ETAN
First name ETAN's origin is Hebrew. ETAN means "strong". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with ETAN below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of etan.(Brown names are of the same origin (Hebrew) with ETAN and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming ETAN
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES ETAN AS A WHOLE:
metanira setanta gaetan etana gaetana gaetane tretanNAMES RHYMING WITH ETAN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (tan) - Names That Ends with tan:
tan sultan nechtan vartan wotan zoltan botan christan aethelstan aitan brentan brittan chattan destan drystan dustan jonatan macartan macnachtan stan thurstan tristan trystan bittan dristan athelstan andettan atyhtan tobrytan dunstanRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (an) - Names That Ends with an:
achan ayan iman lishan loiyan nishan saran anan hanan janan rukan sawsan wijdan shoushan siran morgan regan nuallan jolan yasiman siobhan ran papan teyacapan tonalnan shuman lilian bian abdiraxman aman hassan labaan taban aidan germian willan al-asfan aswan bourkan farhan ferhan foursan lahthan lamaan ramadan sahran shaaban shoukran aban abdul-rahman arfan ayman burhan ghassan hamdan ihsan imran irfan luqman ma'n marwan nabhan nu'man omran othman rahman rayhan ridwan safwan salmanNAMES RHYMING WITH ETAN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (eta) - Names That Begins with eta:
etain etalpalliRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (et) - Names That Begins with et:
etchemin etel etenia eteocles eth ethan ethel ethelbald ethelbert ethelinda ethelinde ethelred ethelreda ethelwulf etheswitha ethna ethne ethyn etienne etilka etlelooaat etney etor etta ettard ettare ettie ettore etty etuNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ETAN:
First Names which starts with 'e' and ends with 'n':
eachan eachann eachthighearn eadaion eadlin eadlyn eadwyn eagan eagon ealdian ealdun ealhdun eallison eamon eamonn earlson earnan earvin earwyn eason easton eathelin eathelyn eaton eatun eavan eban eben eburacon eburscon echion edan eddison edeen eden edern edison edlen edlin edlyn edlynn edmon edson edwardson edwin edwyn efnisien efrain efran efren efron egan egerton eghan egon ehren eibhlhin eibhlin eideann eileen eimhin einion eithan elan eldan elden eldon eldrian eldwin eldwyn elgin elhanan eljin elleen ellen ellison elliston ellyn elsdon elson elston elton elvern elvin elvyn elwen elwin elwyn elynn eman emerson emlyn emmalyn emman encarnacion endymion eoghan eoghann eoin eorlsonEnglish Words Rhyming ETAN
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES ETAN AS A WHOLE:
acetanilide | noun (n.) A compound of aniline with acetyl, used to allay fever or pain; -- called also antifebrine. |
caffetannic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the tannin of coffee. |
carburetant | noun (n.) Any volatile liquid used in charging illuminating gases. |
coetanean | noun (n.) A person coetaneous with another; a contemporary. |
coetaneous | adjective (a.) Of the same age; beginning to exist at the same time; contemporaneous. |
cretan | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Crete or Candia. |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to Crete, or Candia. |
mahometan | noun (n.) See Mohammedan. |
mahometanism | noun (n.) See Mohammedanism. |
mahometanizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mahometanize |
mahumetan | noun (n.) Alt. of Mahumetanism |
mahumetanism | noun (n.) See Mohammedan, Mohammedanism. |
metanauplius | noun (n.) A larval crustacean in a stage following the nauplius, and having about seven pairs of appendages. |
metanephritic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the metanephros. |
metanephros | noun (n.) The most posterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in many vertebrates. |
metanotum | noun (n.) The dorsal portion of the metaphorax of insects. |
metantimonate | noun (n.) A salt of metantimonic acid. |
metantimonic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (formerly called antimonic acid) analogous to metaphosphoric acid, and obtained as a white amorphous insoluble substance, (HSbO3). |
adjective (a.) Formerly, designating an acid, which is now properly called pyroantimonic acid, and analogous to pyrophosphoric acid. |
orvietan | noun (n.) A kind of antidote for poisons; a counter poison formerly in vogue. |
precoetanean | noun (n.) One contemporary with, but older than, another. |
proletaneous | adjective (a.) Having a numerous offspring. |
teetan | noun (n.) A pipit. |
