Name Report For First Name ECT:
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First name ECT's origin is Other. ECT means "innocent". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with ECT below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of ect.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with ECT and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with ECT - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming ECT
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES ECT AS A WHOLE:
electra nectarios perfecta ector hector viradecthisNAMES RHYMING WITH ECT (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ct) - Names That Ends with ct:
NAMES RHYMING WITH ECT (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ec) - Names That Begins with ec:
ecaterina ecgbeorht ecgfrith echa echidna echion echo echoid eckerdNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ECT:
First Names which starts with 'e' and ends with 't':
eadbeorht eadbert eadburt earnest eawart eberhardt eburhardt edbert edet edit edyt effiwat efrat egbert eginhardt einhardt elbert eliot eliott elisabet elisavet elliot elliott eluwilussit emest emmett emmitt emst enat englbehrt englebert enit erchanhardt erconberht ereonberht erhardt ernest ernst erzsebet escorant estcot estcott ethelbert etlelooaat everet everett everhart evert ewart ewertEnglish Words Rhyming ECT
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES ECT AS A WHOLE:
| abject | noun (n.) A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway. |
| adjective (a.) Cast down; low-lying. | |
| adjective (a.) Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. | |
| adjective (a.) To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase. |
| abjectedness | noun (n.) A very abject or low condition; abjectness. |
| abjection | noun (n.) The act of bringing down or humbling. |
| noun (n.) The state of being rejected or cast out. | |
| noun (n.) A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation. |
| abjectness | noun (n.) The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility. |
| acatalectic | noun (n.) A verse which has the complete number of feet and syllables. |
| adjective (a.) Not defective; complete; as, an acatalectic verse. |
| adjection | noun (n.) The act or mode of adding; also, the thing added. |
| adjectional | adjective (a.) Pertaining to adjection; that is, or may be, annexed. |
| adjectival | adjective (a.) Of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the nature of an adjective; adjective. |
| adjective | noun (n.) Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an adjective word or sentence. |
| noun (n.) Not standing by itself; dependent. | |
| noun (n.) Relating to procedure. | |
| noun (n.) A word used with a noun, or substantive, to express a quality of the thing named, or something attributed to it, or to limit or define it, or to specify or describe a thing, as distinct from something else. Thus, in phrase, "a wise ruler," wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler. | |
| noun (n.) A dependent; an accessory. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make an adjective of; to form or change into an adjective. |
| adjectiving | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adjective |
| affecting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Affect |
| adjective (a.) Moving the emotions; fitted to excite the emotions; pathetic; touching; as, an affecting address; an affecting sight. | |
| adjective (a.) Affected; given to false show. |
| affect | noun (n.) Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition. |
| noun (n.) The emotional complex associated with an idea or mental state. In hysteria, the affect is sometimes entirely dissociated, sometimes transferred to another than the original idea. | |
| verb (v. t.) To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon. | |
| verb (v. t.) To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch. | |
| verb (v. t.) To love; to regard with affection. | |
| verb (v. t.) To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually. | |
| verb (v. t.) To dispose or incline. | |
| verb (v. t.) To aim at; to aspire; to covet. | |
| verb (v. t.) To tend to by affinity or disposition. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance. | |
| verb (v. t.) To assign; to appoint. |
| affectation | noun (n.) An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show. |
| noun (n.) A striving after. | |
| noun (n.) Fondness; affection. |
| affectationist | noun (n.) One who exhibits affectation. |
| affected | adjective (p. p. & a.) Regarded with affection; beloved. |
| adjective (p. p. & a.) Inclined; disposed; attached. | |
| adjective (p. p. & a.) Given to false show; assuming or pretending to possess what is not natural or real. | |
| adjective (p. p. & a.) Assumed artificially; not natural. | |
| adjective (p. p. & a.) Made up of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected; as, an affected equation. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Affect |
| affectedness | noun (n.) Affectation. |
| affecter | noun (n.) One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. |
| affectibility | noun (n.) The quality or state of being affectible. |
| affectible | adjective (a.) That may be affected. |
| affection | noun (n.) The act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being affected. |
| noun (n.) An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc. , are affections of bodies. | |
| noun (n.) Bent of mind; a feeling or natural impulse or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind; any emotion; as, the benevolent affections, esteem, gratitude, etc.; the malevolent affections, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency. | |
| noun (n.) A settled good will; kind feeling; love; zealous or tender attachment; -- often in the pl. Formerly followed by to, but now more generally by for or towards; as, filial, social, or conjugal affections; to have an affection for or towards children. | |
| noun (n.) Prejudice; bias. | |
| noun (n.) Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. | |
| noun (n.) The lively representation of any emotion. | |
| noun (n.) Affectation. | |
| noun (n.) Passion; violent emotion. |
| affectional | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature. |
| affectionate | adjective (a.) Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. |
| adjective (a.) Kindly inclined; zealous. | |
