exigency

exigency (n)

1. The quality or state of requiring immediate aid or action; urgency.

2. A case demanding immediate action or remedy; a pressing or urgent situation.

3. That which is demanded or required in a particular situation -- usually used in the plural.

eschew

eschew (vt)

1. To avoid; to shun (usually applied to ideas or concepts and not to concrete objects).

eleemosynary

eleemosynary (adj)

1. Relating to charity, alms, or almsgiving; intended for the distribution of charity.

2. Given in charity or alms; having the nature of alms; as, eleemosynary assistance.

3. Supported by charity; as, eleemosynary poor.

excrescence

excrescence (n)

1. Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.

2. A disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct

eschar

eschar (n)

1. A dry, dark scab or scar, especially as a result of burning.

epigenetics

epigenetics (n)

1. (genetics) The study of the processes involved in the genetic development of an organism, especially the activation and deactivation of genes.

2. (genetics) The study of heritable changes caused by the activation and deactivation of genes without any change in DNA sequence.

ekstasis

ekstasis (plural ekstases) (n)

1. (mysticism and philosophy) The state of being beside one's self or rapt out of one's self.

extirpate

extirpate (vt)

1. To pull up by the roots; uproot.

2. To destroy completely; to annihilate.

3. To surgically remove.

extemporize

extemporize (vi)

1. To make or create extempore.

2. (music) To compose extemporaneously or improvise.

extemporize (vt)

1. To do something, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise.

2. To do something in a makeshift way.

ensonify

ensonify (vt)

1. To fill with sound.

efface

efface (vt)

1. To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible.

2. To cause to disappear as if by rubbbing out or striking out.

3. (reflexive) To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence.
Always the shy violet, Edna effaced herself in front of her sister, of whom she was in awe.

4. (medicine) Of the cervix during pregnancy, to thin and stretch in preparation for labor.

excoriate

excoriate (vt)

1. To wear off the skin of; to chafe or flay.

2. To strongly renounce or censure.

enounce

to enounce (vt)

1. To say or pronounce; to enunciate.

2. To declare or proclaim.

3. To state unequivocally.

excarnate

excarnate (adj)

1. Deprived of flesh.

excarnate (vt)

1. To deprive of flesh.

educe

educe (vt)

1. To draw out or bring out; elicit.

euphony

euphony (n)

1. a pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear.

2. good phonetic quality of certain words.

ersatz

ersatz (adj)

1. Made in imitation; artificial, especially of an inferior quality.

eponym

eponym (n)

1. A person whose name has become identified with a particular object or activity.

2. A word formed from a person’s name, e.g. stentorian after the Greek herald Stentor.

3. The hero of a book, film etc. having the character’s name as its title, e.g. Robinson Crusoe.

4. (healthcare) A condition, disease or disorder named after a particular clinician or patient, e.g. Alzheimer’s Disease, named after the neurologist Alois Alzheimer.

exiguous

exiguous (adj)

1. Extremely scanty; meager.