English words starting with eph

Meanings of Ephahs:

noun

An ancient hebrew dry measure equivalent to the bath (of about 40 litres or 9 gallons).

Meanings of Ephebes:

noun

(in ancient greece) a young man of 18–20 years undergoing military training.

Usage examples:

An ephebe describes a teenage boy in ancient greece (but could also describe most of the male chara…

Meanings of Ephebic:

adjective

Relating to or like an ephebe (= a young man, especially in ancient greece, or a young person who is not yet a fully grown adult)

Usage examples:

He plays an ephebic character, a young man who has not quite reached adulthood., the gymnast wore a…

Meanings of Ephedra:

noun

An evergreen shrub of warm arid regions which has trailing or climbing stems and tiny scale-like leaves.

Usage examples:

The vegetation is a mix of grasses, annual herbs and isolated patches of mesquite, cholla, ephedra …

Meanings of Ephedras:

noun

An evergreen shrub of warm arid regions which has trailing or climbing stems and tiny scale-like leaves.

Usage examples:

The vegetation is a mix of grasses, annual herbs and isolated patches of mesquite, cholla, ephedra …

Meanings of Ephedrine:

noun

A crystalline alkaloid drug obtained from some ephedras. it causes constriction of the blood vessels and widening of the bronchial passages, and is used to relieve asthma and hay fever.

Usage examples:

He studied the tissue distribution and metabolism of caffeine, amphetamines, ephedrine, and narcoti…

Meanings of Ephemeral:

adjective

Lasting for a very short time.

Usage examples:

Fashions are ephemeral: new ones regularly drive out the old

noun

An ephemeral plant.

Usage examples:

Ephemerals avoid the periods of drought as seeds

Meanings of Ephemerality:

noun

The quality or state of lasting only for a short time

Usage examples:

I'm attracted to the fragility and ephemerality of these delicate flowers., i learned a lesson on t…

Meanings of Ephemerally:

adverb

In a way that lasts for only a short time

Usage examples:

The fireworks lit up the sky ephemerally., water flows through the channel ephemerally to provide d…

Meanings of Ephemerides:

noun

A table or data file giving the calculated positions of a celestial object at regular intervals throughout a period.

Usage examples:

You can compute an ephemeris for any comet that is discovered and plot an accurate finder chart

Meanings of Ephemeris:

noun

A table or data file giving the calculated positions of a celestial object at regular intervals throughout a period.

Usage examples:

You can compute an ephemeris for any comet that is discovered and plot an accurate finder chart

Meanings of Ephemerist:

noun

A person who collects ephemera.

Meanings of Ephemeroptera:

plural noun

An order of insects that comprises the mayflies.

Usage examples:

We further included four representatives of the zygoptera, one representative of the epiophlebiidae…

Meanings of Ephods:

noun

(in ancient israel) a sleeveless garment worn by jewish priests.

Usage examples:

Samuel is portrayed as an excellent servant who ‘was ministering before the lord, a boy wearing a l…

Meanings of Ephors:

noun

(in ancient greece) each of five senior spartan magistrates.

Usage examples:

There was a council of elders, an assembly, and the five ephors.

Meanings of Ephyra:

noun

A larval jellyfish, after separation from the scyphistoma.

Usage examples:

Rhopalial statocysts in hydromedusae and in developing ephyrae of the scyphomedusa, aurelia aurita,…

Meanings of Ephyrae:

noun

A larval jellyfish, after separation from the scyphistoma.

Usage examples:

Rhopalial statocysts in hydromedusae and in developing ephyrae of the scyphomedusa, aurelia aurita,…