| adjective (a.) Proceeding from affection; indicating love; tender; as, the affectionate care of a parent; affectionate countenance, message, language. | |
| adjective (a.) Strongly inclined; -- with to. |
| affectionated | adjective (a.) Disposed; inclined. |
| affectionateness | noun (n.) The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection. |
| affectioned | adjective (a.) Disposed. |
| adjective (a.) Affected; conceited. |
| affective | adjective (a.) Tending to affect; affecting. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to or exciting emotion; affectional; emotional. |
| affectuous | adjective (a.) Full of passion or emotion; earnest. |
| alectorides | noun (n. pl.) A group of birds including the common fowl and the pheasants. |
| alectoromachy | noun (n.) Cockfighting. |
| alectoromancy | noun (n.) See Alectryomancy. |
| alectryom'achy | noun (n.) Cockfighting. |
| alectryomancy | noun (n.) Divination by means of a cock and grains of corn placed on the letters of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the order in which the grains were eaten. |
| allectation | noun (n.) Enticement; allurement. |
| allective | noun (n.) Allurement. |
| adjective (a.) Alluring. |
| amplectant | adjective (a.) Clasping a support; as, amplectant tendrils. |
| analectic | adjective (a.) Relating to analects; made up of selections; as, an analectic magazine. |
| analects | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Analecta |
| analecta | noun (n. pl.) A collection of literary fragments. |
| anelectric | noun (n.) A substance incapable of being electrified by friction. |
| adjective (a.) Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. |
| anelectrode | noun (n.) The positive pole of a voltaic battery. |
| anelectrotonus | noun (n.) The condition of decreased irritability of a nerve in the region of the positive electrode or anode on the passage of a current of electricity through it. |
| annectent | adjective (a.) Connecting; annexing. |
| antapoplectic | noun (n.) A medicine used against apoplexy. |
| adjective (a.) Good against apoplexy. |
| antiapoplectic | noun (a. & n.) Same as Antapoplectic. |
| antivivisection | noun (n.) Opposition to vivisection. |
| antivivisectionist | noun (n.) One opposed to vivisection |
| apoplectic | noun (n.) One liable to, or affected with, apoplexy. |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Apoplectical |
| apoplectical | adjective (a.) Relating to apoplexy; affected with, inclined to, or symptomatic of, apoplexy; as, an apoplectic person, medicine, habit or temperament, symptom, fit, or stroke. |
| apoplectiform | adjective (a.) Alt. of Apoplectoid |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ECT (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (ct) - English Words That Ends with ct:
| abstract | adjective (a.) Withdraw; separate. |
| adjective (a.) Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult. | |
| adjective (a.) Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word. | |
| adjective (a.) Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name. | |
| adjective (a.) Abstracted; absent in mind. | |
| adjective (a.) To withdraw; to separate; to take away. | |
| adjective (a.) To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects. | |
| adjective (a.) To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute. | |
| adjective (a.) To epitomize; to abridge. | |
| adjective (a.) To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till. | |
| adjective (a.) To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract is now more generally used. | |
| adjective (a.) That which comprises or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief. | |
| adjective (a.) A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things. | |
| adjective (a.) An abstract term. | |
| adjective (a.) A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance. | |
| verb (v. t.) To perform the process of abstraction. |
| act | noun (n.) That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed. |
| noun (n.) The result of public deliberation; the decision or determination of a legislative body, council, court of justice, etc.; a decree, edit, law, judgment, resolve, award; as, an act of Parliament, or of Congress. | |
| noun (n.) A formal solemn writing, expressing that something has been done. | |
| noun (n.) A performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the action is completed. | |
| noun (n.) A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student. | |
| noun (n.) A state of reality or real existence as opposed to a possibility or possible existence. | |
| noun (n.) Process of doing; action. In act, in the very doing; on the point of (doing). | |
| verb (v. t.) To move to action; to actuate; to animate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To perform; to execute; to do. | |
| verb (v. t.) To perform, as an actor; to represent dramatically on the stage. | |
| verb (v. t.) To assume the office or character of; to play; to personate; as, to act the hero. | |
| verb (v. t.) To feign or counterfeit; to simulate. | |
| verb (v. i.) To exert power; to produce an effect; as, the stomach acts upon food. | |
| verb (v. i.) To perform actions; to fulfill functions; to put forth energy; to move, as opposed to remaining at rest; to carry into effect a determination of the will. | |
| verb (v. i.) To behave or conduct, as in morals, private duties, or public offices; to bear or deport one's self; as, we know not why he has acted so. | |
| verb (v. i.) To perform on the stage; to represent a character. |
| adjunct | noun (n.) Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it. |
| noun (n.) A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate. | |
| noun (n.) A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or adjuncts of "History." | |
| noun (n.) A quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body, judgment in the mind. | |
| noun (n.) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. [R.] See Attendant keys, under Attendant, a. | |
| adjective (a.) Conjoined; attending; consequent. |
| adstrict | noun (n.) See Astrict, and Astriction. |
| afflict | adjective (p. p. & a.) Afflicted. |
| verb (v. t.) To strike or cast down; to overthrow. | |
| verb (v. t.) To inflict some great injury or hurt upon, causing continued pain or mental distress; to trouble grievously; to torment. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make low or humble. |
| anteact | noun (n.) A preceding act. |
| antefact | noun (n.) Something done before another act. |
| aqueduct | noun (n.) A conductor, conduit, or artificial channel for conveying water, especially one for supplying large cities with water. |
| noun (n.) A canal or passage; as, the aqueduct of Sylvius, a channel connecting the third and fourth ventricles of the brain. |
| architect | noun (n.) A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed. |
| noun (n.) A contriver, designer, or maker. |
| arrect | adjective (a.) Alt. of Arrected |
| verb (v. t.) To direct. | |
| verb (v. t.) To impute. |
| aspect | noun (n.) The act of looking; vision; gaze; glance. |
| noun (n.) Look, or particular appearance of the face; countenance; mien; air. | |
| noun (n.) Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view. | |
| noun (n.) Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass; as, a house has a southern aspect, that is, a position which faces the south. | |
| noun (n.) Prospect; outlook. | |
| noun (n.) The situation of planets or stars with respect to one another, or the angle formed by the rays of light proceeding from them and meeting at the eye; the joint look of planets or stars upon each other or upon the earth. | |
| noun (n.) The influence of the stars for good or evil; as, an ill aspect. | |
| noun (n.) To behold; to look at. | |
| noun (n.) A view of a plane from a given direction, usually from above; more exactly, the manner of presentation of a plane to a fluid through which it is moving or to a current. If an immersed plane meets a current of fluid long side foremost, or in broadside aspect, it sustains more pressure than when placed short side foremost. Hence, long narrow wings are more effective than short broad ones of the same area. |
| astrict | adjective (a.) Concise; contracted. |
| verb (v. t.) To bind up; to confine; to constrict; to contract. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bind; to constrain; to restrict; to limit. | |
| verb (v. t.) To restrict the tenure of; as, to astrict lands. See Astriction, 4. |
| attract | noun (n.) Attraction. |
| verb (v. t.) To draw to, or cause to tend to; esp. to cause to approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist divulsion, separation, or decomposition. | |
| verb (v. t.) To draw by influence of a moral or emotional kind; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure; as, to attract admirers. |
| autodidact | noun (n.) One who is self-taught; an automath. |
| artifact | noun (n.) A product of human workmanship; -- applied esp. to the simpler products of aboriginal art as distinguished from natural objects. |
| noun (n.) A structure or appearance in protoplasm due to death or the use of reagents and not present during life. |
| benedict | noun (n.) Alt. of Benedick |
| adjective (a.) Having mild and salubrious qualities. |
| bract | noun (n.) A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises. |
| noun (n.) Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower. |
| caliduct | noun (n.) A pipe or duct used to convey hot air or steam. |
| caloriduct | noun (n.) A tube or duct for conducting heat; a caliduct. |
| cataphract | noun (n.) Defensive armor used for the whole body and often for the horse, also, esp. the linked mail or scale armor of some eastern nations. |
| noun (n.) A horseman covered with a cataphract. | |
| noun (n.) The armor or plate covering some fishes. |
| cataract | noun (n.) A great fall of water over a precipice; a large waterfall. |
| noun (n.) An opacity of the crystalline lens, or of its capsule, which prevents the passage of the rays of light and impairs or destroys the sight. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of pumping engines and other machines; -- sometimes called dashpot. |
| charact | noun (n.) A distinctive mark; a character; a letter or sign. [Obs.] See Character. |
| circumspect | adjective (a.) Attentive to all the circumstances of a case or the probable consequences of an action; cautious; prudent; wary. |
| coarct | adjective (a.) Alt. of Coarctate |
| compact | noun (n.) An agreement between parties; a covenant or contract. |
| verb (v. t.) To thrust, drive, or press closely together; to join firmly; to consolidate; to make close; -- as the parts which compose a body. | |
| verb (v. t.) To unite or connect firmly, as in a system. | |
| (p. p. & a) Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. | |
| (p. p. & a) Composed or made; -- with of. | |
| (p. p. & a) Closely or firmly united, as the particles of solid bodies; firm; close; solid; dense. | |
| (p. p. & a) Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose; as, a compact discourse. |
| compunct | adjective (a.) Affected with compunction; conscience-stricken. |
| conduct | noun (n.) The act or method of conducting; guidance; management. |
| noun (n.) Skillful guidance or management; generalship. | |
| noun (n.) Convoy; escort; guard; guide. | |
| noun (n.) That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument. | |
| noun (n.) The manner of guiding or carrying one's self; personal deportment; mode of action; behavior. | |
| noun (n.) Plot; action; construction; manner of development. | |
| noun (n.) To lead, or guide; to escort; to attend. | |
| noun (n.) To lead, as a commander; to direct; to manage; to carry on; as, to conduct the affairs of a kingdom. | |
| noun (n.) To behave; -- with the reflexive; as, he conducted himself well. | |
| noun (n.) To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit, as heat, light, electricity, etc. | |
| noun (n.) To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition. | |
| verb (v. i.) To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry. | |
| verb (v. i.) To conduct one's self; to behave. |
| confect | noun (n.) A comfit; a confection. |
| verb (v. t.) To prepare, as sweetmeats; to make a confection of. | |
| verb (v. t.) To construct; to form; to mingle or mix. |
| confract | adjective (a.) Broken in pieces; severed. |
| conject | noun (n.) To throw together, or to throw. |
| verb (v. t.) To conjecture; also, to plan. |
| conjunct | adjective (a.) United; conjoined; concurrent. |
| adjective (a.) Same as Conjoined. |
| construct | adjective (a.) Formed by, or relating to, construction, interpretation, or inference. |
| verb (v. t.) To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edifice. | |
| verb (v. t.) To devise; to invent; to set in order; to arrange; as, to construct a theory of ethics. |
| contact | noun (n.) A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting. |
| noun (n.) The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction. | |
