet in which the bettor must correctly pick the two runners who finish first and second, in the correct order. EXACTED (17) [verb] To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way. | [verb] To make desirable or necessary. | [verb] To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce. EXACTER (16) EXACTLY (19) [adverb] (manner) without approximation; precisely. | [adverb] (focus) Used to provide emphasis. | [interjection] Signifies agreement or recognition. EXACTOR (16) EXALTED (15) [verb] To honor; to hold in high esteem. | [verb] To raise in rank, status etc., to elevate. | [verb] To elate, or fill with the joy of success. EXALTER (14) EXAMENS (16) [noun] Examination; inquiry EXAMINE (16) [verb] To observe or inspect carefully or critically | [verb] To check the health or condition of something or someone | [verb] To determine the aptitude, skills or qualifications of someone by subjecting them to an examination EXAMPLE (18) [noun] Something that is representative of all such things in a group. | [noun] Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule. | [noun] Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example). EXARCHS (19) [noun] In the Byzantine Empire, a governor of a distant province. | [noun] In the Eastern Christian Churches, the deputy of a patriarch, or a bishop who holds authority over other bishops without being a patriarch. | [noun] In these same churches, a bishop appointed over a group of the faithful not yet large enough or organized enough to constitute an eparchy or diocese. EXARCHY (22) EXCEEDS (17) [verb] To be larger, greater than (something). | [verb] To be better than (something). | [verb] To go beyond (some limit); to surpass; to be longer than. EXCEPTS (18) [verb] To exclude; to specify as being an exception. | [verb] To take exception, to object (to or against). EXCERPT (18) [noun] A clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or a literary composition. | [verb] To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work. EXCIDED (18) EXCIDES (17) EXCIMER (18) [noun] Any diatomic exciplex EXCIPLE (18) EXCISED (17) [verb] To impose an excise tax on something. | [verb] To cut out; to remove. EXCISES (16) [noun] A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country). EXCITED (17) [verb] To stir the emotions of. | [verb] To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate. | [verb] To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level. EXCITER (16) [noun] A person who excites. | [noun] The electronic oscillator that generates the carrier signal for a transmitter. EXCITES (16) [verb] To stir the emotions of. | [verb] To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate. | [verb] To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level. EXCITON (16) [noun] A bound state of an electron and an electron hole in an insulator or semiconductor EXCITOR (16) EXCLAIM (18) [noun] Exclamation; outcry, clamor. | [verb] To cry out suddenly, from some strong emotion. | [verb] To say suddenly and with strong emotion. EXCLAVE (19) [noun] A portion of a country's territory not connected to the main part | [noun] A detached part of an organ, as of the pancreas, thyroid, or other gland. EXCLUDE (17) [verb] To bar (someone) from entering; to keep out. | [verb] To expel; to put out. | [verb] To omit from consideration. EXCRETA (16) [noun] Bodily waste which is excreted from the body. EXCRETE (16) [verb] To discharge material (including waste products) from a cell, body or system. EXCUSED (17) [verb] To forgive; to pardon. | [verb] To allow to leave, or release from any obligation. | [verb] To provide an excuse for; to explain, with the aim of alleviating guilt or negative judgement. EXCUSER (16) EXCUSES (16) [noun] Explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault. | [noun] A defense to a criminal or civil charge wherein the accused party admits to doing acts for which legal consequences would normally be appropriate, but asserts that special circumstances relieve that party of culpability for having done those acts. | [noun] (with preceding negative adjective, especially sorry, poor or lame) An example of something that is substandard or of inferior quality. EXECUTE (16) [verb] To kill as punishment for capital crimes. | [verb] To carry out; to put into effect. | [verb] To perform. EXEDRAE (15) [noun] A semicircular recess, with stone benches, used as a place for discussion. | [noun] (by extension) A curved bench with a high back. EXEGETE (15) [noun] A person skilled in exegesis; an interpreter of texts, signs, the words of an oracle, and similar obscure or esoteric sources. | [verb] To interpret; to perform an exegesis. EXEMPLA (18) [noun] An example. | [noun] A story demonstrating a moral point; a parable. EXEMPTS (18) [noun] One who has been released from something. | [noun] A type of French police officer. | [noun] One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an exon. EXERGUE (15) [noun] A space beneath the main design on a coin or medal for the insertion of the date or other minor inscription. EXERTED (15) [verb] To put in vigorous action. | [verb] To make use of, to apply, especially of something non-material. EXHALED (18) [verb] To expel air from the lungs through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm, to breathe out. | [verb] To expel (something, such as tobacco smoke) from the lungs by action of the diaphragm. | [verb] To pass off in the form of vapour; to emerge. EXHALES (17) [verb] To expel air from the lungs through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm, to breathe out. | [verb] To expel (something, such as tobacco smoke) from the lungs by action of the diaphragm. | [verb] To pass off in the form of vapour; to emerge. EXHAUST (17) [noun] A system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged; see also exhaust system. | [noun] The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there. | [noun] The dirty air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose. EXHIBIT (19) [noun] An instance of exhibiting. | [noun] That which is exhibited. | [noun] A public showing; an exhibition. 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ELECTORS (10) [noun] A person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter. ELECTRET (10) [noun] A solid dielectric having a quasi-permanent charge; usually a metallized film; used in electroacoustic and electromechanical transducers and in air filters. ELECTRIC (12) [noun] (usually with definite article) Electricity; the electricity supply. | [noun] An electric car. | [noun] An electric toothbrush. ELECTRON (10) [noun] The subatomic particle having a negative charge and orbiting the nucleus; the flow of electrons in a conductor constitutes electricity. | [noun] Alloys of magnesium and other metals, like aluminum or zinc, that were manufactured by the German company Chemische Fabrik Griesheim-Elektron. ELECTROS (10) [noun] An electrotype. | [noun] An electronic style of hip hop; electrofunk. ELECTRUM (12) [noun] Amber. | [noun] An alloy of gold and silver, used by the ancients; now specifically a natural alloy with between 20 and 50 per cent silver. | [noun] German silver plate. ELEGANCE (11) [noun] Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners. | [noun] Restraint and grace of style. | [noun] The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision. ELEGANCY (14) ELEGIACS (11) [noun] A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter. ELEGISED (10) [verb] To compose an elegy for. | [verb] To compose an elegy. | [verb] To praise, as if in an elegy. ELEGISES (9) [verb] To compose an elegy for. | [verb] To compose an elegy. | [verb] To praise, as if in an elegy. ELEGISTS (9) ELEGIZED (19) [verb] To compose an elegy for. | [verb] To compose an elegy. | [verb] To praise, as if in an elegy. ELEGIZES (18) [verb] To compose an elegy for. | [verb] To compose an elegy. | [verb] To praise, as if in an elegy. ELEMENTS (10) [noun] One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. | [noun] A small part of the whole. | [noun] The sky. ELENCHIC (15) ELENCHUS (13) [noun] A technique of argument associated with Socrates wherein the arguer asks the interlocutor to agree with a series of premises and conclusions, ending with the arguer's intended point. ELENCTIC (12) ELEPHANT (13) [noun] A mammal of the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and two large ivory tusks jutting from the upper jaw. | [noun] Anything huge and ponderous. | [noun] Used when counting to add length, so that each count takes about one second ELEVATED (12) [verb] To raise (something) to a higher position. | [verb] To promote (someone) to a higher rank. | [verb] To confer honor or nobility on (someone). ELEVATES (11) [verb] To raise (something) to a higher position. | [verb] To promote (someone) to a higher rank. | [verb] To confer honor or nobility on (someone). ELEVATOR (11) [noun] Anything that raises or uplifts. | [noun] A permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically, used to transport people and goods. | [noun] A silo used for storing wheat, corn or other grain (grain elevator) ELEVENTH (14) [noun] The person or thing in the eleventh position. | [noun] One of eleven equal parts of a whole. | [noun] The note eleven scale degrees from the root of a chord. ELFISHLY (17) ELFLOCKS (17) [noun] A lock of hair that is tangled. ELICITED (11) [verb] To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer. | [verb] To draw out, bring out, bring forth (something latent); to obtain information from someone or something. | [verb] To use logic to arrive at truth; to derive by reason ELICITOR (10) ELIDIBLE (11) ELIGIBLE (11) [noun] One who is eligible. | [adjective] Allowed to and meeting the necessary conditions required to participate in or be chosen for something | [adjective] Worthy of being chosen (for marriage) ELIGIBLY (14) ELISIONS (8) [noun] The deliberate omission of something. | [noun] The omission of a letter or syllable between two words; sometimes marked with an apostrophe. ELITISMS (10) ELITISTS (8) [noun] (usually derogatory) Someone who believes in or is perceived as believing in rule by an elite group. ELKHOUND (16) [noun] Norwegian Elkhound, a breed of dog from Norway for hunting elk. | [noun] Any Scandinavian breed of dog bred to hunt elk. ELLIPSES (10) [noun] A closed curve, the locus of a point such that the sum of the distances from that point to two other fixed points (called the foci of the ellipse) is constant; equivalently, the conic section that is the intersection of a cone with a plane that does not intersect the base of the cone. | [noun] A mark consisting of (in English) three periods, historically or more formally with spaces in between, before, and after them “ . . . ”, or more recently a single character “…” Ellipses are used to indicate that words have been omitted in a text or that they are missing or illegible. | [noun] (grammar) The omission of a word or phrase that can be inferred from the context. ELLIPSIS (10) [noun] A mark consisting of (in English) three periods, historically or more formally with spaces in between, before, and after them “ . . . ”, or more recently a single character “…” Ellipses are used to indicate that words have been omitted in a text or that they are missing or illegible. | [noun] (grammar) The omission of a word or phrase that can be inferred from the context. | [noun] The omission of scenes in a film that do not advance the plot. ELLIPTIC (12) [adjective] Of or pertaining to an ellipse. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to a broad field of mathematics that originates from the problem of calculating arc lengths of an ellipse. | [adjective] (in combination, of certain functions, equations and operators) That has coefficients satisfying a condition analogous to the condition for the general equation for a conic section to be of an ellipse. ELOIGNED (10) ELOIGNER (9) ELOINERS (8) ELOINING (9) ELONGATE (9) [verb] To make long or longer by pulling and stretching; to make elongated. | [verb] To become long or longer by being pulled or stretched; to become elongated. | [verb] To move to or place at a distance (from something). ELOQUENT (17) [adjective] Fluently persuasive and articulate | [adjective] Effective in expressing meaning by speech ELUSIONS (8) ELUTIONS (8) ELUVIATE (11) ELUVIUMS (13) ELVISHLY (17) ELYTROID (12) ELYTROUS (11) EMACIATE (12) EMANATED (11) [verb] To come from a source; issue from. | [verb] To send or give out; manifest. EMANATES (10) [verb] To come from a source; issue from. | [verb] To send or give out; manifest. EMANATOR (10) EMBALMED (15) [verb] To treat a corpse with preservatives in order to prevent decomposition. | [verb] To perfume or add fragrance to something. EMBALMER (14) EMBANKED (17) [verb] To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone EMBARKED (17) [verb] To get on a boat or ship or (outside the USA) an aeroplane. | [verb] To start, begin. | [verb] To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard. EMBARRED (13) EMBATTLE (12) [verb] To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle | [verb] To prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle. | [verb] To be arrayed for battle. | [noun] A merlon, or a single one of the series of solid projections of a battlement EMBAYING (16) [verb] To bathe; to steep. | [verb] To shut in, enclose, shelter or trap, such as ships in a bay. EMBEDDED (15) [verb] To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed. | [verb] (by extension) To include in surrounding matter. | [verb] To encapsulate within another document or data file. EMBEZZLE (30) [verb] To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works. EMBITTER (12) [verb] To cause to be bitter. EMBLAZED (22) EMBLAZER (21) EMBLAZES (21) EMBLAZON (21) [verb] To adorn with prominent markings. | [verb] To inscribe upon. | [verb] To draw (a coat of arms). EMBLEMED (15) EMBODIED (14) [verb] To represent in a physical or concrete form; to incarnate or personify. | [verb] To represent in some other form, such as a code of laws. | [verb] To comprise or include as part of a cohesive whole; to be made up of. EMBODIER (13) EMBODIES (13) [verb] To represent in a physical or concrete form; to incarnate or personify. | [verb] To represent in some other form, such as a code of laws. | [verb] To comprise or include as part of a cohesive whole; to be made up of. EMBOLDEN (13) [verb] To render (someone) bolder or more courageous. | [verb] To encourage, inspire, or motivate. | [verb] To format text in boldface. EMBOLIES (12) EMBOLISM (14) [noun] An obstruction or occlusion of an artery by an embolus, that is by a blood clot, air bubble or other matter that has been transported by the blood stream. | [noun] The insertion or intercalation of days into the calendar in order to correct the error arising from the difference between the civil year and the solar year. | [noun] An intercalated prayer for deliverance from evil coming after the Lord's Prayer. EMBORDER (13) EMBOSKED (17) EMBOSOMS (14) [verb] To draw to or into one's bosom; to treasure. | [verb] To enclose, surround, or protect. EMBOSSED (13) [verb] To mark or decorate with a raised design or symbol. | [verb] To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, etc. | [verb] Of a hunted animal: to take shelter in a wood or forest. EMBOSSER (12) EMBOSSES (12) [verb] To mark or decorate with a raised design or symbol. | [verb] To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, etc. | [verb] Of a hunted animal: to take shelter in a wood or forest. EMBOWELS (15) [verb] To enclose or bury. | [verb] To remove the bowels; disembowel. EMBOWERS (15) [verb] To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage. | [verb] To lodge or rest in or as in a bower. | [verb] To form a bower. EMBOWING (16) EMBRACED (15) [verb] To clasp (someone or each other) in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug. | [verb] To seize (something) eagerly or with alacrity; to accept or take up with cordiality; to welcome. | [verb] To submit to; to undergo. EMBRACER (14) EMBRACES (14) [noun] An act of putting arms around someone and bringing the person close to the chest; a hug. | [noun] An enclosure partially or fully surrounding someone or something. | [noun] Full acceptance (of something). 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EMERALDS (11) [noun] Any of various green gemstones, especially a green transparent form of beryl, highly valued as a precious stone. | [noun] Emerald green, a colour. | [noun] Any hummingbird in the genera Chlorostilbon and Elvira; and some in the genus Amazilia EMERGENT (11) [noun] A plant whose root system grows underwater, but whose shoot, leaves and flowers grow up and above the water. | [adjective] Emerging; coming into view or into existence; nascent; new. | [adjective] Arising unexpectedly, especially if also calling for immediate reaction; constituting an emergency. EMERGING (12) [verb] To come into view. | [verb] To come out of a situation, object or a liquid. | [verb] To become known. EMERITAE (10) EMERITUS (10) [noun] A person retired in this sense. | [adjective] Retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title. EMEROIDS (11) EMERSION (10) [noun] Emergence, especially from the water. | [noun] The reappearance of a heavenly body after being eclipsed by another or by the sun's brightness. EMETINES (10) EMIGRANT (11) [noun] Someone who leaves a country to settle in a new country. | [noun] Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Catopsilia. Also called a migrant. EMIGRATE (11) [verb] To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere. EMINENCE (12) [noun] Someone of high rank, reputation or social status. | [noun] The quality or state of being eminent. | [noun] Prominence in a particular order or accumulation; esteem. EMINENCY (15) EMIRATES (10) [noun] A country ruled by an emir. | [noun] The office of an emir. EMISSARY (13) [noun] An agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else. | [noun] A venous channel in the skull. | [noun] An underground channel by which the water of a lake escapes. EMISSION (10) [noun] Something which is emitted or sent out; issue. | [noun] The act of emitting; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation. EMISSIVE (13) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or having the capacity to emit radiation or matter; emitting EMITTERS (10) [noun] That which emits something. | [noun] One terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT). EMITTING (11) [verb] To send out or give off EMOTIONS (10) [noun] A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data. | [noun] A reaction by a non-human organism with behavioral and physiological elements similar to a person's response. EMPALERS (12) EMPALING (13) EMPANADA (13) [noun] Any of a variety of stuffed pastries found in Spanish and Latin American cuisine. EMPANELS (12) [verb] To enrol (jurors), e.g. from a jury pool; to register (the names of jurors) on a "panel" or official list. EMPATHIC (17) [adjective] Showing or expressing empathy. | [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or being an empath: of or having the capability of sensing the emotions of others. EMPERIES (12) EMPERORS (12) [noun] The male monarch or ruler of an empire. | [noun] Any monarch ruling an empire, irrespective of gender, with "empress" contrasting to mean when consort to emperor | [noun] (political theory) Specifically, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire; the world-monarch. EMPHASES (15) [noun] Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important. | [noun] Special attention or prominence given to something. | [noun] Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type. EMPHASIS (15) [noun] Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important. | [noun] Special attention or prominence given to something. | [noun] Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type. EMPHATIC (17) [noun] An emphatic consonant. | [noun] A word or phrase adding emphasis, such as "a lot" or "really". | [adjective] Characterized by emphasis; forceful. EMPIRICS (14) [noun] A member of a sect of ancient physicians who based their theories solely on experience. | [noun] Someone who is guided by empiricism; an empiricist. | [noun] Any unqualified or dishonest practitioner; a charlatan; a quack. EMPLACED (15) EMPLACES (14) EMPLANED (13) [verb] To board an airplane EMPLANES (12) [verb] To board an airplane EMPLOYED (16) [verb] To hire (somebody for work or a job). | [verb] To use (somebody for a job, or something for a task). | [verb] To make busy. EMPLOYEE (15) [noun] An individual who provides labor to a company or another person. EMPLOYER (15) [noun] A person, firm or other entity which pays for or hires the services of another person. EMPLOYES (15) EMPOISON (12) EMPORIUM (14) [noun] A city or region which is a major trading centre; also, a place within a city for commerce and trading; a marketplace. | [noun] A shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale; a department store; (with a descriptive word) a shop specializing in particular goods. | [noun] A business set up to enable foreign traders to engage in commerce in a country; a factory (now the more common term). EMPOWERS (15) [verb] To give permission, power, or the legal right to do something. | [verb] To give someone more confidence and/or strength to do something, often by enabling them to increase their control over their own life or situation. EMPRISES (12) EMPRIZES (21) EMPTIERS (12) EMPTIEST (12) [adjective] Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant. | [adjective] Containing no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value). | [adjective] Free; clear; devoid; often with of. EMPTINGS (13) EMPTYING (16) [noun] The sediment of beer, cider, etc. | [noun] A type of yeast obtained from the remains of the brewing process. | [verb] To make empty; to void; to remove the contents of. EMPURPLE (14) [verb] To make purple. | [verb] To enrage or anger, referring to making the face purple or red with blood. | [verb] Of writing, to make overly flowery or showy; to embellish unduly. EMPYEMAS (17) [noun] A collection of pus within a naturally existing anatomical cavity (as opposed to an abscess, which occurs in a newly formed cavity). EMPYEMIC (19) EMPYREAL (15) EMPYREAN (15) [noun] The region