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Princeton University - WordNet - a lexical database for the English language Category: General Date & country: 27/01/2008, USA Words: 85192

edmontosaurus
noun duck-billed dinosaur from Canada found as a fossilized mummy with skin

Edmund Cartwright
noun English clergyman who invented the power loom (1743-1823)

Edmund Charles Edouard Genet
Citizen Genet noun French diplomat who in 1793 tried to draw the United States into the war between France and England (1763-1834)

Edmund I
noun king of the English who succeeded Athelstan; he drove out the Danes and made peace with Scotland (921-946)

Edmund II
Edmund Ironside noun king of the English who led resistance to Canute but was defeated and forced to divide the kingdom with Canute (980-1016)

Edmund Wilson
noun United States literary critic (1895-1972)

Edo
noun a member of a west African people living in the tropical forest region of southern Nigeria

Edsel Bryant Ford
noun son of Henry Ford (1893-1943)

educate
verb give an education to; `We must educate our youngsters better`

educate
civilize verb train to be discriminative in taste or judgment; `Cultivate your musical taste`; `Train your tastebuds`; `She is well schooled in poetry`

educated
enlightened adjective having or based on relevant experience; `an educated guess`; `an enlightened electorate`

education
instruction 1 teaching 1 pedagogy 1 didactics noun the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill; `he received no formal education`; `our instruction was carefully programmed`; `good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded`

education
noun the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior); `a woman of breeding and refinement`

educational
adjective providing knowledge; `an educational film`

educational institution
noun an institution dedicated to education

educational program
noun a program for providing education

educationally
adverb in an educational manner; `the assistant masters formed a committee of their own to consider what could be done educationally for the town`

educationist
educationalist noun a specialist in the theory of education

educative
adjective resulting in education; `an educative experience`

educator
pedagogue noun someone who educates young people

educe
evoke 1 elicit verb deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); `We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant`

edutainment
noun entertainment that is intended to be educational

Edward
noun son of Edward III who defeated the French at Crecy and Poitiers in the Hundred Years` War (1330-1376)

Edward Fitzgerald
noun English poet remembered primarily for his free translation of the poetry of Omar Khayyam (1809-1883)

Edward I
noun King of England from 1272 to 1307; conquered Wales (1239-1307)

Edward III
noun son of Edward II and King of England from 1327-1377; his claim to the French throne provoked the Hundred Years` War; his reign was marked by an epidemic of the Black Plague and by the emergence of the House of Commons as the powerful arm of British Parliament (1312-1377)

Edward IV
noun King of England from 1461 to 1470 and from 1471 to 1483; was dethroned in 1470 but regained the throne in 1471 by his victory at the battle of Tewkesbury (1442-1483)

Edward Lawrie Tatum
noun United States biochemist who discovered how genes act by regulating definite chemical events (1909-1975)

Edward the Confessor
Saint Edward the Confessor noun son of Ethelred the Unready; King of England from 1042 to 1066; he founded Westminster Abbey where he was eventually buried (1003-1066)

Edward the Elder
noun king of Wessex whose military success against the Danes made it possible for his son Athelstan to become the first king of all England (870-924)

Edward V
noun King of England who was crowned at the age of 13 on the death of his father Edward IV but was immediately confined to the Tower of London where he and his younger brother were murdered (1470-1483)

Edward VI
noun King of England and Ireland from 1547 to 1553; son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour; died of tuberculosis (1537-1553)

Edward VII
Albert Edward noun King of England from 1901 to 1910; son of Victoria and Prince Albert; famous for his elegant sporting ways (1841-1910)

Edward White
Edward D. White noun United States jurist appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1910 by President Taft; noted for his work on antitrust legislation (1845-1921)

Edward Wyllis Scripps
noun United States newspaper publisher who founded an important press association; half-brother of James Edmund Scripps (1854-1926)

Edward Young
noun English poet (1683-1765)

Edwardian
adjective of or relating to or characteristic of the era of Edward VII in England; `Edwardian furniture`

Edwards
Jonathan Edwards noun American theologian whose sermons and writings stimulated a period of renewed interest in religion in America (1703-1758)

Edwin
noun king of Northumbria who was converted to Christianity (585-633)

Edwin Arlington Robinson
noun United States poet; author of narrative verse (1869-1935)