| noun (n.) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock. |
| contract | noun (n.) To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action. |
| noun (n.) To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit. | |
| noun (n.) To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease. | |
| noun (n.) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for. | |
| noun (n.) To betroth; to affiance. | |
| noun (n.) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one. | |
| noun (n.) The agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from doing, some act; an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing; a formal bargain; a compact; an interchange of legal rights. | |
| noun (n.) A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation. | |
| noun (n.) The act of formally betrothing a man and woman. | |
| adjective (a.) Contracted; as, a contract verb. | |
| adjective (a.) Contracted; affianced; betrothed. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail. |
| contradistinct | adjective (a.) Distinguished by opposite qualities. |
| convict | noun (n.) A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime. |
| noun (n.) A criminal sentenced to penal servitude. | |
| adjective (p.a.) Proved or found guilty; convicted. | |
| verb (v. t.) To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience. | |
| verb (v. t.) To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute. | |
| verb (v. t.) To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove. | |
| verb (v. t.) To defeat; to doom to destruction. |
| correct | adjective (a.) Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; as, correct behavior; correct views. |
| verb (v. t.) To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles. | |
| verb (v. t.) To remove or retrench the faults or errors of; to amend; to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the type the changes so marked). | |
| verb (v. t.) To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying. | |
| verb (v. t.) To counteract the qualities of one thing by those of another; -- said of whatever is wrong or injurious; as, to correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline preparations. |
| defect | noun (n.) Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity. |
| noun (n.) Failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral; blemish; as, a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment. | |
| verb (v. i.) To fail; to become deficient. | |
| verb (v. t.) To injure; to damage. |
| defunct | noun (n.) A dead person; one deceased. |
| adjective (a.) Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased. |
| deject | adjective (a.) Dejected. |
| verb (v. t.) To cast down. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cast down the spirits of; to dispirit; to discourage; to dishearten. |
| delict | noun (n.) An offense or transgression against law; (Scots Law) an offense of a lesser degree; a misdemeanor. |
| derelict | noun (n.) A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea. |
| noun (n.) A tract of land left dry by the sea, and fit for cultivation or use. | |
| adjective (a.) Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands. | |
| adjective (a.) Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful. |
| despect | noun (n.) Contempt. |
| detect | adjective (a.) Detected. |
| verb (v. t.) To uncover; to discover; to find out; to bring to light; as, to detect a crime or a criminal; to detect a mistake in an account. | |
| verb (v. t.) To inform against; to accuse. |
| dialect | noun (n.) Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech. |
| noun (n.) The form of speech of a limited region or people, as distinguished from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned. |
| direct | noun (n.) A character, thus [/], placed at the end of a staff on the line or space of the first note of the next staff, to apprise the performer of its situation. |
| adjective (a.) Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means. | |
| adjective (a.) Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken. | |
| adjective (a.) Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous. | |
| adjective (a.) In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line. | |
| adjective (a.) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; -- said of the motion of a celestial body. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates; as, direct nomination, direct legislation. | |
| verb (v. t.) To arrange in a direct or straight line, as against a mark, or towards a goal; to point; to aim; as, to direct an arrow or a piece of ordnance. | |
| verb (v. t.) To point out or show to (any one), as the direct or right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way; as, he directed me to the left-hand road. | |
| verb (v. t.) To determine the direction or course of; to cause to go on in a particular manner; to order in the way to a certain end; to regulate; to govern; as, to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army. | |
| verb (v. t.) To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent; to superscribe; as, to direct a letter. | |
| verb (v. i.) To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide. |
| discinct | adjective (a.) Ungirded; loosely dressed. |
| disjunct | adjective (a.) Disjoined; separated. |
| adjective (a.) Having the head, thorax, and abdomen separated by a deep constriction. |
| dispunct | adjective (a.) Wanting in punctilious respect; discourteous. |
| verb (v. t.) To expunge. |
| disrespect | noun (n.) Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy. |
| verb (v. t.) To show disrespect to. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ECT (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (ec) - Words That Begins with ec:
| ecardines | noun (n. pl.) An order of Brachiopoda; the Lyopomata. See Brachiopoda. |
| ecarte | noun (n.) A game at cards, played usually by two persons, in which the players may discard any or all of the cards dealt and receive others from the pack. |
| noun (n.) A game at cards for two persons, with 32 cards, ranking K, Q, J, A, 10, 9, 8, 7. Five cards are dealt each player, and the 11th turned as trump. Five points constitute a game. |
| ecaudate | adjective (a.) Without a tail or spur. |
| adjective (a.) Tailless. |
