| effluvia | Waste; odor given off by waste |
| elegy | A mournful, sad poem, usually about the deceased |
| elude | To cleverly avoid; to evade; to escape the detection of |
| emoillent | Soothing, esp. to skin |
| emulate | To strive to equal or excel something; to imitate |
| encumber | To weigh down with; to burden |
| enjoin | To direct or impose with urgency; to order with emphasis; to strongly forbid |
| epochal | Momentous; very significant |
| eponymous | Dedicating one's name to a book, place, or restaurant |
| equivocate | To avoid following or commiting to one's orders; to be deliberately disobedient or unclear of direction |
| ersatz | Being an artificial or horrible substitute or imitation |
| eschew | To shun or avoid, considering it wrong or distasteful |
| espouse | To support as a cause; to marry |
| espy | To catch sight of; to glimpse |
| euphenism | An inoffensive, agreeable expression that is said in place of a statement that is deemed offensive |
| euthanasia | The practice of puposely ending the life of the terminally ill; assisted suicide |
| excoriate | To express strong disapproval of; to react scathingly |
| exponent | A person or thing that is a representative or a symbol of something |
| expound | To explain in detail; to elaborately describe |
| expunge | To erase or eliminate completely |
| extirpate | To root out; to demolish; to destroy utterly |
| extrapolation | Using known data and information to draw conclusions or make a hypothesis |
| extrinsic | External; secondary; unessential |
| extrude | To form or shape something by pushing or forcing it out, esp. through a small opening |