Edwy
Eadwig noun King of England who was renounced by Northumbria in favor of his brother Edgar (died in 959)

eel
noun voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins

eel-shaped
adjective shaped in the form of an eel

Eelam
Tamil Eelam noun the independent state that the Tamil Tigers have fought for

eelblenny
noun eellike fishes found in subarctic coastal waters

eelgrass
sea wrack 2 Zostera marina noun submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts

eellike
adjective resembling an eel in being long and thin and sinuous

eelworm
noun any of various small free-living plant-parasitic roundworms

eerie
eery adjective inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening; `an uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods`; `an eerie midnight howl`

eerily
spookily adverb in an unnatural eery manner; `it was eerily quiet in the chapel`

eeriness
ghostliness noun strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear

efface
verb make inconspicuous; `efface oneself`

effaceable
erasable adjective capable of being effaced; `the fire`s worst scars were effaceable by a comprehensive program of reforestation`; `a signal too loud to be erasable in a single pass through the erase head`

effacement
self-effacement noun withdrawing into the background; making yourself inconspicuous

effect
essence noun the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

effecter
effector noun one who brings about a result or event; one who accomplishes a purpose

effective
efficient adjective able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively; `people who will do nothing unless they get something out of it for themselves are often highly effective persons...`-G.B.Shaw; `effective personnel`; `an efficient secretary`; `the efficient cause of the revolution`

effectively
in effect adverb in actuality or reality or fact; `she is effectively his wife`; `in effect, they had no choice`

effectiveness
effectivity noun power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect

effector
noun an organ (a gland or muscle) that becomes active in response to nerve impulses

effects
personal effects noun property of a personal character that is portable but not used in business; `she left some of her personal effects in the house`; `I watched over their effects until they returned`

effectually
adverb in an effectual manner; `Bismarck was constantly criticised by the more liberal newspapers, and he retaliated by passing an emergency decree that effectually muzzled the press`

effeminacy
effeminateness noun the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man); `the students associated science with masculinity and arts with effeminacy`; `he was shocked by the softness of the atmosphere surrounding the young prince, arising from the superfluity of the femininity that guided him`

effeminate
emasculate adjective having unsuitable feminine qualities

effendi
noun a former Turkish term of respect; especially for government officials

efferent
motorial adjective of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS; `efferent nerves and impulses`

effervescence
noun the process of bubbling as gas escapes

effervescent
adjective (of a liquid) giving off bubbles

efficacious
adjective marked by qualities giving the power to produce an intended effect; `written propaganda is less efficacious than the habits and prejudices...of the readers`-Aldous Huxley; `the medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough`

efficaciously
adverb in an effective manner; `these are real problems that can be dealt with most effectively by rational discussion`

efficacy
efficaciousness noun capacity or power to produce a desired effect; `concern about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine`

efficiency
noun skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort; `she did the work with great efficiency`

efficiency apartment
noun a furnished apartment with a kitchenette and bathroom

efficiency expert
efficiency engineer noun an expert in increasing the efficient use of machines and personnel

efficient
adjective being effective without wasting time or effort or expense; `an efficient production manager`; `efficient engines save gas`

efficiently
expeditiously adverb in an efficient manner; `he functions efficiently`

effigy
image 1 simulacrum noun a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture); `the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln`; `the emperor`s tomb had his image carved in stone`

effleurage
noun a rhythmic stroking; `effleurage of the abdomen is used in the Lamaze method of childbirth`

effloresce
verb come into or as if into flower; `These manifestations effloresced in the past`

efflorescence
bloom noun a powdery deposit on a surface

effluent
outflowing adjective that is flowing outward

effluvium
noun a foul-smelling outflow or vapor (especially a gaseous waste)

effort
exertion noun use of physical or mental energy; hard work; `he got an A for effort`; `they managed only with great exertion`

effortful
adjective requiring great physical effort

effortfulness
noun the quality of requiring deliberate effort

effortless
adjective requiring or apparently requiring no effort; `the swallows glided in an effortless way through the busy air`

effortlessly
adverb without effort or apparent effort; `she danced gracefully and effortlessly`; `swallows gliding effortlessly through the air`

effortlessness
noun the quality of requiring little effort; `such effortlessness is achieved only after hours of practice`

effuse
verb give out or emit (also metaphorically); `The room effuses happiness`

effusion
gush noun an unrestrained expression of emotion

effusive
emotional adjective extravagantly demonstrative; `insincere and effusive demonstrations of sentimental friendship`; `a large gushing female`; `write unrestrained and gushy poetry`

effusively
adverb in an effusive manner; `the critics praised her effusively`

effusiveness
noun a friendly open trait of a talkative person

eft
noun a newt in its terrestrial stage of development

Egadi Islands
Aegadean Isles noun a group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean

egalitarian
equalitarian noun a person who believes in the equality of all people

egalitarianism
equalitarianism noun the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality

egality
egalite noun social and political equality; `egality represents an extreme leveling of society`

Egbert
noun king of Wessex whose military victories made Wessex the most powerful kingdom in England (died in 839)

Egeria
genus Egeria noun small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants