Name Report For First Name EVA:
EVA
First name EVA's origin is Scandinavian. EVA means "danish form of eve (life)". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with EVA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of eva.(Brown names are of the same origin (Scandinavian) with EVA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with EVA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming EVA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES EVA AS A WHOLE:
evadne evangeline evanthe zeva yeva daeva devaki devamatar devayani anevay cevanah deva devaney devanie devansha devany elisheva esteva evacska evaleen evalene evalina evaline evalyn evanee evangelina evania evanna evanne geneva genoveva jeneva jenneva keva kevay levane neva nevada nevaeh reva synneva teva cheval chevalier crevan devan estevan evalac evan evarado hevataneo jeevan kevan nevan perceval stevan trevan estevao bevan eeva evanth evangelia zenevieva cleva evadeam devana devannaNAMES RHYMING WITH EVA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (va) - Names That Ends with va:
sunniva krasava miroslava malva minerva ahava akiva lomahongva nova tiva adiva ahuva alva anuva ava belva elva gustava iva melva naava nediva neiva orva riva zehuva zinerva aviva edva viva tova kiva chaviva chava godiva ginerva diva chedva cochava mava tikva zivaNAMES RHYMING WITH EVA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ev) - Names That Begins with ev:
eve evelake eveleen evelin evelina eveline evelyn evelyne evelynn evelynne ever everard everardo everet everett everhard everhart everleigh everley everly evert everton evetta evette evgenia evia evian eviana evie evika evike evin evina evinrude evita evnissyen evon evonna evonne evony evoy evrain evrard evrawg evzenNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH EVA:
First Names which starts with 'e' and ends with 'a':
eada eadda eadwiella ealga eara earlena earlina earna earnestyna eartha earwyna eathellreda ebba ebissa ecaterina echa echidna eda edana edda edelina edenia edina edita editha editta edla edmanda edmonda edmunda edna edorta edra edrea eduarda edwa edwina edwinna edytha eferhilda efia efra efthemia egberta egbertina egeria egesa eglantina eguskina eidothea eila eileithyia eilena eilinora eirica eisa eithna eja ejona ekaterina el-saraya elaina elana elayna elberta elbertina elbertyna elda eldora eldreda eldrida eleadora eleanora electra eleena elefteria elena elenora eleonora eleora elepheteria eleta elethea elethia eleuia elexa elfreda elfrida elfrieda elga elia eliana elica elicia elida elija elina eliora elisa elisabetaEnglish Words Rhyming EVA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES EVA AS A WHOLE:
abevacuation | noun (n.) A partial evacuation. |
achievable | adjective (a.) Capable of being achieved. |
achievance | noun (n.) Achievement. |
aggrievance | noun (n.) Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance. |
believable | adjective (a.) Capable of being believed; credible. |
boulevard | noun (n.) Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town. |
noun (n.) A public walk or street occupying the site of demolished fortifications. Hence: A broad avenue in or around a city. |
boulevardier | noun (n.) A frequenter of a city boulevard, esp. in Paris. |
chevachie | noun (n.) See Chivachie. |
chevage | noun (n.) See Chiefage. |
cheval | noun (n.) A horse; hence, a support or frame. |
chevalier | noun (n.) A horseman; a knight; a gallant young man. |
noun (n.) A member of certain orders of knighthood. |
chevaux | noun (n. pl.) See Cheval. |
(pl. ) of Cheval |
chichevache | noun (n.) A fabulous cow of enormous size, whose food was patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition. |
chievance | noun (n.) An unlawful bargain; traffic in which money is exported as discount. |
coeval | noun (n.) Of the same age; existing during the same period of time, especially time long and remote; -- usually followed by with. |
noun (n.) One of the same age; a contemporary. |
crevalle | noun (n.) The cavally or jurel. |
noun (n.) The pompano (Trachynotus Carolinus). |
crevasse | noun (n.) A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided. |
noun (n.) A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi. |
deva | noun (n.) A god; a deity; a divine being; an idol; a king. |
devanagari | noun (n.) The character in which Sanskrit is written. |
devaporation | noun (n.) The change of vapor into water, as in the formation of rain. |
devastating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Devastate |
devastation | noun (n.) The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste. |
noun (n.) Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator. |
devastator | noun (n.) One who, or that which, devastates. |
devastavit | noun (n.) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or an administrator. |
devata | noun (n.) A deity; a divine being; a good spirit; an idol. |
elevate | adjective (a.) Elevated; raised aloft. |
verb (v. t.) To bring from a lower place to a higher; to lift up; to raise; as, to elevate a weight, a flagstaff, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To raise to a higher station; to promote; as, to elevate to an office, or to a high social position. | |
verb (v. t.) To raise from a depressed state; to animate; to cheer; as, to elevate the spirits. | |
verb (v. t.) To exalt; to ennoble; to dignify; as, to elevate the mind or character. | |
verb (v. t.) To raise to a higher pitch, or to a greater degree of loudness; -- said of sounds; as, to elevate the voice. | |
verb (v. t.) To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy. | |
verb (v. t.) To lessen; to detract from; to disparage. |
elevating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Elevate |
elevated | adjective (a.) Uplifted; high; lofty; also, animated; noble; as, elevated thoughts. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Elevate |
elevatedness | noun (n.) The quality of being elevated. |
elevation | noun (n.) The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character. |
noun (n.) Condition of being elevated; height; exaltation. | |
noun (n.) That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station; as, an elevation of the ground; a hill. | |
noun (n.) The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude; as, the elevation of the pole, or of a star. | |
noun (n.) The angle which the style makes with the substylar line. | |
noun (n.) The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line o/ sight; -- distinguished from direction. | |
noun (n.) A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; -- called by the ancients the orthography. |
elevator | noun (n.) One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything |
noun (n.) A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage. | |
noun (n.) A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself. | |
noun (n.) A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain. | |
noun (n.) A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye. | |
noun (n.) An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone. | |
noun (n.) A movable plane or group of planes used to control the altitude or fore-and-aft poise or inclination of an airship or flying machine. |
elevatory | noun (n.) See Elevator, n. (e). |
adjective (a.) Tending to raise, or having power to elevate; as, elevatory forces. |
evacuant | noun (n.) A purgative or cathartic. |
adjective (a.) Emptying; evacuative; purgative; cathartic. |
evacuating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Evacuate |
evacuation | noun (n.) The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging. |
noun (n.) Withdrawal of troops from a town, fortress, etc. | |
noun (n.) Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means. | |
noun (n.) That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool or other natural means. | |
noun (n.) Abolition; nullification. |
evacuative | adjective (a.) Serving of tending to evacuate; cathartic; purgative. |
evacuator | noun (n.) One who evacuates; a nullifier. |
evacuatory | noun (n.) A purgative. |
evading | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Evade |
evadible | adjective (a.) Capable of being evaded. |
evagation | noun (n.) A wandering about; excursion; a roving. |
evagination | noun (n.) The act of unsheathing. |
noun (n.) An outgrowth or protruded part. |
eval | adjective (a.) Relating to time or duration. |
evaluation | noun (n.) Valuation; appraisement. |
evanescing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Evanesce |
evanescence | noun (n.) The act or state of vanishing away; disappearance; as, the evanescence of vapor, of a dream, of earthly plants or hopes. |
evanescent | adjective (a.) Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; vanishing; fleeting; as, evanescent joys. |
adjective (a.) Vanishing from notice; imperceptible. |
evangel | noun (n.) Good news; announcement of glad tidings; especially, the gospel, or a gospel. |
evangelian | adjective (a.) Rendering thanks for favors. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH EVA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (va) - English Words That Ends with va:
ava | noun (n.) Same as Kava. |
