enképhaline
French, noun/ɑ̃.ke.fa.lin/
enképhaline is spelled E-N-K-É-P-H-A-L-I-N-E (11 letters). Enképhaline is a French feminine noun meaning “enkephalin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Substance analogue à la morphine, sécrétée par le cerveau en réponse à un stress persistant”.
What does enképhaline mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineenkephalin
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Substance analogue à la morphine, sécrétée par le cerveau en réponse à un stress persistant.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of enképhaline
- enképhalines plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enképhaline?
- /ɑ̃.ke.fa.lin/
- \ɑ̃.ke.fa.lin\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to enképhaline
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.