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English words: Ernstian to eryngo

300 English words, part 55 of 85 of the words starting with E, A to Z. 37 have a page of their own.

English words Ernstian to eryngo

  1. Ernstian adjective: Of or relating to Max Ernst (1891–1976), German artist and pioneer of Dada and surrealism.
  2. ernstite noun: A monoclinic yellow brown mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, and phosphorus.
  3. Erny proper noun: A surname from French.
  4. ERO noun: Abbreviation of easily recoverable object.
  5. ero-guro noun: A Japanese literary and artistic movement of the 1920s and 1930s, focusing on eroticism, sexual corruption and decadence.
  6. ero kawaii noun: An aesthetic of sexy and cute motifs.
  7. erodable adjective: Alternative form of erodible.
  8. erode verb /ɪˈɹəʊd/: To wear away by abrasion, corrosion, or chemical reaction.
  9. eroded adjective, verb: worn down or worn away.
  10. erodent noun: Something that erodes.
  11. eroder noun: Someone who, or that which, erodes.
  12. erodibility noun: The quality or degree of being erodible.
  13. erodible adjective: Capable of eroding.
  14. erodium noun: Any of the plant genus Erodium, including filarees and storksbills.
  15. eroduction noun: Synonym of pink film.
  16. erogate verb: to lay out, deal out or give out
  17. erogation noun: The act of giving out, or bestowing.
  18. erogatory adjective: Doing the good that is required in a situation; meeting the moral obligations.
  19. eroge noun: A visual novel with erotic content.
  20. erogenic adjective: Synonym of erogenous.
  21. erogenicity noun: The quality of serving as an erogenous zone; The property of being sexually stimulating.
  22. erogenous adjective /əˈɹɒd͡ʒɪnəs/: Sensitive to sexual arousal.
  23. erogenous zone noun: A part of the human body that is particularly responsive to sexual stimulation.
  24. erogenously adverb: In an erogenous manner.
  25. erogenousness noun: The state or quality of being erogenous.
  26. EROI noun: Initialism of energy return on investment.
  27. erom noun: A blend of erotica and romance.
  28. Eromanga proper noun: A prehistoric inland sea that formed on the Australian continent during the Cretaceous period.
  29. eromba noun: A spicy Meitei traditional dish, made of ingredients such as fish and vegetables
  30. eromenos noun /ɛˈɹəʊmɛnɒs/: An adolescent boy who was loved by an older man, or was in an pedagogic relationship with him.
  31. Erondu-Cymet syndrome noun: A genetic disorder with hypotension, hypoxemia, seizures, and cognitive impairment.
  32. Eronen syndrome noun: Synonym of DOOR syndrome
  33. -eroo suffix: Added to certain nouns to form familiar diminutives, normally with jocular or light-hearted intent.
  34. -eroonie suffix: Embellished form of -eroo.
  35. eros noun /ˈɪə.ɹɒs/: A winged figure of a child representing love or its power.
  36. erose adjective: Irregularly notched, eaten away, as though bitten.
  37. erosely adverb: In an erose manner.
  38. erosibility noun: Synonym of erodibility.
  39. erosible adjective: Synonym of erodible.
  40. erosion noun /ɪˈɹəʊʒən/: The result of having been worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff face.
  41. erosional adjective: Pertaining to erosion.
  42. erosionally adverb: In an erosional manner; by means of erosion.
  43. erosionproof adjective: resistant to erosion
  44. erosive adjective: Of or pertaining to erosion.
  45. erosively adverb: Through erosion.
  46. erosiveness noun: The state or quality of being erosive.
  47. erosivity noun: A measure of the potential ability of soil, regolith, or other weathered material to be eroded by rain, wind, or surface runoff.
  48. erostrate adjective: Not rostrate; lacking a beak.
  49. erotema noun: The rhetorical use of questions, especially questions which strongly imply their own answer.
  50. erotematic adjective: Interrogatory, proceeding by means of questions.