| ecballium | noun (n.) A genus of cucurbitaceous plants consisting of the single species Ecballium agreste (or Elaterium), the squirting cucumber. Its fruit, when ripe, bursts and violently ejects its seeds, together with a mucilaginous juice, from which elaterium, a powerful cathartic medicine, is prepared. |
| ecbasis | noun (n.) A figure in which the orator treats of things according to their events consequences. |
| ecbatic | adjective (a.) Denoting a mere result or consequence, as distinguished from telic, which denotes intention or purpose; thus the phrase / /, if rendered "so that it was fulfilled," is ecbatic; if rendered "in order that it might be." etc., is telic. |
| ecbole | noun (n.) A digression in which a person is introduced speaking his own words. |
| ecbolic | noun (n.) A drug, as ergot, which by exciting uterine contractions promotes the expulsion of the contents of the uterus. |
| ecboline | noun (n.) An alkaloid constituting the active principle of ergot; -- so named from its power of producing abortion. |
| eccaleobion | noun (n.) A contrivance for hatching eggs by artificial heat. |
| eccentric | noun (n.) A circle not having the same center as another contained in some measure within the first. |
| noun (n.) One who, or that which, deviates from regularity; an anomalous or irregular person or thing. | |
| noun (n.) In the Ptolemaic system, the supposed circular orbit of a planet about the earth, but with the earth not in its center. | |
| noun (n.) A circle described about the center of an elliptical orbit, with half the major axis for radius. | |
| noun (n.) A disk or wheel so arranged upon a shaft that the center of the wheel and that of the shaft do not coincide. It is used for operating valves in steam engines, and for other purposes. The motion derived is precisely that of a crank having the same throw. | |
| adjective (a.) Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center or from true circular motion. | |
| adjective (a.) Not having the same center; -- said of circles, ellipses, spheres, etc., which, though coinciding, either in whole or in part, as to area or volume, have not the same center; -- opposed to concentric. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to an eccentric; as, the eccentric rod in a steam engine. | |
| adjective (a.) Not coincident as to motive or end. | |
| adjective (a.) Deviating from stated methods, usual practice, or established forms or laws; deviating from an appointed sphere or way; departing from the usual course; irregular; anomalous; odd; as, eccentric conduct. |
| eccentrical | adjective (a.) See Eccentric. |
| eccentricity | noun (n.) The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity. |
| noun (n.) The ratio of the distance between the center and the focus of an ellipse or hyperbola to its semi-transverse axis. | |
| noun (n.) The ratio of the distance of the center of the orbit of a heavenly body from the center of the body round which it revolves to the semi-transverse axis of the orbit. | |
| noun (n.) The distance of the center of figure of a body, as of an eccentric, from an axis about which it turns; the throw. |
| ecchymosis | noun (n.) A livid or black and blue spot, produced by the extravasation or effusion of blood into the areolar tissue from a contusion. |
| ecchymotic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to ecchymosis. |
| eccle | noun (n.) The European green woodpecker; -- also called ecall, eaquall, yaffle. |
| ecclesia | noun (n.) The public legislative assembly of the Athenians. |
| noun (n.) A church, either as a body or as a building. |
| ecclesial | adjective (a.) Ecclesiastical. |
| ecclesiarch | noun (n.) An official of the Eastern Church, resembling a sacrist in the Western Church. |
| ecclesiast | noun (n.) An ecclesiastic. |
| noun (n.) The Apocryphal book of Ecclesiasticus. |
| ecclesiastes | adjective (a.) One of the canonical books of the Old Testament. |
| ecclesiastic | noun (n.) A person in holy orders, or consecrated to the service of the church and the ministry of religion; a clergyman; a priest. |
| verb (v. t.) Of or pertaining to the church. See Ecclesiastical. |
| ecclesiastical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the church; relating to the organization or government of the church; not secular; as, ecclesiastical affairs or history; ecclesiastical courts. |
| ecclesiasticism | noun (n.) Strong attachment to ecclesiastical usages, forms, etc. |
| ecclesiasticus | noun (n.) A book of the Apocrypha. |
| ecclesiological | adjective (a.) Belonging to ecclesiology. |
| ecclesiologist | noun (n.) One versed in ecclesiology. |
| ecclesiology | noun (n.) The science or theory of church building and decoration. |
| eccritic | noun (n.) A remedy which promotes discharges, as an emetic, or a cathartic. |
| ecderon | noun (n.) See Ecteron. |
| ecdysis | noun (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. |
| ecgonine | noun (n.) A colorless, crystalline, nitrogenous base, obtained by the decomposition of cocaine. |
| echauguette | noun (n.) A small chamber or place of protection for a sentinel, usually in the form of a projecting turret, or the like. See Castle. |
| eche | noun (a. / a. pron.) Each. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| echidnine | noun (n.) The clear, viscid fluid secreted by the poison glands of certain serpents; also, a nitrogenous base contained in this, and supposed to be the active poisonous principle of the virus. |
| echinate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Echinated |
| echinated | adjective (a.) Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp. |
| echinid | noun (a. & n.) Same as Echinoid. |
| echinidan | noun (n.) One the Echinoidea. |
| echinital | adjective (a.) Of, or like, an echinite. |
| echinite | noun (n.) A fossil echinoid. |
| echinococcus | noun (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. |
| echinoderm | noun (n.) One of the Echinodermata. |
| echinodermal | adjective (a.) Relating or belonging to the echinoderms. |
| echinodermata | noun (n. pl.) One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom. By many writers it was formerly included in the Radiata. |
| echinodermatous | adjective (a.) Relating to Echinodermata; echinodermal. |
| echinoid | noun (n.) One of the Echinoidea. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Echinoidea. |
| 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. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ECT:
English Words which starts with 'e' and ends with 't':
| eaglet | noun (n.) A young eagle, or a diminutive eagle. |
| earlet | noun (n.) An earring. |
| earnest | noun (n.) Seriousness; reality; fixed determination; eagerness; intentness. |
| noun (n.) Something given, or a part paid beforehand, as a pledge; pledge; handsel; a token of what is to come. | |
| noun (n.) Something of value given by the buyer to the seller, by way of token or pledge, to bind the bargain and prove the sale. | |
| adjective (a.) Ardent in the pursuit of an object; eager to obtain or do; zealous with sincerity; with hearty endeavor; heartfelt; fervent; hearty; -- used in a good sense; as, earnest prayers. | |
| adjective (a.) Intent; fixed closely; as, earnest attention. | |
| adjective (a.) Serious; important. | |
| verb (v. t.) To use in earnest. |
| earshot | noun (n.) Reach of the ear; distance at which words may be heard. |
| earshrift | noun (n.) A nickname for auricular confession; shrift. |
| earthnut | noun (n.) A name given to various roots, tubers, or pods grown under or on the ground |
| noun (n.) The esculent tubers of the umbelliferous plants Bunium flexuosum and Carum Bulbocastanum. | |
| noun (n.) The peanut. See Peanut. |
| easement | noun (n.) That which gives ease, relief, or assistance; convenience; accommodation. |
| noun (n.) A liberty, privilege, or advantage, which one proprietor has in the estate of another proprietor, distinct from the ownership of the soil, as a way, water course, etc. It is a species of what the civil law calls servitude. | |
| noun (n.) A curved member instead of an abrupt change of direction, as in a baseboard, hand rail, etc. |
| east | noun (n.) The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to rise at the equinox, or the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and which is toward the right hand of one who faces the north; the point directly opposite to the west. |
| noun (n.) The eastern parts of the earth; the regions or countries which lie east of Europe; the orient. In this indefinite sense, the word is applied to Asia Minor, Syria, Chaldea, Persia, India, China, etc.; as, the riches of the East; the diamonds and pearls of the East; the kings of the East. | |
| noun (n.) Formerly, the part of the United States east of the Alleghany Mountains, esp. the Eastern, or New England, States; now, commonly, the whole region east of the Mississippi River, esp. that which is north of Maryland and the Ohio River; -- usually with the definite article; as, the commerce of the East is not independent of the agriculture of the West. | |
| adjective (a.) Toward the rising sun; or toward the point where the sun rises when in the equinoctial; as, the east gate; the east border; the east side; the east wind is a wind that blows from the east. | |
| adjective (a.) Designating, or situated in, that part of a church which contains the choir or chancel; as, the east front of a cathedral. | |
| adverb (adv.) Eastward. | |
| verb (v. i.) To move toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east; to orientate. |
| easternmost | adjective (a.) Most eastern. |
| ebonist | noun (n.) One who works in ebony. |
| ebullient | adjective (a.) Boiling up or over; hence, manifesting exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling; effervescing. |
| eclat | noun (n.) Brilliancy of success or effort; splendor; brilliant show; striking effect; glory; renown. |
| noun (n.) Demonstration of admiration and approbation; applause. |
| economist | noun (n.) One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste. |
| noun (n.) One who is conversant with political economy; a student of economics. |
| ecrasement | noun (n.) The operation performed with an ecraseur. |
| ectoblast | noun (n.) The outer layer of the blastoderm; the epiblast; the ectoderm. |
| noun (n.) The outer envelope of a cell; the cell wall. |
| ectocyst | noun (n.) The outside covering of the Bryozoa. |
| edgeshot | adjective (a.) Having an edge planed, -- said of a board. |
| edict | noun (n.) A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power; the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority, as if by the very act of announcement; a decree; as, the edicts of the Roman emperors; the edicts of the French monarch. |
| edificant | adjective (a.) Building; constructing. |
| educationist | noun (n.) One who is versed in the theories of, or who advocates and promotes, education. |
| educt | noun (n.) That which is educed, as by analysis. |
| edulcorant | noun (n.) An edulcorant remedy. |
| adjective (a.) Having a tendency to purify or to sweeten by removing or correcting acidity and acrimony. |
| eelpot | noun (n.) A boxlike structure with funnel-shaped traps for catching eels; an eelbuck. |
| eelpout | noun (n.) A European fish (Zoarces viviparus), remarkable for producing living young; -- called also greenbone, guffer, bard, and Maroona eel. Also, an American species (Z. anguillaris), -- called also mutton fish, and, erroneously, congo eel, ling, and lamper eel. Both are edible, but of little value. |
| noun (n.) A fresh-water fish, the burbot. |
| effacement | noun (n.) The act if effacing; also, the result of the act. |
| effect | noun (n.) Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May. |
| noun (n.) Manifestation; expression; sign. | |
| noun (n.) In general: That which is produced by an agent or cause; the event which follows immediately from an antecedent, called the cause; result; consequence; outcome; fruit; as, the effect of luxury. | |
| noun (n.) Impression left on the mind; sensation produced. | |
| noun (n.) Power to produce results; efficiency; force; importance; account; as, to speak with effect. | |
| noun (n.) Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; -- with to. | |
| noun (n.) The purport; the sum and substance. | |
| noun (n.) Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance. | |
| noun (n.) Goods; movables; personal estate; -- sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from the town with their effects. | |
| verb (v. t.) To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish. |
| efferent | noun (n.) An efferent duct or stream. |
| adjective (a.) Conveying outward, or discharging; -- applied to certain blood vessels, lymphatics, nerves, etc. | |
| adjective (a.) Conveyed outward; as, efferent impulses, i. e., such as are conveyed by the motor or efferent nerves from the central nervous organ outwards; -- opposed to afferent. |
| effervescent | adjective (a.) Gently boiling or bubbling, by means of the disengagement of gas |
| effet | noun (n.) The common newt; -- called also asker, eft, evat, and ewt. |
