12-Letter Words Starting with E

Fastidiousness in luxury

A nice umpire's unusual sort of philosophy

Epinephrine

Pl. epiphenomena (-n ) A secondary phenomenon that results from and accompanies another: "Exploitation of one social class or ethnic group by another [is] an epiphenomenon of real differences in power between social groups" (Harper's).

His work is seldom read (and never scanned)

Spenserian song adapted by Gustafson in wartime

EPITHELIZE

Epoxidation

Advocate of basic democratic principles

""The act of equalizing, or state of being equalized.""

Equanimity

Equational

Horse show rider.

Female riding a horse

Female rider

Equilibrant

Equinoctial

""Equal in force, power, effectiveness, or significance.""

Equipollent

Equivalence

In the same way

""EQUIVOCATE To use words of equivocal or doubtful signification; to express one's opinions in terms which admit of different senses, with intent to deceive; to use ambiguous expressions with a view to mislead; as, to equivocate is the work of duplicity. as, to equivocate is the work of duplicity.""

Use of intentionally vague language

Use of deliberately vague language

A beating about the bush

Eradication

Erotization

Common antibiotic

Erythrosine

""ESSENTIAL Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.""

ESSENTIALISE essential

The quality of being essential; the essential part.

""ESSENTIAL Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.""

New businessman's activity

Putting up with broken tables is half fetching

Founding

Esthetician

Unfamiliar dudes in ET or Alienation

Disaffection of irregular soldiers captured by 26

Disaffection of people in a Regent St disturbance

ETERNALIZE To make eternal.

The act of eternizing; the act of rendering immortal or famous.

""A colorless liquid, NH 2 (CH 2 ) 2 OH, used in the purification of petroleum, as a solvent in dry cleaning, and as an ingredient in paints and pharmaceuticals.""

Ethereality.

The administration of ether to produce insensibility.

Ethionamide

Seeing other cultures through one's own

Judging other cultures by the standards of one's own

Ethnic anthropologist

Relating to racial customs and characteristics

""The study of especially native or non-Western peoples from a combined historical and anthropological viewpoint, using written documents, oral literature, material culture, and ethnographic data.""

Of or pertaining to ethnology.

Ethnologist

Noun (-ence)

English word

Euchromatin

Eudaemonism

Eudaemonist

Eudaimonism

Euphonical

Euphonious

EUTHANATIZE

Euthanatize

Evagination

Evanescence

In revolutionary church, angry vigilantes like a preacher

""EVANGELIZE To instruct in the gospel; to preach the gospel to; to convert to Christianity; as, to evangelize the world. as, to evangelize the world.""

Evaporation

Evenhanded

EVENTFUL momentous

Blooming throughout the growing season.

Everlasting

EVERYDAY something appropriate for weekdays rather than Sunday

Evidential

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

Disembowelling

Gradually developing

Rebel, no leader concerned with gradual change

Gradually developing as rebel after monarch's ousted as leader

What Scopes taught

Upholder of Darwin

Darwinian

Making worse.

Making (something) worse

EXACTING exact

Indulging in hyperbole

Overstating

Inflation? Cut rising going rate perhaps

An overdrawn account

Overstatement - overestimate

Tests show cut back is not main problem

One squeezed by awful mansion tax: Myleene ultimately probes

Tests

""EXANTHEMA An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever.""

Very frustrating

Extremely annoying

Infuriating

Intense irritation

Open-air sex at assembly causes annoyance

Disgruntlement

""EXCAVATION The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.""

Excellency

Capable of being exchanged; fit or proper to be exchanged.

Rats! et al.

Can a mole exist with its head cut off? No! Never!

Snappy utterances

Tending to exclude; causing exclusion; exclusive.

""One who would exclude another from some right or privilege; esp., one of the antipopish politicians of the time of Charles <?/.""

EXCOGITATE To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.

The act of excogitating; a devising in the thoughts; invention; contrivance.