  51. erotematic method noun: Synonym of Socratic method.
  52. eroteme noun: A question mark.
  53. erotes noun: plural of eros
  54. erotesis noun /ɛɹəˈtiːsɪs/: A figure of speech whereby a question is asked in confident expectation of a negative answer.
  55. erotetic adjective: Of or pertaining to questioning.
  56. erotetically adverb: In an erotetic manner; by means of questioning.
  57. erotic adjective, noun /ɪˈɹɒtɪk/: Relating to or tending to arouse sexual desire or excitement.
  58. erotic bakery noun: A bakery that sells cakes having sexually explicit shapes and designs.
  59. erotic capital noun: Synonym of sexual capital.
  60. erotic target location error noun: A hypothesized cause of many paraphilias in which a person's principal sexual preference (e.g. for women) becomes focused abnormally (e.g. through fetishism...
  61. erotic transference noun: The process by which erotic feelings for someone are subconsciously shifted towards another.
  62. erotica noun /ɪˈɹɒt.ɪkə/: Erotic literature, art, decoration, or other such work.
  63. erotical adjective: Erotic.
  64. erotically adverb: in an erotic manner
  65. eroticisation noun: Alternative spelling of eroticization.
  66. eroticise verb: Alternative spelling of eroticize.
  67. eroticism noun /ɪˈɹɑtəˌsɪzm̩/: the state of being erotic, or of being sexually aroused
  68. eroticist noun: One who takes part in erotic activities.
  69. eroticizable adjective: Able to be eroticized.
  70. eroticization noun: The act or process of eroticizing.
  71. eroticize verb /ɪˈɹɒtɪsaɪz/: To make erotic.
  72. eroticized adjective, verb: Having had erotic quality, character, or nuance added.
  73. eroticomania noun: Alternative form of erotomania.
  74. erotinib noun: Alternative form of erlotinib.
  75. erotise verb: to eroticise, make erotic
  76. erotism noun: eroticism
  77. erotization noun: Alternative form of eroticization.
  78. erotize verb: to eroticize, make erotic
  79. eroto- prefix: Used to form terms related to sexual desire.
  80. erotocomatose adjective: Of or relating to a ritual occult sex practice that uses repeated sexual stimulation without orgasm to place the individual in a state between sleep and...
  81. erotogenesis noun: origination in sexuality
  82. erotogenetic adjective: Alternative form of erotogenic.
  83. erotogenic adjective: That causes sexual excitement
  84. erotogenicity noun: The quality of being erotogenic, of generating sexual excitement.
  85. erotographomania noun: An abnormal interest in erotic literature.
  86. erotolalia noun: Erotic speech.
  87. erotolepsy noun: passionate sensual desire and longing, more urgently felt than erotomania
  88. erotological adjective: Relating to erotology.
  89. erotologist noun: One who studies erotology.
  90. erotology noun: The study of sexual stimuli and behaviour.
  91. erotomane noun: A person with excessive sexual desire.
  92. erotomania noun: A psychological disorder in which a person has a delusion of a romantic relationship with another person.
  93. erotomaniac noun: A person suffering from erotomania (in either sense).
  94. erotomaniacal adjective: Having the psychological condition of erotomania.
  95. erotomanic adjective, noun: Exhibiting or relating to erotomania.
  96. erotopath noun: A person who has erotopathy.
  97. erotopathia noun: erotopathy
  98. erotopathic adjective: Relating to erotopathy.
  99. erotopathy noun: An abnormality related to sexual desire
  100. erotophilia noun: An unusual interest in sex
  101. erotophilic adjective: Relating to erotophilia
  102. erotophobe noun: A person who has a fear of, or negative attitude towards, sexual activity.
  103. erotophobia noun: Fear of sex; negative attitudes towards sex
  104. erotophobic adjective: Relating to or characteristic of erotophobia or erotophobes.
  105. erotophonophile noun: A person with a paraphilia for committing lust murder.
  106. erotophonophilia noun: lust murder
  107. erotosexual adjective: Both erotic and sexual.
  108. erototoxin noun /ɪˌɹɒtəʊˈtɒksɪn/: An addictive chemical said to be released in the brain from looking at pornography.
  109. erotylid noun: Any member of the Erotylidae family of insects; a pleasing fungus beetle.
  110. ERP noun, verb: Initialism of effective radiated power or equivalent radiated power.
  111. ERPC noun: Initialism of evacuation of retained products of conception.
  112. ERPO noun: Acronym of extreme risk protection order.
  113. erpobdellid noun: Any leech of the family Erpobdellidae.
  114. erpornis noun: A bird of Southeast Asia, Erpornis zantholeuca.
  115. err interjection, noun, verb /ɜː/: To make a mistake.
  116. err on the side of verb: To behave in a manner which favours or which is biased toward.
  117. err on the side of caution verb: To act in the least risky manner in a situation in which one is uncertain about the consequences.
  118. errability noun: The quality of being errable.
  119. errable adjective /ˈɛrəbəl/: Liable to error; fallible.
  120. errableness noun: Liability to error; fallibility.
  121. errabund adjective /ˈɛɹəbʌnd/: Erratic, prone to error.
  122. errancy noun: the state of being in error; fallibility
  123. errand noun, verb /ˈɛɹənd/: A mission or quest.
  124. errand boy noun: A male employed to run errands.
  125. errand ghost noun: A spirit or spiritual messenger; an angel.
  126. errandy adjective: Pertaining to errands.
  127. errant adjective, noun /ˈɛɹ(ə)nt/: Straying from the proper course or standard, or outside established limits.
  128. errantivirus noun: Any insect virus of the genus Errantivirus.
  129. errantly adverb: In an errant manner.
  130. errantness noun: Synonym of errantry.
  131. errantry noun: A wandering or roving around, especially in search of chivalrous adventure.
  132. errata noun, verb /ɛˈɹɑːtə/: An added page in a printed work where errors which are discovered after printing and their corrections (corrigenda) are listed.
  133. erratas noun: Synonym of errata.
  134. erratic adjective, noun /ɪˈɹætɪk/: Unsteady, random; prone to unexpected changes; not consistent.
  135. erratical adjective: erratic
  136. erratically adverb /ɪˈɹæt.ɪk.li/: In an erratic manner; unsteadily or randomly, unpredictably.
  137. erraticalness noun: The quality of being erratical.
  138. erraticism noun: erratic behaviour
  139. erraticity noun: erraticness
  140. erraticness noun: The quality of being erratic.
  141. erration noun: Wandering or straying.
  142. erratum noun /ɛˈɹɑːtəm/: A published notice reporting an error belatedly discovered in a previous publication.
  143. errday adverb: Pronunciation spelling of every day.
  144. erred adjective, verb /ɜːd/: mistaken; erroneous
  145. Errett proper noun: A male given name from Old English.
  146. errhine adjective, noun /ˈɛɹ.aɪn/: Causing an increase in mucus within the nose, and hence causing one to sneeze.
  147. erring noun, verb: The act of one who errs; sin.
  148. erringly adverb: In an erring manner; with mistakes or sins.
  149. Errington proper noun: A surname.
  150. errish noun: Alternative form of earsh.
  151. errno noun: A value or variable that identifies the kind of error (or lack thereof) that has occurred during the execution of a program or subroutine.
  152. Errol proper noun /ˈɛɹəl/: A male given name transferred from the surname, popularized by American Actor Errol Flynn.
  153. Erroll proper noun: A surname.
  154. Erromangan adjective, noun: A native or inhabitant of Erromango.
  155. Erromintxela noun: A Romani ethnolinguistic group who are speakers of this language.
  156. erroneity noun: The state or quality of being erroneous; incorrectness.
  157. erroneous adjective /ɪˈɹəʊni.əs/: Containing an error; inaccurate.
  158. erroneously adverb /ɪˈɹəʊnɪəsli/: In an erroneous manner.
  159. erroneousness noun: The state of being in error; the quality of being erroneous.
  160. error noun, verb /ˈɛɹə/: The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
  161. error bar noun: A bar used on a graph to indicate the range of one standard deviation in the result of an experimental measurement.
  162. error box noun: A notional box bounding some region of space in which a celestial object is known to exist; its size depends on how accurately the true location is known.
  163. error carried forward noun: An error (especially a miscalculation) made by a student when solving one part of a multi-part question or problem, leading to inaccurate results for...
  164. error catastrophe noun: The extinction of an organism (usually microorganisms) due to excessive RNA mutations.
  165. error code noun: return code
  166. error correct verb: To debug.
  167. error diffusion noun: A form of halftoning in which the quantization residual is distributed to neighbouring pixels that have not yet been processed.
  168. error fare noun: Synonym of mistake fare.
  169. error-free adjective: Alternative form of errorfree.
  170. error function noun: A sigmoid function giving the probability that a measurement, under the influence of normally distributed errors with standard deviation, is within a...
  171. error message noun: A message displayed when a failure condition occurs, usually on a computer or device.
  172. error/mistake distinction noun: The distinction drawn by some language teachers between an "error" (a mistaken belief that a given usage or construction is correct; or, an incorrect use...
  173. error of the first kind noun: A type I error.
  174. error of the second kind noun: A type II error.
  175. error out verb: To fail with an error.
  176. error-prone adjective: In the habit of making errors.
  177. error-proneness noun: The quality of being error-prone.
  178. error theory noun: The metaethical position that all moral statements are false.
  179. error treatment noun: Pertains to how instructors handle mistakes made by learners while acquiring a second language.
  180. errorbar noun: Alternative spelling of error bar.
  181. errored adjective, verb: Containing one or more errors; faulty.
  182. errorfree adjective: Free from errors.
  183. errorful adjective: Full of error; wrong.
  184. errorfully adverb: In an errorful manner.
  185. errorist noun: Someone who encourages or propagates error.
  186. errorless adjective: Free from errors; accurate, correct.
  187. errorlessly adverb: Without errors.
  188. errorlessness noun: Freedom from error.
  189. errorous adjective: Synonym of erroneous.
  190. errorprone adjective: Alternative form of error-prone.
  191. errorproof adjective: resistant to error
  192. errorsome adjective: Characterised or marked by error(s).
  193. ERRV noun: Initialism of emergency response and rescue vessel.
  194. erryday adverb: Pronunciation spelling of every day.
  195. errything pronoun: Pronunciation spelling of everything
  196. ers noun, suffix, verb: Acronym of energy recovery system, an electric generation, storage, and propulsion system used in Formula One, which generates electricity by scavenging...
  197. Ersa proper noun /ˈɜːsə/: The goddess/personification of the dew.
  198. ersatz adjective, noun /ˈɛəzæts/: An inauthentic or inadequate substitute or imitation.
  199. ersatzer noun: A proponent of ersatzism, the doctrine that possible worlds are merely abstract and do not have the same reality as the present world
  200. ersatzism noun: The doctrine that only one concrete world exists, and all other possible worlds are abstract.
  201. ersatzist adjective, noun: Pertaining to or exemplifying ersatzism.
  202. ersatzness noun: The quality of being ersatz.
  203. ersentilide noun: A beta-adrenergic blocking drug of the benzamide chemical class.
  204. ersh noun: Alternative form of earsh.
  205. Ershadism noun: The political ideology exemplified by Hussain Muhammad Ershad.
  206. ershovite noun: A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, and titanium.
  207. Erskine proper noun /ˈəːskɪn/: A town in Renfrewshire council area, Scotland, close to the River Clyde (OS grid ref NS4671).
  208. Erskineville proper noun: A suburb of Sydney in the Sydney council area, New South Wales, Australia.
  209. ERSP noun: Initialism of event-related spectral perturbation.
  210. erst adjective, adverb /ɝst/: First.
  211. erster noun: Pronunciation spelling of oyster.
  212. erstwhile adjective, adverb /ˈɜː(ɹ)st.waɪl/: Formerly; in the past.
  213. erstwhiles adverb: Alternative form of erstwhile.
  214. ert noun, verb: Initialism of emergency response team.
  215. ertapenem noun: A particular carbapenem antibiotic, structurally similar to meropenem.
  216. ERTC noun: Initialism of employee retention tax credit.
  217. Ertel proper noun: A surname.
  218. erter noun: One who erts; one who provokes.
  219. erting noun, verb: An incitement, an encouragement.
  220. ertiprotafib noun: An antidiabetic drug.
  221. ertixiite noun: An isometric-diploidal mineral containing oxygen, silicon, and sodium.
  222. Ertl proper noun /ˈɜː(ɹ)təl/: A surname.
  223. ertugliflozin noun: A particular gliflozin drug.
  224. ertumaxomab noun: A rat-murine hybrid monoclonal antibody used to treat certain cancers.
  225. Ertz proper noun: A surname from German.
  226. ERU noun: Initialism of emission reduction unit.
  227. erub noun: Alternative form of eruv.
  228. erubescence noun /ˌɛɹʊˈbɛsəns/: The act of becoming red; reddening.
  229. erubescency noun: Alternative form of erubescence.
  230. erubescent adjective /ˌɛɹ.ʊˈbɛs.ənt/: Red; reddish.
  231. erubescite noun: Synonym of bornite.
  232. eruboside noun: A particular steroid glycoside.
  233. eruca noun: Caterpillar; larva.
  234. erucamide noun: The amide of erucic acid
  235. erucate noun: A salt or ester of erucic acid
  236. erucic adjective /əˈɹuːsɪk/: Of, pertaining to, or derived from plants of the genus Eruca.
  237. erucic acid noun: A long-chain unsaturated fatty acid, CH₃(CH₂)₇CH=CH(CH₂)₁₁COOH, found in rapeseed and mustard seed oils; strictly, the cis-isomer of the molecule (the...
  238. erucifoline noun: A pyrrolizidine alkaloid, isolated from certain plants of the genus Jacobaea.
  239. eruciform adjective: Shaped like a caterpillar; the term is loosely applied to some larvae with little resemblance to typical caterpillars.
  240. erucin noun: The anticancer compound 4-(methylthio)butyl isothiocyanate present in brassicas
  241. erucism noun: An injury caused by contact with the toxic bristles of a caterpillar.
  242. eruct verb: To burp or belch.
  243. eructate verb: To belch, to burp.
  244. eructation noun /ɪ.ɹʌkˈteɪ.ʃən/: The act of belching, of expelling gas from the stomach through the mouth.
  245. eructative adjective /ɪˈɹʌktə(ˌ)tɪv/: Of or relating to eructation.
  246. eruction noun: Alternative form of eructation.
  247. eructophilia noun: A paraphilia caracterized by sexual arousal to belching.
  248. erudiate adjective, verb /ɪˈɹuːdieɪt/: Educated; learned; erudite.
  249. erudit noun: An erudite person, a scholar, especially in French contexts.
  250. erudite adjective, noun /ˈɛɹ.ʊ.daɪt/: Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.
  251. eruditely adverb: In a learned or scholarly manner.
  252. eruditeness noun: erudition
  253. eruditical adjective: Synonym of erudite.
  254. erudition noun /ˌɛɹʊˈdɪʃən/: Profound knowledge acquired from learning and scholarship.
  255. eruditional adjective: Of or relating to erudition.
  256. erugate verb: To remove wrinkles from.
  257. eruginous adjective: Alternative form of aeruginous (“of or related to verdigris, bluish green, rusty.”)