of pure light and fire; the highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to exist: the same as the ether, the ninth heaven according to ancient astronomy. | [adjective] Of the sky or the heavens; celestially refined. EMULATED (11) [verb] To attempt to equal or be the same as. | [verb] To copy or imitate, especially a person. | [verb] To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy. EMULATES (10) [verb] To attempt to equal or be the same as. | [verb] To copy or imitate, especially a person. | [verb] To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy. EMULATOR (10) EMULSIFY (16) [verb] To make into an emulsion. EMULSION (10) [noun] A stable suspension of small droplets of one liquid in another with which it is immiscible. | [noun] A colloid in which both phases are liquid. | [noun] The coating of photosensitive silver halide grains in a thin gelatine layer on a photographic film. EMULSIVE (13) EMULSOID (11) ENABLERS (10) [noun] One who or that which helps something to happen. | [noun] One who encourages a bad habit in another (typically drug addiction) by their behaviour. | [noun] One who gives someone else the power to behave in a certain way. ENABLING (11) [verb] To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to. | [verb] To affirm; to make firm and strong. | [verb] To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for. ENACTING (11) [verb] To make (a bill) into law | [verb] To act the part of; to play | [verb] To do; to effect ENACTIVE (13) ENACTORS (10) ENACTORY (13) ENAMELED (11) [verb] To coat or decorate with enamel. | [verb] To variegate with colours, as if with enamel. | [verb] To form a glossy surface like enamel upon. ENAMELER (10) ENAMINES (10) ENAMORED (11) [verb] (mostly in the passive, followed by "of" or "with") To cause to be in love. | [verb] (mostly in the passive) To captivate. | [adjective] In love, amorous. ENAMOURS (10) [verb] (mostly in the passive, followed by "of" or "with") To cause to be in love. | [verb] (mostly in the passive) To captivate. ENATIONS (8) [noun] A small outgrowth on the surface of a plant organ. | [noun] The generation of such an outgrowth. ENCAENIA (10) [noun] A festival held to mark the anniversary of the dedication of a church or temple; (especially), of the Temple at Jerusalem. | [noun] The annual commemoration service of founders and benefactors of Oxford University. ENCAGING (12) [verb] To lock inside a cage; to imprison. ENCAMPED (15) [verb] To establish a camp or temporary shelter. | [verb] To form into a camp. ENCASHED (14) [verb] To convert a financial instrument or funding source into cash. ENCASHES (13) [verb] To convert a financial instrument or funding source into cash. ENCASING (11) [verb] To enclose, as in a case. | [noun] That which encases; an outer cover. ENCEINTE (10) [noun] An enclosure. | [noun] The line of works forming the main enclosure of a fortress. | [noun] The area or town enclosed by a line of fortification. ENCHAINS (13) [verb] To restrain with, or as if with, chains. | [verb] To link together. ENCHANTS (13) [verb] To attract and delight, to charm. | [verb] To cast a spell upon (often one that attracts or charms). | [verb] To magically enhance or degrade an item. ENCHASED (14) [verb] To set (a gemstone etc.) into. | [verb] To be a setting for. | [verb] To decorate with jewels, or with inlaid ornament. ENCHASER (13) ENCHASES (13) [verb] To set (a gemstone etc.) into. | [verb] To be a setting for. | [verb] To decorate with jewels, or with inlaid ornament. ENCHORIC (15) ENCIPHER (15) [verb] To convert plain text into cipher; to encrypt ENCIRCLE (12) [verb] To surround, form a circle around. | [verb] To move or go around completely. ENCLASPS (12) [verb] To hold in (or as if in) a clasp; to embrace ENCLAVES (13) [noun] A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another. | [noun] A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior. | [noun] An isolated portion of an application's address space, such that data in an enclave can only be accessed by code in the same enclave. ENCLITIC (12) [noun] A clitic that joins with the preceding word phonetically, graphically, or both. | [adjective] (grammar) Affixed phonetically. ENCLOSED (11) [verb] To surround with a wall, fence, etc. | [verb] To insert into a container, usually an envelope or package | [adjective] Contained; held within a container. ENCLOSER (10) ENCLOSES (10) [verb] To surround with a wall, fence, etc. | [verb] To insert into a container, usually an envelope or package ENCODERS (11) ENCODING (12) [verb] To convert (plain text) into code. | [verb] (communication) To convert source information into another form. | [verb] To constitute the code necessary for the biosynthesis of a protein by means of a matrix so as to transcribe DNA material. ENCOMIUM (14) [noun] Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute. | [noun] A general category of oratory. | [noun] A method within rhetorical pedagogy. ENCORING (11) [verb] To call for an extra performance or repetition of, or by. | [verb] To call for an encore. | [verb] To perform an encore. ENCROACH (15) [noun] Encroachment. | [verb] To seize, appropriate | [verb] To intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory ENCRUSTS (10) [verb] To cover with a hard crust. | [verb] To form a crust. | [verb] To inset or affix decorative materials upon (a surface); to inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object. ENCRYPTS (15) [verb] To conceal information by means of a code or cipher. ENCUMBER (14) [verb] To load down something with a burden | [verb] To restrict or block something with a hindrance or impediment | [verb] To burden with a legal claim or other obligation ENCYCLIC (17) ENCYSTED (14) [verb] To enclose within a cyst. | [verb] To be enclosed within a cyst. | [adjective] Contained in a cyst. ENDAMAGE (12) ENDAMEBA (13) ENDANGER (10) [verb] To put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to. | [verb] To incur the hazard of; to risk; to run the risk of. ENDARCHY (17) ENDBRAIN (11) ENDEARED (10) [verb] To make (something) more precious or valuable. | [verb] To make (something) more expensive; to increase the cost of. | [verb] To stress (something) as important; to exaggerate. ENDEAVOR (12) [noun] A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal; assiduous or persistent activity. | [verb] To exert oneself. | [verb] To attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously. ENDEMIAL (11) ENDEMICS (13) [noun] An individual or species that is endemic to a region. | [noun] A disease affecting a number of people simultaneously, so as to show a distinct connection with certain localities. ENDEMISM (13) ENDERMIC (13) ENDEXINE (16) ENDGAMES (12) [noun] The final stage of a game of chess, when there are few pieces left. | [noun] The final stage of a game of bridge, when there are few cards left. | [noun] The final stage of an extended process or course of events, especially with the implication of the imminent realization of a masterful strategy or plan. ENDITING (10) ENDNOTES (9) [noun] An annotation placed at the end of a document or chapter of a document. ENDOCARP (13) [noun] The woody inner layer of the pericarp of some fruits that contains the seed. ENDOCAST (11) ENDODERM (12) [noun] One of the three tissue layers in the embryo of a metazoan animal. Through development, it will produce the digestive system of the adult. ENDOGAMY (15) [noun] The practice of marrying or requiring to marry within one's own ethnic, religious, or social group. | [noun] The fusion of two related gametes. ENDOGENS (10) ENDOGENY (13) ENDOPODS (12) [noun] Endopodite ENDORSED (10) [verb] To support, to back, to give one's approval to, especially officially or by signature. | [verb] To write one's signature on the back of a cheque, or other negotiable instrument, when transferring it to a third party, or cashing it. | [verb] To give an endorsement. ENDORSEE (9) [noun] The person to whom something is transferred by endorsement. ENDORSER (9) ENDORSES (9) [noun] A diminutive of the pale, usually appearing in pairs on either side of a pale. | [verb] To support, to back, to give one's approval to, especially officially or by signature. | [verb] To write one's signature on the back of a cheque, or other negotiable instrument, when transferring it to a third party, or cashing it. ENDORSOR (9) ENDOSARC (11) ENDOSMOS (11) ENDOSOME (11) ENDOSTEA (9) ENDOWERS (12) ENDOWING (13) [verb] To provide with a dower or a dowry. | [verb] To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits. | [verb] Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality. ENDOZOIC (20) ENDPAPER (13) [noun] Either of two folded sheets of paper used to connect the front and back covers of a book to the first and last pages ENDPLATE (11) [noun] A modified muscle fibre in the form of a flattened discoid at a neuromuscular junction. ENDPOINT (11) [noun] Either of the two points at the ends of a line segment. | [noun] A defined occurrence during the observation period of an experiment or study. | [noun] The stage in a titration at which a change in the colour of an indicator indicates that no more titrant should be added. ENDURING (10) [verb] To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist. | [verb] To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant. | [verb] To last. ENERGIDS (10) ENERGIES (9) [noun] The impetus behind all motion and all activity. | [noun] The capacity to do work. | [noun] A quantity that denotes the ability to do work and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance²/time² (ML²/T²) or the equivalent. ENERGISE (9) [verb] To invigorate; to make energetic. | [verb] To supply with energy, especially electricity; to turn on power to (something). | [verb] To use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect. ENERGIZE (18) [verb] To invigorate; to make energetic. | [verb] To supply with energy, especially electricity; to turn on power to (something). | [verb] To use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect. ENERVATE (11) [verb] To reduce strength or energy; debilitate. | [verb] To weaken morally or mentally. | [verb] To partially or completely remove a nerve. ENFACING (14) ENFEEBLE (13) [verb] To make feeble. ENFEOFFS (17) [verb] To transfer a fief to, to endow with a fief; to put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest. | [verb] To give up completely; to surrender, to yield. ENFETTER (11) [verb] To bind in fetters; to enchain. ENFEVERS (14) ENFILADE (12) [noun] A line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line. | [noun] Gunfire directed along the length of a target. | [noun] A series of doors that provide a vista when open. 