English Wordbook/E

From The Anglish Moot

Staff E of the English Wordbook.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

eager	adj	keen, hungry
eagle	n	arne
ease	n	eath(Scots, from A-S), allaying, soothing, freedom from, smoothness, frith of mind, sweetness of life, straightforwardness
ease	vb	allay, unburden, unlade, smoothen, sooth, quell
easy	adj	eath(Scots, from A-S), eathy, soft, light
ebony	adj & n	black, blackwood
ebullition	n	outburst, flare-up, blowup
ecclesiastical	adj	churchly, church
echo	n	witherclank
eclipse	v & n	behide, behiding
economics	n	wealthlore
economy	n	landgeld, wealthdom
ecstatic	adj	blissful, beside oneself
edelweiss	n	ethelwhite
edible	adj	eatable, eatbear
edifice	n	building
edifying	adj	enlightening, teaching, uplifting, mindworthy
edition	n	number, run, putting-out, forthsending
educate	vb	teach, teach lore to
educated	adj	learned, lorefast
education	n	learning, teaching, lorecraft
effervescent	adv	bubbling, bubbly, lively
effect	n	outworking
effort	n	work, tew
effrontery	n	barefacedness
ego	n	me, pride
egocentric	adj	selfish
egotism	n	selfishness, selflust, overweeningness
egregious	adj	glaringly bad, outstanding
egressive	adj	outflowing
eject	vb	throw out, outthrow
elaborate	adj	overwrought
elastic	adj	rubbery, widercraft
elate	vb	uplift
elect(politics)	vb	choose as leader
election	n	leadership poll
electric	adj	sparkwork(an electrician is often called a "sparky")
electrician	n	sparksmith
electricity	n	sparkflow, wattflow, thunderflow, thundermight, thundersprack, ghostfire(Icelandic)
electron	n	amberling
element	n	firststuff
elevate	vb	hoist, lift, heave up, raise, aloofen
elevation	n	raising, raisedness
elevator	n	lift
elite	n	picky group, (social elite)swelldom
elite	adj	picky
elocution	n	thylecraft
elongate	vb	lengthen
eloquent	adj	smooth spoken, silvery speech, spoken readily
email	vb	wirewrite, thundersend
email	n	wirewrit, thunderwrit
emasculate	vb	unman
embarrass	vb	faze
embody	vb	inbody
embrace	vb	hug, beclip, umgripe
embroidery	n	needlework, needlecraft
embryo	n	wightbloom
emerge	vb	arise, unwhelm, forthcome, kythe, forthkythe
emigrant	n	outcomer
emit	vb	cast, forthsend, give out, send out, shine
emnity	n	foehood
emotion	n	feeling, heartfeeling,
emotional	adj	heartfelt
emotional	phr	full of feeling
empathy	n	fellow-feel
emphasize	vb	underscore, highlight
empire	n	kyserdom, rike, ryk
employ	vb	hire
employee	n	underling, hired worker, ,worker, underworker, staff
employer	n	hirer
employment	n	hired work
emporer	n	overlord
emulate	vb	underfollow(nb. att'd)
emulsion	n	forblending
en-	pref	um(be)-
en mass	adv	in bulk
en route	phrase	on way
enchant	vb	spellbind, bewitch
enchantment	n	spell
enchantress	n	witch
encircle	vb	begirt, beclip, beset, umring
enclose	vb	umfold, shut in, hem
enclosure	n	haw, paddock, field, yard
encounter	vb	meet
encourage	vb	hearten, foster, feed, help, egg on, spur
encryption	n	forkeying
encumber	vb	burden, hinder
encumbrance	n	burden, hindering
encyclopedia	n	wisdombook, alkenbook
endeavour	vb	undertake, seek
endeavour	n	undertaking, ettle
endoplasmic reticulum	n (biol)	lifebrick net, lifebrick web
endure	vb	abear, withstand, undergo, bear, adree, brook, keep on, put up with
