em-

in, on

Usage

  • empirical

    Empirical evidence or study is based on real experience or scientific experiments rather than on unproven theories.

  • embellish

    If you embellish something, you make it more beautiful by decorating it.

  • empathy

    Empathy is the ability to understand how people feel because you can imagine what it is to be like them.

  • embankment

    An embankment is a built-up bank or ridge made of earth or stone that supports a road or holds back water.

  • embodiment

    An embodiment of something, such as a quality or idea, is a visible representation or concrete expression of it.

  • emphatic

    When you make an emphatic declaration, you are insistent and absolute about it.

  • embark

    When you embark upon a journey, you begin it, such as by boarding a plane or starting to learn something new.

  • emphasis

    When you put emphasis on something, you say or show that it is very important in some way.

  • embouchure

    The word embouchure refers to how the lips and tongue are placed on a wind instrument or to the mouthpiece of a wind instrument.

  • empyrean

    The empyrean is another word for the sky or for the heavens.

  • employ

    To employ someone is to hire them or give them money to work for you.

  • emblem

    special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc.

  • emblematic

    serving as a visible symbol for something abstract

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