Phrase Hound found 122 phrases and 2,390 compound words that contain en. The most common are listed below. Open en in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 122
- en routeOn the way.
- en suiteOf a bathroom, etc., connected to a bedroom.
- en masseIn a single body or group; as one, together.
- en bancAs a group, particularly with respect to a legal decision rendered by all of the judges sitting on a court, rather than by a smaller panel of judges from that court.
- En anglais
- en facefacing forward
- en passantOf a capture, performed by a pawn on an enemy pawn that has just passed over its attack zone.
- En Vivo
- en dashThe punctuation mark –, which is used, for instance, to indicate a range.
- en spaceA space which has a nominal width of 1 en.
- en ruleSynonym of en dash: The punctuation mark –, which is used, for instance, to indicate a range.
- en femmeChiefly of a cross-dressing, non-binary, or trans person: dressed in feminine clothing.
- en-CanAbbreviation of Canadian English: The variety of the English language used in Canada.
- En-p'ingAlternative form of Enping: A county-level city and former county of Jiangmen, Guangdong, China.
- en caulOf a birth: with the baby still inside an intact amniotic sac.
- en massMisspelling of en masse: In a single body or group; as one, together.
- en gardeUsed to warn one's opponent to take a defensive position prior to a fight.
- en blocAs a whole; all at once; all together.
- en coup de sabreOf a subtype of localised scleroderma, having a linear, atrophic depression on the frontoparietal scalp.
- en- -enForms transitive verbs denoting an increase in, or intensification of, the quality denoted by the enclosed word.
- mise en scèneA physical environment; surroundings.
- en quadA quad with a fixed width of 1 en, having half the width of an em quad.
- en clairIn the clear; without any encryption.
- en hommeDressed in masculine clothing.
- en arrièreToward the back.
Compound words 2,390
- beenpast participle of be: As an auxiliary verb:
- goldenMade of, or relating to, gold.
- enjoyTo receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.
- enableTo make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to.
- cowAn adult female of the species Bos taurus, especially one that has calved.
- tightenTo make tighter.
- quickenSenses relating to life or states of activity.
- hardenTo become hard.
- widenTo become wide or wider.
- sharpenTo make sharp.