tetanic | noun (n.) A substance (notably nux vomica, strychnine, and brucine) which, either as a remedy or a poison, acts primarily on the spinal cord, and which, when taken in comparatively large quantity, produces tetanic spasms or convulsions. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to tetanus; having the character of tetanus; as, a tetanic state; tetanic contraction. | |
adjective (a.) Producing, or tending to produce, tetanus, or tonic contraction of the muscles; as, a tetanic remedy. See Tetanic, n. |
tetanin | noun (n.) A poisonous base (ptomaine) formed in meat broth through the agency of a peculiar microbe from the wound of a person who has died of tetanus; -- so called because it produces tetanus as one of its prominent effects. |
tetanization | noun (n.) The production or condition of tetanus. |
tetanoid | adjective (a.) Resembling tetanus. |
tetanomotor | noun (n.) An instrument from tetanizing a muscle by irritating its nerve by successive mechanical shocks. |
tetanus | noun (n.) A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected, it is called locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and it takes various names from the various incurvations of the body resulting from the spasm. |
noun (n.) That condition of a muscle in which it is in a state of continued vibratory contraction, as when stimulated by a series of induction shocks. |
tetany | noun (n.) A morbid condition resembling tetanus, but distinguished from it by being less severe and having intermittent spasms. |
thibetan | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Thibet. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Thibet. |
tolletane | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Toledo in Spain; made in Toledo. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ETAN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (tan) - English Words That Ends with tan:
acritan | noun (n.) An individual of the Acrita. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Acrita. |
acropolitan | adjective (a.) Pertaining to an acropolis. |
argentan | noun (n.) An alloy of nickel with copper and zinc; German silver. |
augustan | noun (n.) Of or pertaining to Augustus Caesar or to his times. |
noun (n.) Of or pertaining to the town of Augsburg. |
avestan | noun (n.) The language of the Avesta; -- less properly called Zend. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Avesta or the language of the Avesta. |
caftan | noun (n.) A garment worn throughout the Levant, consisting of a long gown with sleeves reaching below the hands. It is generally fastened by a belt or sash. |
verb (v. t.) To clothe with a caftan. |
capstan | noun (n.) A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket. |
charlatan | noun (n.) One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank. |
cosmopolitan | noun (n.) Alt. of Cosmopolite |
adjective (a.) Alt. of Cosmopolite |
habitan | noun (n.) Same as Habitant, 2. |
harmattan | noun (n.) A dry, hot wind, prevailing on the Atlantic coast of Africa, in December, January, and February, blowing from the interior or Sahara. It is usually accompanied by a haze which obscures the sun. |
laputan | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Laputa, an imaginary flying island described in Gulliver's Travels as the home of chimerical philosophers. Hence, fanciful; preposterous; absurd in science or philosophy. |
mangostan | noun (n.) A tree of the East Indies of the genus Garcinia (G. Mangostana). The tree grows to the height of eighteen feet, and bears fruit also called mangosteen, of the size of a small apple, the pulp of which is very delicious food. |
mannitan | noun (n.) A white amorphous or crystalline substance obtained by the partial dehydration of mannite. |
mercaptan | noun (n.) Any one of series of compounds, hydrosulphides of alcohol radicals, in composition resembling the alcohols, but containing sulphur in place of oxygen, and hence called also the sulphur alcohols. In general, they are colorless liquids having a strong, repulsive, garlic odor. The name is specifically applied to ethyl mercaptan, C2H5SH. So called from its avidity for mercury, and other metals. |
metropolitan | noun (n.) The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province. |
noun (n.) An archbishop. | |
noun (n.) A bishop whose see is civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury. | |
adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his dignity; as, metropolitan authority. |
moutan | noun (n.) The Chinese tree peony (Paeonia Mountan), a shrub with large flowers of various colors. |
neapolitan | noun (n.) A native or citizen of Naples. |
adjective (a.) Of of pertaining to Naples in Italy. |
