Index of English words, starting with "ef"

(1) - Effectual (n.) Producing, or having adequate power or force to produce, an intended effect; adequate; efficient; operative; decisive.

(1) - Effectuate (v. t.) To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill.

(1) - Effectuation (n.) Act of effectuating.

(1) - Effeminacy (n.) Characteristic quality of a woman, such as softness, luxuriousness, delicacy, or weakness, which is unbecoming a man; womanish delicacy or softness; -- used reproachfully of men.

(1) - Effeminate (v. i.) To grow womanish or weak.
(2) - Effeminate (v. t.) To make womanish; to make soft and delicate; to weaken.
(3) - Effeminate (a.) Womanlike; womanly; tender; -- in a good sense.
(4) - Effeminate (a.) Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak.