Index of English words, starting with "el"

(1) - Elaborate (v. t.) To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to elaborate a painting or a literary work.
(2) - Elaborate (v. t.) To produce with labor
(3) - Elaborate (a.) Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research.

(1) - Elaboration (n.) The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues.
(2) - Elaboration (n.) The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.

(1) - Elaborative (a.) Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details.