English words: E

819 words under E; 1–100 on this page.

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• each determiner, pronoun; adverb (they cost 2 dollars each)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Each means every single one of a group, taken one by one: each child got a pencil.
• eager adjective (eager; more eager, most eager)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Wanting very much to do or have something; keen and excited.
• eagerly adverb (eagerly)everyday · Jewish tradition
  In a way that shows you really want to do or have something and are excited about it.
• eagerness noun (uncountable)
  A strong wish to do or have something, full of energy and interest.
• eagle noun (an eagle, eagles)everyday · Jewish tradition
  An eagle is a large, strong bird of prey with a hooked beak, sharp claws (talons) and excellent eyesight.
• eaglet noun (an eaglet, eaglets)
  A young eagle, still a baby or chick.
• ear noun (ear, ears)everyday · Jewish tradition
  One of the two parts on the sides of the head that you hear with.
• earache noun…
  Earache is a pain inside your ear.
• eardrum noun (an eardrum, eardrums)
  A thin, tight piece of skin inside the ear that shakes (vibrates) when sound reaches it, so that we can hear.
• earl noun (an earl, earls)
  A British nobleman of high rank, below a marquess and above a viscount.
• earlier adverb (earlier = comparative of early); adjective…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Earlier means at a time before now or before another time.
• earliest adjective (early, earlier, earliest); adverb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Earliest is the superlative of «early»: the first one in time, or the one that comes before all the others.
• earlobe noun (an earlobe, earlobes); also ear lobe
  An earlobe is the soft, round part at the bottom of the outside of your ear.
• early adjective (early, earlier, earliest); adverb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Before the usual or expected time: «The bus came early».
• earmark verb (earmark, earmarks, earmarked, earmarking); noun…
  To set money or something aside for a special purpose: The money is earmarked for a new playground.
• earmarks noun (an earmark, earmarks); verb…
  money in a budget set aside for a politician's favourite local projects, often criticised as waste.
• earmuff noun (an earmuff, earmuffs — usually plural «earmuffs»)
  A soft, warm cover for one ear; usually a pair of these joined by a band over the head, called earmuffs.
• earn verb (earn, earns, earned, earning)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To earn means to get money because you did work.
• earnestly adverbeveryday · Jewish tradition
  In a serious and sincere way, really meaning what you say or do.
• earnestness noun (no plural)
  Earnestness is being serious and sincere, meaning what you say and do.
• earnings noun (earnings, plural)
  The money a person gets for working: wages or salary.
• earpiece noun (an earpiece, earpieces)
  The part of a phone, headphones or other device that you hold to or put in your ear to hear sound.
• earplug noun (an earplug, earplugs)
  A small soft piece of foam, wax or rubber you put in your ear to keep out noise or water.
• earring noun (an earring, earrings)everyday · Jewish tradition
  An earring is a piece of jewellery worn on the ear, usually through a small hole in the earlobe.
• earth noun (Earth — the planet; earth — soil, the ground)everyday · Jewish tradition
  The planet we live on, the third planet from the Sun (often written Earth).
• earthen adjective (no forms)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Earthen means made of baked clay or earth.
• earthenware noun (no plural)
  Earthenware is pots, dishes and jars made of baked clay, usually thick and not very shiny.
• earthly adjective
  Of this world and this life, not of heaven.
• earthquake noun (an earthquake, earthquakes)everyday · Jewish tradition
  An earthquake is a sudden, violent shaking of the ground caused by movement of the rocks deep inside the Earth.
• earthworm noun (an earthworm, earthworms)
  A long, soft, pink-brown worm without legs that lives in soil and eats dead leaves and bits of plants.
• earthy adjective (earthier, earthiest)
  Earthy means made of or tasting of soil, dirt or the ground.
• earwax noun (earwax; uncountable)
  Earwax is the soft yellow or brown waxy stuff that the body makes inside the ear canal.
• earwig noun (an earwig, earwigs); verb…
  A small brown insect with a long body and a pair of pincers at its tail end.
• ease noun (ease; uncountable); verb (ease, eases, eased, easing)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Ease means with no difficulty: doing something easily.
• easily adverb (easily, more easily, most easily)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Easily means without difficulty: «She solved it easily».
• east noun, adjective, adverb (east, East)everyday · Jewish tradition
  East is the direction where the sun comes up in the morning.
• easterly adjective; adverb; noun (an easterly, easterlies)
  Towards the east or in the east: an easterly direction.
• eastern adjective (eastern; easternmost)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Eastern means in, from or towards the east: eastern Canada, the eastern sky.
• eastward adverb (eastward or eastwards); adjective (eastward)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Towards the east: The ship sailed eastward.
• easy adjective (easy, easier, easiest); adverb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Easy means not difficult, simple to do or understand.
• eat verb (eat, eats, ate, eaten, eating)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To eat is to put food in your mouth, chew it and swallow it.
• eater noun (an eater, eaters)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A person or animal that eats, often described by how or what it eats: «a fussy eater», «a big eater».
• eatest verb, old form used with thou
  «eatest» means «you eat», a form of «eat»: To eat is to put food in your mouth, chew it and swallow it.
• eateth verb, old form of «eats» (he, she, it)
  «eateth» means «eats», a form of «eat»: To eat is to put food in your mouth, chew it and swallow it.
• eaves noun, plural (eaves)
  The lower edges of a roof that stick out beyond the walls of a house.
• ebb verb (ebb, ebbs, ebbed, ebbing); noun (an ebb)
  To ebb is to flow back out, as the sea goes away from the shore.
• ebbing verb form of ebb (ebb, ebbs, ebbed, ebbing); adjective…
  Ebbing means going back out, getting less.
• ebn nounJewish tradition
  A spelling of "Ibn", meaning "son of" in Arabic names.
• ebony noun (plural ebonies); adjectiveeveryday · Jewish tradition
  Ebony is a very hard, dark black wood.
• eccentric adjective (eccentric; more eccentric); noun…
  An eccentric person behaves in an unusual, strange but usually harmless way.
• ecclesiastic noun; adjective
  An ecclesiastic is a person in the church, such as a priest or monk.
• ecclesiastical adjective (ecclesiastical) — formal
  Connected with the Christian church or its clergy (priests, ministers, bishops): «ecclesiastical buildings», «ecclesiastical law».
• ecg noun (an ECG, ECGs) — abbreviation
  Short for electrocardiogram: a medical test that records the electrical signals of the heart as a wavy line.
• echidna noun (an echidna, echidnas)
  An echidna is a small spiny animal from Australia and New Guinea that eats ants and termites with a long sticky tongue.
• echo noun (an echo, echoes); verb (echo, echoes, echoed, echoing)
  An echo is a sound you hear again because it bounces back off a hard surface, like a cliff, a wall or the inside of a cave.
• echolocation noun (echolocation, uncountable)
  Echolocation is a way some animals find things by making sounds and listening for the echoes that bounce back.
• eclipse noun (an eclipse, eclipses); verb…
  A solar eclipse happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth and blocks the Sun's light.
• ecliptic nounJewish tradition
  The path in the sky that the sun seems to follow through the year.
• ecological adjective (ecological); adverb ecologically; noun ecology
  Ecological means to do with ecology, the study of how living things live together and depend on each other and on their surroundings.
• economic adjective
  To do with money, trade, jobs and business in a country or area: economic growth.
• economical adjective (economical; more economical, most economical)
  Using money, fuel, time or materials carefully without waste.
• economically adverb (economically)
  Economically means in a way that is about money, trade, jobs and business.
• economics noun (economics — uncountable, takes a singular verb)
  The study of how people, businesses and countries make, buy, sell and use money, goods and services.
• economise verb (economise, economises, economised, economising); US…
  To economise is to spend less money or use less of something so that you save.
• economist noun (an economist, economists)
  A person who studies or is an expert in economics — how money, jobs, prices and trade work.
• economy noun (an economy, economies; also uncountable)
  The system of how money, work, goods and services are made, bought and sold in a country or area.
• ecosystem noun (an ecosystem, ecosystems)
  An ecosystem is all the living things in one place — plants, animals, fungi and tiny germs — together with the non-living things around…
• ecstasy noun (plural ecstasies)
  Ecstasy is a very great feeling of joy or delight.
