| CREEPILY | • creepily adv. In a creepy manner. • creepily adv. With a furtive creeping motion. • CREEPY adv. rather eerie. |
| EMPYEMIC | • empyemic adj. Relating to an empyema. • EMPYEMIC adj. relating to empyema, a collection of pus in any cavity, esp. the pleura. |
| EMPYESIS | • empyesis n. (Medicine) An eruption of pustules. • EMPYESIS n. a skin eruption containing pus. |
| EPICYCLE | • epicycle n. (Astronomy) A small circle whose centre is on the circumference of a larger circle; in Ptolemaic astronomy… • epicycle n. (Mathematics) Any circle whose circumference rolls around that of another circle, thus creating a hypocycloid… • epicycle n. (Organic chemistry) A ring of atoms joining parts of an already cyclic compound. |
| EPILEPSY | • epilepsy n. (Pathology) A medical condition in which the sufferer experiences seizures (or convulsions) and blackouts. • EPILEPSY n. a disorder of the nervous system. |
| EPIPHYTE | • epiphyte n. (Botany) A plant that grows on another, using it for physical support but obtaining no nutrients from… • epiphyte n. (Biology) A fungus that grows on a plant but does not feed upon it saprotrophically (an epiphytic fungus);… • EPIPHYTE n. a plant which grows upon another plant, using it for structural support. |
| EPISTYLE | • epistyle n. (Architecture, historical) A massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital… • EPISTYLE n. a part of a classical building. |
| EYEPIECE | • eyepiece n. The lens (or combination of lenses) at the eye end of a microscope or telescope by which the image is viewed. • eye-piece n. Alternative spelling of eyepiece. • EYEPIECE n. the lens nearest the eye in an optical instrument. |
| EYEPOINT | • eyepoint n. A point of reference based on the participant’s focus, used in generating visual imagery in virtual reality systems. • eyepoint n. The focal point of an optical lens. • EYEPOINT n. the point at which the eye is placed when using an optical instrument. |
| PEBIBYTE | • pebibyte n. (Computing) 250 bytes. • PEBIBYTE n. two to the power of fifty bytes. |
| PERIPETY | • peripety n. Alternative form of peripeteia (“sudden change in circumstances; crisis”). • peripety n. (Psychoanalysis) The third stage of a dream in Jungian theory. • PERIPETY n. (Greek) a sudden change in a course of events. |
| PERSEITY | • PERSEITY n. an independent existence per se. |
| PINKEYES | • pinkeyes n. Plural of pinkeye. • pink-eyes n. Plural of pink-eye. • PINKEYE n. an inflammation of the eye. |
| SLEEPILY | • sleepily adv. In a sleepy manner. • SLEEPY adv. inclined to sleep. |
| SPEEDILY | • speedily adv. In a speedy or fast manner. • SPEEDY adv. fast. |
| YPERITES | • yperites n. Plural of yperite. • YPERITE n. mustard gas. |