English words: enfleurage to Englishmanly
300 English words, part 39 of 85 of the words starting with E, A to Z. 21 have a page of their own.
English words enfleurage to Englishmanly
- enfleurage noun /ˌɑ̃.fluˈɹɑʒ/: The process of extracting fragrance (essential oils) from flowers by using unscented wax or fat, then extracting with alcohol.
- enflower verb /ɪnˈflaʊə/: To cover or deck with flowers.
- enflurane noun /ɛnˈflʊə.ɹeɪn/: 2-chloro-1,1,2,-trifluoroethyl-difluoromethyl ether, a halogenated ether and structural isomer of isoflurane commonly used for inhalational anesthesia...
- enfold verb: To envelop and wrap up something.
- enfoldedly adverb: In an enfolded manner.
- enfolder noun: One who, or that which, enfolds.
- enfolding noun, verb: A folding around something.
- enfoldingly adverb: So as to enfold.
- enfoldment noun: The act of enfolding.
- enforce verb /ɪnˈfoɹs/: To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force.
- enforceability noun: The quality of being enforceable.
- enforceable adjective: Capable of being enforced.
- enforceably adverb: In a way that is enforceable.
- enforcedly adverb: In a way that is enforced.
- enforcement noun /ɪnˈfɔːsm(ə)nt/: The act of enforcing; compulsion.
- enforcement agent noun: A bailiff.
- enforcer noun /ɪnˈfɔːsə/: One who enforces.
- enforcibility noun: Alternative form of enforceability.
- enforcible adjective: Alternative form of enforceable.
- enforcing sadism noun: One of the four subtypes of sadistic personality disorder, including features of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.
- enforcingly adverb: So as to enforce.
- enforcive adjective: Serving to enforce or constrain; compulsive.
- enforest verb: To turn into a forest.
- enform verb: To form; to fashion; to shape
- enfoul verb: To make foul or dirty.
- enfouldered adjective: Mixed with lightning or fire.
- ENFP noun: Initialism of extraverted, intuitive, feeling and perceiving: a personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator.
- enframe verb: To enclose in, or as if in, a frame.
- enframement noun: That which enframes; a frame.
- enfranchisable adjective: Able to be enfranchised.
- enfranchise verb /ɛnˈfɹænt͡ʃaɪz/: To grant the privilege of voting to a person or group of people.
- enfranchised adjective, verb: emancipated
- enfranchisement noun: The act of enfranchising
- enfranchiser noun: Someone who enfranchises.
- enfranchize verb: Alternative form of enfranchise.
- enfrauden verb: To defraud.
- enfree verb: To set free.
- enfreedom verb: To set free.
- enfreeze verb /ɪnˈfɹiːz/: To freeze; to congeal.
- enfrenzy verb: To drive into a state of frenzy.
- enfrijolada noun: A Mexican dish similar to an enchilada consisting of tortillas dipped in or drizzled with refried beans, which are often more liquid than average.
- enfrozen adjective, verb: Frozen.
- enfuvirtide noun /ɛnˈfju.vɚˌtaɪd/: An HIV fusion inhibitor, the first of a novel class of antiretroviral drugs.
- eng adjective, noun /ɛŋ/: Narrow.
- Eng'g noun: Abbreviation of engineering.
- Eng'r noun: Abbreviation of engineer.
- Engadin proper noun: A long valley in the Swiss Alps located in the Graubünden canton in southeast Switzerland.
- Engadine proper noun: A southern suburb of Sydney in Sutherland Shire, New South Wales, Australia.
- engagable adjective: Alternative form of engageable.
- engage adjective, noun, verb /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/: To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
- engage in verb: To start performing (an activity).
- engageable adjective: able to be engaged
- engageante noun: A false sleeve worn by women in the 18th and 19th centuries.
- engaged adjective, verb /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒd/: Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other.
- engaged column noun: A column embedded in a wall and partly projecting from the surface of the wall
- engaged time noun: The total or actual amount of time a person, often a student or worker, is engaged in a purposeful or productive required task.
- engaged tone noun: An audible signal to the calling party that indicates failure to complete the requested connection; a busy signal.
- engagedly adverb: In an engaged, interested or involved way.
- engagedness noun: The state of being deeply interested; engagement.
- engagee noun: A worker in the fur trade in North America; a voyageur.
- engagement noun /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ.mənt/: An appointment, especially to speak or perform.
- engagement chicken noun: An American lemon- and herb-flavored roast chicken dish.
- engagement ring noun: A ring given to one's fiancé(e) or intended spouse, symbolizing a formal pledge of matrimony and commonly consisting of a gold band adorned with one or more...
- engager noun: One who, or that which, engages.
- engaging adjective, noun, verb /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒɪŋ/: Tending to engage attention or interest; engrossing, interesting; enthralling.
- engagingly adverb: In an engaging manner.
- engagingness noun: The state or quality of being engaging.
- engagor noun: Alternative form of engager.
- engaol verb: To imprison in a gaol.
- engarland verb: To encircle with a garland or garlands, or as if with garlands.
- engarment verb: To clothe.
- engarrison verb: To garrison; to put in garrison, or to protect by a garrison.
- engastration noun: The stuffing of the remains of one animal into another animal.
- engastrimyth noun: A ventriloquist.
- engastrimythic adjective: ventriloquistic
- engaud verb: To make gaudy; to adorn or decorate.
- engawa noun: A veranda or terrace surrounding a house.
- Engberg proper noun: A surname from Swedish.
- Engdahl proper noun: A surname from Swedish.
- Enge proper noun: A surname.
- Engebretson proper noun: A surname.
- Engel proper noun: A surname from German.
- Engel curve noun: A theoretical economic curve that describes how household expenditure on a particular good or service varies with household income.
- engelang noun /ˈɛnd͡ʒˌlæŋ/: A language designed to test or prove hypotheses about language; an engineered language.
- engelanger noun: Someone who creates engineered languages (engelangs).
- Engelberg proper noun: A village and municipality in an exclave of Obwalden canton, Switzerland.
- Engelbert proper noun: A surname.
- engeletin noun: A phenolic compound found in wine and isolated from the bark of Hymenaea martiana.
- Engelhard proper noun: A surname.
- Engelhardt proper noun: A surname.
- Engelhart proper noun: A surname.
- Engelian adjective: Relating to Ernst Engel (1821–1896), German statistician and economist.
- Engelke proper noun: A surname.
- Engelman proper noun: A surname.
- Engelmann proper noun: A surname.
- Engelmann oak noun: Quercus engelmannii, a white oak native to southern California and northwestern Baja California, Mexico.
- Engelmann's daisy noun: Any member of the species Engelmannia peristenia, of the south central US, sole species of the genus Engelmannia.
- Engelmann spruce noun: Picea engelmannii, a spruce native to western North America.
- Engelmann syndrome noun: Synonym of Camurati-Engelmann disease.
- Engels proper noun /ˈɛŋɡəlz/: A surname from German.
- Engels' pause noun: The early phase of the Industrial Revolution, from 1790 to 1840, when British working-class wages stagnated while the per-capita gross domestic product...
- Engelsian adjective: Of or relating to Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), German social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory alongside...
- Engelsist adjective, noun: Related to the philosophy of Friedrich Engels
- Engelstad proper noun: A surname from Norwegian.
- Engen proper noun: A surname.
- engender verb /ɪnˈdʒɛn.də/: To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).
- engenderable adjective: Able to be engendered.
- engendered adjective, verb: Having a strong association with gender; gendered.
- engendered reliance noun: A situation in which an institution has encouraged its customers to become reliant on their services, and is therefore legally obligated to continue to...
- engenderer noun /ɛnˈdʒɛndəɹə/: One who, or that which, engenders something or someone.
- engendering noun, verb: The act by which something is engendered.
- engenderment noun: The process of engendering, or giving rise to, something.
- engenho noun: A sugar mill in colonial Brazil.
- Engert proper noun: A surname from German.
- Engganese adjective: Of or relating to Enggano Island.
- Engh proper noun: A surname from Norwegian.
- enghost verb: To make ghostly.
- engie noun: An engineer.
- engift verb: To give a gift to.
- engifted adjective, noun, verb: Having been given a gift.
- engild verb /ɪŋˈɡɪld/: To gild; to make splendid.
- engilt adjective, verb: Gilded; made golden.
- engin. noun: Abbreviation of engineering.
- engine noun, verb /ˈɛnd͡ʒɪn/: A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc.
- engine bay noun: The section in a vehicle where the engine is situated.
- engine block noun: The metal structure (traditionally and usually a casting) that contains the cylinders of a piston engine.
- engine braking noun: The act of slowing down a motor vehicle using the retarding forces of the engine rather than the normal braking mechanism.
- engine cleaner noun: An employee who cleans railway locomotives, especially steam locomotives in the days of steam.
- engine compartment noun: Synonym of engine bay.
- engine diaper noun: A container or pad that collects oil leakage from an engine.
- engine displacement noun: The total volume of air/fuel mixture an engine can draw in during one complete engine cycle.
