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Enchanted (film)

Enchanted is a 2007 American musical fantasy comedy film directed by Kevin Lima and starring Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, and James Marsden, blending animation with live action in Manhattan.

Enchanted April (1991 film)

Enchanted April is a 1991 British comedy-drama directed by Mike Newell, adapted from Elizabeth von Arnim's 1922 novel, in which four Englishwomen rent a castle on the Italian Riviera for April.

Enchanted Parks

Enchanted Parks is an American company based in Windermere, Florida, founded by James Harhi, that owns and operates amusement parks, water parks, resorts, and lodging destinations.

Enchanted Princess

Enchanted Princess is a Royal-class cruise ship of Princess Cruises, built by Fincantieri in Italy and delivered in 2020; she began service in November 2021 after pandemic delays.

Enchanted Rock

Enchanted Rock is a pink granite exfoliation dome in the Texas Hill Country, the centerpiece of Enchanted Rock State Natural Area near Fredericksburg; a billion-year-old batholith, National Natural Landmark, and one of Texas's most visited parks.

ENCHANTED trial

ENCHANTED (Enhanced Control of Hypertension and Thrombolysis Stroke Study) is an international 2x2 randomized stroke trial of low-dose vs standard-dose alteplase and intensive vs guideline blood pressure lowering; its successor ENCHANTED2/MT tested SBP targets after thrombectomy.

Enchanted Valley Carnival

The Enchanted Valley Carnival (EVC) was a multi-genre music and camping festival held annually from 2013 at Aamby Valley City in Maharashtra, India, ending after its fifth edition in 2017.

Enchanting (rapper)

Enchanting, born Channing Nicole Larry (1997-2024), was a Fort Worth, Texas rapper and singer signed to Gucci Mane's 1017 Records in 2020, known for "No Luv" and the Trap-n-Blues blend of rap and R&B; she died June 11, 2024, of an accidental oxycodone and benzodiazepine overdose.

Enchantress (DC Comics)

Enchantress (June Moone) is DC Comics' witch-sorceress, created by Bob Haney and Howard Purcell, debuting in Strange Adventures #187 (April 1966); June Moone transforms by speaking her name, serving the Suicide Squad, Shadowpact, and Justice League Dark, and was played by Cara Delevingne in the 2016 film.

Enchantress (Marvel Comics)

Enchantress (Marvel Comics): the alias of Amora, an Asgardian sorceress who debuted in Journey Into Mystery #103 (1964) as Loki's ally against Thor, and of Sylvie Lushton, a Loki-empowered human who imitated her from 2009; distinct from DC's June Moone Enchantress.

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.