nehushtan | noun (n.) A thing of brass; -- the name under which the Israelites worshiped the brazen serpent made by Moses. |
nicolaitan | noun (n.) One of certain corrupt persons in the early church at Ephesus, who are censured in rev. ii. 6, 15. |
quartan | noun (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days. |
noun (n.) A measure, the fourth part of some other measure. | |
noun (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days. | |
noun (n.) A measure, the fourth part of some other measure. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the fourth; occurring every fourth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quartan ague, or fever. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the fourth; occurring every fourth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quartan ague, or fever. |
quintan | noun (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days. |
noun (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days. | |
adjective (a.) Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever. | |
adjective (a.) Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever. |
partan | noun (n.) An edible British crab. |
platan | noun (n.) The plane tree. |
puritan | noun (n.) One who, in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts, opposed traditional and formal usages, and advocated simpler forms of faith and worship than those established by law; -- originally, a term of reproach. The Puritans formed the bulk of the early population of New England. |
noun (n.) One who is scrupulous and strict in his religious life; -- often used reproachfully or in contempt; one who has overstrict notions. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Puritans; resembling, or characteristic of, the Puritans. |
rambutan | noun (n.) A Malayan fruit produced by the tree Nephelium lappaceum, and closely related to the litchi nut. It is bright red, oval in shape, covered with coarse hairs (whence the name), and contains a pleasant acid pulp. Called also ramboostan. |
ratan | noun (n.) See Rattan. |
rattan | noun (n.) One of the long slender flexible stems of several species of palms of the genus Calamus, mostly East Indian, though some are African and Australian. They are exceedingly tough, and are used for walking sticks, wickerwork, chairs and seats of chairs, cords and cordage, and many other purposes. |
sacristan | noun (n.) An officer of the church who has the care of the utensils or movables, and of the church in general; a sexton. |
samaritan | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Samaria; also, the language of Samaria. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Samaria, in Palestine. |
satan | noun (n.) The grand adversary of man; the Devil, or Prince of darkness; the chief of the fallen angels; the archfiend. |
spartan | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Sparta; figuratively, a person of great courage and fortitude. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Sparta, especially to ancient Sparta; hence, hardy; undaunted; as, Spartan souls; Spartan bravey. |
sultan | noun (n.) A ruler, or sovereign, of a Mohammedan state; specifically, the ruler of the Turks; the Padishah, or Grand Seignior; -- officially so called. |
sumpitan | noun (n.) A kind of blowgun for discharging arrows, -- used by the savages of Borneo and adjacent islands. |
shaitan | noun (n.) Alt. of Sheitan |
sheitan | noun (n.) An evil spirit; the evil one; the devil. |
noun (n.) One of bad disposition; a fiend. | |
noun (n.) A dust storm. |
tan | noun (n.) See Picul. |
noun (n.) The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. Called also tan bark. | |
noun (n.) A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan. | |
noun (n.) A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands covered with tan. | |
noun (n.) To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid (which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water. | |
noun (n.) To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin. | |
adjective (a.) Of the color of tan; yellowish-brown. | |
verb (v. i.) To get or become tanned. | |
verb (v. t.) To thrash or beat; to flog; to switch. |
tarlatan | noun (n.) A kind of thin, transparent muslin, used for dresses. |
tartan | noun (n.) Woolen cloth, checkered or crossbarred with narrow bands of various colors, much worn in the Highlands of Scotland; hence, any pattern of tartan; also, other material of a similar pattern. |
noun (n.) A small coasting vessel, used in the Mediterranean, having one mast carrying large leteen sail, and a bowsprit with staysail or jib. |
titan | adjective (a.) Titanic. |
