4-letter words starting with e
- endo — (slang) marijuana.
- ends — Plural form of end.
- enea — European Nuclear Energy Agency: the European body responsible for the development of nuclear-generated electric power
- enew — to force (a bird) into water
- engr — engineer
- enid — (zoology) Any member of the Enidae.
- enny — Eye dialect of any.
- enob — effective number of bits
- enol — (organic chemistry) An organic compound containing a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom, which is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
- enos — a son of Seth (Genesis 4:26; 5:6)
- enow — (archaic) enough.
- ensa — Entertainments National Service Association (a World War II organization).
- ent- — ento-
- ents — Plural form of ent.
- entz — (Oxford University, slang) Social and entertainment events provided for the students.
- enuf — Deliberate misspelling of enough.
- envy — A feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else's possessions, qualities, or luck.
- eoan — of, or relating to, the dawn
- eons — Plural form of eon.
- eorl — an Anglo-Saxon nobleman
- eoug — European ORACLE Users Group.
- epcs — Experimental Physics Control Systems
- epee — (fencing) A fencing sword of a certain modern type; frequently opposed to foil and sabre.
- eph- — epi-
- eph. — Ephesians
- epha — (biblical) alternative spelling of ephah.
- epi- — on; upon; above; over
- epic — Of, relating to, or characteristic of an epic or epics.
- epis — Plural form of epi.
- epns — electroplated nickel silver
- epoc — (operating system) A family of graphical operating systems developed by Psion for portable devices, primarily PDAs. The name EPOC came from epoch, the beginning of an era, but was backfitted by the engineers to "Electronic Piece Of Cheese". The first version, later known as EPOC16, was developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s for Psion's "SIBO" (SIxteen Bit Organisers) devices. All EPOC16 devices feature an 8086-family processor and a 16-bit architecture. EPOC16 is a single-user pre-emptive multitasking operating system, written in Intel 8086 assembler language and C and designed to be delivered in ROM. It supported a simple programming language called OPL and an IDE called OVAL. EPOC16 was followed by EPOC32 in 1997.
- epos — (obsolete) An epic.
- epss — Electronic Performance Support System
- eqpt — equipment
- eras — Plural form of era.
- ercp — endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography
- erdf — European Regional Development Fund: a fund to provide money for specific projects for work on the infrastructure in countries of the European Union
- erev — the day before; the eve of
- erfs — Plural form of erf.
- ergo — Therefore.
- ergs — Plural form of erg.
- erhu — A Chinese two-stringed musical instrument held in the lap and played with a bow.
- eric — A fine paid as compensation for violent crimes.
- erie — a member of a North American Indian people formerly living south of Lake Erie
- erin — a feminine name
- eris — /e'ris/ The Greek goddess of Chaos, Discord, Confusion, and Things You Know Not Of; her name was latinised to Discordia and she was worshiped by that name in Rome. Not a very friendly deity in the Classical original, she was reinvented as a more benign personification of creative anarchy starting in 1959 by the adherents of Discordianism and has since been a semi-serious subject of veneration in several "fringe" cultures, including hackerdom. See Church of the SubGenius.
- erke — (obsolete) slothful.
- erks — Plural form of erk.
- erme — (intransitive, obsolete) To grieve; to feel sad.
- erne — The sea eagle.