Name Report For First Name ELS:

ELS

First name ELS's origin is Hebrew. ELS means "devoted to god". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with ELS below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of els.(Brown names are of the same origin (Hebrew) with ELS and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with ELS - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming ELS

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES ELS AS A WHOLE:

gelsomina nielsine chelsea welsa niels chelsa chelsee chelsey chelsi chelsie chelsy elsa elsbeth else elsie elsje elspeth elswyth helsin kelsa kelsea kelsee kelsi kelsie kelsy welsie welss aethelstan aethelstun athelston celsus delsin elson elston elsu hamelstun nels nelson oegelsby ogelsvie ogelsvy welsh ogelsv ogelsby athelstan elsha elsdon elsworth helsa kelsey

NAMES RHYMING WITH ELS (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ls) - Names That Ends with ls:

cynegils starls ingalls rawls stigols trevls wells nils

NAMES RHYMING WITH ELS (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (el) - Names That Begins with el:

el-marees el-nefous el-saraya elaina elaine elam elan elana elayna elayne elazar elazaro elbert elberta elberte elberti elbertina elbertine elbertyna elcie elda eldan elden elder eldon eldora eldoris eldred eldreda eldrian eldrick eldrid eldrida eldride eldridge eldur eldwin eldwyn eleadora eleanor eleanora eleazar electra eleena elefteria eleftherios elek elena elene eleni elenora eleonora eleonore eleora elepheteria eleta elethea elethia eleuia eleutherios elexa elfie elfreda elfrida elfried elfrieda elga elgin elgine elhanan eli elia eliana eliane elias eliaures eliazar elica elicia elida elidor elidure elienor eliezer elihu elija elijah elim elimu elina elinor elinore eliora eliot eliott elis elisa elisa-mae elisabet elisabeta

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ELS:

First Names which starts with 'e' and ends with 's':

eadignes eames eblis eddis edris edrys egidius egomas eilis eirlys ellis elvis emrys enceladus eneas engres ennis enos enygeus eos epeius epopeus erasmus erebus erechtheus erichthonius erikas erinyes eris erymanthus esdras eteocles eubuleus eudosis eugenios eugenius eulises eumaeus eupeithes eurus euryalus eurylochus eurymachus eurypylus eurystheus eusebius eustatius eustis

English Words Rhyming ELS

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES ELS AS A WHOLE:

antiparallelsnoun (n. pl.) Straight lines or planes which make angles in some respect opposite in character to those made by parallel lines or planes.

belsirenoun (n.) A grandfather, or ancestor.

belswaggernoun (n.) A lewd man; also, a bully.

brusselsnoun (n.) A city of Belgium, giving its name to a kind of carpet, a kind of lace, etc.

camelshairadjective (a.) Of camel's hair.

celsiturenoun (n.) Height; altitude.

celsiusnoun (n.) The Celsius thermometer or scale, so called from Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, who invented it. It is the same as the centigrade thermometer or scale.

colonelshipnoun (n.) Colonelcy.

cruelsnoun (n. pl.) Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck.

eelspearnoun (n.) A spear with barbed forks for spearing eels.

elsenoun (a. & pron.) Other; one or something beside; as, Who else is coming? What else shall I give? Do you expect anything else?
 adverb (adv. & conj.) Besides; except that mentioned; in addition; as, nowhere else; no one else.
 adverb (adv. & conj.) Otherwise; in the other, or the contrary, case; if the facts were different.

elsinnoun (n.) A shoemaker's awl.

excelsiornoun (n.) A kind of stuffing for upholstered furniture, mattresses, etc., in which curled shreds of wood are substituted for curled hair.
 verb (v. t.) More lofty; still higher; ever upward.

felsitenoun (n.) A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz.

felsiticadjective (a.) relating to, composed of, or containing, felsite.

felsparnoun (n.) Alt. of Felspath

felspathnoun (n.) See Feldspar.

felspathicadjective (a.) See Feldspathic.

felstonenoun (n.) See Felsite.

feselsnoun (n. pl.) See Phasel.

gelsemicadjective (a.) Gelseminic.

gelseminenoun (n.) An alkaloid obtained from the yellow jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens), as a bitter white semicrystalline substance; -- called also gelsemia.

gelseminicnoun (n.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the yellow jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens); as, gelseminic acid, a white crystalline substance resembling esculin.

