ESTA
First name ESTA's origin is Europe. ESTA means "from the east". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with ESTA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of esta.(Brown names are of the same origin (Europe) with ESTA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming ESTA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES ESTA AS A WHOLE:
celesta emesta ernesta modesta aeccestane destan truitestall desta bestandan claresta destaneeNAMES RHYMING WITH ESTA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (sta) - Names That Ends with sta:
amista vlasta gusta baptista jocasta battista trista pista calista callista calysta casta christa crista kalista krista fausta bautista asta anstaRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ta) - Names That Ends with ta:
aminata binata binta fanta ismitta leta nasheeta nashita bixenta adsaluta bricta nantosuelta paharita serenata alzbeta agneta almeta gjerta alberta elberta hrothbeorhta fusberta admeta aleta atalanta delta errita giancinta irta kineta minta panagiota rheta zeta zyta gitta amrita anahita jaganmata jarita jivanta samvarta shanta sita vineeta vinata aletta annuziata antonietta benedetta brunetta concetta donata edita elisabetta enrichetta guiditta lunetta renata rosetta traviata kita amayeta awanata awinita ayita huata kuwanlelenta mankalita peta tablita tadita tayanita antoaneta codruta constanta craita draguta elisabeta florentaNAMES RHYMING WITH ESTA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (est) - Names That Begins with est:
estcot estcott esteban estebana estebe estee estefan estefana estefani estefania estefany estela estelita estella estelle estephanie ester esteva estevan estevao estevon esther estia estmund eston estra estrela estrella estrellitaRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (es) - Names That Begins with es:
esam esau escalibor escanor escorant esdras esequiel eshan eshe eshkol esi esiankiki esinam eskama eskame eskild eskor esma esmak esme esmeralda esmeraude esmerelda esmond esmund espen esperanza esquevelle esra esrlson essam essence essien eszter esztiNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ESTA:
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 editha editta edla edmanda edmonda edmunda edna edorta edra edrea eduarda edva edwa edwina edwinna edytha eeva 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 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 elisavetaEnglish Words Rhyming ESTA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES ESTA AS A WHOLE:
afforestation | noun (n.) The act of converting into forest or woodland. |
alestake | noun (n.) A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a "bush." |
antestature | noun (n.) A small intrenchment or work of palisades, or of sacks of earth. |
arrestation | noun (n.) Arrest. |
attestation | noun (n.) The act of attesting; testimony; witness; a solemn or official declaration, verbal or written, in support of a fact; evidence. The truth appears from the attestation of witnesses, or of the proper officer. The subscription of a name to a writing as a witness, is an attestation. |
attestative | adjective (a.) Of the nature of attestation. |
avesta | noun (n.) The Zoroastrian scriptures. See Zend-Avesta. |
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. |
bridestake | noun (n.) A stake or post set in the ground, for guests at a wedding to dance round. |
circumgestation | noun (n.) The act or process of carrying about. |
coestablishment | noun (n.) Joint establishment. |
coestate | noun (n.) Joint estate. |
colestaff | noun (n.) See Colstaff. |
contestable | adjective (a.) Capable of being contested; debatable. |
contestant | noun (n.) One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another. |
contestation | noun (n.) The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute. |
noun (n.) Proof by witness; attestation; testimony. |
cuesta | noun (n.) A sloping plain, esp. one with the upper end at the crest of a cliff; a hill or ridge with one face steep and the opposite face gently sloping. |
dehonestation | noun (n.) A dishonoring; disgracing. |
detestability | noun (n.) Capacity of being odious. |
detestable | adjective (a.) Worthy of being detested; abominable; extremely hateful; very odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices. |
detestableness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being detestable. |
detestation | noun (n.) The act of detesting; extreme hatred or dislike; abhorrence; loathing. |
disestablishment | noun (n.) The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by Act of Parliament. |
noun (n.) The condition of being disestablished. |
disforestation | noun (n.) The act of clearing land of forests. |
egesta | noun (n. pl.) That which is egested or thrown off from the body by the various excretory channels; excrements; -- opposed to ingesta. |
establishing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Establish |
establish | adjective (a.) To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm. |
adjective (a.) To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain. | |
adjective (a.) To originate and secure the permanent existence of; to found; to institute; to create and regulate; -- said of a colony, a state, or other institutions. | |
adjective (a.) To secure public recognition in favor of; to prove and cause to be accepted as true; as, to establish a fact, usage, principle, opinion, doctrine, etc. | |
adjective (a.) To set up in business; to place advantageously in a fixed condition; -- used reflexively; as, he established himself in a place; the enemy established themselves in the citadel. |
establisher | noun (n.) One who establishes. |
establishment | noun (n.) The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation. |
noun (n.) The state of being established, founded, and the like; fixed state. | |
