Words starting with E — 669 entries

The 669 dictionary words that begin with the letter E, in alphabetical order, each with its first definition. Accents do not affect filing: an accented initial is shelved under its base letter.

• experience8 sensesThe effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted…
• experienced2 sensesHaving experience and skill in a subject.
• experiencing1 senseThe process of undergoing an experience, or the experience itself.
• experiment6 sensesA test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or…
• experimental5 sensesPertaining to or founded on experiment.
• experimenting1 senseexperimentation
• expert6 sensesExtraordinary capable or knowledgeable.
• expertise3 sensesGreat skill or knowledge in a particular field or hobby.
• expired3 sensesthat is no longer valid
• explain5 sensesTo make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.
• explaining1 senseexplanation
• explanation3 sensesThe act or process of explaining.
• explicit4 sensesVery specific, clear, or detailed.
• explode14 sensesTo fly apart with sudden violent force; to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
• exploded3 sensesHaving been subjected to an explosion; blown up.
• exploding3 sensesHaving the appearance of an explosion.
• exploit6 sensesA heroic or extraordinary deed.
• exploitation5 sensesThe act of utilizing something; industry.
• exploration4 sensesThe process of exploring.
• explore9 sensesTo examine or investigate something systematically.
• explored1 senseHaving undergone exploration.
• explorer4 sensesOne who explores something
• Explorer2 sensesA participant in the Exploring program, which focuses on career exploration.
• exploring1 senseThe action of the verb explore.
• explosion3 sensesA violent release of energy (sometimes mechanical, nuclear, or chemical); an act or instance of exploding.
• explosive9 sensesAble to, or likely to, explode.
• export8 sensesOf or relating to exportation or exports.
• expose5 sensesTo reveal; to uncover; to make visible; to bring to light.
• exposed1 senseOpen (especially to something), unconcealed and/or unprotected (and therefore vulnerable, susceptible).
• exposing1 senseThat exposes; leading to increased exposure.
• exposure10 sensesThe condition of being exposed, uncovered, or unprotected.
• express19 sensesMoving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
• expressed1 sensetranscribed
• expressing1 senseThat translates or transcribes nucleic acid.
• expression11 sensesThe action of expressing thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc.
• exquisite7 sensesEspecially or extraordinarily fine or pleasing; exceptional.
• extend10 sensesTo increase in extent.
• extended5 sensesLonger in length or extension; elongated.
• extension19 sensesThe act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase.
• extensive4 sensesHaving a great extent; covering a large area; vast.
• extent6 sensesA range of values or locations.
• exterior6 sensesRelating to the outside parts or surface of something.
• exterminate2 sensesTo kill or otherwise permanently eliminate all of (a population, often of pests or undesirables), usually intentionally.
• external14 sensesOutside of something; on the exterior.
• extinct14 sensesOf feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.: put out, as if like a fire; quenched, suppressed.
• extinction4 sensesThe action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation.
• extinguisher2 sensesOne who, or that which, extinguishes something. A fire extinguisher.
• extortion1 senseThe practice of extorting money or other property by the use of force or threats.
• extra11 sensesBeyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary.
• extract13 sensesSomething that is extracted or drawn out.
• extraction6 sensesThe act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
• extradition1 senseA formal process by which a criminal suspect held by one government or jurisdiction is handed over to another government or jurisdiction for trial…
• extraordinarily1 senseIn an extraordinary manner.
• extraordinary4 sensesOut of the ordinary; exceptional; unusual.
• extraterrestrial2 sensesOriginating from outside of the Earth's atmosphere, from space, or from another planet; alien to Earth or its environment.
• extravagant4 sensesExceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.
• extreme13 sensesOf a place, the most remote, farthest or outermost.
• extremely1 senseTo an extreme degree.
• extremes1 senseThe opposite ends of a range or scale.
• ey4 sensesAn egg.
• eye35 sensesAn organ through which animals see (“perceive surroundings via light”).
• Eye8 sensesA place name: A large village and civil parish in the City of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF2202).
• eyeball9 sensesThe ball of the eye.
• eyebrow5 sensesThe hair that grows over the bone ridge above the eye socket.
• Eyebrow1 senseA village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
• eyesight2 sensesVision or the faculty of sight.
• eyewitness2 sensesSomeone who sees an event and can report or testify about it.
• Ezekiel3 sensesA book of the Old Testament of the Bible.
• Ezra4 sensesThe fifteenth book of the Old Testament and a book of the Hebrew Tanakh.