All English words - page 1795

Meanings of Esker:

noun

A long ridge of gravel and other sediment, typically having a winding course, deposited by meltwater from a retreating glacier or ice sheet.

Usage examples:

Wetlands may overlie important groundwater aquifers, especially on moraines, eskers, and fluvioglac…

Meanings of Eskers:

noun

A long ridge of gravel and other sediment, typically having a winding course, deposited by meltwater from a retreating glacier or ice sheet.

Usage examples:

Wetlands may overlie important groundwater aquifers, especially on moraines, eskers, and fluvioglac…

Meanings of Eskimo:

noun

A member of an indigenous people inhabiting northern canada, alaska, greenland, and eastern siberia, and traditionally living by hunting seals and other arctic animals and birds and by fishing.

adjective

Relating to the eskimos or their languages.

Usage examples:

All of these were transcribed in the original language of the eskimo storytellers and then translat…

Meanings of Eskimoid:

adjective

Resembling or having some of the physical features or characteristics of an eskimo. also: of, relating to, or designating a postulated division of mankind represented by the indigenous peoples of the arctic coasts of canada and greenland.

noun

A person of a postulated racial type similar to the eskimo.

Meanings of Eskimos:

noun

A member of an indigenous people inhabiting northern canada, alaska, greenland, and eastern siberia, and traditionally living by hunting seals and other arctic animals and birds and by fishing.

adjective

Relating to the eskimos or their languages.

Usage examples:

All of these were transcribed in the original language of the eskimo storytellers and then translat…

Meanings of Esophagal:

adjective

Oesophageal.

Meanings of Esophageal:

adjective

Relating to the oesophagus.

Usage examples:

Oesophageal ulcers

Meanings of Esophagectomy:

noun

Surgical excision of part of the oesophagus; an instance of this.

Meanings of Esophagi:

noun

The part of the alimentary canal which connects the throat to the stomach. in humans and other vertebrates it is a muscular tube lined with mucous membrane.

Usage examples:

Inlet patch is a congenital anomaly of the cervical esophagus consisting of gastric mucosa.

Plural of esophagus us specialized

Meanings of Esophagitis:

noun

Inflammation of the oesophagus.

Usage examples:

All trials used validated dyspepsia questionnaires and excluded patients with confirmed peptic ulce…

Meanings of Esophagopathy:

noun

Disease of the oesophagus.

Meanings of Esophagoscope:

noun

An instrument for the inspection or treatment of the oesophagus.

Usage examples:

Retrieval of the safety pin from the stomach was performed by passing a rigid oesophagoscope into t…

Meanings of Esophagoscopy:

noun

Endoscopic examination of the oesophagus; an instance of this.

Meanings of Esophagospasm:

noun

Spasm of the oesophagus.

Meanings of Esophagostomy:

noun

Surgical creation of an opening from the surface of the body into the oesophagus, especially to allow passage of a feeding tube; an instance of this.

Meanings of Esophagus:

noun

The part of the alimentary canal which connects the throat to the stomach. in humans and other vertebrates it is a muscular tube lined with mucous membrane.

Usage examples:

Inlet patch is a congenital anomaly of the cervical esophagus consisting of gastric mucosa.

Meanings of Esoteric:

adjective

Intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest.

Usage examples:

Esoteric philosophical debates

Meanings of Esoterica:

noun

Esoteric or highly specialized subjects or publications.

Usage examples:

A professor of such esoterica as angelology and comparative shamanism

Meanings of Esoterically:

adverb

In a way that is very unusual and understood or liked by only a small number of people, especially those with special knowledge

Usage examples:

I think it's a film that is too esoterically british to appeal to an american audience., he wrote e…

Meanings of Esp:

abbreviation

Especially.

noun

A mode of automatic light-metering in a camera which compensates for differences in the brightness of the central and peripheral portions of the image.

adverb

Abbreviation for especially

Meanings of Espada:

noun

A scabbardfish, especially as caught for food in madeira and elsewhere.

Usage examples:

This includes the eel-like espada, which is only found in deep water off madeira and japan, and whi…

Meanings of Espadrille:

noun

A light canvas shoe with a plaited fibre sole.

Usage examples:

Time to bring back summertime's other footwear staple: espadrilles.

Meanings of Espadrilles:

noun

A light canvas shoe with a plaited fibre sole.

Usage examples:

Time to bring back summertime's other footwear staple: espadrilles.

Meanings of Espalier:

noun

A fruit tree or ornamental shrub whose branches are trained to grow flat against a wall, supported on a lattice.

Usage examples:

Because the fruit is so good, the trees are best grown as espaliers in a small garden, which will m…

verb

Train (a tree or shrub) to grow flat against a wall.

Usage examples:

Fruit trees were espaliered some thirty feet apart

Meanings of Espaliered:

verb

Train (a tree or shrub) to grow flat against a wall.

Usage examples:

Fruit trees were espaliered some thirty feet apart

noun

A fruit tree or ornamental shrub whose branches are trained to grow flat against a wall, supported on a lattice.

Usage examples:

Because the fruit is so good, the trees are best grown as espaliers in a small garden, which will m…