All English words - page 1224

Meanings of Ecclesiastics:

noun

A priest or member of the clergy.

Usage examples:

Frequently visited by princes and high ecclesiastics, the monastery soon became famous.

Meanings of Ecclesiasticus:

proper noun

A book of the apocrypha containing moral and practical maxims, probably composed or compiled in the early 2nd century bc.

Meanings of Ecclesiology:

noun

The study of churches, especially church building and decoration.

Meanings of Eccoprotic:

noun

A medicine which has a laxative effect.

Usage examples:

He prescribes purgative medicines to act as eccoprotics, to excite but not to stimulate the bowels.

Meanings of Ecdysiast:

noun

A striptease performer.

Usage examples:

Who can blame that fabled celebrity connoisseur of ecdysiasts for wearing a mask when he dropped in…

Meanings of Ecdysis:

noun

The process of shedding the old skin (in reptiles) or casting off the outer cuticle (in insects and other arthropods).

Usage examples:

At ecdysis, the animal sheds the old exoskeleton while absorbing large quantities of water to stret…

Meanings of Ecdysone:

noun

A steroid hormone that controls moulting in insects and other arthropods.

Usage examples:

This checkpoint may be controlled by signaling through the steroid hormone ecdysone.

Meanings of Ecdysones:

noun

A steroid hormone that controls moulting in insects and other arthropods.

Usage examples:

This checkpoint may be controlled by signaling through the steroid hormone ecdysone.

Meanings of Echappe:

adjective

(of a movement) progressing from a closed position (first, third, or fifth) to an open position (second or fourth) of the feet.

Meanings of Echelon:

noun

A level or rank in an organization, a profession, or society.

Usage examples:

The upper echelons of the business world

verb

Arrange in an echelon formation.

Usage examples:

The task force would take the left, echeloned to be able to sweep in from the west

Meanings of Echelons:

noun

A level or rank in an organization, a profession, or society.

Usage examples:

The upper echelons of the business world

verb

Arrange in an echelon formation.

Usage examples:

The task force would take the left, echeloned to be able to sweep in from the west

Meanings of Echevaria:

noun

A succulent plant with rosettes of fleshy colourful leaves, native to warm regions of america and popular as pot plants.

Usage examples:

Echeverias are polycarpic, meaning that they may flower and set seed many times over the course of …

Meanings of Echeveria:

noun

A succulent plant with rosettes of fleshy colourful leaves, native to warm regions of america and popular as pot plants.

Usage examples:

Echeverias are polycarpic, meaning that they may flower and set seed many times over the course of …

Meanings of Echinacea:

noun

A north american plant of the daisy family, whose flowers have a raised cone-shaped centre which appears to consist of soft spines. it is used in herbal medicine, largely for its antibiotic and wound-healing properties.

Usage examples:

Both echinacea and goldenseal root have natural antibiotic activity and are extremely safe, when us…

Meanings of Echinococcus:

noun

A type of tapeworm (= a long, flat organism that lives inside the bowels of humans and other animals) of the genus (= group of closely related creatures) also known as echinococcus

Meanings of Echinoderm:

noun

A marine invertebrate of the phylum echinodermata, such as a starfish, sea urchin, or sea cucumber.

Usage examples:

Included in this clade are three very different-looking phyla - the echinoderms, hemichordates and …

Meanings of Echinoid:

noun

An echinoderm of the class echinoidea; a sea urchin.

Usage examples:

Fossils include foraminiferans, brachiopods, echinoids, pelecypods, cephalopods, shark teeth, fish …

adjective

An echinoderm of the class echinoidea ; a sea urchin.

Meanings of Echinoidea:

plural noun

A class of echinoderms that comprises the sea urchins.

Usage examples:

Ophiuroidea is grouped with echinoidea and holothuroidea based on the closed ambicular grooves.

Meanings of Echinus:

noun

A sea urchin.

Meanings of Echo:

noun

A sound or sounds caused by the reflection of sound waves from a surface back to the listener.

Usage examples:

The walls threw back the echoes of his footsteps

verb

(of a sound) be repeated or reverberate after the original sound has stopped.

Usage examples:

Their footsteps echoed on the metal catwalks

proper noun

A nymph deprived of speech by hera in order to stop her chatter, and left able only to repeat what others had said.

Meanings of Echocardiogram:

noun

A test of the action of the heart using ultrasound waves to produce a visual display, for the diagnosis or monitoring of heart disease.

Usage examples:

Your child's cardiologist may use tools like x-rays, electrocardiograms, or echocardiograms to moni…

Meanings of Echoed:

verb

(of a sound) be repeated or reverberate after the original sound has stopped.

Usage examples:

Their footsteps echoed on the metal catwalks

noun

A sound or sounds caused by the reflection of sound waves from a surface back to the listener.

Usage examples:

The walls threw back the echoes of his footsteps

proper noun

A nymph deprived of speech by hera in order to stop her chatter, and left able only to repeat what others had said.

Meanings of Echoes:

noun

A sound or sounds caused by the reflection of sound waves from a surface back to the listener.

Usage examples:

The walls threw back the echoes of his footsteps

verb

(of a sound) be repeated or reverberate after the original sound has stopped.

Usage examples:

Their footsteps echoed on the metal catwalks

proper noun

A nymph deprived of speech by hera in order to stop her chatter, and left able only to repeat what others had said.

Plural of echo

Meanings of Echoey:

adjective

Having or making a sound or sounds caused by the reflection of sound waves from a surface back to the listener.

Usage examples:

His voice has a hollow, echoey quality

Meanings of Echograph:

noun

An instrument for recording echograms; an automated echo sounder.

Usage examples:

A curved bar probe for an echograph is fabricated by using a thin support on which is placed a bar …