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Eneva

Eneva is a Brazilian integrated energy company founded in 2001 as MPX by Eike Batista, now Brazil's largest private natural gas operator and largest thermal power generator.

Enewetak Atoll

Enewetak Atoll (Eniwetok), a Marshall Islands coral atoll, hosted 43 US nuclear tests (1948–1958, 31.7 MT) including Ivy Mike; cleanup created Runit Dome on Runit Island, and resettlement began in 1980.

Enexis

Enexis is a Dutch regional grid operator that builds and maintains electricity and gas networks serving three million customers in Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel, Noord-Brabant, and Limburg.

Enfabrica

Enfabrica was a Silicon Valley networking-chip startup whose ACF SuperNIC fed data to AI accelerators; NVIDIA paid over $900 million for its CEO and technology in 2025.

Enfenamic acid

Enfenamic acid (Tromaril) is an Indian-discovered fenamate NSAID analgesic, N-phenethylanthranilic acid, C15H15NO2, found in 1964 at CSIR-IICT Hyderabad, marketed by Unichem from 1981, then withdrawn.

Enfeoffment of Ke at Yan

The enfeoffment of Ke at Yan (燕侯克之封) made Ke, eldest son of Shao Gong, the first Marquis of Yan under King Cheng of Zhou, in the region around present-day Beijing.

Enfeoffment of Shu Yu of Tang (the paulownia-leaf episode)

The Enfeoffment of Shu Yu of Tang (桐叶封弟) is a Western Zhou story in which young King Cheng's jest, a paulownia leaf, made his brother ruler of Tang.

Enfield Monster

Enfield Monster, or Enfield Horror: alleged three-legged, pink-eyed creature reported by Henry McDaniel in Enfield, Illinois, April–May 1973; a media flap with no physical evidence, later studied by sociologists as rumor amplification, not mass hysteria.

Enfield poltergeist

Enfield poltergeist: reported 1977-79 disturbances at 284 Green Street, London, investigated by SPR's Maurice Grosse and Guy Lyon Playfair; famous male 'Bill' voice from Janet Hodgson, admitted trickery, disputed evidence.

Enfield, England

Enfield, England: historic market town in North London and centre of the London Borough of Enfield; market chartered 1303, about 330,000 residents, large industrial land base, Enfield Delivers growth plan to 2040.

Enfilade and defilade

Enfilade and defilade are military tactics terms: enfilade is fire directed along a target's long axis, defilade is shelter from enemy fire behind terrain or obstacles, with machine-gun, fortification, and urban-warfare applications.

Enflame

Enflame Technology is a Shanghai-based AI accelerator company founded in 2018 by former AMD engineers, backed by Tencent and listed on Shanghai's STAR Market in 2026.

Enflurane

Enflurane (Ethrane) is a halogenated ether used as an inhalational anesthetic for induction and maintenance of general anesthesia; FDA-approved in 1972, it was withdrawn from the US market.

Enforceability of marital agreements

Enforceability of marital agreements concerns whether prenuptial, postnuptial, or separation agreements bind the parties, with US statutes favoring enforcement and UK courts reviewing fairness under Radmacher.

Enforced disappearance

Enforced disappearance, also known as involuntary disappearance, occurs when state agents deprive someone of liberty and then deny it or conceal their fate, leaving them outside the law's protection.

Enforcement Directorate

Directorate of Enforcement (ED), India's financial investigation agency under the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance. Enforces PMLA, FEMA, and FEOA; established 1956; headquartered in New Delhi; investigates money laundering, attaches assets, and prosecutes economic offenders.

Enforcement of spousal maintenance orders

Enforcement of spousal maintenance orders is the recovery of unpaid spousal maintenance through courts and agencies, using wage garnishment, bank account freezing, and sanctions such as license and passport refusal.

Enforcer (ice hockey)

Enforcer (ice hockey): unofficial NHL player role, also called goon, whose job is fighting and retaliating against opponents. Declined since the 1992 instigator rule and 2005 salary cap; linked to shorter lives and CTE.

Enformer

Enformer is a deep learning model from Google DeepMind and Calico, introduced in 2021, that predicts gene expression directly from DNA sequence using a transformer architecture.

Enfortumab vedotin

Enfortumab vedotin (Padcev, enfortumab vedotin-ejfv), a nectin-4-targeted antibody-drug conjugate for urothelial bladder cancer; FDA approved 2019; EV-301 and EV-302 survival results; boxed skin-reaction warning.

Enfuce

Enfuce is a Finnish financial technology company based in Helsinki, founded in 2016, providing cloud-based card issuing and issuer processing for banks, fintechs, and other brands.

Enfuvirtide

Enfuvirtide, also known as T-20 or Fuzeon, is a 36-amino-acid peptide that blocks HIV-1 entry into cells, FDA-approved in 2003 as the first fusion inhibitor and given by twice-daily injection.

Eng (letter)

Eng, also known as engma or angma, is a Latin alphabet letter (Ŋ, ŋ) that represents the velar nasal sound heard in the ng of English sing.

Eng H. Lo

Eng H. Lo, also published as Eng Lo, is a neuroscientist who studies stroke and traumatic brain injury at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he leads the Neuroprotection Research Laboratory.

Eng M. Tan

Eng M. Tan, born Eng Meng Tan (1926–2024), was a Malaysian-born American physician-scientist at Scripps Research whose discovery of autoantibody markers transformed the diagnosis of lupus and scleroderma.

Enga Province

Enga Province is a Highlands province of Papua New Guinea, 583 km northwest of Port Moresby, with capital Wabag, 571,060 people (2021), and the Porgera gold mine.

Enga Veettu Pillai (எங்க வீட்டுப் பிள்ளை)

Enga Veettu Pillai (எங்க வீட்டுப் பிள்ளை), 1965 Tamil masala film directed by Tapi Chanakya, starring M. G. Ramachandran in a double role as Ramu and Ilango; a remake of Ramudu Bheemudu, released 14 January 1965, silver jubilee hit, later remade as Ram Aur Shyam.

Engaeyum Eppothum (எங்கேயும் எப்போதும்)

Engaeyum Eppothum (Engeyum Eppodhum, எங்கேயும் எப்போதும்) is a 2011 Tamil romantic drama road film by M. Saravanan, produced by A. R. Murugadoss and Fox Star Studios, starring Jai, Anjali, Sharwanand, and Ananya; two love stories converge in a bus accident.

Engaged to the Unidentified

Engaged to the Unidentified, also known as Mikakunin de Shinkoukei, is a Japanese manga series serialized in Monthly Comic Rex and adapted into a 2014 anime by Doga Kobo.

Engagement

Engagement, historically called betrothal, is the period between the promise to marry and marriage, once a binding legal contract and today a social commitment marked by proposals, engagement rings, and studied effects on later marital stability.