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ENFORCES (13) [verb] To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force. | [verb] To give strength or force to; to affirm, to emphasize. | [verb] To strengthen (a castle, town etc.) with extra troops, fortifications etc. ENFRAMED (14) ENFRAMES (13) ENGAGERS (10) ENGAGING (11) [verb] (heading) To interact socially. | [verb] (heading) To interact antagonistically. | [verb] (heading) To interact contractually. ENGENDER (10) [verb] To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman). | [verb] To give existence to, to produce (living creatures). | [verb] To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create. | [verb] (critical theory) To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender. ENGILDED (11) ENGINEER (9) [noun] A person who is qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering. | [noun] A title given to an engineer. | [noun] A person who controls motion of substance (such as a locomotive). ENGINERY (12) [noun] Machinery made up of engines; instruments of war. | [noun] The act or art of managing engines, or artillery. | [noun] Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement. ENGINING (10) ENGINOUS (9) ENGIRDED (11) [verb] To gird around; to ingirt. ENGIRDLE (10) [verb] To encircle as if with a girdle. ENGORGED (11) [verb] To devour something greedily, gorge, glut. | [verb] To feed ravenously. | [verb] To fill excessively with a body liquid, especially blood. ENGORGES (10) [verb] To devour something greedily, gorge, glut. | [verb] To feed ravenously. | [verb] To fill excessively with a body liquid, especially blood. ENGRAFTS (12) [verb] To insert, as a scion of one tree or plant into another, for the purpose of propagation; graft onto a plant | [verb] To fix firmly into place ENGRAILS (9) ENGRAINS (9) [verb] To dye with a fast or lasting colour. | [verb] To make (something) deeply part of something else. ENGRAMME (13) ENGRAVED (13) [verb] To carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art. | [verb] To carve (something) into a material. | [verb] To put in a grave, to bury. ENGRAVER (12) ENGRAVES (12) [verb] To carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art. | [verb] To carve (something) into a material. | [verb] To put in a grave, to bury. ENGULFED (13) [verb] To overwhelm. | [verb] To surround; to cover. | [verb] To cast into a gulf. ENHALOED (12) ENHALOES (11) ENHANCED (14) [verb] To lift, raise up. | [verb] To augment or make something greater. | [verb] To improve something by adding features. ENHANCER (13) [noun] Something that enhances. | [noun] A short region of DNA that can increase transcription of genes ENHANCES (13) [verb] To lift, raise up. | [verb] To augment or make something greater. | [verb] To improve something by adding features. ENIGMATA (11) ENISLING (9) [verb] To make into an island. | [verb] (by extension) To isolate. ENJAMBED (20) [verb] To carry a sentence over to the next line without a pause. | [adjective] (grammar, of two syntactic units) continued without a pause ENJOINED (16) [verb] To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge. | [verb] To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on. ENJOINER (15) ENJOYERS (18) ENJOYING (19) [verb] To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something | [verb] To have the use or benefit of something. | [verb] To be satisfied or receive pleasure. ENKINDLE (13) [verb] To kindle; to arouse or evoke. ENLACING (11) [verb] To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace | [verb] (by extension) To entangle. ENLARGED (10) [verb] To make larger. | [verb] To grow larger. | [verb] To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc. ENLARGER (9) [noun] Any device that makes something bigger, or makes it appear bigger. | [noun] An optical device used to make enlarged prints from a photographic negative ENLARGES (9) [verb] To make larger. | [verb] To grow larger. | [verb] To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc. ENLISTED (9) [verb] To enter on a list; to enroll; to register. | [verb] To join a cause or organization, especially military service. | [verb] To recruit the aid or membership of others. ENLISTEE (8) ENLISTER (8) ENLIVENS (11) [verb] To give life or spirit to; to revive or animate. | [verb] To make more lively, cheerful or interesting. ENMESHED (14) [verb] To mesh; to tangle or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated, particularly in a mesh or net like manner. | [verb] To involve in such complications as to render extrication difficult | [verb] To involve in difficulties. ENMESHES (13) [verb] To mesh; to tangle or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated, particularly in a mesh or net like manner. | [verb] To involve in such complications as to render extrication difficult | [verb] To involve in difficulties. ENMITIES (10) [noun] The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition. | [noun] A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity. ENNEADIC (11) ENNEAGON (9) ENNOBLED (11) [verb] To bestow with nobility, honour or grace. | [verb] To perform on a fabric the industrial processes of dry-cleaning, printing and embossing, and sizing and finishing. ENNOBLER (10) ENNOBLES (10) [verb] To bestow with nobility, honour or grace. | [verb] To perform on a fabric the industrial processes of dry-cleaning, printing and embossing, and sizing and finishing. ENOLASES (8) ENORMITY (13) [noun] Deviation from what is normal or standard; irregularity, abnormality. | [noun] Deviation from moral normality; extreme wickedness, nefariousness, or cruelty. | [noun] A breach of law or morality; a transgression, an act of evil or wickedness. ENORMOUS (10) [adjective] Deviating from the norm; unusual, extraordinary. | [adjective] Exceedingly wicked; atrocious or outrageous. | [adjective] Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc. ENOSISES (8) ENOUNCED (11) [verb] To say or pronounce; to enunciate. | [verb] To declare or proclaim. | [verb] To state unequivocally. ENOUNCES (10) [verb] To say or pronounce; to enunciate. | [verb] To declare or proclaim. | [verb] To state unequivocally. ENPLANED (11) [verb] To board an airplane ENPLANES (10) [verb] To board an airplane ENQUIRED (18) [verb] To make an enquiry. | [verb] To ask about (something). ENQUIRES (17) [verb] To make an enquiry. | [verb] To ask about (something). ENRAGING (10) [verb] To fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious. ENRAVISH (14) ENRICHED (14) [verb] To enhance. | [verb] To make (someone or something) rich or richer. | [verb] To adorn, ornate more richly. ENRICHER (13) ENRICHES (13) [verb] To enhance. | [verb] To make (someone or something) rich or richer. | [verb] To adorn, ornate more richly. ENROBERS (10) ENROBING (11) [verb] To invest or adorn with a robe or vestment; to attire. | [verb] To coat or cover. ENROLLED (9) [verb] To enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list | [verb] To enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of | [verb] To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something) ENROLLEE (8) ENROLLER (8) ENROOTED (9) ENSAMPLE (12) ENSCONCE (12) [verb] To place in a secure environment. | [verb] To settle comfortably. ENSCROLL (10) ENSEMBLE (12) [noun] A group of separate things that contribute to a coordinated whole. | [noun] A coordinated costume or outfit; a suit. | [noun] (collective) A group of musicians, dancers, actors, etc who perform together; e.g. the chorus of a ballet company. ENSERFED (12) ENSHEATH (14) [verb] To cover with or as if with a sheath. ENSHRINE (11) [verb] To enclose (a sacred relic etc.) in a shrine or chest. | [verb] To preserve or cherish (something) as though in a shrine; to preserve or contain, especially with some reverence. | [verb] To protect an idea, ideal, or philosophy within an official law or treaty ENSHROUD (12) [verb] To cover with (or as if with) a shroud ENSIFORM (13) [adjective] Shaped like a sword blade ENSIGNCY (14) [noun] The rank or office of an ensign. ENSILAGE (9) [noun] The process of producing silage by the fermentation of green fodder. | [verb] To preserve in a silo. | [noun] Fermented green forage fodder stored in a silo. ENSILING (9) [verb] To preserve (forage) in a silo. ENSKYING (16) ENSLAVED (12) [verb] To make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall. ENSLAVER (11) ENSLAVES (11) [verb] To make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall. ENSNARED (9) [verb] To entrap; to catch in a snare or trap. | [verb] To entangle; to enmesh. ENSNARER (8) ENSNARES (8) [verb] To entrap; to catch in a snare or trap. | [verb] To entangle; to enmesh. ENSNARLS (8) [verb] To entangle; to trap. ENSORCEL (10) [verb] To bewitch or enchant. | [verb] To captivate, entrance, fascinate. ENSOULED (9) [verb] To give a soul or place in the soul. ENSPHERE (13) ENSURERS (8) ENSURING (9) [verb] To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure. | [verb] To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition). ENSWATHE (14) [verb] To swathe; to envelop, as in swaddling clothes. ENTAILED (9) [verb] To imply or require. | [verb] To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage. | [verb] To appoint hereditary possessor. ENTAILER (8) ENTAMEBA (12) [noun] Any of many parasitic amoebas, of the genus Entamoeba, that cause dysentery etc. ENTANGLE (9) [verb] To tangle up; to twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated | [verb] To involve in such complications as to render extrication difficult | [verb] , to ensnare ENTASIAS (8) ENTASTIC (10) ENTELLUS (8) [noun] A small Asian monkey (Semnopithecus entellus, syn. Presbytis entellus) having bristly hairs on the crown and the sides of the face ENTENTES (8) [noun] An informal alliance or friendly understanding between two states. ENTERERS (8) ENTERING (9) [verb] To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space. | [verb] To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted. | [verb] To go or come into (a state or profession). ENTERONS (8) ENTHALPY (16) [noun] In thermodynamics, a measure of the heat content of a chemical or physical system. ENTHETIC (13) ENTHRALL (11) [verb] To hold spellbound; to bewitch, charm or captivate. | [verb] To make subservient; to enslave or subjugate. ENTHRALS (11) [verb] To hold spellbound; to bewitch, charm or captivate. | [verb] To make subservient; to enslave or subjugate. ENTHRONE (11) [verb] To put on the throne in a formal installation ceremony called enthronement, equivalent to (and often combined with) coronation and/or other ceremonies of investiture | [verb] To help a candidate to the succession of a monarchy (as a kingmaker does), or by extension in any other major organisation. 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ENTITLED (9) [verb] To give a title to. | [verb] To dignify by an honorary designation. | [verb] To give power or authority (to do something). ENTITLES (8) [verb] To give a title to. | [verb] To dignify by an honorary designation. | [verb] To give power or authority (to do something). ENTODERM (11) [noun] One of the three tissue layers in the embryo of a metazoan animal. Through development, it will produce the digestive system of the adult. ENTOILED (9) ENTOMBED (13) [verb] To deposit in a tomb. | [verb] To confine in restrictive surroundings. ENTOZOAL (17) ENTOZOAN (17) ENTOZOIC (19) ENTOZOON (17) ENTRAILS (8) [noun] Entanglement; fold. | [noun] The internal organs of an animal, especially the intestines. | [noun] The seat of the emotions. ENTRAINS (8) [verb] To draw along as a current does. | [verb] To suspend small particles in the current of a fluid. | [verb] To set up or propagate a signal, such as an oscillation. ENTRANCE (10) [noun] The action of entering, or going in. | [noun] The act of taking possession, as of property, or of office. | [noun] The place of entering, as a gate or doorway. | [verb] To delight and fill with wonder. ENTRANTS (8) [noun] A participant who enters something, such as a contest. | [noun] A newcomer. ENTREATS (8) [noun] An entreaty. | [verb] To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask for earnestly. | [verb] To beseech or supplicate (a person); to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to try to persuade. ENTREATY (11) [noun] The act of entreating or beseeching; a strong petition; pressing solicitation; begging. | [noun] A treatment; reception; entertainment. 