gelsemiumnoun (n.) A genus of climbing plants. The yellow (false) jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens) is a native of the Southern United States. It has showy and deliciously fragrant flowers.
 noun (n.) The root of the yellow jasmine, used in malarial fevers, etc.

heelspurnoun (n.) A slender bony or cartilaginous process developed from the heel bone of bats. It helps to support the wing membranes. See Illust. of Cheiropter.

keelsnoun (n. pl.) Ninepins. See Kayles.

keelsonnoun (n.) A piece of timber in a ship laid on the middle of the floor timbers over the keel, and binding the floor timbers to the keel; in iron vessels, a structure of plates, situated like the keelson of a timber ship.

kelsonnoun (n.) See Keelson.

maelstromnoun (n.) A celebrated whirlpool on the coast of Norway.
 noun (n.) Also Fig. ; as, a maelstrom of vice.

mantelshelfnoun (n.) The shelf of a mantel.

minstrelsynoun (n.) The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel.
 noun (n.) Musical instruments.
 noun (n.) A collective body of minstrels, or musicians; also, a collective body of minstrels' songs.

odelsthingnoun (n.) The lower house of the Norwegian Storthing. See Legislature.

quarrelsomeadjective (a.) Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric.
 adjective (a.) Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric.

paracelsiannoun (n.) A follower of Paracelsus or his practice or teachings.
 adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in conformity with, the practice of Paracelsus, a Swiss physician of the 15th century.

paracelsistnoun (n.) A Paracelsian.

teelseednoun (n.) The seed of sesame.

telsonnoun (n.) The terminal joint or movable piece at the end of the abdomen of Crustacea and other articulates. See Thoracostraca.

vicontielsnoun (n. pl.) Things belonging to the sheriff; especially, farms (called also vicontiel rents) for which the sheriff used to pay rent to the king.

welsnoun (n.) The sheatfish; -- called also waller.

welshnoun (n.) The language of Wales, or of the Welsh people.
 noun (n.) The natives or inhabitants of Wales.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Wales, or its inhabitants.
 verb (v. t. & i.) To cheat by avoiding payment of bets; -- said esp. of an absconding bookmaker at a race track.
 verb (v. t. & i.) To avoid dishonorably the fulfillment of a pecuniary obligation.

welshernoun (n.) One who cheats at a horse race; one who bets, without a chance of being able to pay; one who receives money to back certain horses and absconds with it.

welshmannoun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Wales; one of the Welsh.
 noun (n.) A squirrel fish.
 noun (n.) The large-mouthed black bass. See Black bass.

welsomeadjective (a.) Prosperous; well.

wheelswarfnoun (n.) See Swarf.

welsbachadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Auer von Welsbach or the incandescent gas burner invented by him.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ELS (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (ls) - English Words That Ends with ls:


academicalsnoun (n. pl.) The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities.

anisodactylsnoun (n. pl.) A group of herbivorous mammals characterized by having the hoofs in a single series around the foot, as the elephant, rhinoceros, etc.
 noun (n. pl.) A group of perching birds which are anisodactylous.

annalsnoun (n. pl.) A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened.
 noun (n. pl.) Historical records; chronicles; history.
 noun (n. pl.) The record of a single event or item.
 noun (n. pl.) A periodic publication, containing records of discoveries, transactions of societies, etc.; as "Annals of Science."

bowlsnoun (n. pl.) See Bowl, a ball, a game.

brillsnoun (n. pl.) The hair on the eyelids of a horse.

canonicalsnoun (n. pl.) The dress prescribed by canon to be worn by a clergyman when officiating. Sometimes, any distinctive professional dress.

consolsnoun (n. pl. ) The leading British funded government security.

entrailsnoun (n. pl.) The internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines.
 noun (n. pl.) The internal parts; as, the entrails of the earth.

fallalsnoun (n.pl.) Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws.

filsnoun (n.) Son; -- sometimes used after a French proper name to distinguish a son from his father, as, Alexandre Dumas, fils.

genitalsadjective (a.) The organs of generation; the sexual organs; the private parts.

gimbalsnoun (n.) A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, chronometer, etc., so that it will remain plumb, or level, when its support is tipped, as by the rolling of a ship. It consists of a ring in which the body can turn on an axis through a diameter of the ring, while the ring itself is so pivoted to its support that it can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first.

halsnoun (n.) The neck or throat.

haulsnoun (n.) See Hals.

lachrymalsnoun (n. pl.) Tears; also, lachrymal feelings or organs.

mediaevalsnoun (n. pl.) The people who lived in the Middle Ages.

merilsnoun (n.) A boy's play, called also fivepenny morris. See Morris.

mongolsnoun (n. pl.) Alt. of Mongolians

natalsnoun (n. pl.) One's birth, or the circumstances attending it.

navalsnoun (n.pl.) Naval affairs.

noilsnoun (n. pl.) Waste and knots of wool removed by the comb; combings.

noylsnoun (n. pl.) See Noils.

occidentalsnoun (n.pl.) Western Christians of the Latin rite. See Orientals.

overallsnoun (n. pl.) A kind of loose trousers worn over others to protect them from soiling.
 noun (n. pl.) Waterproof leggings.

quadragesimalsnoun (n. pl.) Offerings formerly made to the mother church of a diocese on Mid-Lent Sunday.
 noun (n. pl.) Offerings formerly made to the mother church of a diocese on Mid-Lent Sunday.

pentecostalsnoun (n. pl.) Offerings formerly made to the parish priest, or to the mother church, at Pentecost.

protometalsnoun (n. pl.) A finer form of metals, indicated by enhanced lines in their spark spectra (which are also observed in the spectra of some stars), obtained at the highest available laboratory temperatures (Lockyer); as protocalcium, protochromium, protocopper, protonickel, protosilicon, protostrontium, prototitanium, protovanadium.

regimentalsnoun (n. pl.) The uniform worn by the officers and soldiers of a regiment; military dress; -- formerly used in the singular in the same sense.

smallsnoun (n. pl.) See Small, n., 2, 3.

srawlsnoun (n. pl.) Small branches of a tree; twigs; sprays.

substantialsnoun (n. pl.) Essential parts.

technicalsnoun (n. pl.) Those things which pertain to the practical part of an art, science, or profession; technical terms; technics.

theatricalsnoun (n. pl.) Dramatic performances; especially, those produced by amateurs.

trisulsnoun (n.) Something having three forks or prongs, as a trident.

tummalsnoun (n.) A great quantity or heap.

victualsnoun (n. pl.) Food for human beings, esp. when it is cooked or prepared for the table; that which supports human life; provisions; sustenance; meat; viands.

vitalsnoun (n. pl.) Organs that are necessary for life; more especially, the heart, lungs, and brain.
 noun (n. pl.) Fig.: The part essential to the life or health of anything; as, the vitals of a state.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ELS (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (el) - Words That Begins with el:


elaborateadjective (a.) Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research.
 verb (v. t.) To produce with labor
 verb (v. t.) To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to elaborate a painting or a literary work.

elaboratingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Elaborate

elaborationnoun (n.) The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
 noun (n.) The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues.

elaborativeadjective (a.) Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details.

elaboratornoun (n.) One who, or that which, elaborates.

elaboratorynoun (n.) A laboratory.
 adjective (a.) Tending to elaborate.

elaeagnusnoun (n.) A genus of shrubs or small trees, having the foliage covered with small silvery scales; oleaster.

elaeisnoun (n.) A genus of palms.

elaeolitenoun (n.) A variety of hephelite, usually massive, of greasy luster, and gray to reddish color.

elaeoptenenoun (n.) The more liquid or volatile portion of certain oily substance, as distinguished from stearoptene, the more solid parts.

elaidatenoun (n.) A salt of elaidic acid.

elaidicadjective (a.) Relating to oleic acid, or elaine.

elaidinnoun (n.) A solid isomeric modification of olein.

elainenoun (n.) Alt. of Elain

elainnoun (n.) Same as Olein.

elaiodicadjective (a.) Derived from castor oil; ricinoleic; as, elaiodic acid.

elaiometernoun (n.) An apparatus for determining the amount of oil contained in any substance, or for ascertaining the degree of purity of oil.

elamitenoun (n.) A dweller in Flam (or Susiana), an ancient kingdom of Southwestern Asia, afterwards a province of Persia.

elampingadjective (a.) Shining.

elancingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Elance

elandnoun (n.) A species of large South African antelope (Oreas canna). It is valued both for its hide and flesh, and is rapidly disappearing in the settled districts; -- called also Cape elk.
 noun (n.) The elk or moose.

elanetnoun (n.) A kite of the genus Elanus.

elaolitenoun (n.) See Elaeolite.

elaoptenenoun (n.) See Elaeoptene.

elaphineadjective (a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of, the stag, or Cervus elaphus.

elaphurenoun (n.) A species of deer (Elaphurus Davidianus) found in china. It is about four feet high at the shoulder and has peculiar antlers.

