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Enchilada
Enchilada (Spanish, from enchilar, to season with chile): Mexican dish of corn tortillas dipped in chile sauce, rolled or folded around meat, cheese, or beans, and covered in sauce; distinct from unsauced burritos and tacos, with named regional styles like enmoladas and enchiladas suizas.
Enchin
Enchin (円珍, 814–891) was a Japanese Tendai Buddhist priest of the early Heian period, the fifth head priest of the Tendai school and restorer of Onjōji Temple.
Enchiridion of Epictetus
Enchiridion of Epictetus (Ἐγχειρίδιον, Encheiridion, Manual, Handbook): short Stoic ethical manual compiled by Arrian from Epictetus's Discourses; 53 chapters, opens with the dichotomy of control; Schenkl 1916 Greek text, first printed 1535, first English 1567.
Encho Keryazov
Encho Keryazov is a Bulgarian politician who became Minister of Youth and Sports on May 8, 2026, taking office amid a reduced budget and disputes in sports federations.
Enchondroma
Enchondroma: a benign cartilage tumor forming inside bone, most common in the hand's small bones and long bones; usually asymptomatic, found incidentally, IDH1/2 mutations, managed by observation or curettage, rarely becoming chondrosarcoma.
Enchytraeus buchholzi
Enchytraeus buchholzi (Grindal worm, Ver grindal) is a small pale enchytraeid potworm of worldwide soils, hermaphroditic and parthenogenetic, used in ecotoxicology and regeneration research and cultured as live fish food in the aquarium hobby.
Encinitas, California
Encinitas, California: coastal city in northern San Diego County incorporated in 1986 from Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Leucadia, Old and New Encinitas, and Olivenhain; about 60,700 residents, six miles of coastline, surfing, poinsettia-growing heritage, and beach nourishment projects.
Encino Acquisition Partners
Encino Acquisition Partners was a Houston-based oil and gas company operating in Ohio's Utica shale, formed in 2017 and sold to EOG Resources in 2025 for $5.6 billion.
Encino Man
Encino Man (California Man) is a 1992 American teen comedy starring Sean Astin, Brendan Fraser, and Pauly Shore as teens who thaw a frozen caveman.
Encino Woman
Encino Woman (California Woman) is a 1996 ABC two-hour made-for-television comedy sequel to Encino Man, directed and co-written by Shawn Schepps, starring Katherine Kousi as thawed cavewoman Lucy, never released on home media, and currently unavailable on streaming.
Encino, Los Angeles
Encino is a neighborhood in the southern San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, centered on Ventura Boulevard. It grew from Rancho Los Encinos, a 4,460-acre Mexican-era ranch whose adobe, Garnier House, and spring survive in the five-acre Los Encinos State Historic Park.
Encirclement and annihilation campaigns in East Timor
The encirclement and annihilation campaigns were Indonesian military operations from 1977 to 1979 against FALINTIL that broke East Timorese resistance, interning about 372,900 civilians in camps.
Enclave (Fallout)
The Enclave is the Fallout series' fascist paramilitary faction claiming succession to the pre-War US government, main antagonist of Fallout 2 and Fallout 3, later in Fallout 76 and the TV series.
Enclave and exclave
Enclave and exclave: one territory, two viewpoints. An enclave is territory entirely surrounded by one other state (Lesotho, Vatican City); the same land is an exclave from its mother state's view, as with Kaliningrad.
Enclomiphene
Enclomiphene citrate (Androxal) is the trans isomer of clomiphene, a SERM that raises LH, FSH, and endogenous testosterone in secondary male hypogonadism while preserving sperm counts; it lacks FDA and EMA approval.
Enclos du Jardin des plantes médicinales Paul Moens - Tuin van Geneeskrachtige Planten Paul Moens
Enclos du Jardin des plantes médicinales Paul Moens (Tuin van Geneeskrachtige Planten Paul Moens), a didactic medicinal plant garden of 400 plots in 43 beds on the UCLouvain Woluwe campus in Brussels, founded 1975 by professor Paul Moens, Belgium's largest such collection.
Enclosed religious orders
Enclosed religious orders, also known as enclosed or cloistered orders, are Roman Catholic religious institutes whose members live under canonical enclosure, with entry and exit restricted and papal cloister for contemplative nuns.
Enclosure
Enclosure, also spelled inclosure, is a boundary such as a fence or hedge limiting access to land, and the English process of consolidating common fields.
Enclosure of land for banners (quandi)
Enclosure of land for banners (圈地) was a Qing policy seizing farmland near the capital and granting it to the Eight Banners, ended by the Kangxi Emperor in 1669.
ENCODE
ENCODE (Encyclopedia of DNA Elements), NHGRI-funded consortium launched 2003 mapping functional elements in human and mouse genomes; phases through ENCODE 4, 80.4% biochemical-activity claim, open data portal.
EnCodec
EnCodec is a neural audio codec introduced by Meta AI in October 2022 that compresses audio into discrete tokens using residual vector quantization, serving generative models like MusicGen.
Encoded Therapeutics
Encoded Therapeutics is a US precision gene therapy company in South San Francisco, California, founded in 2014 by Kartik Ramamoorthi and Stephanie Tagliatela, developing ETX101 for Dravet syndrome.
Encoder–decoder neural network
An encoder–decoder neural network, often called seq2seq, is a machine-learning architecture in which an encoder compresses the input and a decoder generates the output, the standard approach for machine translation.
Encoding/decoding model of communication
Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding model of communication: a 1973/1980 cultural studies framework in which producers encode preferred meanings and audiences decode them as dominant-hegemonic, negotiated, or oppositional readings.
Encomienda
The encomienda, or encomienda system, was a Spanish Crown grant of indigenous people to a colonist, who could exact tribute in exchange for protection and Christian instruction.
Encomium
An encomium (Greek enkōmion) is a formal composition in prose or verse praising a person, event, or idea, originally a Greek choral song for a victorious athlete.
Encompass (radiotherapy system)
Encompass is a frameless head-and-neck immobilization system for intracranial stereotactic radiosurgery, using a custom-molded thermoplastic mask that limits head motion to less than 1 mm; developed by Qfix, it received FDA clearance in 2015.
Encopresis
Encopresis (fecal incontinence, soiling) is involuntary stool passage in children past toilet-training age, usually overflow around constipation impaction; retentive vs non-retentive subtypes; treated with disimpaction, laxatives, and behavioral therapy.
Encorafenib
Encorafenib (Braftovi, LGX818) is an oral BRAF kinase inhibitor by Array BioPharma/Pfizer, approved 2018 with binimetinib for BRAF V600E/K melanoma and later for BRAF V600E colorectal cancer and NSCLC.
Encorafenib plus binimetinib
Encorafenib plus binimetinib is an oral targeted-therapy regimen combining a BRAF and a MEK inhibitor, approved in the United States in 2018 for BRAF V600-mutant melanoma.