Loading earlier words…
Everse

To overthrow or subvert.

Eversion

The act of eversing; destruction.

Eversive

Tending to evert or overthrow; subversive; with of.

Evert

To overthrow; to subvert.

Every

All the parts which compose a whole collection or aggregate number, considered in their individuality, all taken separately one by one, out of an indefinite number.

Everyday

Used or fit for every day; common; usual; as, an everyday suit of clothes.

Everyone

Everybody; -- commonly separated, every one.

Everything

Whatever pertains to the subject under consideration; all things.

Everywhere

In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; thoroughly; altogether.

Evet

The common newt or eft. In America often applied to several species of aquatic salamanders.

Evict

To dispossess by a judicial process; to dispossess by paramount right or claim of such right; to eject; to oust.

Eviction

The act or process of evicting; or state of being evicted; the recovery of lands, tenements, etc., from another's possession by due course of law; dispossession by paramount title or claim of such title; ejectment; ouster.

Evidence

To render evident or clear; to prove; to evince; as, to evidence a fact, or the guilt of an offender.

Evident

Clear to the vision; especially, clear to the understanding, and satisfactory to the judgment; as, the figure or color of a body is evident to the senses; the guilt of an offender can not always be made evident.

Evidential

Relating to, or affording, evidence; indicative; especially, relating to the evidences of Christianity.

Evidentiary

Furnishing evidence; asserting; proving; evidential.

Evidently

In an evident manner; clearly; plainly.

Evil

In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly.

Evil-eyed

Possessed of the supposed evil eye; also, looking with envy, jealousy, or bad design; malicious.

Evil-favored

Having a bad countenance or appearance; ill-favored; blemished; deformed.

Evil-minded

Having evil dispositions or intentions; disposed to mischief or sin; malicious; malignant; wicked.

evildoer

a person who performs an evil deed; one who sins (without repenting).

Evilly

In an evil manner; not well; ill.

Evilness

The condition or quality of being evil; badness; viciousness; malignity; vileness; as, evilness of heart; the evilness of sin.

Evincement

The act of evincing or proving, or the state of being evinced.

Evincible

Capable of being proved or clearly brought to light; demonstrable.

Evincive

Tending to prove; having the power to demonstrate; demonstrative; indicative.

Evirate

To emasculate; to dispossess of manhood.

Eviscerate

To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.

Evocate

To call out or forth; to summon; to evoke.

Evocative

Calling forth; serving to evoke; developing.

Evoke

To call out; to summon forth.

Evolute

A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See Involute. It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent.

Evolutility

The faculty possessed by all substances capable of self-nourishment of manifesting the nutritive acts by changes of form, of volume, or of structure.

Evolution

The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, any process of growth or development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg.

Evolutionary

Relating to evolution; as, evolutionary discussions.

Evolutionism

The theory of, or belief in, evolution. See Evolution, 6 and 7.

Evolve

To become open, disclosed, or developed; to pass through a process of evolution.

Evolvement

The act of evolving, or the state of being evolved; evolution.

Evolvent

The involute of a curve. See Involute, and Evolute.

Evulsion

The act of plucking out; a rooting out.

Ewe

The female of the sheep, and of sheeplike animals.

Ewe-necked

Having a neck like a ewe; -- said of horses in which the arch of the neck is deficient, being somewhat hollowed out.

Ewer

A kind of wide-mouthed pitcher or jug; esp., one used to hold water for the toilet.

Ewry Ewery

An office or place of household service where the ewers were formerly kept.

ex

Without (some right); not including the right to have; as, a stock selling ex dividend (a stock for which the right to a dividend has expired the previous day); ex interest; ex rights.

Ex-voto

An offering to a church in fulfillment of a vow.

Exacerbate

To render more violent or bitter; to irritate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as passions or disease.

Exacerbation

The act of rendering more violent or bitter; the state of being exacerbated or intensified in violence or malignity; as, exacerbation of passion.

Exacerbescence

Increase of irritation or violence, particularly the increase of a fever or disease.

Exact

To practice exaction.

Exacting

Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe.

Exaction

The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion.

Exactly

In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely.

Exactness

The condition of being exact; accuracy; nicety; precision; regularity; as, exactness of judgement or deportment.

Exactor

One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands.

Exaeresis

In old writers, the operations concerned in the removal of parts of the body.

Exaggerator

One who exaggerates; one addicted to exaggeration.

Exaggeratory

Containing, or tending to, exaggeration; exaggerative.

Exalbuminous

Having no albumen about the embryo; -- said of certain seeds.

Exalt

To raise high; to elevate; to lift up.

Exaltate

Exercising its highest influence; -- said of a planet.

Exaltation

The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation.

Exalted

Raised to lofty height; elevated; extolled; refined; dignified; sublime.

Loading more words…