ajava | noun (n.) See Ajouan. |
bodhisattva | noun (n.) Alt. of Bodhisattwa |
cassava | noun (n.) A shrubby euphorbiaceous plant of the genus Manihot, with fleshy rootstocks yielding an edible starch; -- called also manioc. |
noun (n.) A nutritious starch obtained from the rootstocks of the cassava plant, used as food and in making tapioca. |
conferva | noun (n.) Any unbranched, slender, green plant of the fresh-water algae. The word is frequently used in a wider sense. |
conjunctiva | noun (n.) The mucous membrane which covers the external surface of the ball of the eye and the inner surface of the lids; the conjunctival membrane. |
contrayerva | noun (n.) A species of Dorstenia (D. Contrayerva), a South American plant, the aromatic root of which is sometimes used in medicine as a gentle stimulant and tonic. |
copaiva | noun (n.) A more or less viscid, yellowish liquid, the bitter oleoresin of several species of Copaifera, a genus of trees growing in South America and the West Indies. It is stimulant and diuretic, and is much used in affections of the mucous membranes; -- called also balsam of copaiba. |
comitiva | noun (n.) A body of followers; -- applied to the lawless or brigand bands in Italy and Sicily. |
diva | noun (n.) A prima donna. |
geneva | noun (n.) The chief city of Switzerland. |
noun (n.) A strongly alcoholic liquor, flavored with juniper berries; -- made in Holland; Holland gin; Hollands. |
guava | noun (n.) A tropical tree, or its fruit, of the genus Psidium. Two varieties are well known, the P. pyriferum, or white guava, and P. pomiferum, or red guava. The fruit or berry is shaped like a pomegranate, but is much smaller. It is somewhat astringent, but makes a delicious jelly. |
java | noun (n.) One of the islands of the Malay Archipelago belonging to the Netherlands. |
noun (n.) Java coffee, a kind of coffee brought from Java. |
kava | noun (n.) A species of Macropiper (M. methysticum), the long pepper, from the root of which an intoxicating beverage is made by the Polynesians, by a process of mastication; also, the beverage itself. |
kiva | noun (n.) A large chamber built under, or in, the houses of a Pueblo village, used as an assembly room in religious rites or as a men's dormitory. It is commonly lighted and entered from an opening in the roof. |
larva | noun (n.) Any young insect from the time that it hatches from the egg until it becomes a pupa, or chrysalis. During this time it usually molts several times, and may change its form or color each time. The larvae of many insects are much like the adults in form and habits, but have no trace of wings, the rudimentary wings appearing only in the pupa stage. In other groups of insects the larvae are totally unlike the parents in structure and habits, and are called caterpillars, grubs, maggots, etc. |
noun (n.) The early, immature form of any animal when more or less of a metamorphosis takes place, before the assumption of the mature shape. |
lava | noun (n.) The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States. |
minerva | noun (n.) The goddess of wisdom, of war, of the arts and sciences, of poetry, and of spinning and weaving; -- identified with the Grecian Pallas Athene. |
nova | noun (n.) A new star, usually appearing suddenly, shining for a brief period, and then sinking into obscurity. Such appearances are supposed to result from cosmic collisions, as of a dark star with interstellar nebulosities. |
oliva | noun (n.) A genus of polished marine gastropod shells, chiefly tropical, and often beautifully colored. |
ova | noun (n. pl.) See Ovum. |
(pl. ) of Ovum |
piassava | noun (n.) A fibrous product of two Brazilian palm trees (Attalea funifera and Leopoldinia Piassaba), -- used in making brooms, and for other purposes. Called also piacaba and piasaba. |
postcava | noun (n.) The inferior vena cava. |
praecava | noun (n.) The superior vena cava. |
saiva | noun (n.) One of an important religious sect in India which regards Siva with peculiar veneration. |
saliva | noun (n.) The secretion from the salivary glands. |
saxicava | noun (n.) Any species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Saxicava. Some of the species are noted for their power of boring holes in limestone and similar rocks. |
sieva | noun (n.) A small variety of the Lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus). |
silva | noun (n.) The forest trees of a region or country, considered collectively. |
noun (n.) A description or history of the forest trees of a country. |
siva | noun (n.) One of the triad of Hindoo gods. He is the avenger or destroyer, and in modern worship symbolizes the reproductive power of nature. |
sylva | noun (n.) Same as Silva. |
ulva | noun (n.) A genus of thin papery bright green seaweeds including the kinds called sea lettuce. |
urva | noun (n.) The crab-eating ichneumon (Herpestes urva), native of India. The fur is black, annulated with white at the tip of each hair, and a white streak extends from the mouth to the shoulder. |
uva | noun (n.) A small pulpy or juicy fruit containing several seeds and having a thin skin, as a grape. |
vaishnava | noun (n.) A worshiper of the god Vishnu in any of his incarnations. |
volva | noun (n.) A saclike envelope of certain fungi, which bursts open as the plant develops. |
vulva | noun (n.) The external parts of the female genital organs; sometimes, the opening between the projecting parts of the external organs. |
noun (n.) The orifice of the oviduct of an insect or other invertebrate. |
viva | noun (n.) The word viva, or a shout or sound made in uttering it. |
(interj.) Lit., (long) live; -- an exclamation expressing good will, well wishing, etc. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH EVA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (ev) - Words That Begins with ev:
evangelic | adjective (a.) Belonging to, or contained in, the gospel; evangelical. |
evangelical | noun (n.) One of evangelical principles. |
adjective (a.) Contained in, or relating to, the four Gospels; as, the evangelical history. | |
adjective (a.) Belonging to, agreeable or consonant to, or contained in, the gospel, or the truth taught in the New Testament; as, evangelical religion. | |
adjective (a.) Earnest for the truth taught in the gospel; strict in interpreting Christian doctrine; preeminetly orthodox; -- technically applied to that party in the Church of England, and in the Protestant Episcopal Church, which holds the doctrine of "Justification by Faith alone"; the Low Church party. The term is also applied to other religion bodies not regarded as orthodox. |
evangelicalism | noun (n.) Adherence to evangelical doctrines; evangelism. |
evangelicalness | noun (n.) State of being evangelical. |
evangelicism | noun (n.) Evangelical principles; evangelism. |
evangelicity | noun (n.) Evangelicism. |
evangelism | noun (n.) The preaching or promulgation of the gospel. |
evangelist | noun (n.) A bringer of the glad tidings of Church and his doctrines. Specially: (a) A missionary preacher sent forth to prepare the way for a resident pastor; an itinerant missionary preacher. (b) A writer of one of the four Gospels (With the definite article); as, the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. (c) A traveling preacher whose efforts are chiefly directed to arouse to immediate repentance. |
evangelistary | noun (n.) A selection of passages from the Gospels, as a lesson in divine service. |
evangelistic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the four evangelists; designed or fitted to evangelize; evangelical; as, evangelistic efforts. |
evangelization | noun (n.) The act of evangelizing; the state of being evangelized. |
evangelizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Evangelize |
evangely | noun (n.) Evangel. |
evangile | noun (n.) Good tidings; evangel. |
evanid | adjective (a.) Liable to vanish or disappear; faint; weak; evanescent; as, evanid color. |
evanishment | noun (n.) A vanishing; disappearance. |
evaporable | adjective (a.) Capable of being converted into vapor, or dissipated by evaporation. |
evaporating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Evaporate |
evaporate | adjective (a.) Dispersed in vapors. |
verb (v. t.) To pass off in vapor, as a fluid; to escape and be dissipated, either in visible vapor, or in practice too minute to be visible. | |
verb (v. t.) To escape or pass off without effect; to be dissipated; to be wasted, as, the spirit of writer often evaporates in the process of translation. | |
verb (v. t.) To convert from a liquid or solid state into vapor (usually) by the agency of heat; to dissipate in vapor or fumes. | |
verb (v. t.) To expel moisture from (usually by means of artificial heat), leaving the solid portion; to subject to evaporation; as, to evaporate apples. | |
verb (v. t.) To give vent to; to dissipate. |
evaporation | noun (n.) The process by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor. |
noun (n.) The transformation of a portion of a fluid into vapor, in order to obtain the fixed matter contained in it in a state of greater consistence. | |
noun (n.) That which is evaporated; vapor. | |
noun (n.) See Vaporization. |
evaporaive | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or producing, evaporation; as, the evaporative process. |
evaporator | noun (n.) An apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat. |
evaporometer | noun (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of a fluid evaporated in a given time; an atmometer. |
evasible | adjective (a.) That may be evaded. |
evasion | noun (n.) The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding. |
evasive | adjective (a.) Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice. |
eve | noun (n.) Evening. |
noun (n.) The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event. |
evectics | noun (n.) The branch of medical science which teaches the method of acquiring a good habit of body. |
even | noun (n.) Evening. See Eve, n. 1. |
adjective (a.) Level, smooth, or equal in surface; not rough; free from irregularities; hence uniform in rate of motion of action; as, even ground; an even speed; an even course of conduct. | |
adjective (a.) Equable; not easily ruffed or disturbed; calm; uniformly self-possessed; as, an even temper. | |
adjective (a.) Parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit. | |
adjective (a.) Balanced; adjusted; fair; equitable; impartial; just to both side; owing nothing on either side; -- said of accounts, bargains, or persons indebted; as, our accounts are even; an even bargain. | |
adjective (a.) Without an irregularity, flaw, or blemish; pure. | |
adjective (a.) Associate; fellow; of the same condition. | |
adjective (a.) Not odd; capable of division by two without a remainder; -- said of numbers; as, 4 and 10 are even numbers. | |
adjective (a.) In an equal or precisely similar manner; equally; precisely; just; likewise; as well. | |
adjective (a.) Up to, or down to, an unusual measure or level; so much as; fully; quite. | |
adjective (a.) As might not be expected; -- serving to introduce what is unexpected or less expected. | |
adjective (a.) At the very time; in the very case. | |
verb (v. t.) To make even or level; to level; to lay smooth. | |
verb (v. t.) To equal | |
verb (v. t.) To place in an equal state, as to obligation, or in a state in which nothing is due on either side; to balance, as accounts; to make quits. | |
verb (v. t.) To set right; to complete. | |
verb (v. t.) To act up to; to keep pace with. | |
verb (v. i.) To be equal. |
evening | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Even |
noun (n.) The latter part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; properly, the decline of the day, or of the sum. | |
noun (n.) The latter portion, as of life; the declining period, as of strength or glory. |
evener | noun (n.) One who, or that which makes even. |
noun (n.) In vehicles, a swinging crossbar, to the ends of which other crossbars, or whiffletrees, are hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast. |
evenfall | noun (n.) Beginning of evening. |
evenhand | noun (n.) Equality. |
evenhanded | adjective (a.) Fair or impartial; unbiased. |
evenminded | adjective (a.) Having equanimity. |
evenness | noun (n.) The state of being ven, level, or disturbed; smoothness; horizontal position; uniformity; impartiality; calmness; equanimity; appropriate place or level; as, evenness of surface, of a fluid at rest, of motion, of dealings, of temper, of condition. |
evensong | noun (n.) A song for the evening; the evening service or form of worship (in the Church of England including vespers and compline); also, the time of evensong. |
event | noun (n.) That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad. |
noun (n.) An affair in hand; business; enterprise. | |
noun (n.) The consequence of anything; the issue; conclusion; result; that in which an action, operation, or series of operations, terminates. | |
verb (v. t.) To break forth. |
eventful | adjective (a.) Full of, or rich in, events or incidents; as, an eventful journey; an eventful period of history; an eventful period of life. |
eventide | noun (n.) The time of evening; evening. |
eventilation | noun (n.) The act of eventilating; discussion. |
eventless | adjective (a.) Without events; tame; monotomous; marked by nothing unusual; uneventful. |
eventognathi | noun (n. pl.) An order of fishes including a vast number of freshwater species such as the carp, loach, chub, etc. |
eventration | noun (n.) A tumor containing a large portion of the abdominal viscera, occasioned by relaxation of the walls of the abdomen. |
noun (n.) A wound, of large extent, in the abdomen, through which the greater part of the intestines protrude. | |
noun (n.) The act af disemboweling. |
eventtual | adjective (a.) Coming or happening as a consequence or result; consequential. |