| efficient | noun (n.) Causing effects; producing results; that makes the effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable; characterized by energetic and useful activity; as, an efficient officer, power. |
| noun (n.) An efficient cause; a prime mover. |
| effluent | noun (n.) A stream that flows out of another stream or lake. |
| adjective (a.) Flowing out; as, effluent beams. |
| effodient | adjective (a.) Digging up. |
| effort | noun (n.) An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle directed to the accomplishment of an object; as, an effort to scale a wall. |
| noun (n.) A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion. | |
| verb (v. t.) To stimulate. |
| effrontit | adjective (a.) Marked by impudence. |
| effulgent | adjective (a.) Diffusing a flood of light; shining; luminous; beaming; bright; splendid. |
| efreet | noun (n.) See Afrit. |
| eft | noun (n.) A European lizard of the genus Seps. |
| noun (n.) A salamander, esp. the European smooth newt (Triton punctatus). | |
| adverb (adv.) Again; afterwards; soon; quickly. |
| eggement | noun (n.) Instigation; incitement. |
| egghot | noun (n.) A kind of posset made of eggs, brandy, sugar, and ale. |
| eggplant | noun (n.) A plant (Solanum Melongena), of East Indian origin, allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, smooth, edible fruit, shaped somewhat like an egg; mad-apple. |
| egoist | noun (n.) One given overmuch to egoism or thoughts of self. |
| noun (n.) A believer in egoism. |
| egotist | noun (n.) One addicted to egotism; one who speaks much of himself or magnifies his own achievements or affairs. |
| egret | noun (n.) The name of several species of herons which bear plumes on the back. They are generally white. Among the best known species are the American egret (Ardea, / Herodias, egretta); the great egret (A. alba); the little egret (A. garzetta), of Europe; and the American snowy egret (A. candidissima). |
| noun (n.) A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament; an aigrette. | |
| noun (n.) The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, as the down of the thistle. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of ape. |
| egriot | noun (n.) A kind of sour cherry. |
| egyptologist | noun (n.) One skilled in the antiquities of Egypt; a student of Egyptology. |
| eight | noun (n.) An island in a river; an ait. |
| noun (n.) The number greater by a unit than seven; eight units or objects. | |
| noun (n.) A symbol representing eight units, as 8 or viii. | |
| adjective (a.) Seven and one; as, eight years. |
| ejectment | noun (n.) A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of tenants from their homes. |
| noun (n.) A species of mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of it. |
| elanet | noun (n.) A kite of the genus Elanus. |
| elderwort | noun (n.) Danewort. |
| eldest | adjective (a.) Oldest; longest in duration. |
| adjective (a.) Born or living first, or before the others, as a son, daughter, brother, etc.; first in origin. See Elder. |
| elect | noun (n.) One chosen or set apart. |
| noun (n.) Those who are chosen for salvation. | |
| adjective (a.) Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more. | |
| adjective (a.) Chosen as the object of mercy or divine favor; set apart to eternal life. | |
| adjective (a.) Chosen to an office, but not yet actually inducted into it; as, bishop elect; governor or mayor elect. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pick out; to select; to choose. | |
| verb (v. t.) To select or take for an office; to select by vote; as, to elect a representative, a president, or a governor. | |
| verb (v. t.) To designate, choose, or select, as an object of mercy or favor. |
| electant | noun (n.) One who has the power of choosing; an elector. |
| elegant | adjective (a.) Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure. |
| adjective (a.) Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste. |
| elegiast | noun (n.) One who composes elegies. |
| elegist | noun (n.) A write of elegies. |
| elegit | noun (n.) A judicial writ of execution, by which a defendant's goods are appraised and delivered to the plaintiff, and, if not sufficient to satisfy the debt, all of his lands are delivered, to be held till the debt is paid by the rents and profits, or until the defendant's interest has expired. |
| element | noun (n.) One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. |
| noun (n.) One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically: (Chem.) A substance which cannot be decomposed into different kinds of matter by any means at present employed; as, the elements of water are oxygen and hydrogen. | |
| noun (n.) One of the ultimate parts which are variously combined in anything; as, letters are the elements of written language; hence, also, a simple portion of that which is complex, as a shaft, lever, wheel, or any simple part in a machine; one of the essential ingredients of any mixture; a constituent part; as, quartz, feldspar, and mica are the elements of granite. | |
| noun (n.) One out of several parts combined in a system of aggregation, when each is of the nature of the whole; as, a single cell is an element of the honeycomb. | |
| noun (n.) One of the smallest natural divisions of the organism, as a blood corpuscle, a muscular fiber. | |
| noun (n.) One of the simplest essential parts, more commonly called cells, of which animal and vegetable organisms, or their tissues and organs, are composed. | |
| noun (n.) An infinitesimal part of anything of the same nature as the entire magnitude considered; as, in a solid an element may be the infinitesimal portion between any two planes that are separated an indefinitely small distance. In the calculus, element is sometimes used as synonymous with differential. | |
| noun (n.) Sometimes a curve, or surface, or volume is considered as described by a moving point, or curve, or surface, the latter being at any instant called an element of the former. | |
| noun (n.) One of the terms in an algebraic expression. | |
| noun (n.) One of the necessary data or values upon which a system of calculations depends, or general conclusions are based; as, the elements of a planet's orbit. | |
| noun (n.) The simplest or fundamental principles of any system in philosophy, science, or art; rudiments; as, the elements of geometry, or of music. | |
| noun (n.) Any outline or sketch, regarded as containing the fundamental ideas or features of the thing in question; as, the elements of a plan. | |