elapidationnoun (n.) A clearing away of stones.

elapineadjective (a.) Like or pertaining to the Elapidae, a family of poisonous serpents, including the cobras. See Ophidia.

elapsnoun (n.) A genus of venomous snakes found both in America and the Old World. Many species are known. See Coral snake, under Coral.

elapsingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Elapse

elapsionnoun (n.) The act of elapsing.

elasipodanoun (n. pl.) An order of holothurians mostly found in the deep sea. They are remarkable for their bilateral symmetry and curious forms.

elasmobranchnoun (n.) One of the Elasmobranchii.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Elasmobranchii.

elasmobranchiatenoun (n.) One of the Elasmobranchii.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Elasmobranchii.

elasmobranchiinoun (n. pl.) A subclass of fishes, comprising the sharks, the rays, and the Chimaera. The skeleton is mainly cartilaginous.

elasmosaurusnoun (n.) An extinct, long-necked, marine, cretaceous reptile from Kansas, allied to Plesiosaurus.

elasticnoun (n.) An elastic woven fabric, as a belt, braces or suspenders, etc., made in part of India rubber.
 adjective (a.) Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic.
 adjective (a.) Able to return quickly to a former state or condition, after being depressed or overtaxed; having power to recover easily from shocks and trials; as, elastic spirits; an elastic constitution.

elasticaladjective (a.) Elastic.

elasticitynoun (n.) The quality of being elastic; the inherent property in bodies by which they recover their former figure or dimensions, after the removal of external pressure or altering force; springiness; tendency to rebound; as, the elasticity of caoutchouc; the elasticity of the air.
 noun (n.) Power of resistance to, or recovery from, depression or overwork.

elasticnessnoun (n.) The quality of being elastic; elasticity.

elastinnoun (n.) A nitrogenous substance, somewhat resembling albumin, which forms the chemical basis of elastic tissue. It is very insoluble in most fluids, but is gradually dissolved when digested with either pepsin or trypsin.

elateadjective (a.) Lifted up; raised; elevated.
 adjective (a.) Having the spirits raised by success, or by hope; flushed or exalted with confidence; elated; exultant.
 verb (v. t.) To raise; to exalt.
 verb (v. t.) To exalt the spirit of; to fill with confidence or exultation; to elevate or flush with success; to puff up; to make proud.

elatingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Elate

elatednessnoun (n.) The state of being elated.

elaternoun (n.) One who, or that which, elates.
 noun (n.) An elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in some liverworts.
 noun (n.) Any beetle of the family Elateridae, having the habit, when laid on the back, of giving a sudden upward spring, by a quick movement of the articulation between the abdomen and thorax; -- called also click beetle, spring beetle, and snapping beetle.
 noun (n.) The caudal spring used by Podura and related insects for leaping. See Collembola.
 noun (n.) The active principle of elaterium, being found in the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly Motordica Elaterium) and other related species. It is extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance, which is a violent purgative.

elateritenoun (n.) A mineral resin, of a blackish brown color, occurring in soft, flexible masses; -- called also mineral caoutchouc, and elastic bitumen.

elateriumnoun (n.) A cathartic substance obtained, in the form of yellowish or greenish cakes, as the dried residue of the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly called Momordica Elaterium).

elaterometernoun (n.) Same as Elatrometer.

elaterynoun (n.) Acting force; elasticity.

elationnoun (n.) A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ELS:

English Words which starts with 'e' and ends with 's':

estheticsnoun (n.) The theory or philosophy of taste; the science of the beautiful in nature and art; esp. that which treats of the expression and embodiment of beauty by art.
 noun (n.) Same as Aesthete, Aesthetic, Aesthetical, Aesthetics, etc.

eagernessnoun (n.) The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire.
 noun (n.) Tartness; sourness.

eaglessnoun (n.) A female or hen eagle.

eagrassnoun (n.) See Eddish.

earinessnoun (n.) Fear or timidity, especially of something supernatural.

earlessadjective (a.) Without ears; hence, deaf or unwilling to hear.

earlinessnoun (n.) The state of being early or forward; promptness.

earnestnessnoun (n.) The state or quality of being earnest; intentness; anxiety.

earthinessnoun (n.) The quality or state of being earthy, or of containing earth; hence, grossness.

earthlinessnoun (n.) The quality or state of being earthly; worldliness; grossness; perishableness.

earwitnessnoun (n.) A witness by means of his ears; one who is within hearing and does hear; a hearer.