adjective (a.) Final; ultimate. | |
adjective (a.) Dependent on events; contingent. |
eventuality | noun (n.) The coming as a consequence; contingency; also, an event which comes as a consequence. |
noun (n.) Disposition to take cognizance of events. |
eventuating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Eventuate |
eventuation | noun (n.) The act of eventuating or happening as a result; the outcome. |
everduring | adjective (a.) Everlasting. |
everglade | noun (n.) A swamp or low tract of land inundated with water and interspersed with hummocks, or small islands, and patches of high grass; as, the everglades of Florida. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH EVA:
English Words which starts with 'e' and ends with 'a':
earthpea | noun (n.) A species of pea (Amphicarpaea monoica). It is a climbing leguminous plant, with hairy underground pods. |
ecclesia | noun (n.) The public legislative assembly of the Athenians. |
noun (n.) A church, either as a body or as a building. |
echidna | noun (n.) A monster, half maid and half serpent. |
noun (n.) A genus of Monotremata found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. They are toothless and covered with spines; -- called also porcupine ant-eater, and Australian ant-eater. |
echinodermata | noun (n. pl.) One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom. By many writers it was formerly included in the Radiata. |
echinoidea | noun (n. pl.) The class Echinodermata which includes the sea urchins. They have a calcareous, usually more or less spheroidal or disk-shaped, composed of many united plates, and covered with movable spines. See Spatangoid, Clypeastroid. |
echinozoa | noun (n. pl.) The Echinodermata. |
echiuroidea | noun (n. pl.) A division of Annelida which includes the genus Echiurus and allies. They are often classed among the Gephyrea, and called the armed Gephyreans. |
eclampsia | noun (n.) A fancied perception of flashes of light, a symptom of epilepsy; hence, epilepsy itself; convulsions. |
ecphonema | noun (n.) A breaking out with some interjectional particle. |
ectasia | noun (n.) A dilatation of a hollow organ or of a canal. |
ecthyma | noun (n.) A cutaneous eruption, consisting of large, round pustules, upon an indurated and inflamed base. |
ectopia | noun (n.) A morbid displacement of parts, especially such as is congenial; as, ectopia of the heart, or of the bladder. |
ectoprocta | noun (n. pl.) An order of Bryozoa in which the anus lies outside the circle of tentacles. |
eczema | noun (n.) An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum. |
edda | noun (n.) The religious or mythological book of the old Scandinavian tribes of German origin, containing two collections of Sagas (legends, myths) of the old northern gods and heroes. |
edema | noun (n.) Same as oedema. |
edentata | noun (n. pl.) An order of mammals including the armadillos, sloths, and anteaters; -- called also Bruta. The incisor teeth are rarely developed, and in some groups all the teeth are lacking. |
edriophthalma | noun (n. pl.) A group of Crustacea in which the eyes are without stalks; the Arthrostraca. |
egesta | noun (n. pl.) That which is egested or thrown off from the body by the various excretory channels; excrements; -- opposed to ingesta. |
elasipoda | noun (n. pl.) An order of holothurians mostly found in the deep sea. They are remarkable for their bilateral symmetry and curious forms. |
elcaja | noun (n.) An Arabian tree (Trichilia emetica). The fruit, which is emetic, is sometimes employed in the composition of an ointment for the cure of the itch. |
eleutheromania | noun (n.) A mania or frantic zeal for freedom. |
emgalla | noun (n.) The South African wart hog. See Wart hog. |
emmetropia | noun (n.) That refractive condition of the eye in which the rays of light are all brought accurately and without undue effort to a focus upon the retina; -- opposed to hypermetropia, myopia, an astigmatism. |
emphysema | noun (n.) A swelling produced by gas or air diffused in the cellular tissue. |
empyema | noun (n.) A collection of blood, pus, or other fluid, in some cavity of the body, especially that of the pleura. |
empyreuma | noun (n.) The peculiar smell and taste arising from products of decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in close vessels. |
emydea | noun (n. pl.) A group of chelonians which comprises many species of fresh-water tortoises and terrapins. |
enaliosauria | noun (n. pl.) An extinct group of marine reptiles, embracing both the Ichthyosauria and the Plesiosauria, now regarded as distinct orders. |