Excoriation

Excrescence

Excrescent

Racking collapses in exit, accruing ...

Intensely painful

Very painful

""The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture.""

Exculpation

""One who goes on an excursion, or pleasure trip.""

Whose inappropriate musical offering recorded by 7 (wordplay)

They're known for taking the head off others for the chairmen (wordplay)

They get away with murder taking the head off others

Exemplify

""EXENTERATE To take out the bowels or entrails of; to disembowel; to eviscerate; as, exenterated fishes. as, exenterated fishes.""

Act of exenterating.

Exercise; practice; use.

Exfoliation

University student in demonstration before the queen

Making lively and cheerful

Making very happy

Making one feel lively and cheerful

Strong feeling of excited happiness

Joy for old Benn is without end: people oust leader!

Joyousness

Exhortation

EXIGUOUS {meagre=adj}

Acquittals

Exonuclease

Exorbitance

""In an exorbitant, excessive, or irregular manner; enormously.""

Exoskeleton

Exoticness

EXPANSION The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement.

Policy of seeking economic or territorial growth

Doctrine of increasing the territory or influence of a country

Advocate of territorial enlargement

The Cloister and the Hearth author

Expatiation

EXPATRIATE To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.

In atonement, treacherous rat gets exile

Expectancy

Hopes for the future

Realistic hopes

Bank on answer to half the objections with hope and conjecture

EXPECTED expect

Expectorant

Expediency

"". Governed by expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential policy. "Calculating, expediential understanding." Hare. expediential policy. "Calculating, expediential understanding." Hare.""

Expenditure

""EXPERIENCE Trial, as a test or experiment.""

""Derived from, or pertaining to, experience.""

Data-based - inexpert male (anagram)

Tentative mixture - for example nitre

Based on untested ideas

Experiment

Researcher's former name required, transiting border

Former wife edges around new one that's adventurous

Expertness

Rationales

Clarifying statements by old lover and pal travelling in Europe

Illuminating declarations by former pal moving places in Europe

( ks pl nt ) Explanted tissue.

Explication

The quality of being explicit; clearness; directness.

Unfair use

Taking advantage - optional exit (anagram)

Exploration

Exportation

EXPOSITION The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.

""Of, or relating to, expression; phraseological; also, vividly representing or suggesting an idea sentiment.""

Expurgation

EXSANGUINE Bloodless.

Exsiccation

EXTENDED extend

""An instrument for measuring the extension of a body, especially for measuring the elongation of bars of iron, steel, or other material, when subjected to a tensile force.""

Extenuation

Was finished when destroyed

Destroyed

Exterminate

Ridder of rats in 1918?

Ridder of rats in 1918 (wordplay)

Schwarzenegger, today (wordplay)

EXTERNALISE to make external.

Externalise

Externalism

EXTERNALIZE To make external; to manifest by outward form.

Externalize

Snuffed out

Firefighting apparatus

Firefighting equipment

Extinguish

Extirpation

Extortionate.

(Of a price) much too high

Overly demanding

Outrageously costly

""EXTORTIONER , One who practices extortion.""

One who obtains money by force or threat

One who obtains things by threats

One obtaining something by force or threats

Located or occurring outside the cranium.

Old customs (wordplay)

Customs of an old flame (wordplay)

Beyond the physical world

Extraneous

Located or occurring outside the nucleus of a cell.

Type of perception (2 words)

Kind of perception

Part 2 of the quip

""Outside of the uterus, or womb.""

Lavish expenditure (E, not Y)

Excessive spending

Lavish expenditure

Extravagance.

Elaborately staged light entertainment

Elaborately staged entertainment

Type of show.

Looking out additional account

Another translation going out with confidence high

Extrication

""The condition of being turned wrong side out; as, extroversion of the bladder. as, extroversion of the bladder.""

Important trial figures

An E of A&E

Courtroom figures