easelessadjective (a.) Without ease.

easinessnoun (n.) The state or condition of being easy; freedom from distress; rest.
 noun (n.) Freedom from difficulty; ease; as the easiness of a task.
 noun (n.) Freedom from emotion; compliance; disposition to yield without opposition; unconcernedness.
 noun (n.) Freedom from effort, constraint, or formality; -- said of style, manner, etc.
 noun (n.) Freedom from jolting, jerking, or straining.

eavesnoun (n. pl.) The edges or lower borders of the roof of a building, which overhang the walls, and cast off the water that falls on the roof.
 noun (n. pl.) Brow; ridge.
 noun (n. pl.) Eyelids or eyelashes.

eblisnoun (n.) The prince of the evil spirits; Satan.

ebriousadjective (a.) Inclined to drink to excess; intoxicated; tipsy.

ecardinesnoun (n. pl.) An order of Brachiopoda; the Lyopomata. See Brachiopoda.

ecbasisnoun (n.) A figure in which the orator treats of things according to their events consequences.

ecchymosisnoun (n.) A livid or black and blue spot, produced by the extravasation or effusion of blood into the areolar tissue from a contusion.

ecclesiastesadjective (a.) One of the canonical books of the Old Testament.

ecclesiasticusnoun (n.) A book of the Apocrypha.

ecdysisnoun (n.) The act of shedding, or casting off, an outer cuticular layer, as in the case of serpents, lobsters, etc.; a coming out; as, the ecdysis of the pupa from its shell; exuviation.

echinococcusnoun (n.) A parasite of man and of many domestic and wild animals, forming compound cysts or tumors (called hydatid cysts) in various organs, but especially in the liver and lungs, which often cause death. It is the larval stage of the Taenia echinococcus, a small tapeworm peculiar to the dog.

echinodermatousadjective (a.) Relating to Echinodermata; echinodermal.

echinusnoun (n.) A hedgehog.
 noun (n.) A genus of echinoderms, including the common edible sea urchin of Europe.
 noun (n.) The rounded molding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve. See Entablature.
 noun (n.) The quarter-round molding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style. See Illust. of Column
 noun (n.) A name sometimes given to the egg and anchor or egg and dart molding, because that ornament is often identified with Roman Doric capital. The name probably alludes to the shape of the shell of the sea urchin.

echolessadjective (a.) Without echo or response.

economicsnoun (n.) The science of household affairs, or of domestic management.
 noun (n.) Political economy; the science of the utilities or the useful application of wealth or material resources. See Political economy, under Political.

ecphasisnoun (n.) An explicit declaration.

ecphonesisnoun (n.) An animated or passionate exclamation.

ectasisnoun (n.) The lengthening of a syllable from short to long.

ecthlipsisnoun (n.) The dropping out or suppression from a word of a consonant, with or without a vowel.
 noun (n.) The elision of a final m, with the preceding vowel, before a word beginning with a vowel.

ectostosisnoun (n.) A process of bone formation in which ossification takes place in the perichondrium and either surrounds or gradually replaces the cartilage.

eczematousadjective (a.) Pertaining to eczema; having the characteristic of eczema.

edaciousadjective (a.) Given to eating; voracious; devouring.

eddoesnoun (n. pl.) The tubers of Colocasia antiquorum. See Taro.

edelweissnoun (n.) A little, perennial, white, woolly plant (Leontopodium alpinum), growing at high elevations in the Alps.

edematousadjective (a.) Alt. of Edematose

edentalousadjective (a.) See Edentate, a.

edentulousadjective (a.) Toothless.

edgelessadjective (a.) Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon.

ediblenessnoun (n.) Suitableness for being eaten.

editressnoun (n.) A female editor.

edriophthalmousadjective (a.) Pertaining to the Edriophthalma.

eduliousadjective (a.) Edible.

eelgrassnoun (n.) A plant (Zostera marina), with very long and narrow leaves, growing abundantly in shallow bays along the North Atlantic coast.

effectivenessnoun (n.) The quality of being effective.

effectlessadjective (a.) Without effect or advantage; useless; bootless.

effectualnessnoun (n.) The quality of being effectual.

effectuousadjective (a.) Effective.

effeminatenessnoun (n.) The state of being effeminate; unmanly softness.

efferousadjective (a.) Like a wild beast; fierce.

efficaciousnoun (n.) Possessing the quality of being effective; productive of, or powerful to produce, the effect intended; as, an efficacious law.