noun (n.) That which is established; as: (a) A form of government, civil or ecclesiastical; especially, a system of religion maintained by the civil power; as, the Episcopal establishment of England. (b) A permanent civil, military, or commercial, force or organization. (c) The place in which one is permanently fixed for residence or business; residence, including grounds, furniture, equipage, etc.; with which one is fitted out; also, any office or place of business, with its fixtures; that which serves for the carrying on of a business; as, to keep up a large establishment; a manufacturing establishment. |
establishmentarian | noun (n.) One who regards the Church primarily as an establishment formed by the State, and overlooks its intrinsic spiritual character. |
estacade | noun (n.) A dike of piles in the sea, a river, etc., to check the approach of an enemy. |
estafet | noun (n.) Alt. of Estafette |
estafette | noun (n.) A courier who conveys messages to another courier; a military courier sent from one part of an army to another. |
estancia | noun (n.) A grazing; a country house. |
estate | noun (n.) Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation. |
noun (n.) Social standing or rank; quality; dignity. | |
noun (n.) A person of high rank. | |
noun (n.) A property which a person possesses; a fortune; possessions, esp. property in land; also, property of all kinds which a person leaves to be divided at his death. | |
noun (n.) The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs. | |
noun (n.) The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm (England), which are (1) the lords spiritual, (2) the lords temporal, (3) the commons. | |
noun (n.) The degree, quality, nature, and extent of one's interest in, or ownership of, lands, tenements, etc.; as, an estate for life, for years, at will, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To establish. | |
verb (v. t.) Tom settle as a fortune. | |
verb (v. t.) To endow with an estate. |
estatlich | adjective (a.) Alt. of Estatly |
estatly | adjective (a.) Stately; dignified. |
eyestalk | noun (n.) One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip. |
estaminet | noun (n.) A cafe, or room in a cafe, in which smoking is allowed. |
festal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a holiday or a feast; joyous; festive. |
forestaff | noun (n.) An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross-staff. |
forestage | noun (n.) A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters. |
noun (n.) A service paid by foresters to the king. |
forestal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to forests; as, forestal rights. |
forestalling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forestall |
forestaller | noun (n.) One who forestalls; esp., one who forestalls the market. |
forestay | noun (n.) A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. See Illust. under Ship. |
fiesta | noun (n.) Among Spanish, a religious festival; a saint's day or holiday; also, a holiday or festivity. |
gestant | adjective (a.) Bearing within; laden; burdened; pregnant. |
gestation | noun (n.) The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments). |
noun (n.) The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy. | |
noun (n.) Exercise in which one is borne or carried, as on horseback, or in a carriage, without the exertion of his own powers; passive exercise. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ESTA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (sta) - English Words That Ends with sta:
arista | noun (n.) An awn. |
ballista | noun (n.) An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles. |
costa | noun (n.) A rib of an animal or a human being. |
noun (n.) A rib or vein of a leaf, especially the midrib. | |
noun (n.) The anterior rib in the wing of an insect. | |
noun (n.) One of the riblike longitudinal ridges on the exterior of many corals. |
crusta | noun (n.) A crust or shell. |
noun (n.) A gem engraved, or a plate embossed in low relief, for inlaying a vase or other object. |
dynasta | noun (n.) A tyrant. |
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. |
genista | noun (n.) A genus of plants including the common broom of Western Europe. |
ingesta | noun (n. pl.) That which is introduced into the body by the stomach or alimentary canal; -- opposed to egesta. |
locusta | noun (n.) The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses. |
organista | noun (n.) Any one of several South American wrens, noted for the sweetness of their song. |
pharyngopneusta | noun (n. pl.) A group of invertebrates including the Tunicata and Enteropneusta. |
podesta | noun (n.) One of the chief magistrates of the Italian republics in the Middle Ages. |
noun (n.) A mayor, alderman, or other magistrate, in some towns of Italy. |
protista | noun (n. pl.) A provisional group in which are placed a number of low microscopic organisms of doubtful nature. Some are probably plants, others animals. |
(pl. ) of Protiston |
protoplasta | noun (n. pl.) A division of fresh-water rhizopods including those that have a soft body and delicate branched pseudopodia. The genus Gromia is one of the best-known. |
siesta | noun (n.) A short sleep taken about the middle of the day, or after dinner; a midday nap. |
shasta | noun (n.) A mountain peak, etc., in California. |
testa | noun (n.) The external hard or firm covering of many invertebrate animals. |
noun (n.) The outer integument of a seed; the episperm, or spermoderm. |
vesta | noun (n.) One of the great divinities of the ancient Romans, identical with the Greek Hestia. She was a virgin, and the goddess of the hearth; hence, also, of the fire on it, and the family round it. |
noun (n.) An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by Olbers in 1807. | |
noun (n.) A wax friction match. |
vista | noun (n.) A view; especially, a view through or between intervening objects, as trees; a view or prospect through an avenue, or the like; hence, the trees or other objects that form the avenue. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ESTA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (est) - Words That Begins with est:
esthesiometer | noun (n.) An instrument to measure the degree of sensation, by determining at how short a distance two impressions upon the skin can be distinguished, and thus to determine whether the condition of tactile sensibility is normal or altered. |
noun (n.) Same as Aesthesiometer. |
esthetics | noun (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. |
est | noun (n. & adv.) East. |
esteeming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Esteem |
esteemable | adjective (a.) Worthy of esteem; estimable. |
esteemer | noun (n.) One who esteems; one who sets a high value on any thing. |
ester | noun (n.) An ethereal salt, or compound ether, consisting of an organic radical united with the residue of any oxygen acid, organic or inorganic; thus the natural fats are esters of glycerin and the fatty acids, oleic, etc. |
esthete | noun (n.) Alt. of Esthetics |
esthetic | noun (n.) Alt. of Esthetics |
esthetical | noun (n.) Alt. of Esthetics |
estiferous | adjective (a.) Producing heat. |
estimable | noun (n.) A thing worthy of regard. |
adjective (a.) Capable of being estimated or valued; as, estimable damage. | |
adjective (a.) Valuable; worth a great price. | |
adjective (a.) Worth of esteem or respect; deserving our good opinion or regard. |
estimableness | noun (n.) The quality of deserving esteem or regard. |
estimating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Estimate |
estimate | noun (n.) A valuing or rating by the mind, without actually measuring, weighing, or the like; rough or approximate calculation; as, an estimate of the cost of a building, or of the quantity of water in a pond. |
verb (v. t.) To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data, -- either the extrinsic (money), or intrinsic (moral), value; to fix the worth of roughly or in a general way; as, to estimate the value of goods or land; to estimate the worth or talents of a person. | |
verb (v. t.) To from an opinion of, as to amount,, number, etc., from imperfect data, comparison, or experience; to make an estimate of; to calculate roughly; to rate; as, to estimate the cost of a trip, the number of feet in a piece of land. |
estimative | adjective (a.) Inclined, or able, to estimate; serving for, or capable of being used in, estimating. |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to an estimate. |
estimator | noun (n.) One who estimates or values; a valuer. |
estival | noun (n.) Alt. of Estivation |
estivate | noun (n.) Alt. of Estivation |
estivation | noun (n.) Same as Aestival, Aestivate, etc. |
estoile | noun (n.) A six-pointed star whose rays are wavy, instead of straight like those of a mullet. |
estopping | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Estop |
estoppel | noun (n.) A stop; an obstruction or bar to one's alleging or denying a fact contrary to his own previous action, allegation, or denial; an admission, by words or conduct, which induces another to purchase rights, against which the party making such admission can not take a position inconsistent with the admission. |
noun (n.) The agency by which the law excludes evidence to dispute certain admissions, which the policy of the law treats as indisputable. |
estovers | noun (n. pl.) Necessaries or supples; an allowance to a person out of an estate or other thing for support; as of wood to a tenant for life, etc., of sustenance to a man confined for felony of his estate, or alimony to a woman divorced out of her husband's estate. |
estrade | noun (n.) A portion of the floor of a room raised above the general level, as a place for a bed or a throne; a platform; a dais. |
estramacon | noun (n.) A straight, heavy sword with two edges, used in the 16th and 17th centuries. |
noun (n.) A blow with edge of a sword. |
estranging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Estrange |
estrangedness | noun (n.) State of being estranged; estrangement. |
estrangement | noun (n.) The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation. |
estranger | noun (n.) One who estranges. |
estrapade | noun (n.) The action of a horse, when, to get rid of his rider, he rears, plunges, and kicks furiously. |
estray | noun (n.) Any valuable animal, not wild, found wandering from its owner; a stray. |
verb (v. i.) To stray. |
estre | noun (n.) The inward part of a building; the interior. |
estreat | noun (n.) A true copy, duplicate, or extract of an original writing or record, esp. of amercements or penalties set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer. |
verb (v. t.) To extract or take out from the records of a court, and send up to the court of exchequer to be enforced; -- said of a forfeited recognizance. | |
verb (v. t.) To bring in to the exchequer, as a fine. |
estreating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Estreat |
estrepement | noun (n.) A destructive kind of waste, committed by a tenant for life, in lands, woods, or houses. |
estrich | noun (n.) Ostrich. |
noun (n.) The down of the ostrich. |
estuance | noun (n.) Heat. |
estuarine | adjective (a.) Pertaining to an estuary; estuary. |
estuary | noun (n.) A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth. |
noun (n.) A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith. | |
adjective (a.) Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata. |
estuating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Estuate |
estuation | noun (n.) The act of estuating; commotion, as of a fluid; agitation. |
estufa | noun (n.) An assembly room in dwelling of the Pueblo Indians. |
esture | noun (n.) Commotion. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ESTA:
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
euryalida | noun (n. pl.) A tribe of Ophiuroidea, including the genera Euryale, Astrophyton, etc. They generally have the arms branched. See Astrophyton. |
eurypteroidea | noun (n. pl.) An extinct order of Merostomata, of which the genus Eurypterus is the type. They are found only in Paleozoic rocks. |
euthanasia | noun (n.) An easy death; a mode of dying to be desired. |
euthyneura | noun (n. pl.) A large division of gastropod molluske, including the Pulmonifera and Opisthobranchiata. |