tripolitan | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Tripoli. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Tripoli or its inhabitants; Tripoline. |
witan | noun (n. pl.) Lit., wise men; |
noun (n. pl.) the members of the national, or king's, council which sat to assist the king in administrative and judicial matters; also, the council. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ETAN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (eta) - Words That Begins with eta:
etaac | noun (n.) The blue buck. |
etacism | noun (n.) The pronunciation of the Greek / (eta) like the Italian e long, that is like a in the English word ate. See Itacism. |
etacist | noun (n.) One who favors etacism. |
etagere | noun (n.) A piece of furniture having a number of uninclosed shelves or stages, one above another, for receiving articles of elegance or use. |
etamine | noun (n.) A light textile fabric, like a fine bunting. |
etape | noun (n.) A public storehouse. |
noun (n.) Supplies issued to troops on the march; | |
noun (n.) the place where troops on the march halt over night; also, by extension, the distance marched during a day. | |
noun (n.) In Russia, a prison or stockade for the confinement of prisoners in transit. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ETAN:
English Words which starts with 'e' and ends with 'n':
esopian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Aesop, or in his manner. |
adjective (a.) Alt. of Esopic |
ealderman | noun (n.) Alt. of Ealdorman |
ealdorman | noun (n.) An alderman. |
earldorman | noun (n.) Alderman. |
earn | noun (n.) See Ern, n. |
verb (v. t.) To merit or deserve, as by labor or service; to do that which entitles one to (a reward, whether the reward is received or not). | |
verb (v. t.) To acquire by labor, service, or performance; to deserve and receive as compensation or wages; as, to earn a good living; to earn honors or laurels. | |
verb (v. t. & i.) To grieve. | |
verb (v. i.) To long; to yearn. | |
verb (v. i.) To curdle, as milk. |
earthborn | adjective (a.) Born of the earth; terrigenous; springing originally from the earth; human. |
adjective (a.) Relating to, or occasioned by, earthly objects. |
earthdin | noun (n.) An earthquake. |
earthen | adjective (a.) Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe. |
eastern | adjective (a.) Situated or dwelling in the east; oriental; as, an eastern gate; Eastern countries. |
adjective (a.) Going toward the east, or in the direction of east; as, an eastern voyage. |
east indian | noun (n.) A native of, or a dweller in, the East Indies. |
() Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. |
eblanin | noun (n.) See Pyroxanthin. |
ebon | noun (n.) Ebony. |
adjective (a.) Consisting of ebony. | |
adjective (a.) Like ebony, especially in color; black; dark. |
ebullition | noun (n.) A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor. |
noun (n.) Effervescence occasioned by fermentation or by any other process which causes the liberation of a gas or an aeriform fluid, as in the mixture of an acid with a carbonated alkali. | |
noun (n.) A sudden burst or violent display; an outburst; as, an ebullition of anger or ill temper. |
eburin | noun (n.) A composition of dust of ivory or of bone with a cement; -- used for imitations of valuable stones and in making moldings, seals, etc. |
eburnation | noun (n.) A condition of bone cartilage occurring in certain diseases of these tissues, in which they acquire an unnatural density, and come to resemble ivory. |
eburnean | adjective (a.) Made of or relating to ivory. |
eburnification | noun (n.) The conversion of certain substances into others which have the appearance or characteristics of ivory. |
eccaleobion | noun (n.) A contrivance for hatching eggs by artificial heat. |
ecderon | noun (n.) See Ecteron. |
echelon | noun (n.) An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance. |
noun (n.) An arrangement of a fleet in a wedge or V formation. | |
verb (v. t.) To place in echelon; to station divisions of troops in echelon. | |
verb (v. i.) To take position in echelon. |
echinidan | noun (n.) One the Echinoidea. |
echon | noun (pron.) Alt. of Echoon |
echoon | noun (pron.) Each one. |
economization | noun (n.) The act or practice of using to the best effect. |
ecteron | noun (n.) The external layer of the skin and mucous membranes; epithelium; ecderon. |
ectozoon | noun (n.) See Epizoon. |
ectropion | noun (n.) An unnatural eversion of the eyelids. |
eden | noun (n.) The garden where Adam and Eve first dwelt; hence, a delightful region or residence. |
edentation | noun (n.) A depriving of teeth. |
