List Words
Enchase
To incase or inclose in a border or rim; to surround with an ornamental casing, as a gem with gold; to encircle; to inclose; to adorn.
Enfilade
A line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line.
Enforcement
The act of enforcing; compulsion.
Engravement
Engraving.
Enlace
To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace; to lace; to encircle; to enfold; hence, to entangle.
Ensilage
The process of preserving fodder (such as cornstalks, rye, oats, millet, etc.) by compressing it while green and fresh in a pit or vat called a silo, where it is kept covered from the air; as th..
Ensnare
To catch in a snare. See Insnare.
Entomb
To deposit in a tomb, as a dead body; to bury; to inter; to inhume.
Epidermis
The outer, nonsensitive layer of the skin; cuticle; scarfskin. See Dermis.
Erase
To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name.
Escalade
A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart.
Ethane
A gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H6, forming a constituent of ordinary illuminating gas. It is the second member of the paraffin series, and its most important derivatives are common alcohol, aldehyd..
Ethyl
A monatomic, hydrocarbon radical, C2H5 of the paraffin series, forming the essential radical of ethane, and of common alcohol and ether.
Ethylene
A colorless, gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H4, forming an important ingredient of illuminating gas, and also obtained by the action of concentrated sulphuric acid in alcohol. It is an unsaturated co..
Evict
To dispossess by a judicial process; to dispossess by paramount right or claim of such right; to eject; to oust.
Exclamation
A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling; sudden expression of sound or words indi..
Exculpate
To clear from alleged fault or guilt; to prove to be guiltless; to relieve of blame; to acquit.
Exertion
The act of exerting, or putting into motion or action; the active exercise of any power or faculty; an effort, esp. a laborious or perceptible effort; as, an exertion of strength or power; an..
Exfoliate
To separate and come off in scales or laminae, as pieces of carious bone or of bark.
Exonerate
To unload; to disburden; to discharge.
Exoneration
The act of disburdening, discharging, or freeing morally from a charge or imputation; also, the state of being disburdened or freed from a charge.
Expectorate
To eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth.
Expedite
Free of impediment; unimpeded.
Exuberate
To abound; to be in great abundance.
Falsetto
A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.
Falter
To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley.
Fig
A small fruit tree (Ficus Carica) with large leaves, known from the remotest antiquity. It was probably native from Syria westward to the Canary Islands.
Flammable
Inflammable.
Flatuosity
Flatulence.
Flooding
of Flood
Fluorine
A non-metallic, gaseous element, strongly acid or negative, or associated with chlorine, bromine, and iodine, in the halogen group of which it is the first member. It always occurs combined, ..
Girl
A young person of either sex; a child.
Fluting
of Flute
Follicle
A simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed.
Forgive
To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign.
Formaldehyde
A colorless, volatile liquid, H2CO, resembling acetic or ethyl aldehyde, and chemically intermediate between methyl alcohol and formic acid.
Fount
A font.
Freshet
A stream of fresh water.
Frication
Friction.
Intelligential
Of or pertaining to the intelligence; exercising or implying understanding; intellectual.
Frighten
To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.
Vasoconstrictor
A substance which causes constriction of the blood vessels. Such substances are used in medicine to raise blood pressure.
Fulgor
Dazzling brightness; splendor.
Furloughing
of Furlough
Fussiness
The quality of being fussy.
Gagging
of Gag
Gargoyle
A spout projecting from the roof gutter of a building, often carved grotesquely.
Garner
A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.
Garrulity
Talkativeness; loquacity.
Gasoline
A highly volatile mixture of fluid hydrocarbons, obtained from petroleum, as also by the distillation of bituminous coal. It is used in making air gas, and in giving illuminating power to water ..