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EPITOMIC (14) EPITOPES (12) [noun] That part of a biomolecule (such as a protein) that is the target of an immune response EPIZOISM (21) EPIZOITE (19) EPIZOOTY (22) EPONYMIC (17) EPOPOEIA (12) EPOXIDES (18) [noun] Any of a class of organic compound, cyclic ethers, having a three-membered ring; they are prepared by the selective oxidation of alkenes or by ring-closure of halohydrins; used to make plastics | [noun] Any similar compound in which an ether linkage has been made across a larger ring EPOXYING (21) [verb] To glue with epoxy. EPSILONS (10) [noun] The name for the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, ε or Ε, preceded by delta (Δ, δ) and followed by zeta (Ζ, ζ). | [noun] In IPA, the phonetic symbol ɛ that represents the open-mid front unrounded vowel. | [noun] An arbitrarily small quantity. EQUALING (18) [verb] To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to. | [verb] To make equivalent to; to cause to match. | [verb] To have as its consequence. EQUALISE (17) [verb] To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree. | [verb] To be equal to; to equal, to rival. | [verb] To make the scoreline equal by scoring points. EQUALITY (20) [noun] The fact of being equal. | [noun] The fact of being equal, of having the same value. | [noun] The equal treatment of people irrespective of social or cultural differences. EQUALIZE (26) [verb] To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree. | [verb] To be equal to; to equal, to rival. | [verb] To make the scoreline equal by scoring points. EQUALLED (18) [verb] To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to. | [verb] To make equivalent to; to cause to match. | [verb] To have as its consequence. EQUATING (18) [verb] To consider equal or equivalent. | [verb] To set as equal. | [noun] The act by which things are equated; the evaluation of things as equivalent. EQUATION (17) [noun] The act or process of equating two or more things, or the state of those things being equal (that is, identical). | [noun] An assertion that two expressions are equal, expressed by writing the two expressions separated by an equal sign; from which one is to determine a particular quantity. | [noun] A small correction to observed values to remove the effects of systematic errors in an observation. EQUATORS (17) [noun] (often “the Equator”) An imaginary great circle around the Earth, equidistant from the two poles, and dividing earth's surface into the northern and southern hemisphere. | [noun] A similar great circle on any sphere, especially on a celestial body, or on other reasonably symmetrical three-dimensional body. | [noun] The midline of any generally spherical object, such as a fruit or vegetable, that has identifiable poles. 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ERGOTISM (11) [noun] The effect of long-term ergot poisoning, traditionally due to the ingestion of the alkaloids produced by the Claviceps purpurea fungus which infects rye and other cereals, and more recently by the action of a number of ergoline-based drugs. | [noun] A logical deduction. ERIGERON (9) [noun] Any member of the plant genus Erigeron. ERINGOES (9) ERISTICS (10) [noun] One who makes specious arguments; one who is disputatious. | [noun] A type of dialogue or argument where the participants do not have any reasonable goal. The aim is to argue for the sake of conflict, and often to see who can yell the loudest. ERLKINGS (13) ERODIBLE (11) EROGENIC (11) EROSIBLE (10) EROSIONS (8) [noun] The result of having been worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff face. | [noun] The changing of a surface by mechanical action, friction, thermal expansion contraction, or impact. | [noun] The gradual loss of something as a result of an ongoing process. 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ERYNGOES (12) [noun] The root of sea holly, Eryngium maritimum, formerly candied and taken as confectionery and held to have aphrodisiac properties. | [noun] Any other plant of the same genus, Eryngium. ERYTHEMA (16) [noun] Abnormal redness and inflammation of the skin, due to vasodilation. | [noun] Skin redness from sunburn or chemical irritation ERYTHRON (14) ESCALADE (11) [noun] An act of scaling walls or fortifications | [verb] To scale the walls of a fortification. ESCALATE (10) [verb] To increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up. | [verb] In technical support, to transfer a customer, a problem, etc. to the next higher level of authority ESCALLOP (12) [noun] A thin slice of meat, especially veal, normally shallow-fried. | [noun] A scallop. ESCALOPS (12) ESCAPADE (13) [noun] A daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention. ESCAPEES (12) [noun] Someone who has become free through escaping imprisonment. | [noun] Someone who has escaped. | [noun] A plant that has escaped from cultivation. ESCAPERS (12) ESCAPING (13) [verb] To get free; to free oneself. | [verb] To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from. | [verb] To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment. ESCAPISM (14) [noun] An inclination to escape from routine or reality into fantasy. | [noun] A genre of book, film etc. that one uses to indulge this tendency. | [noun] The performance of an escape artist. ESCAPIST (12) [noun] Someone who wants to escape; especially from reality | [adjective] Intended for or tending toward escape; especially, used to avoid, deny, or forget about reality, as through fantasy. ESCARGOT (11) [noun] A dish, commonly associated with French cuisine, consisting of edible snails. | [noun] A snail (often Helix pomatia) used in preparation of that dish. ESCAROLE (10) [noun] A subspecies or variety of broad-leaved endive (Cichorium endivia subsp. endivia, syn. Cichorium endivia var. latifolium), which is eaten as a vegetable. ESCARPED (13) ESCHALOT (13) ESCHEATS (13) [noun] The return of property of a deceased person to the state (originally to a feudal lord) where there are no legal heirs or claimants. | [noun] The property so reverted. | [noun] Plunder, booty. ESCHEWAL (16) ESCHEWED (17) [verb] To avoid; to shun, to shy away from. ESCOLARS (10) [noun] Lepidocybium flavobrunneum, one of the snake mackerels. | [noun] Any fish of species Ruvettus pretiosus, oilfish. | [noun] Any of several other perciform fish of the family Gempylidae (snake mackerels). ESCORTED (11) [verb] To attend to in order to guard and protect; to accompany as a safeguard (for the person escorted or for others); to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to | [verb] To accompany (a person) in order to compel them to go somewhere (e.g. to leave a building). | [verb] To go with someone as a partner, for example on a formal date. ESCOTING (11) ESCROWED (14) [verb] To place in escrow. ESCUAGES (11) ESCULENT (10) [noun] Something edible, especially a vegetable; a comestible. | [noun] (mycophagy) An edible mushroom. | [adjective] Edible. ESERINES (8) ESOPHAGI (14) [noun] The tube that carries food from the pharynx to the stomach. ESOTERIC (10) [noun] An esoteric doctrine or treatise; esoteric philosophy. | [noun] One who believes, or is an initiate, in esoteric doctrines or rites. | [adjective] Intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest, or an enlightened inner circle. ESPALIER (10) [noun] A latticework used to shape or train the branches of a tree or shrub into a two-dimensional ornamental or useful design, as along a wall or fence. | [noun] A plant that has been shaped in this manner. | [noun] A row of plants that have been shaped in this manner. ESPARTOS (10) ESPECIAL (12) [adjective] Exceptional in importance or significance; special. | [adjective] Particular. ESPIEGLE (11) ESPOUSAL (10) [noun] A betrothal. | [noun] A wedding ceremony. | [noun] Adoption of a plan, cause, or idea. ESPOUSED (11) [verb] To become/get married to. | [verb] To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause). ESPOUSER (10) ESPOUSES (10) [verb] To become/get married to. | [verb] To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause). ESPRESSO (10) [noun] A concentrated coffee beverage brewed by forcing hot water under high pressure through finely ground coffee. | [noun] A drink that includes espresso as an ingredient. ESQUIRED (18) ESQUIRES (17) [noun] A lawyer. | [noun] A male member of the gentry ranking below a knight. | [noun] An honorific sometimes placed after a man's name. ESSAYERS (11) ESSAYING (12) [verb] To try. | [verb] To move forth, as into battle. | [noun] An attempt; a try. ESSAYIST (11) [noun] One who composes essays; a writer of short compositions. ESSENCES (10) [noun] The inherent nature of a thing or idea. | [noun] The true nature of anything, not accidental or illusory. | [noun] Constituent substance. ESSONITE (8) ESTANCIA (10) [noun] A large rural estate in Latin America; a kind of ranch. ESTATING (9) ESTEEMED (11) [verb] To set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence. | [verb] To regard something as valuable; to prize. | [verb] To look upon something in a particular way. 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ESTOPPED (13) [verb] To impede or bar by estoppel. | [verb] To stop up, to plug ESTOPPEL (12) [noun] (common law) A legal principle in the law of equity that prevents a party from asserting otherwise valid legal rights against another party because of conduct by the first party, or circumstances to which the first party has knowingly contributed, make it unjust for those rights to be asserted. ESTOVERS (11) [noun] (history) An allowance provided from an estate for a person's support; an allowance of wood for repairs, firewood and fencing. | [noun] (history) Estovers. ESTRAGON (9) ESTRANGE (9) [verb] To cause to feel less close or friendly; alienate. To cease contact with (particularly of a family member or spouse, especially in form estranged). | [verb] To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations. ESTRAYED (12) ESTREATS (8) [verb] To extract or take out from the records of a court, and send up to the court of exchequer to be enforced; said of a forfeited recognizance. | [verb] To bring in to the exchequer, as a fine. ESTRIOLS (8) ESTROGEN (9) [noun] Any of a group of steroids that are secreted by the ovaries and function as female sex hormones. ESTRONES (8) ESTRUSES (8) ESURIENT (8) [noun] One who is greedy or hungry. | [adjective] Very greedy or hungry; ravenous; avid, eager. ETAGERES (9) [noun] A piece of furniture with open shelves for displaying ornaments. ETAMINES (10) ETATISMS (10) ETCETERA (10) ETCHANTS (13) [noun] An acid or corrosive chemical used in etching. ETCHINGS (14) [noun] The art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid. | [noun] The image created by this process. ETERNALS (8) ETERNISE (8) [verb] To make or render eternal. | [verb] To prolong indefinitely. | [verb] To immortalize; to make eternally famous. 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ETIOLOGY (12) [noun] The establishment of a cause, origin, or reason for something. | [noun] The study of causes or causation. | [noun] The study or investigation of the causes of disease; a scientific explanation for the origin of a disease. ETOUFFEE (14) [noun] A spiced Cajun stew of meat (crayfish, shellfish, alligator, chicken or another meat) and vegetables, typically cooked in a closed pot and then served with rice. EUCAINES (10) EUCALYPT (15) [noun] Any tree of the genus Eucalyptus. | [noun] Any tree of the tribe Eucalypteae of genera related and similar to Eucalyptus, such as Corymbia and Angophora. EUCHARIS (13) EUCHRING (14) [verb] To deceive or outwit. 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EUSTATIC (10) EUSTELES (8) EUTAXIES (15) EUTECTIC (12) [noun] A material that has the composition of a eutectic mixture or eutectic alloy | [noun] The temperature of the eutectic point | [adjective] Describing the chemical composition or temperature of a mixture of substances that gives the lowest temperature at which the mixture becomes fully molten. A further requirement is that that temperature is lower than the melting point of any of the pure component substances. EUTROPHY (16) EUXENITE (15) EVACUANT (13) [noun] Something used to clean out an organ system, especially the bowels | [noun] A laxative | [adjective] Laxative EVACUATE (13) [verb] To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from | [verb] To cause to leave or withdraw from. | [verb] To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum. 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EVENFALL (14) [noun] Dusk, twilight EVENINGS (12) [noun] The time of the day between dusk and night, when it gets dark. | [noun] The time of the day between the approximate time of midwinter dusk and midnight (compare afternoon); the period after the end of regular office working hours. | [noun] A concluding time period; a point in time near the end of something; the beginning of the end of something. EVENNESS (11) EVENSONG (12) [noun] A religious service, most commonly seen in the Anglican or Episcopal Church, that takes place in the early hours of the evening. EVENTFUL (14) [adjective] Of or pertaining to high levels of activity; having many memorable events. EVENTIDE (12) [noun] Evening EVENTUAL (11) [adjective] Finally resulting or occuring (after a period of time). | [adjective] Pertaining to events; event-related, evential. | [adjective] (NNSE or European Union) Possible, potential. EVERMORE (13) [adverb] Always; forever; eternally. | [adverb] At any time in the future. EVERSION (11) EVERTING (12) [verb] To turn inside out (like a pocket being emptied) or outwards. | [verb] To move (someone or something) out of the way. | [verb] To turn upside down; to overturn. EVERTORS (11) EVERYDAY (18) [noun] (rare) the ordinary or routine day or occasion | [adjective] Appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions | [adjective] Commonplace, ordinary EVERYMAN (16) [noun] In fiction, drama, or allegory, the archetypical ordinary individual, frequently the protagonist in a parable of some sort. EVERYMEN (16) EVERYONE (14) [pronoun] Every person. EVERYWAY (20) EVICTEES (13) EVICTING (14) [verb] To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out. EVICTION (13) [noun] The act of evicting. | [noun] The state of being evicted. 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EMBARRING (14) EMBASSAGE (14) [noun] An embassy. | [noun] Message; errand. EMBASSIES (13) [noun] The function or duty of an ambassador. | [noun] An organization or group of officials who permanently represent a sovereign state in a second sovereign state or with respect to an international organization such as the United Nations. | [noun] A temporary mission representing a sovereign state. EMBATTLED (14) [verb] To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle | [verb] To prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle. | [verb] To be arrayed for battle. EMBATTLES (13) [verb] To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle | [verb] To prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle. | [verb] To be arrayed for battle. EMBAYMENT (18) [noun] A bay. (the water) | [noun] The shoreline of a bay, an indentation in a shoreline. (the land, not the water) | [noun] A topographical feature that used to be a bay, like the Mississippi embayment. EMBEDDING (16) [verb] To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed. | [verb] (by extension) To include in surrounding matter. | [verb] To encapsulate within another document or data file. EMBEDMENT (16) EMBELLISH (16) [verb] To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate. | [verb] To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality; to distort, to embroider. EMBEZZLED (32) [verb] To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works. EMBEZZLER (31) EMBEZZLES (31) [verb] To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works. EMBITTERS (13) [verb] To cause to be bitter. EMBLAZERS (22) EMBLAZING (23) EMBLAZONS (22) [verb] To adorn with prominent markings. | [verb] To inscribe upon. | [verb] To draw (a coat of arms). 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EMIGRATED (13) [verb] To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere. EMIGRATES (12) [verb] To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere. EMINENCES (13) [noun] Someone of high rank, reputation or social status. | [noun] The quality or state of being eminent. | [noun] Prominence in a particular order or accumulation; esteem. EMINENTLY (14) [adverb] In an eminent or prominent manner. | [adverb] To a great degree; notably; highly. EMISSIONS (11) [noun] Something which is emitted or sent out; issue. | [noun] The act of emitting; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation. EMITTANCE (13) EMOLLIENT (11) [noun] Something which softens or lubricates the skin; moisturizer. | [noun] Anything soothing the mind, or that makes something more acceptable. | [adjective] Moisturizing. EMOLUMENT (13) [noun] Payment for an office or employment; compensation for a job, which is usually monetary. EMOTIONAL (11) [adjective] Of or relating to the emotions. | [adjective] Characterised by emotion. | [adjective] Determined by emotion rather than reason. EMOTIVELY (17) EMOTIVITY (17) EMPANADAS (14) [noun] Any of a variety of stuffed pastries found in Spanish and Latin American cuisine. EMPANELED (14) [verb] To enrol (jurors), e.g. from a jury pool; to register (the names of jurors) on a "panel" or official list. EMPATHIES (16) EMPATHISE (16) [verb] To feel empathy for another person EMPATHIZE (25) [verb] To feel empathy for another person EMPENNAGE (14) [noun] The tail assembly of an aircraft. | [noun] The feathers of an arrow or the tail fins of a bomb or rocket used to stabilize the longitudinal axis of the projectile parallel to the flight path. EMPHASISE (16) [verb] To stress, give emphasis or extra weight to (something). EMPHASIZE (25) [verb] To stress, give emphasis or extra weight to (something). EMPHYSEMA (21) [noun] An abnormal accumulation of air or other gas in tissues, most commonly the lungs. | [noun] Pulmonary emphysema, a chronic lung disease, one type of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. EMPIRICAL (15) [adjective] Pertaining to or based on experience. | [adjective] Pertaining to, derived from, or testable by observations made using the physical senses or using instruments which extend the senses. | [adjective] (philosophy of science) Verifiable by means of scientific experimentation. EMPLACING (16) EMPLANING (14) [verb] To board an airplane EMPLOYEES (16) [noun] An individual who provides labor to a company or another person. EMPLOYERS (16) [noun] A person, firm or other entity which pays for or hires the services of another person. EMPLOYING (17) [verb] To hire (somebody for work or a job). | [verb] To use (somebody for a job, or something for a task). | [verb] To make busy. EMPOISONS (13) EMPORIUMS (15) [noun] A city or region which is a major trading centre; also, a place within a city for commerce and trading; a marketplace. | [noun] A shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale; a department store; (with a descriptive word) a shop specializing in particular goods. | [noun] A business set up to enable foreign traders to engage in commerce in a country; a factory (now the more common term). EMPOWERED (17) [verb] To give permission, power, or the legal right to do something. | [verb] To give someone more confidence and/or strength to do something, often by enabling them to increase their control over their own life or situation. | [noun] One who is empowered. EMPRESSES (13) [noun] The female monarch (ruler) of an empire. | [noun] The wife or widow of an emperor or equated ruler. | [noun] The third trump or major arcana card of most tarot decks. EMPTINESS (13) [noun] The state or feeling of being empty. EMPURPLED (16) [verb] To make purple. | [verb] To enrage or anger, referring to making the face purple or red with blood. | [verb] Of writing, to make overly flowery or showy; to embellish unduly. EMPURPLES (15) [verb] To make purple. | [verb] To enrage or anger, referring to making the face purple or red with blood. | [verb] Of writing, to make overly flowery or showy; to embellish unduly. EMPYEMATA (18) EMPYREANS (16) EMULATING (12) [verb] To attempt to equal or be the same as. | [verb] To copy or imitate, especially a person. | [verb] To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy. EMULATION (11) [noun] The endeavor or desire to equal or excel someone else in qualities or actions. | [noun] Jealous rivalry; envy; envious contention. | [noun] Running a program or other software designed for a different system, by simulating parts of the other system. 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ENAMOURED (12) [verb] (mostly in the passive, followed by "of" or "with") To cause to be in love. | [verb] (mostly in the passive) To captivate. | [adjective] In love, amorous. ENCAMPING (16) [verb] To establish a camp or temporary shelter. | [verb] To form into a camp. ENCAPSULE (13) ENCASHING (15) [verb] To convert a financial instrument or funding source into cash. ENCAUSTIC (13) [noun] A wax-based paint that is fixed in place by heating | [noun] A painting produced using this paint | [adjective] Prepared by means of heat; burned in. ENCEINTES (11) [noun] An enclosure. | [noun] The line of works forming the main enclosure of a fortress. | [noun] The area or town enclosed by a line of fortification. ENCEPHALA (16) ENCHAINED (15) [verb] To restrain with, or as if with, chains. | [verb] To link together. ENCHANTED (15) [verb] To attract and delight, to charm. | [verb] To cast a spell upon (often one that attracts or charms). | [verb] To magically enhance or degrade an item. 