edification | noun (n.) The act of edifying, or the state of being edified; a building up, especially in a moral or spiritual sense; moral, intellectual, or spiritual improvement; instruction. |
noun (n.) A building or edifice. |
edition | noun (n.) A literary work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner; as, a good edition of Chaucer; Chalmers' edition of Shakespeare. |
noun (n.) The whole number of copies of a work printed and published at one time; as, the first edition was soon sold. |
education | noun (n.) The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education. |
eduction | noun (n.) The act of drawing out or bringing into view. |
edulcoration | noun (n.) The act of sweetening or edulcorating. |
noun (n.) The act of freeing from acids or any soluble substances, by affusions of water. |
een | noun (n.) The old plural of Eye. |
effascination | noun (n.) A charming; state of being bewitched or deluded. |
effection | noun (n.) Creation; a doing. |
effectuation | noun (n.) Act of effectuating. |
effemination | noun (n.) Effeminacy; womanishness. |
effigiation | noun (n.) The act of forming in resemblance; an effigy. |
efflation | noun (n.) The act of filling with wind; a breathing or puffing out; a puff, as of wind. |
effluxion | noun (n.) The act of flowing out; effusion. |
noun (n.) That which flows out; effluvium; emanation. |
efformation | noun (n.) The act of giving shape or form. |
effossion | noun (n.) A digging out or up. |
effrenation | noun (n.) Unbridled license; unruliness. |
effusion | noun (n.) The act of pouring out; as, effusion of water, of blood, of grace, of words, and the like. |
noun (n.) That which is poured out, literally or figuratively. | |
noun (n.) The escape of a fluid out of its natural vessel, either by rupture of the vessel, or by exudation through its walls. It may pass into the substance of an organ, or issue upon a free surface. | |
noun (n.) The liquid escaping or exuded. |
egean | adjective (a.) See Aegean. |
egestion | noun (n.) Act or process of egesting; a voiding. |
eghen | noun (n. pl.) Eyes. |
egremoin | noun (n.) Agrimony (Agrimonia Eupatoria). |
egression | noun (n.) The act of going; egress. |
egyptian | noun (n.) A native, or one of the people, of Egypt; also, the Egyptian language. |
noun (n.) A gypsy. | |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to Egypt, in Africa. |
eidolon | noun (n.) An image or representation; a form; a phantom; an apparition. |
eighteen | noun (n.) The number greater by a unit than seventeen; eighteen units or objects. |
noun (n.) A symbol denoting eighteen units, as 18 or xviii. | |
adjective (a.) Eight and ten; as, eighteen pounds. |
eikon | noun (n.) An image or effigy; -- used rather in an abstract sense, and rarely for a work of art. |
ejaculation | noun (n.) The act of throwing or darting out with a sudden force and rapid flight. |
noun (n.) The uttering of a short, sudden exclamation or prayer, or the exclamation or prayer uttered. | |
noun (n.) The act of ejecting or suddenly throwing, as a fluid from a duct. |
ejection | noun (n.) The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation. |
noun (n.) The act or process of discharging anything from the body, particularly the excretions. | |
noun (n.) The state of being ejected or cast out; dispossession; banishment. |
ejulation | noun (n.) A wailing; lamentation. |
ekaboron | noun (n.) The name given by Mendelejeff in accordance with the periodic law, and by prediction, to a hypothetical element then unknown, but since discovered and named scandium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the boron group. See Scandium. |
ekasilicon | noun (n.) The name of a hypothetical element predicted and afterwards discovered and named germanium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the silicon group. See Germanium, and cf. Ekabor. |
elaboration | noun (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. |
elaidin | noun (n.) A solid isomeric modification of olein. |
elain | noun (n.) Same as Olein. |
elapidation | noun (n.) A clearing away of stones. |
elapsion | noun (n.) The act of elapsing. |
elastin | noun (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. |
elation | noun (n.) A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity. |
eldern | adjective (a.) Made of elder. |
election | adjective (a.) The act of choosing; choice; selection. |
adjective (a.) The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor. | |
adjective (a.) Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act. | |
adjective (a.) Discriminating choice; discernment. | |
adjective (a.) Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of Calvinism. | |
