8-letter words starting with ep
- episteme — (philosophy) Scientific knowledge; a principled system of understanding; sometimes contrasted with 'empiricism'.
- epistler — A writer of an epistle.
- epistles — Plural form of epistle.
- epistome — (zoology) a mouth-covering lobe or ridge in bryozoans and phoronids.
- epistyle — architrave (sense 1)
- epitaphs — Plural form of epitaph.
- epitases — Plural form of epitasis.
- epitasis — (ancient drama) The second part of a play, in which the action begins.
- epitaxic — relating to epitaxy
- epitheca — (microbiology, planktology) The upper half of the theca of a thecate protist such as a diatom or dinoflagellate.
- epithema — a horny outgrowth on the beaks of birds
- epithets — An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.
- epitomes — Plural form of epitome.
- epitomic — Embodying, summarizing, encapsulating.
- epitonic — undergoing too great a strain
- epitopes — Plural form of epitope.
- epitrite — a metrical foot with three long syllables and one short one
- epizoite — an organism that lives on an animal but is not parasitic on it
- epizooty — an epizootic disease
- eponymes — Plural form of eponyme.
- eponymic — Of or relating to an eponym.
- epoxides — Plural form of epoxide.
- epsilons — Plural form of epsilon.
- epsimone — Concurrent simulation language derived from Simone. "EPSIMONE Manual", J. Beziin et al, Pub Int No 90, IRISA, Sept 1978.
- epsomite — (mineral) A saline evaporite, consisting of magnesium sulphate, also found in fumaroles, with the chemical formula MgSO4'·'7H2O.
- epulotic — a substance that promotes the formation of scar tissue
- epyllion — (literary) a