Matching Words
1045 ResultsBelow are the words that matched your query.
Epicurean
- adjective - a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
- devoted to pleasure; "a hedonic thrill"; "lives of unending hedonistic delight"; "epicurean pleasures"
- displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses; "an epicurean banquet"; "enjoyed a luxurious suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs"; "Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence"; "a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness"
- hedonistic
- of Epicurus or epicureanism; "Epicurean philosophy"
Epicurism
- noun - the disposition and habits of an epicure
Epicurize
- - To profess or tend towards the doctrines of Epicurus.
Epidurals
- noun - regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an anesthetic into the epidural space of the spinal cord; sensation is lost in the abdominal and genital and pelvic areas; used in childbirth and gynecological surgery
Espousals
- noun - archaic terms for a wedding or wedding feast
- the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception; "its adoption by society"; "the proposal found wide acceptance"
- the act of becoming betrothed or engaged
Espousing
- verb - choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans; "She followed the feminist movement"; "The candidate espouses Republican ideals"
- take in marriage
- take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own; "She embraced Catholicism"; "They adopted the Jewish faith"
Etiquette
- noun - rules governing socially acceptable behavior
Euphuisms
- noun - an elegant style of prose of the Elizabethan period; characterized by balance and antithesis and alliteration and extended similes with and allusions to nature and mythology
- any artificially elegant style of language