Index of English words, starting with "es"

(1) - Essene (n.) One of a sect among the Jews in the time of our Savior, remarkable for their strictness and abstinence.

(1) - Essenism (n.) The doctrine or the practices of the Essenes.

(1) - Essential (a.) Idiopathic; independent of other diseases.
(2) - Essential (a.) Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones.
(3) - Essential (a.) Containing the essence or characteristic portion of a substance, as of a plant; highly rectified; pure; hence, unmixed; as, an essential oil.
(4) - Essential (a.) Important in the highest degree; indispensable to the attainment of an object; indispensably necessary.
(5) - Essential (a.) Hence, really existing; existent.
(6) - Essential (a.) Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.