French to English Dictionary (Dictionnaire Français-Anglais)

Document envelope

A heavy-duty protective container, typically made of paper, plastic, or Tyvek, used for storing, protecting, and transporting official papers without folding them.

Double-blind

Designating a test or experiment in which neither the subjects nor the researchers know who is receiving the active treatment and who is receiving a placebo, in order to eliminate bias.

Eccentric

Unconventional and slightly strange, especially in a whimsical way.

Eccentricity

A tendency to behave in an odd or unconventional way.

Ecstatic

Feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness or joyful excitement.

Efficiency

The state or quality of being efficient, marked by a high ratio of output to input or the ability to accomplish a job with a minimum expenditure of time and effort.

Effluvium

An unpleasant or noxious odor, smell, or vapor given off by something.

Effort

A vigorous or determined attempt to do something.

Elate

To make someone ecstatically happy or proud; to fill with high spirits or pride.

Ellipse

A regular oval shape, traced by a point moving in a plane so that the sum of its distances from two other points (the foci) is constant, or resulting from the oblique section of a cone.

Embellishment

A detail that is added to something to make it more attractive or interesting.

Emblem

A symbolic object or design that is used to represent a particular organization, concept, or country.