enarthrodia | noun (n.) See Enarthrosis. |
encauma | noun (n.) An ulcer in the eye, upon the cornea, which causes the loss of the humors. |
encenia | noun (n. pl.) A festival commemorative of the founding of a city or the consecration of a church; also, the ceremonies (as at Oxford and Cambridge, England) commemorative of founders or benefactors. |
enchondroma | noun (n.) A cartilaginous tumor growing from the interior of a bone. |
enchylemma | noun (n.) The basal substance of the cell nucleus; a hyaline or granular substance, more or less fluid during life, in which the other parts of the nucleus are imbedded. |
enchyma | noun (n.) The primitive formative juice, from which the tissues, particularly the cellular tissue, are formed. |
encrinoidea | noun (n. pl.) That order of the Crinoidea which includes most of the living and many fossil forms, having jointed arms around the margin of the oral disk; -- also called Brachiata and Articulata. See Illusts. under Comatula and Crinoidea. |
encyclopedia | noun (n.) Alt. of Encyclopaedia |
encyclopaedia | noun (n.) The circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge; esp., a work in which the various branches of science or art are discussed separately, and usually in alphabetical order; a cyclopedia. |
endophragma | noun (n.) A chitinous structure above the nervous cord in the thorax of certain Crustacea. |
endoplasma | noun (n.) Same as Entoplasm and Endosarc. |
endoplastica | noun (n. pl.) A group of Rhizopoda having a distinct nucleus, as the am/ba. |
endopleura | noun (n.) The inner coating of a seed. See Tegmen. |
endorhiza | noun (n.) Any monocotyledonous plant; -- so named because many monocotyledons have an endorhizal embryo. |
endostoma | noun (n.) A plate which supports the labrum in certain Crustacea. |
endotheca | noun (n.) The tissue which partially fills the interior of the interseptal chambers of most madreporarian corals. It usually consists of a series of oblique tranverse septa, one above another. |
endozoa | noun (n. pl.) See Entozoa. |
endyma | noun (n.) See Ependyma. |
enema | noun (n.) An injection, or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment. |
enigma | noun (n.) A dark, obscure, or inexplicable saying; a riddle; a statement, the hidden meaning of which is to be discovered or guessed. |
noun (n.) An action, mode of action, or thing, which cannot be satisfactorily explained; a puzzle; as, his conduct is an enigma. |
enheahedria | noun (n.) Alt. of Enheahedron |
enneandria | noun (n.) A Linnaean class of plants having nine stamens. |
enopla | noun (n. pl.) One of the orders of Nemertina, characterized by the presence of a peculiar armature of spines or plates in the proboscis. |
entasia | noun (n.) Tonic spasm; -- applied generically to denote any disease characterized by tonic spasms, as tetanus, trismus, etc. |
enteralgia | noun (n.) Pain in the intestines; colic. |
enteropneusta | noun (n. pl.) A group of wormlike invertebrates having, along the sides of the body, branchial openings for the branchial sacs, which are formed by diverticula of the alimentary canal. Balanoglossus is the only known genus. See Illustration in Appendix. |
enthelmintha | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Enthelminthes |
entomophaga | noun (n. pl.) One of a group of hymenopterous insects whose larvae feed parasitically upon living insects. See Ichneumon, 2. |
noun (n. pl.) A group of marsupials which are partly insectivorous, as the opossum. | |
noun (n. pl.) A group of edentates, including the ant-eaters. |
entomostraca | noun (n. pl.) One of the subclasses of Crustacea, including a large number of species, many of them minute. The group embraces several orders; as the Phyllopoda, Ostracoda, Copepoda, and Pectostraca. See Copepoda, Phyllopoda, and Cladocera. |
entoprocta | noun (n. pl.) A group of Bryozoa in which the anus is within the circle of tentacles. See Pedicellina. |
entozoa | noun (n. pl.) A group of worms, including the tapeworms, flukes, roundworms, etc., most of which live parasitically in the interior of other animals; the Helminthes. |
noun (n. pl.) An artificial group, including all kinds of animals living parasitically in others. | |
(pl. ) of Entozoon |
epanaphora | noun (n.) Same as Anaphora. |
epeira | noun (n.) A genus of spiders, including the common garden spider (E. diadema). They spin geometrical webs. See Garden spider. |
ependyma | noun (n.) The epithelial lining of the ventricles of the brain and the canal of the spinal cord; endyma; ependymis. |
epha | noun (n.) A Hebrew dry measure, supposed to be equal to two pecks and five quarts. ten ephahs make one homer. |