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ENCOUNTER (11) [noun] A meeting, especially one that is unplanned or unexpected. | [noun] A hostile, often violent meeting; a confrontation, skirmish, or clash, as between combatants. | [noun] A match between two opposing sides. ENCOURAGE (12) [verb] To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit. | [verb] To spur on, strongly recommend. | [verb] To foster, give help or patronage ENCRIMSON (13) ENCRUSTED (12) [verb] To cover with a hard crust. | [verb] To form a crust. | [verb] To inset or affix decorative materials upon (a surface); to inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object. ENCRYPTED (17) [verb] To conceal information by means of a code or cipher. | [adjective] Being in code; having been encrypted. 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ENERGISED (11) [adjective] Alternative spelling of energized | [verb] To invigorate; to make energetic. | [verb] To supply with energy, especially electricity; to turn on power to (something). ENERGISES (10) [verb] To invigorate; to make energetic. | [verb] To supply with energy, especially electricity; to turn on power to (something). | [verb] To use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect. ENERGIZED (20) [verb] To invigorate; to make energetic. | [verb] To supply with energy, especially electricity; to turn on power to (something). | [verb] To use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect. ENERGIZER (19) ENERGIZES (19) [verb] To invigorate; to make energetic. | [verb] To supply with energy, especially electricity; to turn on power to (something). | [verb] To use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect. ENERVATED (13) [verb] To reduce strength or energy; debilitate. | [verb] To weaken morally or mentally. | [verb] To partially or completely remove a nerve. ENERVATES (12) [verb] To reduce strength or energy; debilitate. | [verb] To weaken morally or mentally. | [verb] To partially or completely remove a nerve. ENFEEBLED (15) [verb] To make feeble. ENFEEBLES (14) [verb] To make feeble. ENFEOFFED (19) [verb] To transfer a fief to, to endow with a fief; to put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest. | [verb] To give up completely; to surrender, to yield. ENFETTERS (12) [verb] To bind in fetters; to enchain. ENFEVERED (16) [verb] To excite fever in ENFILADED (14) [verb] To rake (something) with gunfire. | [verb] To be directed toward (something) like enfilading gunfire. | [verb] To arrange (rooms or other structures) in a row. 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ENFORCING (15) [verb] To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force. | [verb] To give strength or force to; to affirm, to emphasize. | [verb] To strengthen (a castle, town etc.) with extra troops, fortifications etc. ENFRAMING (15) ENGARLAND (11) ENGENDERS (11) [verb] To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman). | [verb] To give existence to, to produce (living creatures). | [verb] To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create. ENGILDING (12) ENGINEERS (10) [noun] A person who is qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering. | [noun] A title given to an engineer. | [noun] A person who controls motion of substance (such as a locomotive). ENGIRDING (12) [verb] To gird around; to ingirt. ENGIRDLED (12) [verb] To encircle as if with a girdle. ENGIRDLES (11) [verb] To encircle as if with a girdle. 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ENHALOING (13) ENHANCERS (14) [noun] Something that enhances. | [noun] A short region of DNA that can increase transcription of genes ENHANCING (15) [verb] To lift, raise up. | [verb] To augment or make something greater. | [verb] To improve something by adding features. ENIGMATIC (14) [adjective] Pertaining to an enigma. | [adjective] Mysterious. | [adjective] Defying description. ENJOINERS (16) ENJOINING (17) [verb] To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge. | [verb] To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on. ENJOYABLE (21) [adjective] Pleasant, capable of giving pleasure. ENJOYABLY (24) [adverb] In an enjoyable manner ENJOYMENT (21) [noun] The condition of enjoying anything. | [noun] An enjoyable state of mind. | [noun] An activity that gives pleasure. ENKINDLED (15) [verb] To kindle; to arouse or evoke. ENKINDLES (14) [verb] To kindle; to arouse or evoke. ENLARGERS (10) [noun] Any device that makes something bigger, or makes it appear bigger. | [noun] An optical device used to make enlarged prints from a photographic negative ENLARGING (11) [verb] To make larger. | [verb] To grow larger. | [verb] To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc. ENLIGHTEN (13) [verb] To supply with light. | [verb] To make something clear to (someone); to give knowledge or understanding to. ENLISTEES (9) ENLISTERS (9) ENLISTING (10) [verb] To enter on a list; to enroll; to register. | [verb] To join a cause or organization, especially military service. | [verb] To recruit the aid or membership of others. ENLIVENED (13) [verb] To give life or spirit to; to revive or animate. | [verb] To make more lively, cheerful or interesting. ENMESHING (15) [verb] To mesh; to tangle or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated, particularly in a mesh or net like manner. | [verb] To involve in such complications as to render extrication difficult | [verb] To involve in difficulties. ENNEAGONS (10) ENNOBLERS (11) ENNOBLING (12) [verb] To bestow with nobility, honour or grace. | [verb] To perform on a fabric the industrial processes of dry-cleaning, printing and embossing, and sizing and finishing. | [noun] An act of making noble. ENOKIDAKE (18) ENOLOGIES (10) ENOLOGIST (10) ENOUNCING (12) [verb] To say or pronounce; to enunciate. | [verb] To declare or proclaim. | [verb] To state unequivocally. ENPLANING (12) [verb] To board an airplane ENQUIRIES (18) [noun] A question. | [noun] Search for truth, information or knowledge. ENQUIRING (19) [verb] To make an enquiry. | [verb] To ask about (something). | [noun] An instance of making an enquiry; an asking. ENRAPTURE (11) [verb] To fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate or captivate. ENRICHERS (14) ENRICHING (15) [verb] To enhance. | [verb] To make (someone or something) rich or richer. | [verb] To adorn, ornate more richly. ENROLLEES (9) ENROLLERS (9) ENROLLING (10) [verb] To enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list | [verb] To enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of | [verb] To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something) ENROOTING (10) ENSAMPLES (13) ENSCONCED (14) [verb] To place in a secure environment. | [verb] To settle comfortably. | [adjective] Placed in a secure environment. ENSCONCES (13) [verb] To place in a secure environment. | [verb] To settle comfortably. ENSCROLLS (11) ENSEMBLES (13) [noun] A group of separate things that contribute to a coordinated whole. | [noun] A coordinated costume or outfit; a suit. | [noun] (collective) A group of musicians, dancers, actors, etc who perform together; e.g. the chorus of a ballet company. 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ENSNARERS (9) ENSNARING (10) [verb] To entrap; to catch in a snare or trap. | [verb] To entangle; to enmesh. | [adjective] That ensnares or traps. ENSNARLED (10) [verb] To entangle; to trap. ENSORCELL (11) [verb] To bewitch or enchant. | [verb] To captivate, entrance, fascinate. ENSORCELS (11) [verb] To bewitch or enchant. | [verb] To captivate, entrance, fascinate. ENSOULING (10) [verb] To give a soul or place in the soul. ENSPHERED (15) ENSPHERES (14) ENSWATHED (16) [verb] To swathe; to envelop, as in swaddling clothes. ENSWATHES (15) [verb] To swathe; to envelop, as in swaddling clothes. ENTAILERS (9) ENTAILING (10) [verb] To imply or require. | [verb] To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage. | [verb] To appoint hereditary possessor. ENTAMEBAE (13) [noun] Any of many parasitic amoebas, of the genus Entamoeba, that cause dysentery etc. ENTAMEBAS (13) [noun] Any of many parasitic amoebas, of the genus Entamoeba, that cause dysentery etc. ENTAMOEBA (13) [noun] Any of many parasitic amoebas, of the genus Entamoeba, that cause dysentery etc. ENTANGLED (11) [verb] To tangle up; to twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated | [verb] To involve in such complications as to render extrication difficult | [verb] , to ensnare ENTANGLER (10) ENTANGLES (10) [verb] To tangle up; to twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated | [verb] To involve in such complications as to render extrication difficult | [verb] , to ensnare ENTELECHY (17) [noun] The complete realisation and final form of some potential concept or function; the conditions under which a potential thing becomes actualized. | [noun] A particular type of motivation, need for self-determination, and inner strength directing life and growth to become all one is capable of being; the need to actualize one's beliefs; having both a personal vision and the ability to actualize that vision from within. ENTERABLE (11) ENTERALLY (12) ENTERITIS (9) [noun] Inflammation of the intestines, generally the small intestine, that may lead to diarrhea. ENTERTAIN (9) [noun] Entertainment; pleasure. | [noun] Reception of a guest; welcome. | [verb] To amuse (someone); to engage the attention of agreeably. ENTHRALLS (12) [verb] To hold spellbound; to bewitch, charm or captivate. | [verb] To make subservient; to enslave or subjugate. ENTHRONED (13) [verb] To put on the throne in a formal installation ceremony called enthronement, equivalent to (and often combined with) coronation and/or other ceremonies of investiture | [verb] To help a candidate to the succession of a monarchy (as a kingmaker does), or by extension in any other major organisation. | [adjective] Placed upon a throne. ENTHRONES (12) [verb] To put on the throne in a formal installation ceremony called enthronement, equivalent to (and often combined with) coronation and/or other ceremonies of investiture | [verb] To help a candidate to the succession of a monarchy (as a kingmaker does), or by extension in any other major organisation. ENTHUSING (13) [verb] To show enthusiasm | [verb] To cause (someone) to feel enthusiasm or to be enthusiastic ENTHYMEME (19) [noun] A by and large statement, a maxim, a less-than-100% argument. | [noun] A syllogism with a required but unstated assumption. ENTITLING (10) [verb] To give a title to. | [verb] To dignify by an honorary designation. | [verb] To give power or authority (to do something). ENTODERMS (12) [noun] One of the three tissue layers in the embryo of a metazoan animal. Through development, it will produce the digestive system of the adult. ENTOILING (10) ENTOMBING (14) [verb] To deposit in a tomb. | [verb] To confine in restrictive surroundings. ENTOPROCT (13) ENTOURAGE (10) [noun] A retinue of attendants, associates or followers. | [noun] A binary relation in a uniform space which generalises