Words in english starting with E

• elude — Verb – English ～ escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation"
• eluding — Noun – English ～ the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
• Elul — Noun – English ～ the twelfth month of the civil year; the sixth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in August and September)
• elusion — Noun – English ～ the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
• elusive — Adjective – English ～ difficult to describe; "a haunting elusive odor"
• elusive — Adjective – English ～ making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"
• elusive — Adjective – English ～ skillful at eluding capture; "a cabal of conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist"- David Kline
• elusive — Adjective – English ～ difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze; "his whole attitude had undergone a subtle change"; "a subtle difference"; "that elusive thing the soul"
• elusiveness — Noun – English ～ the quality of being difficult to grasp or pin down; "the author's elusiveness may at times be construed as evasiveness"
• elute — Verb – English ～ wash out with a solvent, as in chromatography
• elution — Noun – English ～ the process of extracting one material from another by washing with a solvent to remove adsorbed material from an adsorbent (as in washing of loaded ion-exchange resins to remove captured ions); used to obtain uranium ions
• elver — Noun – English ～ young eel; may be sauteed or batter-fried
• elver — Noun – English ～ young eel
• elves — Noun – English ～ an acronym for emissions of light and very low frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources; extremely bright extremely short (less than a msec) electrical flashes forming a huge ring (up to 400 km diameter) in the ionosphere
• Elvis — Noun – English ～ street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
• elvish — Adjective – English ～ usually good-naturedly mischievous; "perpetrated a practical joke with elfin delight"; "elvish tricks"
• Ely Culbertson — Noun – English ～ United States authority on contract bridge whose books helped to popularize the game (1891-1955)
• Elymus condensatus — Noun – English ～ stout perennial grass of western North America
• Elymus arenarius — Noun – English ～ a dune grass of the Pacific seacoast used as a sand binder
• Elymus canadensis — Noun – English ～ North American wild rye

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