adjective (a.) The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other. | |
adjective (a.) Those who are elected. |
electrician | noun (n.) An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity. |
electrification | noun (n.) The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity. |
electrition | noun (n.) The recognition by an animal body of the electrical condition of external objects. |
electrization | noun (n.) The act of electrizing; electrification. |
electrolyzation | noun (n.) The act or the process of electrolyzing. |
electron | noun (n.) Amber; also, the alloy of gold and silver, called electrum. |
() One of those particles, having about one thousandth the mass of a hydrogen atom, which are projected from the cathode of a vacuum tube as the cathode rays and from radioactive substances as the beta rays; -- called also corpuscle. The electron carries (or is) a natural unit of negative electricity, equal to 3.4 x 10-10 electrostatic units. It has been detected only when in rapid motion; its mass, which is electromagnetic, is practically constant at the lesser speeds, but increases as the velocity approaches that of light. Electrons are all of one kind, so far as known, and probably are the ultimate constituents of all atoms. An atom from which an electron has been detached has a positive charge and is called a coelectron. |
eleidin | noun (n.) Lifeless matter deposited in the form of minute granules within the protoplasm of living cells. |
elementation | noun (n.) Instruction in the elements or first principles. |
elemin | noun (n.) A transparent, colorless oil obtained from elemi resin by distillation with water; also, a crystallizable extract from the resin. |
eleusinian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Eleusis, in Greece, or to secret rites in honor of Ceres, there celebrated; as, Eleusinian mysteries or festivals. |
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. |
eleven | noun (n.) The sum of ten and one; eleven units or objects. |
noun (n.) A symbol representing eleven units, as 11 or xi. | |
noun (n.) The eleven men selected to play on one side in a match, as the representatives of a club or a locality; as, the all-England eleven. | |
adjective (a.) Ten and one added; as, eleven men. |
elfin | noun (n.) A little elf or urchin. |
adjective (a.) Relating to elves. |
elfkin | noun (n.) A little elf. |
elicitation | noun (n.) The act of eliciting. |
elimination | noun (n.) The act of expelling or throwing off |
noun (n.) the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories. | |
noun (n.) Act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities. | |
noun (n.) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate, 4.] |
elinguation | noun (n.) Punishment by cutting out the tongue. |
eliquation | noun (n.) The process of separating a fusible substance from one less fusible, by means of a degree of heat sufficient to melt the one and not the other, as an alloy of copper and lead; liquation. |
elison | noun (n.) Division; separation. |
noun (n.) The cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together. |
elixation | noun (n.) A seething; digestion. |
elizabethan | noun (n.) One who lived in England in the time of Queen Elizabeth. |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, literature. |
elleborin | noun (n.) See Helleborin. |
elmen | adjective (a.) Belonging to elms. |
elocation | noun (n.) A removal from the usual place of residence. |
noun (n.) Departure from the usual state; an ecstasy. |
elocution | noun (n.) Utterance by speech. |
noun (n.) Oratorical or expressive delivery, including the graces of intonation, gesture, etc.; style or manner of speaking or reading in public; as, clear, impressive elocution. | |
noun (n.) Suitable and impressive writing or style; eloquent diction. |
elodian | noun (n.) One of a tribe of tortoises, including the terrapins, etc., in which the head and neck can be withdrawn. |
elongation | noun (n.) The act of lengthening, or the state of being lengthened; protraction; extension. |
noun (n.) That which lengthens out; continuation. | |
noun (n.) Removal to a distance; withdrawal; a being at a distance; distance. | |
noun (n.) The angular distance of a planet from the sun; as, the elongation of Venus or Mercury. |
elsin | noun (n.) A shoemaker's awl. |
elucidation | noun (n.) A making clear; the act of elucidating or that which elucidates, as an explanation, an exposition, an illustration; as, one example may serve for further elucidation of the subject. |
eluctation | noun (n.) A struggling out of any difficulty. |
elucubration | noun (n.) See Lucubration. |