- engine driver noun /ˈɛndʒɪn ˌdɹaɪvə(ɹ)/: The person who drives the engine of a train.
- engine generator noun: A standalone machine that combines an electrical generator with an engine.
- engine hour noun: An hour of operation of an engine.
- engine house noun: A building for housing a fire engine, a firehouse or fire station.
- engine knock noun: a rattling, pinging, or tapping sound caused by improper combustion, where the air-fuel mixture ignites spontaneously in the cylinders before the spark plug...
- engine lathe noun: A turning lathe in which the cutting tool has an automatic feed; used chiefly for turning and boring metals, cutting screws, etc.
- engine mount noun: Part of a motor vehicle that connects the engine to the vehicle frame.
- engine move noun: An accurate move that is very atypical or difficult for a human to spot, e.g. because its implications are not immediately clear
- engine oil noun: Synonym of motor oil.
- engine order telegraph noun: A device used by the pilot in the bridge to communicate the desired speed of the engines to the people manning the engine room.
- engine-rich adjective: Pertaining to a condition where a rocket engine is being consumed and expelled as part of the rocket exhaust, where it is not a part of normal operations.
- engine room noun: A compartment on a ship in which the engine machinery is located.
- engine shed noun: A building for housing railway locomotives.
- engine trouble noun: problems occurring with an engine or motor, especially with that of a motor car
- engine turning noun: An ornamental design made by a rose engine, for example on the back of a watch.
- engined adjective, verb: Having a specified number or configuration of engines, or having a certain type of engine.
- engineer noun, verb /ˌɛn(d)ʒɪˈnɪə/: A soldier engaged in designing or constructing military works for attack or defence, or other engineering works.
- engineer boot noun: A traditional American laceless leather workboot.
- engineer's blue noun: A blue paste made from Prussian blue and some oily substance, used to verify the mating of components by rubbing a coated workpiece against the target...
- engineer's chain noun: A type of roller chain measuring one hundred feet and consisting of one hundred links.
- engineer's disease noun: A bias of technical professionals who think that their expertise allows them to solve problems in unrelated fields.
- engineer's scale noun: A type of ruler used to sketch engineering drawings to scale.
- engineerability noun: The quality or degree of being engineerable.
- engineerable adjective: That can be (readily) engineered
- engineered adjective, verb: Produced by engineering; designed and manufactured according to an engineering methodology.
- engineered spaceship noun: Any spaceship, often a large one, made of discrete parts that is designed through human effort, often through the aid of computer programs, as opposed to...
- engineeress noun: A female engineer.
- engineering noun, verb /ˌɛn(d)ʒɪˈnɪə.ɹɪŋ/: The application of mathematics and the physical sciences to the needs of humanity and the development of technology.
- engineering boot noun: Synonym of engineer boot.
- engineering sample noun: A non-final version of an integrated circuit meant for product development, validation, or demonstration purposes.
- engineering strain noun: A dimensionless measure of object deformation; the ratio of the object's deformed length to its initial length, along some axis.
- engineering stress noun: In a tensile test, the ratio of the applied force to the initial cross-sectional area of the tensile specimen (ignoring the gradual decrease in area...
- engineering works noun: A factory where engineering (including design and manufacture) is carried out.
- engineeringly adverb: In terms of engineering.
- engineerish adjective: Characteristic of an engineer.
- engineerization noun: The conversion of a chemical or biochemical process to pilot scale and finally to production scale
- engineership noun: The role or status of an engineer.
- enginehouse noun: Alternative form of engine house.
- engineless adjective: Without an engine.
- enginelike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of an engine.
- engineman noun: A man who operates, manages, and maintains an engine.
- enginemanship noun: The skill required in being an engineman.
- enginer noun: A contriver, an inventor.
- enginerd noun: A nerdy engineer or engineering student.
- engineroom noun: Alternative form of engine room.
- enginery noun /ˈɛnd͡ʒɪnɹi/: Machinery made up of engines; instruments of war.
- enginewright noun: A person who builds engines.
- enginous adjective /ˈɛnd͡ʒɪnəs/: Pertaining to an engine.
- engird verb: To gird around; to ingirt.
- engirdle verb: To encircle as if with a girdle.
- engirdlement noun: The act of surrounding, enclosing, or encircling something; the act of engirdling.
- engirt adjective, verb: To girt; to surround or encircle.
- engirth verb: To surround; to engirt.
- engiscope noun: A kind of reflecting microscope, invented around 1830.
- engkala noun: The flowering tree Litsea garciae.