| noun (n.) One of the simple substances, as supposed by the ancient philosophers; one of the imaginary principles of matter. | |
| noun (n.) The four elements were, air, earth, water, and fire | |
| noun (n.) the conditions and movements of the air. | |
| noun (n.) The elements of the alchemists were salt, sulphur, and mercury. | |
| noun (n.) The whole material composing the world. | |
| noun (n.) The bread and wine used in the eucharist or Lord's supper. | |
| verb (v. t.) To compound of elements or first principles. | |
| verb (v. t.) To constitute; to make up with elements. |
| elephant | noun (n.) A mammal of the order Proboscidia, of which two living species, Elephas Indicus and E. Africanus, and several fossil species, are known. They have a proboscis or trunk, and two large ivory tusks proceeding from the extremity of the upper jaw, and curving upwards. The molar teeth are large and have transverse folds. Elephants are the largest land animals now existing. |
| noun (n.) Ivory; the tusk of the elephant. |
| elicit | adjective (a.) Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident. |
| verb (v. t.) To draw out or entice forth; to bring to light; to bring out against the will; to deduce by reason or argument; as, to elicit truth by discussion. |
| eliminant | noun (n.) The result of eliminating n variables between n homogeneous equations of any degree; -- called also resultant. |
| eliquament | noun (n.) A liquid obtained from fat, or fat fish, by pressure. |
| elknut | noun (n.) The buffalo nut. See under Buffalo. |
| elocutionist | noun (n.) One who is versed in elocution; a teacher of elocution. |
| elogist | noun (n.) One who pronounces an eloge. |
| elohist | noun (n.) The writer, or one of the writers, of the passages of the Old Testament, notably those of Elohim instead of Jehovah, as the name of the Supreme Being; -- distinguished from Jehovist. |
| eloignment | noun (n.) Removal to a distance; withdrawal. |
| eloinment | noun (n.) See Eloignment. |
| elopement | noun (n.) The act of eloping; secret departure; -- said of a woman and a man, one or both, who run away from their homes for marriage or for cohabitation. |
| eloquent | adjective (a.) Having the power of expressing strong emotions or forcible arguments in an elevated, impassioned, and effective manner; as, an eloquent orator or preacher. |
| adjective (a.) Adapted to express strong emotion or to state facts arguments with fluency and power; as, an eloquent address or statement; an eloquent appeal to a jury. |
| emanant | adjective (a.) Issuing or flowing forth; emanating; passing forth into an act, or making itself apparent by an effect; -- said of mental acts; as, an emanant volition. |
| emancipationist | noun (n.) An advocate of emancipation, esp. the emancipation of slaves. |
| emancipist | noun (n.) A freed convict. |
| embalmment | noun (n.) The act of embalming. |
| embankment | noun (n.) The act of surrounding or defending with a bank. |
| noun (n.) A structure of earth, gravel, etc., raised to prevent water from overflowing a level tract of country, to retain water in a reservoir, or to carry a roadway, etc. |
| embarkment | noun (n.) Embarkation. |
| embarrassment | noun (n.) A state of being embarrassed; perplexity; impediment to freedom of action; entanglement; hindrance; confusion or discomposure of mind, as from not knowing what to do or to say; disconcertedness. |
| noun (n.) Difficulty or perplexity arising from the want of money to pay debts. |
| embattlement | noun (n.) An intended parapet; a battlement. |
| noun (n.) The fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements. |
| embayment | noun (n.) A bay. |
| embedment | noun (n.) The act of embedding, or the state of being embedded. |
| embellishment | noun (n.) The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment. |
| noun (n.) That which adds beauty or elegance; ornament; decoration; as, pictorial embellishments. |
| embezzlement | noun (n.) The fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted; as, the embezzlement by a clerk of his employer's; embezzlement of public funds by the public officer having them in charge. |
| embitterment | noun (n.) The act of embittering; also, that which embitters. |
| emblazonment | noun (n.) An emblazoning. |
| emblematist | noun (n.) A writer or inventor of emblems. |
| emblement | noun (n.) The growing crop, or profits of a crop which has been sown or planted; -- used especially in the plural. The produce of grass, trees, and the like, is not emblement. |
| embodiment | noun (n.) The act of embodying; the state of being embodied. |
| noun (n.) That which embodies or is embodied; representation in a physical body; a completely organized system, like the body; as, the embodiment of courage, or of courtesy; the embodiment of true piety. |
| emboitement | noun (n.) The hypothesis that all living things proceed from preexisting germs, and that these encase the germs of all future living things, inclosed one within another. |
| embonpoint | noun (n.) Plumpness of person; -- said especially of persons somewhat corpulent. |
| embossment | noun (n.) The act of forming bosses or raised figures, or the state of being so formed. |
| noun (n.) A bosslike prominence; figure in relief; raised work; jut; protuberance; esp., a combination of raised surfaces having a decorative effect. |
| embowelment | noun (n.) Disembowelment. |
| emboyssement | noun (n.) An ambush. |
| embracement | noun (n.) A clasp in the arms; embrace. |
| noun (n.) State of being contained; inclosure. | |
| noun (n.) Willing acceptance. |
| embranchment | noun (n.) The branching forth, as of trees. |
| embreathement | noun (n.) The act of breathing in; inspiration. |
| embroilment | noun (n.) The act of embroiling, or the condition of being embroiled; entanglement in a broil. |
| embryologist | noun (n.) One skilled in embryology. |
| embushment | noun (n.) An ambush. |
| emergent | adjective (a.) Rising or emerging out of a fluid or anything that covers or conceals; issuing; coming to light. |
| adjective (a.) Suddenly appearing; arising unexpectedly; calling for prompt action; urgent. |
| emicant | adjective (a.) Beaming forth; flashing. |
| emigrant | noun (n.) One who emigrates, or quits one country or region to settle in another. |
| verb (v. i.) Removing from one country to another; emigrating; as, an emigrant company or nation. | |
| verb (v. i.) Pertaining to an emigrant; used for emigrants; as, an emigrant ship or hospital. |
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