ephemera | noun (n.) A fever of one day's continuance only. |
noun (n.) A genus of insects including the day flies, or ephemeral flies. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral. | |
(pl. ) of Ephemeron |
ephyra | noun (n.) A stage in the development of discophorous medusae, when they first begin to swim about after being detached from the strobila. See Strobila. |
epiblema | noun (n.) The epidermal cells of rootlets, specially adapted to absorb liquids. |
epichirema | noun (n.) A syllogism in which the proof of the major or minor premise, or both, is introduced with the premises themselves, and the conclusion is derived in the ordinary manner. |
epigaea | noun (n.) An American genus of plants, containing but a single species (E. repens), the trailing arbutus. |
epimera | noun (n. pl.) See Epimeron. |
(pl. ) of Epimeron |
epiphonema | noun (n.) An exclamatory sentence, or striking reflection, which sums up or concludes a discourse. |
epiphora | noun (n.) The watery eye; a disease in which the tears accumulate in the eye, and trickle over the cheek. |
noun (n.) The emphatic repetition of a word or phrase, at the end of several sentences or stanzas. |
epistoma | noun (n.) Alt. of Epistome |
epitheca | noun (n.) A continuous and, usually, structureless layer which covers more or less of the exterior of many corals. |
epithelioma | noun (n.) A malignant growth containing epithelial cells; -- called also epithelial cancer. |
epithema | noun (n.) A horny excrescence upon the beak of birds. |
epitrochlea | noun (n.) A projection on the outer side of the distal end of the humerus; the external condyle. |
epocha | noun (n.) See Epoch. |
epopoeia | noun (n.) An epic poem; epic poetry. |
equinia | noun (n.) Glanders. |
era | noun (n.) A fixed point of time, usually an epoch, from which a series of years is reckoned. |
noun (n.) A period of time reckoned from some particular date or epoch; a succession of years dating from some important event; as, the era of Alexander; the era of Christ, or the Christian era (see under Christian). | |
noun (n.) A period of time in which a new order of things prevails; a signal stage of history; an epoch. |
erica | noun (n.) A genus of shrubby plants, including the heaths, many of them producing beautiful flowers. |
errantia | noun (n. pl.) A group of chaetopod annelids, including those that are not confined to tubes. See Chaetopoda. |
errata | noun (n. pl.) See Erratum. |
(pl. ) of Erratum |
eruca | noun (n.) An insect in the larval state; a caterpillar; a larva. |
erythema | noun (n.) A disease of the skin, in which a diffused inflammation forms rose-colored patches of variable size. |
erythrina | noun (n.) A genus of leguminous plants growing in the tropics; coral tree; -- so called from its red flowers. |
eschara | noun (n.) A genus of Bryozoa which produce delicate corals, often incrusting like lichens, but sometimes branched. |
eschscholtzia | noun (n.) A genus of papaveraceous plants, found in California and upon the west coast of North America, some species of which produce beautiful yellow, orange, rose-colored, or white flowers; the California poppy. |
estancia | noun (n.) A grazing; a country house. |
estufa | noun (n.) An assembly room in dwelling of the Pueblo Indians. |
etna | noun (n.) A kind of small, portable, cooking apparatus for which heat is furnished by a spirit lamp. |
eucopepoda | noun (n. pl.) A group which includes the typical copepods and the lerneans. |
eudipleura | noun (n. pl.) The fundamental forms of organic life, that are composed of two equal and symmetrical halves. |
eugenia | noun (n.) A genus of myrtaceous plants, mostly of tropical countries, and including several aromatic trees and shrubs, among which are the trees which produce allspice and cloves of commerce. |
eupepsia | noun (n.) Alt. of Eupepsy |
euphorbia | noun (n.) Spurge, or bastard spurge, a genus of plants of many species, mostly shrubby, herbaceous succulents, affording an acrid, milky juice. Some of them are armed with thorns. Most of them yield powerful emetic and cathartic products. |
euplectella | noun (n.) A genus of elegant, glassy sponges, consisting of interwoven siliceous fibers, and growing in the form of a cornucopia; -- called also Venus's flower-basket. |
euplexoptera | noun (n. pl.) An order of insects, including the earwig. The anterior wings are short, in the form of elytra, while the posterior wings fold up beneath them. See Earwig. |
eupnaea | noun (n.) Normal breathing where arterialization of the blood is normal, in distinction from dyspnaea, in which the blood is insufficiently arterialized. |