enemy	n	fiend, foe
energy	n	spring, drive, go, might, tirelessness, unweariness, unwaningness, trim
energy	phr	get-up and go, might and main
enervate	vb	weaken, unsettle, faze
engaged	adj	betrothed
engine	n	iron horse, spincraft, turncraft
enigma	n	riddle, brainteaser, hidden meaning
enjoyment	n	fun
enlarge	vb	swell
enmity	n	fiendship
ennui	n	boredom, doldrums, dullness, flatness, lifelessness, life-weariness, wanfeelingness
ensnare	vb	swarl
ensue	vb	follow
enter	vb	go into, come into, begin
enter(data entry)	vb	input, key in
enterprise	n	undertaking
entice	vb	draw to, sweet talk,
entire	adj	whole
entirely	adv	outright, wholly
entirety	n	whole, fulness, all-hood
entrance	n	way in, ingang
entry	n	coming in, going in, in-going, way, way in, threshold
entrance	vb	bewitch
entrepreneur	n	businessman/woman
envelop	vb	overspread, bewrap
envelope	n	overspread, errandwritholder
envious	aj	nithfull
environment	n	lifescape
envision	vb	foresee, mindsee
envy	vb	benithe
envy, malice	n	nithe
enzyme	n	yeaster, yeastuff
ephemeral	adj	fleeting, short-lived
epic	n	saga
epicentrum	n	quakebegining
epilepsy	n	brothfall
epilogue	n	end-speech, ending, afterthought, aftertale, afterword, last words, last thing, end tale, wind up
epithet	n	byword
equal	adj	even, alike, same
equal	n	match
equality	n	evenhood, evenness, sameness, fairness
equate	vb	liken
equation	n	besaming, bematching
equidistant	adj	midway, evenfar
equines	n	horse, steed, ass, mare, broodmare, drafthorse, foal, gelding, stot
equip	vb	gear, graith, bedight, begear, fit
equipment	n	gear, graith
equitable	adj	fair
equivalent	adj	crossmatching, worthwhile
equivalent	n	crossmatch, match
era	n	timestretch, time, world
eradicate	vb	kill, uproot
erase	vb	rub out, outrub, kill, uproot
eraser	n	rubber
erect	n	upright
erect	vb	rear, raise, set up, uprighten
erection	n	hardon, uprighting, building
erinacine	n	hedgehog, hedgepig, furze-pig
eritrocyte	n	red bloodcell
erotic	adj	love, lewd, kinky
error	n	mistake, slip, slip-up, untruth
erupt	vb	burst out, break out
eruption	n	outburst, outbreak
escape	vb	, break free, flee, get away, break out
escape	n	breakout, getaway, fleeing, breaking free
especially	adv	moreso, above all, mainly
essence	n	nub, heart, kernel, pith, being, whatness
essentially	adv & phr	mostly, all but, all-in-all, as good as, as much as, mainly, at heart, in itself, on the whole, really, uterrly, well-nigh
establish	vb	build, begin, settle, install, set up
established	adj	longstanding
establishment	n	body, steadyhood
estimate	vb & n	guess, forecast, looking at, roughcast
estuary	n	firth, inlet
esurient	adj	hungry, greedy
et al(ia)	phr	and others
et cetera	phr	and so on, and the like, and others, and so forth
eternal	adj	everlasting
ethnic minority	n	outlandish fellowship
etymology	n	truewordlore, wordbirthlore, sothwudlore
eucalyptus	n	gumtree
eukaryote	n	pithaving
euphemism	n	nicetalk, mellowspeak, mildname
euphoria	n	happiness
Europe	n	broadfaceland
euthanasia	n	freedeath
evacuate	vb	out[clear]
evade	vb	dodge, sidestep
evaluation	n	worthreckoning
evangelism	n	holy errand
event	n	happening
eventually	adv	in time
evidence	n	word, witness, truth of
evocative	adj	meaningful, mindful,uprooting, weighty
evoke	vb	awake, call forth, call up, bring to mind, stir up, kindle again
evolve	vb	unfold, grow, turn into
ex–	prefix	former, erstwhile, or-
exaggerate	vb	overplay, overdo
exaggeration	n	overblowing, whid
examine	vb	go over, con
example	n	bisen, byspell, lodestar, loadstar
example (for)	n	as byspell, thus
exaptation	n	kludging
excavate	n	make hollow, unearth, hollow out, dig up
exceed	vb	overgo, overshoot, outstrip, overstep, overreach
except	prep	but
exception	n	standout
excessive	adj	overmuch, steep, sharp
excessively	adv	overly
exchange	vb	swap
excise	vb	cut out
excite	vb	thrill
exclude	vb	outshut
excommunication	v	amonzing
excoriate	vb	chide, flay
excrement	n	keich
excursion	n	outing
excuse	vb	forgive
ex-directory	adj	unlisted
execute	vb	put to death, kill, quell, slay
executioner	n	hangman, deathman
exercise	vb	work out
exhale	vb	breathe out
exhaust	vb	overwork, wear out, forspend, tire
exhausted	adj	tired, weary, worn out, drained, overtired, work-wearied, fordone, windless
exhaustive	adj	all-out
exhaustive	adj	thoroughgoing
exhibit	vb	show
exhume	vb	dig up, unearth
exile	vb	outcast, cast out, send away, outlaw, blackball, blacklist
exile	n	outcast, outlaw, castaway, banling
exist	vb	be, live
existence	n	being, hereness, life, lifetime, witsith
exit	n	way out, outgang
exit	vb	leave, move out of, go out
exotic	vb	altheodish, farlandish, outlandish
expand	vb	swell, spread
expanse	n	spread
expect	vb	await, ween
expectation	n	brighthope,
expectorate	vb	spit
expedient	n	makeshift, stopgap
expedite	vb	hurry, quicken
expedition	n	ladenfare, outing
expeditious	adj	fast, quick, swift, speedy
expel	vb	drive out, outcast, throw out, cast out
expenditure(s)	n	outgoing(s)
expenses	n	overheads
expensive	adj	dear, dearbought
experience	vb	undergo
experience (bad)	n	ordeal
experiment	n	checkout
expertise	n	know-how, skill
expiate	vb	atone
explain	vb	clear up, tell thoroughly of, unravel, unriddle
explicit	n	outfold
explode	vb	burst, toburst
exploit	vb	overwork
explorer	n	pathfinder, foregoer, forerunner, groundbreaker
explosive	n	fireshot (from "shotfirer")
exponent	n	mightscore
export	vb	outsend
expose	vb	bare
exposé	n	bewraying, naked truth
express	n	outthrimp
expulsion	n	outcast, driving out, throwing out
extant	adj	lasting, still-living, still being, still going, keeping on
extend	vb	lengthen, outstretch, stretch;
extend for	vb	span
extensive	adj	far-reaching, farflung, fulsome, sweeping, wide, widespread, broad, great, bounding, no-end-of, deep
extensively	adv	fulsomely, wholesale
extent	n	length, breadth, reach
exterior	adj	outer
exterior	n	outside
exterminate	vb	wipe out, kill all
external	adj	outward, outer
extinct	adj	dead, gone, lost
extinction	n	passing-way, death, death knell, doom, knell, wiping out
extinguish	vb	Douse, dout, put out, adwesch
extra	adj	spare, more, more other(s), more else, othermore
extra time	n	overtime
extract	vb	take out, draw out, pull out
extraordinary	adj	amazing, geason
extraterrestrial	adj	unearthly
extreme	adj	utmost
extrinsic	adj	outborn
extroverted	adj	outgoing
exuberant	adj	outgoing, sparkling
exultation	n	glee
exuviate	vb	shed, cast off, slough