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Ensenada

Ensenada (Ensenada de Todos Santos) is a port city and municipality in Baja California, Mexico, founded as territorial capital May 15, 1882. About 444,000 residents; home to the Baja peninsula's only deep-water port, Mexico's 3rd-busiest cruise port, and the Valle de Guadalupe wine region producing about 70% of Mexican wine.

Ensenada (song)

"Ensenada" is a 2025 single by Sublime, the band's first with frontman Jakob Nowell; it spent seven weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's Alternative Airplay chart and opens the 2026 album Until the Sun Explodes.

Enshakushanna

Enshakushanna (Enšakušana) was a king of Uruk in southern Mesopotamia around the mid-24th century BC, known from inscriptions recording his destruction of Kish and capture of its king Enbi-Ištar.

Enshakushanna's sack of Kish

Enshakushanna's sack of Kish was the destruction of Kish and capture of its king Enbi-Ištar by Enshakushanna, king of Uruk, around 2500 BC, ending Kish's hegemony over Sumer.

Enshi

Enshi (恩施市) is a county-level city in southwest Hubei, China, seat of Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. Known as the World Selenium Capital for selenium-rich soils, Enshi Yulu steamed green tea, Tenglong Cave, and landslide-prone karst terrain.

Enshi Grand Canyon-Tenglongdong Cave UNESCO Global Geopark

Enshi Grand Canyon-Tenglongdong Cave UNESCO Global Geopark is a UNESCO Global Geopark in southwest Hubei, China, designated in 2024 and known for its karst landscapes.

Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou

Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou (恩施土家族苗族自治州), the Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, is an autonomous prefecture in southwestern Hubei, China. Established in 1983, it is Hubei's only autonomous prefecture.

Enshittification

Enshittification, also known as platform decay, is the gradual degradation of an online platform's quality, coined by Cory Doctorow in 2022 and named 2023 Word of the Year.

Enshrouded

Enshrouded is a co-op survival crafting action RPG by Keen Games set in the fog-covered voxel world of Embervale. Early access 24 January 2024; 1.0 released 15 October 2026 on PC and PS5, up to 16 players.

Ensi

Ensi (énsi) is a Sumerian title for a ruler or governor, used chiefly by the rulers of Lagash and later by provincial governors under the Akkadian and Ur III states.

Ensifentrine

Ensifentrine (RPL554), marketed as OHTUVAYRE, is an inhaled dual PDE3/PDE4 inhibitor approved by the FDA in 2024 for maintenance treatment of COPD in adults, dosed 3 mg twice daily by jet nebulizer.

Ensifera

Ensifera is a name for two taxa: the cricket and katydid suborder of Orthoptera, and a hummingbird genus whose sword-billed hummingbird has the longest bill of any hummingbird.

Ensiferum

Ensiferum (Latin for 'sword bearer') is a Finnish folk metal band founded in Helsinki in 1995 by Markus Toivonen, blending melodic death metal with kantele and folk instrumentation across nine studio albums from Ensiferum (2001) to Winter Storm (2024).

Ensign (rank)

Ensign (ENS) is the lowest commissioned officer rank in most navies, O-1 in the US Navy and Coast Guard, equivalent to second lieutenant. From Latin insignia via Old French enseigne; adopted by the US Navy in 1862.

Ensign Energy Services

Ensign Energy Services is a Calgary-based oilfield services company, incorporated in 1987, providing land-based contract drilling and well servicing to oil and gas industries in Canada, the United States, and internationally.

Enslaved (band)

Enslaved is a Norwegian progressive black/Viking metal band formed in Haugesund in 1991 by Ivar Bjørnson and Grutle Kjellson; sixteen albums through Heimdal (2023), with Mið announced, plus multiple Spellemannprisen awards.

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West is a 2010 Ninja Theory action-adventure game for PS3 and Xbox 360, loosely based on Journey to the West, written by Alex Garland, starring Andy Serkis as Monkey; Metacritic 82 but a commercial flop.

Ensō (円相)

Ensō (円相), "circular form," is the Zen circle drawn in one or two uninhibited ink brushstrokes; a meditation aid expressing fullness and emptiness, linked to wabi-sabi, and exemplified by works of Bankei Yōtaku.

Ensoma

Ensoma is a Boston-based genomic medicines company founded in 2019 that develops one-time, in vivo engineered hematopoietic cell therapies on its Engenious virus-like-particle platform for genetic diseases, immune disorders, and cancer.

Ensoniq

Ensoniq was an American electronic musical instrument and audio-chip manufacturer in Malvern, Pennsylvania, best known for the Mirage sampling keyboard, the ESQ-1 synthesizer, and the AudioPCI sound card.

Ensovibep

Ensovibep (MP0420) is a five-domain DARPin antiviral by Molecular Partners and Novartis that blocks SARS-CoV-2 spike-ACE2 binding; positive in EMPATHY phase 2 but futile in hospitalized ACTIV-3/TICO patients, then deprioritized.

Enstatite

Enstatite is a rock-forming silicate mineral of the pyroxene group with ideal formula Mg2Si2O6, occurring chiefly in ultramafic igneous rocks and dominant in the enstatite chondrite meteorites.

Enstrom Helicopter Corporation

Enstrom Helicopter Corporation, founded by Rudy Enstrom in 1959, is a helicopter manufacturer in Menominee, Michigan, known for the piston F-28 and 280 series and the turbine 480 series.

Enstructure

Enstructure LLC is a privately held American logistics infrastructure company based in Wellesley, Massachusetts, founded in 2016, that acquires and operates marine terminals, warehouses, and trucking.

Ensure

Ensure, Abbott's adult oral nutritional supplement brand introduced in 1973, offers shakes and powders (Original, Plus, Max Protein, Complete, Enlive) providing complete balanced nutrition for malnourished patients, recovery, and healthy aging.

Ensyn

Ensyn Corporation is a private renewable fuels and chemicals company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, that converts woody biomass into liquid biocrude using its proprietary Rapid Thermal Processing fast pyrolysis technology.

Ent

Ents (Sindarin Onodrim) are Tolkien's giant tree-shepherds of Middle-earth, created at Yavanna's request, led by Treebeard of Fangorn, and named from Old English 'giant'.

Ent-Copalyl diphosphate synthase

Ent-copalyl diphosphate synthase (CPS, EC 5.5.1.13), also called ent-kaurene synthetase A, is a class II diterpene cyclase converting GGPP to ent-CPP, the first committed step of gibberellin biosynthesis in plants, fungi, and bacteria.

Ent-Kaurene

Ent-kaurene is a tetracyclic diterpene hydrocarbon with the formula C20H32, formed from geranylgeranyl diphosphate in plant plastids and serving as the universal precursor of gibberellin hormones and ent-kaurane natural products.

Ent-kaurene synthase

Ent-kaurene synthase (KS, EC 4.2.3.19) is a class I diterpene synthase that converts ent-copalyl diphosphate into ent-kaurene, feeding gibberellin biosynthesis in plants; related enzymes also occur in rhizobia and fungi.