  258. erumny noun: Hardship, trouble, calamity.
  259. erumpent adjective /ɪˈɹʌmpənt/: That emerges, or bursts through; breaking forth.
  260. erupt verb /ɪˈɹʌpt/: To eject something violently (such as lava or water, as from a volcano or geyser).
  261. eruptible adjective: Able to be erupted.
  262. eruption noun /ɪˈɹʌpʃən/: A violent ejection, such as the spurting out of lava from a volcano.
  263. eruption column noun: a cloud of ash emitted during a volcanic eruption
  264. eruptional adjective: eruptive
  265. eruptive adjective, noun /ɪˈɹʌptɪv/: That erupts or bursts forth.
  266. eruptively adverb: In an eruptive manner.
  267. eruptiveness noun: The state or quality of being eruptive.
  268. eruptivity noun: The state or quality of being eruptive.
  269. eruv noun /ˈɛɹʊv/: An eruv chatzerot; ritual aggregation of properties that allows Jews observing traditional Shabbat rules to carry burdens across property lines.
  270. ERV noun: Initialism of endogenous retrovirus.
  271. ervad noun: Alternative form of herbad (“Zoroastrian priest”).
  272. ervatinine noun: An anticorrosive indole alkaloid from Ervatamia coronaria.
  273. ervenholder noun: A person possessing an erf (small inherited house-and-garden lot in a village or settlement).
  274. ervil noun /ˈɜː.vɪl/: bitter vetch, blister vetch (Vicia ervilia).
  275. Ervin proper noun: A surname.
  276. Erving proper noun: A surname.
  277. Ervipiame noun: A Native American people of modern Coahuila and Texas.
  278. erw noun /ˈɛɹuː/: A medieval Welsh unit of surface area equal to 11664 sq ft, or about ¼ acre.
  279. Erwin proper noun /ˈɝwɪn/: A male given name from the Germanic languages, of rare usage, variant of Irwin.
  280. erwiniocin noun: A particular bacteriocin produced by the bacterium Pectobacterium carotovorum (formerly Erwinia carotovora).
  281. erxian noun: One of several bowed string instruments in the huqin family, used in traditional Chinese music.
  282. -ery suffix /əɹi/: Added to occupational etc. nouns to form other nouns meaning the "art, craft, or practice of."
  283. erybraedin noun: Either of a pair of pterocarpans isolated respectively from the stems of Erythrina subumbrans or leaves of Bituminaria morisiana.
  284. erycanoside noun: A particular steroid glycoside.
  285. erychroside noun: A particular steroid glycoside.
  286. erychrosol noun: A particular steroid glycoside.
  287. erycid noun: Any snake in the family Erycidae, now considered to be the boid subfamily Erycinae.
  288. erycine noun: Any nonvenomous snake of the subfamily Erycinae.
  289. erycinid noun: Any butterfly in the former family Erycinidae, which was found to contain species better classified as belong to two families, Riodinidae and nymphalid...
  290. erycordin noun: A particular steroid glycoside.
  291. erycristagallin noun: A pterocarpan isolated from the stems of Erythrina subumbrans.
  292. eryglucin noun: erythritol
  293. Erykah proper noun: A female given name from the Germanic languages, a less common spelling of Erica and Erika.
  294. eryloside noun: A particular steroid glycoside.
  295. Erymanthian adjective: Of or relating to Erymanthos.
  296. erymid noun: Any extinct crustacean in the family Erymidae.
  297. Eryn proper noun: A female given name.
  298. eryngeolysin noun: A hemolysin present in the mushroom Pleurotus eryngii
  299. eryngium noun: Any of the genus Eryngium of umbelliferous plants resembling thistles.
  300. eryngo noun /iːˈɹɪŋɡəʊ/: The root of sea holly, Eryngium maritimum, formerly candied and taken as confectionery and held to have aphrodisiac properties.

Part 54 · Part 56 · 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.