the notion of two points being no farther apart than a given fixed distance; a uniform neighbourhood. ENTOZOANS (18) ENTRAINED (10) [verb] To draw along as a current does. | [verb] To suspend small particles in the current of a fluid. | [verb] To set up or propagate a signal, such as an oscillation. ENTRAINER (9) ENTRANCED (12) [verb] To delight and fill with wonder. | [verb] To put into a trance. | [adjective] Held at attention, as if by magic. ENTRANCES (11) [noun] The action of entering, or going in. | [noun] The act of taking possession, as of property, or of office. | [noun] The place of entering, as a gate or doorway. | [verb] To delight and fill with wonder. ENTRAPPED (14) [verb] To catch in a trap or snare. | [verb] To lure (someone), either into a dangerous situation, or into performing an illegal act. ENTREATED (10) [verb] To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask for earnestly. | [verb] To beseech or supplicate (a person); to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to try to persuade. | [verb] To invite; to entertain. ENTRECHAT (14) [noun] A manoeuvre whereby the performer jumps up and strikes the heels together a number of times. ENTRECOTE (11) ENTREMETS (11) [noun] A side dish (often of vegetables), or a small dish of savories served between courses. | [noun] A dessert. ENTREPOTS (11) [noun] A warehouse, depot. | [noun] A commercial center, a place where merchandise is sent for additional processing and distribution. | [noun] A point of entry for people, especially immigrants, into a city or country. ENTRESOLS (9) [noun] A mezzanine; an intermediate floor in a building, typically resembling a balcony. Most often used to refer to the floor immediately above the ground floor and below a higher floor. ENTROPIES (11) [noun] Strictly thermodynamic entropy. A measure of the amount of energy in a physical system that cannot be used to do work. | [noun] A measure of the disorder present in a system. | [noun] The capacity factor for thermal energy that is hidden with respect to temperature http//arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0004055. ENTROPION (11) [noun] An inversion (turning inward) of the margin of the eyelid ENTRUSTED (10) [verb] To trust to the care of. ENTRYWAYS (18) [noun] An opening or hallway allowing entry into a structure. ENTWINING (13) [verb] To twist or twine around something (or one another). | [noun] The action or situation of something that entwines. ENTWISTED (13) ENUCLEATE (11) [noun] A cell which has been enucleated | [verb] To remove the nucleus from (a cell). | [verb] To remove without cutting into it; especially, to remove or gouge out (an eyeball or tumor). ENUMERATE (11) [verb] To specify each member of a sequence individually in incrementing order. | [verb] To determine the amount of. 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EQUALISER (18) [noun] One who makes equal; a balancer. | [noun] A device that balances various quantities. | [noun] A goal, run, point, etc. that equalizes the score. EQUALISES (18) [verb] To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree. | [verb] To be equal to; to equal, to rival. | [verb] To make the scoreline equal by scoring points. EQUALIZED (28) [verb] To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree. | [verb] To be equal to; to equal, to rival. | [verb] To make the scoreline equal by scoring points. EQUALIZER (27) [noun] One who makes equal; a balancer. | [noun] A device that balances various quantities. | [noun] A goal, run, point, etc. that equalizes the score. EQUALIZES (27) [verb] To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree. | [verb] To be equal to; to equal, to rival. | [verb] To make the scoreline equal by scoring points. 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ESTUARIAL (9) ESTUARIES (9) [noun] Coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge, resulting in a brackish water zone. | [noun] An ocean inlet also fed by fresh river water. ESTUARINE (9) ESURIENCE (11) ETCETERAS (11) ETERNALLY (12) [adverb] For eternity; forever. | [adverb] Unceasingly, recurringly. ETERNISED (10) [verb] To make or render eternal. | [verb] To prolong indefinitely. | [verb] To immortalize; to make eternally famous. ETERNISES (9) [verb] To make or render eternal. | [verb] To prolong indefinitely. | [verb] To immortalize; to make eternally famous. ETERNIZED (19) [adjective] Immortalized. ETERNIZES (18) [verb] To make or render eternal. | [verb] To prolong indefinitely. | [verb] To immortalize; to make eternally famous. ETHEPHONS (17) ETHERIZED (22) [verb] To convert into ether. | [verb] To render insensible by means of ether, as by inhalation. 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ETIQUETTE (18) [noun] The forms required by a good upbringing, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society. | [noun] The customary behavior of members of a profession, business, law, or sports team towards each other. | [noun] A label used to indicate that a letter is to be sent by airmail. ETOUFFEES (15) [noun] A spiced Cajun stew of meat (crayfish, shellfish, alligator, chicken or another meat) and vegetables, typically cooked in a closed pot and then served with rice. ETYMOLOGY (18) [noun] The study of the historical development of languages, particularly as manifested in individual words. | [noun] The origin and historical development of a word; the derivation. | [noun] An account of the origin and historical development of a word as presented in a dictionary or the like. 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(A true Baritone has a cylindrical tubing, while the Euphonium tubing is conical, though they both cover the same range of tones. This relationship is also between the Trumpet [cylindrical] and Cornet [conical] respectively.) EUPHORBIA (16) [noun] Any plant of the genus Euphorbia, the spurges. EUPHORIAS (14) EUPHUISMS (16) EUPHUISTS (14) EURHYTHMY (23) [noun] The harmony of features and proportion in architecture. | [noun] Graceful body movements to the rhythm of spoken words and music. | [noun] Healthy, normal beating of the pulse. 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EXECUTIVE (21) [noun] A chief officer or administrator, especially one who can make significant decisions on their own authority. | [noun] The branch of government that is responsible for enforcing laws and judicial decisions, and for the day-to-day administration of the state. | [noun] A process that coordinates and governs the action of other processes or threads; supervisor. EXECUTORS (18) [noun] A person who carries out some task. | [noun] A component of a system that executes or runs something. | [noun] Someone appointed by a testator to administer a will; an administrator. EXECUTORY (21) EXECUTRIX (25) [noun] A female executor. EXEGETIST (17) EXEMPLARS (20) [noun] Something fit to be imitated; an ideal, a model. | [noun] A role model. | [noun] Something typical or representative of a class; an example. EXEMPLARY (23) [noun] An example, or typical instance. | [noun] A copy of a book or a piece of writing. | [adjective] Deserving honour, respect and admiration. EXEMPLIFY (26) [verb] To show or illustrate by example. | [verb] To be an instance of or serve as an example. | [verb] To make an attested copy or transcript of (a document) under seal. EXEMPTING (21) [verb] To grant (someone) freedom or immunity from. EXEMPTION (20) [noun] An act of exempting. | [noun] The state of being exempt; immunity. | [noun] A deduction from the normal amount of taxes. EXERCISED (19) [verb] To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop. | [verb] To perform physical activity for health or training. | [verb] To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice. EXERCISER (18) [noun] A person who exercises. | [noun] Any of many devices for use in exercising the body. 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EXPERTISM (20) EXPERTIZE (27) [verb] To act as an expert. | [verb] To give an expert opinion on; to assess. EXPIATING (19) [verb] To atone or make reparation for. | [verb] To make amends or pay the penalty for. | [verb] To relieve or cleanse of guilt. EXPIATION (18) [noun] An act of atonement for a sin or wrongdoing. | [noun] The act of expiating or stripping off. EXPIATORS (18) EXPIATORY (21) EXPLAINED (19) [verb] To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of. | [verb] To give a valid excuse for past behavior. | [verb] To make flat, smooth out. EXPLAINER (18) [noun] Agent noun of explain; one who explains. | [noun] A guide that explains a topic. EXPLANTED (19) [verb] To remove something, such as a medical device, that has been implanted. | [adjective] Removed from a natural site of growth, and placed in a culture medium (especially in relation to plants) | [adjective] Removed from the body (especially in relation to organs) EXPLETIVE (21) [noun] A profane, vulgar term, notably a curse or obscene oath. | [noun] A word without meaning added to fill a syntactic position. | [noun] A word that adds to the strength of a phrase without affecting its meaning. EXPLETORY (21) EXPLICATE (20) [verb] To explain meticulously or in great detail; to elucidate; to analyze. | [adjective] Evolved; unfolded. EXPLICITS (20) EXPLODERS (19) EXPLODING (20) [verb] To destroy with an explosion. | [verb] To destroy violently or abruptly. | [verb] To create an exploded view of. EXPLOITED (19) [verb] To use for one’s own advantage. | [verb] To forcibly deprive someone of something to which she or he has a natural right. EXPLOITER (18) EXPLORERS (18) [noun] One who explores something | [noun] A person who by means of travel (notably an expedition) searches out new information. | [noun] Any of various hand tools, with sharp points, used in dentistry. EXPLORING (19) [verb] To seek for something or after someone. | [verb] To examine or investigate something systematically. | [verb] To travel somewhere in search of discovery. EXPLOSION (18) [noun] A violent release of energy (sometimes mechanical, nuclear, or chemical.) | [noun] A bursting due to pressure. | [noun] The sound of an explosion. EXPLOSIVE (21) [noun] Any explosive substance. | [adjective] With the capability to, or likely to, explode. | [adjective] Having the character of an explosion. EXPONENTS (18) [noun] One who expounds, represents or advocates. | [noun] The number by which a value (called the base) is said to be raised to a power in exponentiation: for example, the 3 in 2^3=8. | [noun] The degree to which the root of a radicand is found, for example, the 2 in \sqrt[2]r=b. EXPORTERS (18) [noun] One who, or that which, exports: especially a person who or organization that exports or sells goods made in one country for delivery in another country. EXPORTING (19) [verb] To carry away | [verb] To sell (goods) to a foreign country | [verb] To cause to spread in another part of the world EXPOSITED (19) EXPOSITOR (18) [noun] A person who expounds; a commentator. EXPOSURES (18) [noun] The condition of being exposed, uncovered, or unprotected. | [noun] Lack of protection from weather or the elements. | [noun] The act of exposing something, such as a scandal. 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