English words: epidurography to epinodosinol
300 English words, part 48 of 85 of the words starting with E, A to Z. 15 have a page of their own.
English words epidurography to epinodosinol
- epidurography noun: Radiography of the epidural space after injection of a radiopaque medium.
- epiduroscopy noun: epidural endoscopy
- epidydimal adjective: Related to, or situated in the epididymis
- epieikeia noun: Alternative form of epikeia.
- epiestriol noun: A steroidal estrogen.
- epiethane noun: Ethane in a bridge position in a molecule.
- epietiocholanolone noun: A steroid that is formed in the liver by the metabolism of testosterone
- epieugeosynclinal adjective: Being or pertaining to an epieugeosyncline (backdeep).
- epieugeosyncline noun: A backdeep.
- epifacial adjective: Above a facia
- epifamily noun: A rank between family and superfamily.
- epifascial adjective: On the surface of a fascia (especially the fascia lata)
- epifascicular adjective: Surrounding a fascicle
- epifauna noun: The benthic fauna, i.e. the collection of sea animals living on the seafloor.
- epifaunal adjective: Of or pertaining to epifauna.
- epifilm noun: An epitaxial film
- epiflora noun: epiphytic flora
- epifloral adjective: Of or pertaining to epiflora.
- epifluorescence noun: Fluorescence produced by reflected rather than transmitted light.
- epifluorescence microscope noun: An optical microscope designed to study properties of organic or inorganic substances using the phenomena of fluorescence and phosphorescence instead of...
- epifluorescence microscopy noun: The use of an epifluorescence microscope to study properties of organic or inorganic substances using the phenomena of fluorescence and phosphorescence...
- epifluorescent adjective: Of, pertaining to, or employing epifluorescence
- epifluorohydrin noun: Any epihalohydrin in which the halogen is fluorine.
- epifocal adjective: epicentral
- epigaeal adjective: Alternative form of epigeal.
- epigaean adjective: Alternative form of epigean.
- epigaeic adjective: Alternative form of epigeic.
- epigaeous adjective: Dated form of epigeous.
- epigallocatechin noun: gallocatechol
- epigallocatechingallate noun: A hydrophilic bioactive organic compound in green tea.
- epigamic adjective: Attractive to the opposite sex
- epigamous adjective: Relating to epigamy
- epigamy noun: A form of reproduction in marine worms in which the entire body undergoes a drastic transformation, becoming a specialized epitoke to swim to the surface,...
- epigaster noun: The hindgut; the primitive large intestine.
- epigastral adjective: Alternative form of epigastric.
- epigastralgia noun: A pain in the epigastric region.
- epigastralgy noun: Dated form of epigastralgia.
- epigastrial adjective: rare spelling of epigastric
- epigastric adjective: Of or relating to the epigastrium.
- epigastrical adjective: Alternative form of epigastric.
- epigastrium noun: The upper middle region of the abdomen, between the umbilical and hypochondriac regions.
- epigeal adjective: Living near the surface of the ground
- epigean adjective, noun: That lives on or near the surface of the land.
- epigee noun: perigee
- epigeic adjective: Living on the surface of the land.
- epigene adjective: Foreign; unusual; not natural to the substance in which it was found.
- epigenesis noun: The theory that an organism develops by differentiation from an unstructured egg rather than by simple enlarging of something preformed.
- epigenesist noun: Someone who believes in, or advocates the theory of, epigenesis.
- epigenetic adjective /ˌɛpɪd͡ʒəˈnɛtɪk/: Of or relating to epigenesis.
- epigenetic clock noun: A type of a molecular age estimation method based on DNA methylation levels.
- epigenetical adjective: Alternative form of epigenetic.
- epigenetically adverb: By means of, or in terms of, epigenesis or epigenetics.
- epigeneticist noun: A proponent of the biological theory of epigenesis.
- epigeneticity noun: The quality of being epigenetic.
- epigenetics noun /ˌɛpɪd͡ʒəˈnɛtɪks/: The study of the processes involved in the genetic development of an organism, especially the activation and deactivation of genes.
- epigenic adjective: Relating to epigenesis; epigenetic.
- epigenics noun: The way in which something develops as a result of its environment.
- epigenist noun: A proponent of epigenesis.
- epigenome noun /ˌɛpɪˈd͡ʒiːnoʊm/: The total epigenetic state of a cell.
- epigenomic adjective: Describing a representation of the gene expression, DNA methylation and histone modification status of a particular genomic region.
- epigenomically adverb: In an epigenomic manner
- epigenomics noun: The study of the effects of chromatin structure on the function of the included genes.
- epigenotoxic adjective: Capable of causing damage to the way by DNA sequences are activated or deactivated, leading to cancer.
- epigenotoxicity noun: The condition of being epigenotoxic
- epigenotype noun, verb: The stable pattern of gene expression that is outside the actual base pair sequence of DNA.
- epigenotypic adjective: Relating to epigenotypes
- epigenotyping noun, verb: The determination of an epigenotype.
- epigenous adjective: Growing on the surface of a leaf
- epigenously adverb: In an epigenous manner.
- epigeogenous adjective: That has an overground origin
- epigeous adjective: Growing on, or close to, the ground.
- epigeum noun: perigee
- epiglottal adjective, noun /ɛpɪˈɡlɒtəl/: Pertaining to the epiglottis.
- epiglottic adjective /ˌɛp.ɪˈɡlɒt.ɪk/: Pertaining to, or connected with, the epiglottis.
- epiglottidean adjective: epiglottic; relating to the epiglottis
- epiglottidectomy noun: excision of (part of) the epiglottis
- epiglottiditis noun: Synonym of epiglottitis.
- epiglottis noun /ˌɛp.ɪˈɡlɒt.ɪs/: A cartilaginous organ in the throat of terrestrial vertebrates covering the glottis when swallowing to prevent food and liquid from entering the trachea,...
- epiglottitis noun: Inflammation of the epiglottis.
- epiglottopharyngeal adjective: Being or involving a type of pharyngeal articulation in which the aryepiglottic folds and epiglottis are brought together and retracted against the...
- epiglycanin noun: A mucin-type glycoprotein on the surface of a carcinoma cell
- epignathous adjective: hook-billed; having the upper mandible longer than the lower one
- epignathus noun: A rare teratoma of the mouth
- epignosis noun: clear and precise knowledge
- epignostic adjective: Relating to epignosis.
- epigon noun: Alternative form of epigone.
- epigonadal adjective: Above the gonads
- epigonal adjective: Relating to, or characteristic of, a prehistoric culture of coastal Peru and Chile.
- epigonality noun: Creative followership; imitation.
- epigonation noun: A stiff, lozenge-shaped cloth hanging at the right thigh worn as a vestment by bishops and some priests in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
- epigone noun /ˈɛpəɡəʊn/: A follower or disciple.
- epigonic adjective: Being or relating to an epigone or disciple; imitative.
- epigonid noun: Any member of the family Epigonidae: the deepwater cardinalfishes.
- epigonion noun: An ancient stringed instrument, apparently a harp or psaltery.
- epigonism noun: An artistic or literary imitation of an artist by a later generation; stereotyped repetition.
- epigonous adjective: Following and modelling after another thing.
- epigonus noun: Alternative form of epigone.
- epigram noun /ˈɛpɪɡɹæm/: An inscription in stone.
- epigrammatic adjective: having the characteristics of an epigram
- epigrammatical adjective: Pertaining to, or in the form of, an epigram; concise and witty or pointed.
- epigrammatically adverb: In a manner suggestive of an epigram.
- epigrammatise verb: Alternative form of epigrammatize.
- epigrammatiser noun: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of epigrammatizer.
- epigrammatism noun: The use of epigrams; epigrammatical character.
- epigrammatist noun: Someone who writes an epigram (any meanings)
- epigrammatize verb: To represent or express by epigrams.
- epigrammatizer noun: A writer of epigrams.
- epigramme noun: Alternative form of epigram.
- epigrammist noun: An epigrammatist.
- epigraph noun, verb /ˈɛpɪˌɡɹæf/: An inscription, especially on a building.
- epigrapher noun: epigraphist
- epigraphic adjective /ɛpɪɡˈɹafɪk/: Of or pertaining to an epigraph or to epigraphy.
- epigraphical adjective: epigraphic
- epigraphically adverb: In terms of epigraphs.
- epigraphics noun: The science or study of epigraphs.
- epigraphist noun: A person who studies epigraphy (inscriptions).
- epigraphology noun: The study of epigraphs.
- epigraphy noun /ɪˈpɪɡ.ɹə.fi/: Inscriptions collectively.
- epigrowth noun: epitaxial growth
- epiguanine noun: The modified purine nucleobase 7-methylguanine, a methylated version of guanine.
- epigyne noun /ˈɛpɪd͡ʒaɪn/: The external female sex organ in arachnids.
- epigynous adjective: Having an inferior ovary that is completely buried within the receptacle.
- epigynously adverb: In an epigynous manner.
- epigynum noun: Synonym of epigyne.