• ect nounJewish tradition
  A scanning error, not a real word; it was meant to be "perfect".
• ecumenism noun (ecumenism, uncountable)
  The movement or effort to bring different Christian churches together, so they understand each other, pray together and work together.
• eczema noun (eczema, uncountable)
  Eczema is a common skin condition that makes patches of skin dry, red, cracked and very itchy.
• ed noun (abbreviation: Ed., ed., eds.); also a name (Ed); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  «Ed» is short for education: «PE» is physical education, «sex ed» means sex education, «special ed» special education (informal, US).
• eddy noun (plural eddies); verb (eddy, eddies, eddied, eddying)
  An eddy is a small whirlpool, where water goes round and round against the main flow.
• edelweiss noun (an edelweiss, edelweiss)
  A small white woolly-looking flower that grows high in the Alps and other mountains of Europe; it is a famous symbol of Switzerland and…
• eden proper noun (Eden, the Garden of Eden); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  The Garden of Eden was the beautiful garden where, in Genesis, God put the first people, Adam and Eve, before they disobeyed by eating the…
• edge noun (edge, edges); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  An edge is the outside line or end of something, like the edge of a table or a cliff.
• edgewise adverb
  Edgewise means with the edge facing forward, sideways on.
• edgy adjective (edgy, edgier, edgiest)
  Nervous, tense and easily annoyed.
• edible adjective (edible)
  Edible means safe and good to eat.
• edict noun (an edict, edicts)everyday · Jewish tradition
  An official order or rule given by a king, emperor, government or other ruler.
• edifice noun (an edifice, edifices)
  An edifice is a large, grand or impressive building.
• edit verb (edit, edits, edited, editing); noun (an edit, edits)
  To edit writing is to check it and change it to make it better, by fixing mistakes and improving words.
• edited verb (past form of edit: edited); adjective (edited)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Edited is the past form of «edit»: someone checked and changed a piece of writing, a photo or a film to make it better.
• edition noun (an edition, editions)everyday · Jewish tradition
  An edition is one version of a book, newspaper or magazine printed at one time, like a first edition.
• editor noun (an editor, editors)everyday · Jewish tradition
  An editor is a person who checks, corrects and improves writing before it is published.
• editorial noun (an editorial, editorials); adjective (editorial)everyday · Jewish tradition
  An editorial is an article in a newspaper or magazine that gives the opinion of the editors, not just the news.
• edmontosaurus noun…
  A large plant-eating duck-billed dinosaur (a hadrosaur) that lived in North America near the end of the age of dinosaurs, about 68 to 66…
• edo noun (a name: Edo)
  Edo is the old name of the city of Tokyo in Japan, before 1868.
• educate verb (educate, educates, educated, educating)
  To teach someone over a long time, especially at school, college or university.
• educated adjective (educated, more educated); verb form…
  Educated describes a person who has learned a lot, especially at school, college or university.
• education noun (education; an education)
  Education is the teaching and learning that happens at school, college and university.
• educational adjective
  Educational means teaching you something or helping you learn.
• educator noun (an educator, educators)
  A person whose job is to teach or educate people, like a teacher, tutor or lecturer.
• edwardian adjective (Edwardian); noun (an Edwardian, Edwardians)
  Belonging to the time when Edward VII was king of the United Kingdom, from 1901 to 1910 (often stretched to 1914, before the First World…
• ee interjection (UK dialect «ee», Northern England); Scots…everyday · Jewish tradition
  «Ee!» is a cry of surprise or feeling, like «oh!»: «Ee, it's cold!»; also «ee by gum».
• eeg noun (an EEG, EEGs) — abbreviation
  Short for electroencephalogram: a medical test that records the electrical activity of the brain as wavy lines.
• eel noun (an eel, eels)
  An eel is a long, thin fish that looks like a snake and has slippery skin.
• eerie adjective (eerie, eerier, eeriest); adverb eerily
  Eerie means strange and frightening in a quiet, mysterious way, making you feel uneasy.
• eff verb (eff, effs, effed, effing — euphemism); noun…
  «Eff» is a polite way of saying a very rude swear word starting with F without saying it fully.
• effect noun (an effect, effects); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  An effect is a change or result caused by something.

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