12-Letter Words Starting with E

""EPHEMERAL Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower. as, an ephemeral flower.""

""The outermost layer of cuticle of an arthropod exoskeleton, composed mostly of wax.""

Plural or third person singular

""Inflammation of the epididymis, one of the common results of gonorrhea.""

Pl. epiglottises or epiglottides (-gl t -d z ) The thin elastic cartilaginous structure located at the root of the tongue that folds over the glottis to prevent food and liquid from entering the trachea during the act of swallowing.

Epiglottis

(Of saying) concise, witty

Like a short and witty saying

In the style of a concise and witty remark

Epigraphist

Resembling epilepsy.

EPIPHYTE a plant growing on another plant

Epiphytotic

Episiotomy

The theory or science of the method or grounds of knowledge.

Epistolary

His work is seldom read (and never scanned)

Spenserian song adapted by Gustafson in wartime

Poem honoring newly- weds

Epithelioma

EPITHELIZE

Epoxidation

Equability

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

LIBRATED librate

Equilibrate

""EQUILIBRATE To balance two scales, sides, or ends; to keep even with equal weight on each side; to keep in equipoise.""

Equilibrist

Equinoctial

Equipollent

Marked by or having equity; just and impartial. See Synonyms at fair 1 .

In the same way

VOCALITY the possession of exercise of vocal powers

""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

Equivocator

Eradication

Erectility

English word

Ergodicity

Erotization

""Relating to, or causing, erythema.""

Erythorbate

A nucleated cell in bone marrow from which red blood cells develop.

Erythrocyte

ERYTHROCYTE

Common antibiotic

Erythrosine

I must get away!

One's bound to be entertaining

Entertainer is to go places when free

In an esoteric manner.

Esotericism

""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.""

ESTABLISHER One who establishes.

New businessman's activity

Putting up with broken tables is half fetching

Founding

Esthetician

Estheticism

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.""

""ETHEREALIZE To convert into ether, or into subtile fluid; to saturate with ether.""

Etherealize

Ethereality.

The administration of ether to produce insensibility.

Ethicality

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

Dealing with word origins

Relating to word origins

ETYMOLOGISE

Etymologise

Partridge's associates

""ETYMOLOGIZE To give the etymology of; to trace to the root or primitive, as a word.""

Etymologize

Eucalyptole

Fast-growing trees

Euchromatin

Eudaemonist

Of or pertaining to euhemerism.

EURYTHERM

EUTHANATIZE

Euthanatize

Evagination

In revolutionary church, angry vigilantes like a preacher

Evaporation

EVENTFUL momentous

Everlasting

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

Tending to exaggerate; involving exaggeration.

Exaggerator

""Containing, or tending to, exaggeration; exaggerative.""

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.""

The quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes.

Rats! et al.

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

Snappy utterances

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

Exclusivist

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.

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

Excoriation

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

""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

Exhaustive

""EXHAUSTIVE Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method. as, an exhaustive method.""

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

""EXHILARATE To make merry or jolly; to enliven; to animate; to gladden greatly; to cheer; as, good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates a man. as, good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates a man.""

Exhortation

""The branch of biology that deals with the search for extraterrestrial life and the effects of extraterrestrial surroundings on living organisms. Also called astrobiology , space biology .""

Acquittals

Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of single amino acids from the end of a polypeptide chain.

""Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, exophthalmia.""

Abnormal protrusion of the eyeball.

Same as Exophthalmia.Exophthalmia.

Exorbitance

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

EXORCISTIC

Exoskeleton

Exoterical

Exothermal

Exoticness

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

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

Expectancy

Hopes for the future

Realistic hopes

Bank on answer to half the objections with hope and conjecture

EXPECTED expect

Expectorant

Anticipated accepting nothing traitor coughed up

Expectorate

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

Expenditure

""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)

""An act or deed, especially a brilliant or heroic one. See Synonyms at feat 1 .""

Exploration

Exportation

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

""EXPOSTULATE To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; followed by with. with.""

Expostulate

""EXPRESSIVE Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude. of; as, words expressive of his gratitude.""

""Taken out of the possession of another and transferred to one's own use often without permission; as, the expropriated land was developed into a public playground.as, the expropriated land was developed into a public playground.""

Expropriate

One who takes property for the public benefit

Expurgation

EXSANGUINE Bloodless.

Exsiccation

Extemporal

EXTEMPORISE

Extemporise

Spoke on the spur of the moment.

One who extemporizes.

Extemporize

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