- epigyny noun: The state of being epigynous.
- epihalohydrin noun: any compound having a halogen on the carbon atom adjacent to an epoxide
- epiheveadride noun: Any of a class of organic compounds found in Aspergillus species.
- epihyal adjective, noun: Related to the segment located above the ceratohyal of the hyoid arch.
- epihyoid adjective: Above the hyoid bone
- epihyoideum noun: An elastic ligament lying near the lateral pharyngeal muscles of members of the panther family
- epiiodohydrin noun: any epihalohydrin in which the halogen is iodine
- epijugal adjective, noun: Above the jugal bone
- epikarst noun: The upper part of a karst system, in which water is stored before it percolates to underlying aquifers
- epikarstic adjective: Relating to an epikarst.
- epikeia noun: The principle in ethics that a law can be broken to achieve a greater good.
- epikeratome noun: A form of microkeratome
- epikeratophakia noun: The surgical correction of aphakia. It is a refractive surgical procedure in which a donor cornea is transplanted to the anterior surface of the patient's...
- epikeratoplasty noun: A form of keratoplasty in which the lenticule is sutured onto the cornea after removal of the epithelium
- epikeratoprosthesis noun: A type of contact lens used to replace the epithelium of the cornea
- epiklesis noun: Alternative form of epiclesis.
- epikletic adjective: Alternative form of epicletic.
- epikoros noun: Alternative form of apikoros.
- epilachnene noun: A defensive alkaloid, (5Z)-11-propyl-12-azacyclotetradec-5-en-14-olide, the principal component of the secretion of the pupal defensive hairs of the Mexican...
- epilachnine adjective: Relating to the ladybirds of the subfamily Epilachninae.
- epilamellar adjective: Above or upon a basement membrane.
- epilancin noun: An antimicrobial peptide lantibiotic produced by Staphylococcus epidermidis.
- epilanguage noun: A second language used regularly for some purpose or purposes (such as for scholarship and scientific research).
- epilaryngeal adjective: Relating to the epilarynx; situated above the larynx
- epilarynx noun: The part of the larynx next to the arytenoid muscles
- epilate verb: To remove hair from the skin in such a way that removes or destroys the root, especially by plucking it out.
- epilation noun /ɛpɪˈleɪʃən/: The removal of hair from the skin in such a way that removes or destroys the root.
- epilator noun: An electrically-powered device used for hair removal by mechanically grasping multiple hairs simultaneously and pulling them out.
- epilatory adjective: Synonym of depilatory.
- epilayer noun: The contact layer between a pair of epitaxial crystals.
- epilemma noun: Synonym of endoneurium.
- epilemmal adjective: Relating to the epilemma.
- epilepsy noun /ˈɛpɪlɛpsi/: A medical condition in which the sufferer experiences seizures (or convulsions) and blackouts.
- epileptic adjective, noun /ˌɛpɪˈlɛptɪk/: Of or relating to epilepsy.
- epileptical adjective: Alternative spelling of epileptic.
- epileptically adverb: In an epileptic manner; with, or as if with, epilepsy.
- epileptiform adjective: Of or pertaining to epilepsy, or resembling epilepsy, particularly in regard to its associated seizures.
- epileptigenic adjective: Alternative form of epileptogenic.
- epileptogenesis noun: The process by which the brain develops epilepsy.
- epileptogenic adjective: Of, pertaining to or giving rise to epilepsy.
- epileptogenicity noun: The quality or state of being epileptogenic
- epileptogenous adjective: epileptogenic
- epileptographic adjective: Relating to the imaging of epileptic seizures (typically by MRI)
- epileptoid adjective, noun /ɛpɪˈlɛptɔɪd/: Resembling epilepsy.
- epileptological adjective: Relating to epileptology.
- epileptologically adverb: In terms of epileptology.
- epileptologist noun: A neurologist who specializes in the treatment of epilepsy.
- epileptology noun: The branch of neurology concerned with epilepsy
- epileptor noun: That part of the brain's systems that initiates an epileptic seizure.
- epilesional adjective: On a lesion
- epiligrin noun: laminin 5, the major human keratinocyte integrin ligand
- epilimnetic adjective: Relating to an epilimnion
- epilimnic adjective: Alternative form of epilimnetic.
- epilimnion noun: The surface layer of a liquid body, used in reference to a reservoir or body of water
- epilinguistic adjective: Relating to epilanguage.
- epilith noun: A plant, fungus, or other organism that grows upon rock.
- epilithic adjective: Of, pertaining to, or being an epilith.
- epilithically adverb: In an epilithic manner
- epilitsenolide noun: A butanolide present in plants of the genus Alseodaphne
- epilittoral adjective: Above a littoral zone
- epilobium noun: Any plant of the genus Epilobium.
- epilobous adjective: Having overlapping lobes
- epilocus noun: An epicentral locus
- epilog noun: Uncommon spelling of epilogue.
- epilogation noun: A brief concluding summary.
- epilogic adjective: Of or relating to an epilogue; epilogical.
- epilogical adjective: Of or relating to an epilogue.
- epilogise verb: Alternative form of epilogize.
- epilogism noun: enumeration; computation
- epilogist noun: The writer of an epilogue.
- epilogistic adjective: Of or pertaining to epilogue; of the nature of an epilogue.
- epilogize verb: To speak an epilogue to, or to utter as an epilogue.
- epilogomenon noun: A supplementary or concluding addendum.
- epilogue noun, verb /ˈɛp.ɪ.lɒɡ/: A short speech, spoken directly at the audience at the end of a play
- epiloguise verb: Alternative form of epiloguize
- epiloguize verb: Alternative form of epilogize.
- epiloia noun: Synonym of tuberous sclerosis.
- epiluminescence noun: A technique that allows visualisation of structures beneath the skin
- epiluminescent adjective: Exhibiting, or relating to, epiluminescence.
- epimacular adjective: Surrounding, or on the edge of the macula
- epimacus noun: Synonym of opinicus.
- epimanikion noun: A cuff worn over the sticharion by clergy in the Greek Orthodox Church, corresponding to a maniple in other Catholic churches.
- epimarginal adjective: Situated above a margin or edge
- epimastigote noun: A stage in unicellular life-cycle, typically trypanosomes, where the flagellum is anterior of the nucleus, and attached the cell body by a short membrane.
- epimatium noun: A scale enclosing the seeds of some Podocarpaceae.
- epimedin noun: Any of a group of prenylflavonoids found in Epimedium wushanense.
- epimedium noun: Any of the plants in the genus Epimedium.
- epimeletic adjective: Relating to altruistic behaviour towards an injured animal
- Epimenidean adjective: Of or relating to Epimenides of Cnossos, a semi-mythical 7th or 6th century BC Greek seer and philosopher-poet.
- Epimenides proper noun: Epimenides of Knossos.
- Epimenides paradox noun: A form of self-referential logical paradox associated with statements of the form "All Cretans are liars" (spoken by Epimenedes, himself a Cretan, who must...
- epimenorrhagia noun: prolonged, excessive menstruation
- epimenorrhea noun: Abnormally frequent menstruation
- epimenorrhoea noun: Alternative form of epimenorrhea.
- epimer noun /ˈɛpɪmə(ɹ)/: Any diastereoisomer that has the opposite configuration at only one of the stereogenic centres.
- epimeral adjective: Pertaining to the epimeron.
- epimerase noun: Any enzyme that catalyzes the stereochemical inversion of the configuration about an asymmetric carbon atom in a substrate having more than one center of...
- epimere noun: One of the segments of the transverse axis, or the so-called homonymous parts; as, for example, one of the several segments of the extremities in vertebrates
- epimeric adjective: Of or pertaining to an epimer
- epimeriid noun: Any amphipod in the family Epimeriidae.
- epimerisation noun: Alternative form of epimerization.
- epimerise verb: Alternative form of epimerize.
- epimeristic adjective: Pertaining to Greek parts of speech.
- epimerite noun: The attaching organ of a cephalont.
- epimerizable adjective: capable of being converted into an epimer
- epimerization noun: The process of forming an epimer by changing one asymmetric centre in a compound that has more than one
- epimerize verb: To convert, or be converted, into an epimer
- epimerized adjective: Converted into an epimer
- epimeron noun: In crustaceans, the part of the side of a somite external to the basal joint of each appendage.
- epimestrol noun: A synthetic steroidal estrogen used as an ovulation stimulant.
- epimetabolite noun: An enzymatically-modified metabolite, especially one that has biochemical activity
- epimetamorphic adjective: Above a metamorphic stratum
- epimetaphyseal adjective: Relating to an epimetaphysis.
- Epimethean adjective: Of or relating to Epimetheus in Greek mythology.
- Epimetheus proper noun /ɛpɪˈmiːθiəs/: Son of Iapetus and Clymene, brother to Atlas, Menoetius and Prometheus, of whom he ignored warnings to beware of any gifts from Zeus. He accepted Pandora as...
- epimicrobiota noun: epibiotic microbiota
- epimmunome noun: All the compounds used by epithelial cells to instruct immune cells
- epimone noun: Persistent repetition of the same plea in much the same words.
- epimoric adjective /ɛpɪˈmɒɹɪk/: superparticular
- epimorion noun: The ratio equal to an integer divided by one more or less than that integer (e.g. 4/5 or 5/4)
- epimorphic adjective: That becomes segmented prior to hatching.
- epimorphicity noun: The condition of being epimorphic
- epimorphin noun: A mesenchymal protein essential for epithelial morphogenesis
- epimorphism noun /ˌɛpɪˈmɔːfɪzəm/: A morphism p such that for any other pair of morphisms f and g, if f∘p=g∘p, then f = g.
- epimorphosis noun: The regeneration of tissues or organs through the dedifferentiation of existing, differentiated adult tissues.
- epimorphotic adjective: Relating to epimorphosis.
- epimural adjective: On the wall of an organ, typically of the epithelium
- epimuscular adjective: Relating to the transmission of force without the use of muscles
- epimutable adjective: Able to undergo epimutation
- epimutagen noun: Any material that causes epimutagenesis
- epimutagenesis noun: The creation of epimutations
- epimutagenic adjective: Relating to epimutagens or to epimutagenesis
- epimutant noun: Any organism formed by epimutation
- epimutated adjective: That has undergone epimutation
- epimutation noun [ɛpɪmjuˈteɪʃən]: A heritable change in gene expression that does not affect the actual base pair sequence of DNA.
- epimutational adjective: Relating to epimutations
- epimyoepithelial adjective: epithelial and myoepithelial
- epimysial adjective: Relating to the epimysium.
- epimysiotomy noun: incision of a muscle within its sheath
- epimysium noun: a layer of connective tissue which surrounds individual muscles
- epimyth noun /ˈɛpɪmɪθ/: The moral of a story.
- epimythium noun: A moral appended to the end of a story; an aftertale.
- epinaos noun: An open vestibule behind the nave, differentiated from the opisthodomos.
- epinasal adjective: Above the nose
- epinastic adjective: Of or relating to epinasty.
- epinastically adverb: In an epinastic manner.
- epinastine noun /ˌɛpɪˈnæstɪn/: A particular antihistamine drug used in eye drops to treat allergic conjunctivitis.
- epinastism noun: Synonym of epinasty.
- epinasty noun: The downward curvature of leaves etc. due to differential growth rates.
- epinatrolite noun: Synonym of natrolite.
- epinatrolith noun: Alternative form of epinatrolite.
- epinecral adjective: Above a necral layer
- epinemin noun: A protein associated with vimentin filaments.
- epinephelid noun: Any fish in the family Epinephelidae, now considered to be the serranid subfamily Epinephelinae; a grouper or sea bass.
- epinephelin noun: Any grouper of the subfamily Epinephelinae.
- epinepheline adjective: Of or relating to the subfamily Epinephelinae of the family Serranidae, including the groupers.
- epinephric adjective: Relating to epinephrine and similar hormones
- epinephrin noun: Alternative form of epinephrine.
- epinephrine noun /ˌɛp.ɪˈnɛ.fɹɪn/: A catecholamine hormone and neurotransmitter; as a hormone, secreted by the adrenal gland in response to stress (when it stimulates the autonomic nervous...
- epinephritis noun: inflammation of an adrenal gland
- epinetron noun: A piece of Attic pottery worn on a woman's thigh during the preparation of wool, akin to a thimble, and used as a decorative symbol for goddesses and...
- epineural adjective, noun: Related to or situated upon a nerve or nerve structure, especially on the epineurium.
- epineurally adverb: In an epineural manner
- epineurectomy noun: Surgical removal or excision of the epineurium.
- epineurial adjective: Of, or related to epineurium.
- epineurially adverb: In an epineurial manner; involving the epineurium.
- epineurium noun: The connective tissue framework and sheath of a nerve which bind together the nerve bundles, each of which has its own special sheath, or perineurium; The...
- epineurotomy noun: An incision into the epineurium
- epineuston noun: All the organisms that float on top of the water
- epinglette noun: An iron needle or pin for piercing the cartridge of a cannon before priming.
- epinician adjective, noun: Of, related to, or resembling a certain type of Greek ode in honor of a victorious athlete
- epinicion noun: A song or ode in celebration of triumph or victory.
- epinikian adjective, noun: Relating to victory.
- epinikion noun: Alternative form of epinicion.
- epinine noun: deoxyepinephrine
- epinodosinol noun: A diterpenoid found in Isodon japonicus.
Part 47 · Part 49 · 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.