English Wordbook/E
From The Anglish Moot
Staff E of the English Wordbook.
| 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, 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 |
| ecumenopolis | n | Allworldburg |
| edelweiss | n | ethelwhite |
| edible | adj | eatbere |
| 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 |
| e.g. | abbrev. | t.bs., to-byspell |
| ego | n | me, pride |
| egocentric | adj | selfish |
| egotism | n | selfishness, selflust, overweeningness |
| egregious | adj | glaringly bad, outstanding |
| egressive | adj | outflowing |
| Egypt | n | Two Narrows |
| Egypt, Ancient | n | Blackland, Bankland |
| 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, silver-tongued, spoken readily |
| vb | wirewrite, thundersend | |
| n | wirewrit, thunderwrit | |
| emasculate | vb | unman |
| embarrass | vb | faze |
| embody | vb | inbody |
| embrace | vb | hug, beclip, umgripe |
| embroidery | n | needlework, needlecraft |
| embryo | n | wightbloom, womb-berry |
| emerge | vb | arise, unwhelm, forthcome, kythe, forthkythe |
| emigrant | n | outcomer |
| eminence | n | hill, knoll, link, mound, barrow, hurst, down, wold |
| emit | vb | 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 |
| encroachment | n | inroads |
| 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 |
| English/ Inglish | n/adj | the national language of England/ Inglelond. see AngloUS/Anglonic |
| 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, green-eyedness |
| envy | adj | green-eyed |
| enzyme | n | yeaster, yeastuff |
| ephemeral | adj | fleeting, short-lived |
| epic | n | saga |
| epicentrum | n | quakebeginning, quakeheart |
| epilepsy | n | brothfall |
| epilogue | n | end-speech, ending, afterthought, aftertale, afterword, last words, last thing, end tale, wind up |
| epithet | n | byword, byname, nickname |
| Epsom salts | n | bitter salts |
| equal | adj | even, alike, same |
| equal | n | match |
| equality | n | evenhood, evenness, sameness, fairness |
| equalness | n | draw, tie, deadlock, deadheat |
| 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 |
| ergo | conj & adv | therefore |
| 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, broth |
| essential | adj | key |
| 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, and what-not |
| etc. | abbrev. | a.s.f. (and so forth), a.s.o. (and so on) |
| eternal | adj | everlasting |
| ethnic minority | n | outlandish fellowship |
| etymology | n | truewordlore, wordbirthlore, sothwudlore |
| eucalyptus | n | gumtree |
| eucalyptus pilularis | n | flintwood |
| eukaryote | n | pithaving |
| euphemism | n | nicetalk, mellowspeak, mildname |
| euphoria | n | good-feeling, well-at-burden |
| Europe | n | broadfaceland |
| euthanasia | n | freedeath |
| evacuate | vb | out[clear] |
| evade | vb | dodge, sidestep |
| evaluate | vb | think over, weigh up, look carefully at, sift through |
| evaluation | n | bedeeming (calque from Dan. bedømme), worthreckoning |
| evangelism | n | holy errand |
| event | n | happening |
| eventually | adv | in time |
| evidence | n | word, witness, truth of |
| evince | vb | *becouthe |
| 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, overdrive (calque of many Germanic languages) |
| exaggeration | n | overblowing, whid, overdriving |
| 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 |
| excel | vb | overtop |
| excellent | adj | swell |
| except | prep | but, other than |
| exception | n | standout |
| excessive | adj | overmuch, steep, sharp, rank |
| excessively | adv | overly |
| exchange | vb | swap |
| excise | vb | cut out |
| excite | vb | thrill, key up |
| 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, headsman, headman |
| exercise | vb | work out |
| exert | vb | put forth |
| 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 | 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, bloat |
| 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, throw out, |
| expenditure(s) | n | outgoing(s) |
| expenses | n | overheads |
| expensive | adj | dear, dearbought, unthrifty |
| experience | vb | undergo |
| experience (bad) | n | ordeal |
| experiment | n | checkout |
| expertise | n | know-how, skill |
| expiate | vb | atone |
| expiration date | n | sell-by |
| explain | vb | clear up, tell thoroughly of, unravel, unriddle, speak out, bespeak |
| explicit | n | outfold |
| explode | vb | burst, toburst, blow up |
| 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, utter |
| 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 |
| extension | n | furthering |
| 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, pluck, unearth, harvest, |
| 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 |