- Engl proper noun: A surname.
- englacial adjective: Occurring or located within a glacier
- engladden verb /ɛnˈɡlædə̆n/: To gladden, to render glad.
- englamour verb: To enchant; to bewitch.
- England proper noun /ˈɪŋ.ɡlənd/: The largest and most populous constituent country of the United Kingdom; established in southern Britain by Aethelstan of Wessex in 927.
- Englander noun: A person from England or of English descent.
- Englebert proper noun: A surname.
- Englefield proper noun: A village and civil parish in West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU6272).
- Englehardt proper noun: A surname from German.
- Englehart proper noun: A surname.
- Engleman proper noun: A surname.
- Engler proper noun: A surname.
- Englert proper noun: A surname from German.
- Englewood proper noun: An unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California.
- Englified adjective, verb: Made English; converted to the norms or habits of England.
- Englify verb: To make English; to anglicise.
- english adjective, noun, verb /ˈɪŋ.(ɡ)lɪʃ/: Of or pertaining to England.
- English acre noun: Synonym of statute acre
- English and Welsh adjective: Of or pertaining to England and Wales (the jurisdiction covering England and Wales, which share a legal system).
- English as afternoon tea adjective: Synonym of English as apple pie (“quintessentially English”).
- English as apple pie adjective: Having characteristics considered quintessential to English or British life.
- English basement noun: An apartment on the lowest floor of a building.
- English bean noun: Synonym of broad bean
- English billiards noun: A hybrid form of carom and pocket billiards played on a billiard table, for two players or teams.
- English Bluebell noun: The form of bluebell, Hyacinthoides non-scripta, native to the British Isles, where it flowers in spring giving broad carpets of blue in many woods.
- English bond noun: In bricklaying, an arrangement of bricks such that one course has the short sides of the bricks (headers) facing outwards, and the next course has the long...
- English breakfast noun: Synonym of full English breakfast.
- English Breakfast tea noun: A traditional type of black tea originating in India and Kenya.
- English broom noun: Cytisus scoparius.
- English bulldog noun: A stout, wrinkled companion breed of dog.
- English bunt noun: An aerobatic maneuver consisting of a half of an outside loop starting from upright, and then straight and erect level flight.
- English cadence noun /ˌɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃ ˈkeɪdn̩(t)s/: A perfect cadence characteristic of English Renaissance music, involving a flattened seventh note played against the dominant chord (containing a regular...
- English camomile noun: Alternative form of English chamomile.
- English Canadian adjective, noun: Of or relating to Anglophone Canadians, of English Canada.
- English Carrier noun: Columba livia domestica, an old breed of fancy pigeon.
- English chamomile noun: Chamaemelum nobile, one of the two species of plants most commonly known as camomile.
- English chant noun: Synonym of Anglican chant.
- English cholera noun: Any of various stomach ailments accompanied by diarrhea.
- English cocker spaniel noun: A gun dog of a breed, for the sport of cocking, or bird hunting.
- English covenants noun: In the law of real property, a set of six traditional covenants of title made by the seller of a parcel of land to the buyer of that parcel.
- English cream noun: A variety of Golden Retriever with pale white fur.
- English-cut adjective: Of short ribs: prepared by cutting between the ribs to separate them, rather than across the bone.
- English daisy noun: A flowering plant, Bellis perennis, or a flower of the plant.
- English elm noun: Synonym of field elm (Ulmus minor)
- English English noun: A dialect of the English language that is spoken mostly in England.
- English fever noun: Preoccupation or obsession with learning or promoting the learning of the English language.
- English flute noun: A recorder.
- English Foxhound noun: A breed of dog from England bred for hunting foxes by scent.
- English garden noun: A style of landscape architecture originating in England.
- English green noun: Synonym of Brunswick green (“any of a range of dark greens”).
- English Gypsy noun: A member of the Romani people, specifically Romanichal.
- English holly noun: European holly, common holly (Ilex aquifolium), a tree or shrub of western Europe and suitable environments in areas surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.
- English horn noun: A woodwind instrument similar to an oboe, but larger and pitched a fifth lower.
- English hornist noun: Someone who plays the English horn (cor anglais).
- English ivy noun: common ivy (Hedera helix).
- English knot noun: A loop knot made in the bight, favored by fishermen as quick and secure.
- English landscape garden noun: Synonym of English garden.
- English landscape park noun: Synonym of English garden.
- English lavender noun: Common lavender (Lavandula angustifolia).
- English law noun: The common law legal system of England and Wales, supplemented in Wales by Welsh law.
- English-lexifier adjective: Having a word-stock primarily supplied by the English language.
- English-medium adjective: Of education, conducted in the English language.
- English mercury noun: Good King Henry (Blitum bonus-henricus)
- English muffin noun: A flat, round, yeast-leavened form of bread.
- English oak noun: A tree of the species Quercus robur, native to most of Europe, and to Anatolia to the Caucasus, and also to parts of North Africa.
- English Opening noun: A chess opening in which white begins by playing 1.c4, moving his queen bishop's pawn to the fourth rank.
- English or Spanish noun, phrase: A game or prank in which the first person to move (i.e. after freezing their body) after being asked the question “English or Spanish?” is declared to be gay.
- English oregano noun: The most common type of oregano, Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare, which grows wild in England.
- English pale ale noun: An English style of pale ale that varies in color from gold to dark amber, and in strength typically from 3% to 5.5% alcohol by volume.
- English partridge noun: the grey partridge
- English pea noun: A variety of pea that grows on vines.
- English plantain noun: A fleawort, a common weed, of species Plantago lanceolata.
- English pleasure noun: Any of a number of different English riding classes seen at horse shows in the United States, where the horse is ridden in either hunt seat or saddle seat tack.
- English riding noun: A form of horse-riding featuring a flat English saddle without the deep seat, high cantle or saddle horn seen on a Western saddle, nor the knee pads seen on...
- English rose noun: An Englishwoman of fine and delicate beauty, akin to that of a rose.
- English round hand noun: Synonym of copperplate (“style of handwriting”)
- English runner bean noun: Synonym of runner bean (“the pods, sliced, as a vegetable”)
- English saddle noun: Any of several saddles which, unlike a Western saddle, do not have a horn, but have padded panels so do not need a separate saddle blanket.
- English Saxon noun: Synonym of Anglo-Saxon.
- English setter noun: A medium-sized breed of dog, having a silky "feathered" coat in a variety of colours, such as black and white or orange and white, originally bred as a gun dog.
- English Shepherd noun: A dog of a working breed related to the collies, originating in the United States.
- English sole noun: Parophrys vetulus, a demersal flatfish native to the eastern Pacific.
- English sonnet noun: Synonym of Shakespearean sonnet.
- English sparrow noun: A very common small bird of the species Passer domesticus.
- English Springer Spaniel noun: A breed of gun dog in the spaniel group, traditionally used for flushing and retrieving game.
- English strong ale noun: An ale brewed to over 5% ABV that uses malt barley. It is brewed in England and also in America.
- English studies noun: An academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language, English linguistics, and English sociolinguistics.
- English sweat noun: A disease that had outbreaks in 16th-century Tudor England, and latterly into Europe, that had the characteristic of uncontrollable continuous extreme...
- English thyme noun: A common species of thyme grown for its use in cooking, Thymus vulgaris, especially a cultivated type with rounder, flatter and smoother leaves.
- English toffee noun: A kind of buttery toffee, either chewy or hard, often made with almonds.
- English toy spaniel noun: Synonym of King Charles spaniel.
- English Toy Terrier noun: A small breed of terrier in the toy dog group.
- English violet noun: A flowering plant of species Viola odorata.
- English walnut noun: A walnut tree of the species Juglans regia.
- English wheel noun: A manually-operated metalworking apparatus used to form smooth, compound curves from flat sheets of metal.
- English yew noun: The tree Taxus baccata.
- Englishable adjective: Able to be translated into or expressed in English.
- englished adjective, verb: Anglicised
- Englisher noun: Synonym of Englishman: an English person.
- Englishhood noun: The quality or characteristic of being English.
- Englishification noun: The process of making something English.
- Englishified adjective: Made English; converted to the norms or habits of England.
- Englishify verb: To make English.
- Englishise verb: Alternative spelling of Englishize.
- Englishish adjective: Characteristic of English people or their language or culture.
- Englishism noun: An expression or characteristic peculiar to the English language.
- englishite noun: A monoclinic-sphenoidal mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, and sodium.
- Englishization noun: making use of the English language as a lingua franca and converting material in the local language into English in an international corporation or other...
- Englishize verb: To make or become more English
- Englishly adverb: In an English way.
- Englishman noun /ˈɪŋ.lɪʃ.mən/: A native or inhabitant of England; a man who is English by ancestry, birth, descent, or naturalisation.
- Englishman's knot noun: A loop knot made in the bight, favoured by fishermen as quick and secure.
- Englishmanly adjective: Befitting an Englishman.
Part 38 · Part 40 · English words: E
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under E: 25,290 words, in 85 parts.