effigiesnoun (n.) See Effigy.
  (pl. ) of Effigy

effortlessadjective (a.) Making no effort.

egilopsnoun (n.) See Aegilops.

eglandulousadjective (a.) Destitute of glands.

egregiousadjective (a.) Surpassing; extraordinary; distinguished (in a bad sense); -- formerly used with words importing a good quality, but now joined with words having a bad sense; as, an egregious rascal; an egregious ass; an egregious mistake.

egregiousnessnoun (n.) The state of being egregious.

egressnoun (n.) The act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure.
 noun (n.) The passing off from the sun's disk of an inferior planet, in a transit.
 verb (v. i.) To go out; to depart; to leave.

electoressnoun (n.) An electress.

electressnoun (n.) The wife or widow of an elector in the old German empire.

electricalnessadjective (a.) The state or quality of being electrical.

electrogenesisnoun (n.) Same as Electrogeny.

electrolysisnoun (n.) The act or process of chemical decomposition, by the action of electricity; as, the electrolysis of silver or nickel for plating; the electrolysis of water.

electrophorusnoun (n.) An instrument for exciting electricity, and repeating the charge indefinitely by induction, consisting of a flat cake of resin, shelllac, or ebonite, upon which is placed a plate of metal.

electrostaticsnoun (n.) That branch of science which treats of statical electricity or electric force in a state of rest.

electrotonousadjective (a.) Electrotonic.

electrotonusnoun (n.) The modified condition of a nerve, when a constant current of electricity passes through any part of it. See Anelectrotonus, and Catelectrotonus.

elementarinessnoun (n.) The state of being elementary; original simplicity; uncompounded state.

elenchusnoun (n.) Same as Elench.

elengenessnoun (n.) Loneliness; misery.

elephantiasisnoun (n.) A disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide.

elevatednessnoun (n.) The quality of being elevated.

elfishnessnoun (n.) The quality of being elfish.

eligiblenessnoun (n.) The quality worthy or qualified to be chosen; suitableness; desirableness.

ellipsisnoun (n.) Omission; a figure of syntax, by which one or more words, which are obviously understood, are omitted; as, the virtues I admire, for, the virtues which I admire.
 noun (n.) An ellipse.

elopsnoun (n.) A genus of fishes. See Saury.
 noun (n.) A mythical serpent.

embassadressnoun (n.) Same as Ambassadress.

emberingsnoun (n. pl.) Ember days.

embolusnoun (n.) Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.
 noun (n.) A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism.

embryoniferousadjective (a.) Having an embryo.

embryousadjective (a.) Embryonic; undeveloped.

emeritusnoun (n.) A veteran who has honorably completed his service.
 adjective (a.) Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church.

emerodsnoun (n. pl.) Alt. of Emeroids

emeroidsnoun (n. pl.) Hemorrhoids; piles; tumors; boils.

emesisnoun (n.) A vomiting.

emissitiousadjective (a.) Looking, or narrowly examining; prying.

emotivenessnoun (n.) Susceptibility to emotion.

emperessnoun (n.) See Empress.

emphasisnoun (n.) A particular stress of utterance, or force of voice, given in reading and speaking to one or more words whose signification the speaker intends to impress specially upon his audience.
 noun (n.) A peculiar impressiveness of expression or weight of thought; vivid representation, enforcing assent; as, to dwell on a subject with great emphasis.

emphaticalnessnoun (n.) The quality of being emphatic; emphasis.

emphysematousadjective (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, emphysema; swelled; bloated.

emphyteusisnoun (n.) A real right, susceptible of assignment and of descent, charged on productive real estate, the right being coupled with the enjoyment of the property on condition of taking care of the estate and paying taxes, and sometimes a small rent.

empressnoun (n.) The consort of an emperor.
 noun (n.) A female sovereign.
 noun (n.) A sovereign mistress.

emprosthotonosnoun (n.) A drawing of the body forward, in consequence of the spasmodic action of some of the muscles.

emptinessnoun (n.) The state of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum; as, the emptiness of a vessel; emptiness of the stomach.
 noun (n.) Want of solidity or substance; unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; vacuity; hollowness; the emptiness of earthly glory.
 noun (n.) Want of knowledge; lack of sense; vacuity of mind.

empyesisnoun (n.) An eruption of pustules.

empyrosisnoun (n.) A general fire; a conflagration.

emrodsnoun (n. pl.) See Emerods.

emulatressnoun (n.) A female emulator.