| eastern kingbird | a kingbird that breeds in North America and winters in tropical America, distinguished by a white band on the tip of the tail |
eastern meadowlark
Sturnella magna | a meadowlark of eastern North America |
eastern red-backed salamander
Plethodon cinereus | common salamander of eastern North America |
eastern cricket frog
Acris gryllus | a cricket frog of eastern United States |
eastern narrow-mouthed toad
Gastrophryne carolinensis | small toad of southeastern United States |
eastern fence lizard
pine lizard
Sceloporus undulatus | small active lizard of United States and north to British Columbia |
eastern ground snake
Potamophis striatula
Haldea striatula | in some classifications placed in genus Haldea, small reddish-grey snake of eastern North America |
eastern indigo snake
Drymarchon corais couperi | a variety of indigo snake |
eastern coral snake
Micrurus fulvius | ranges from Central America to southeastern United States |
eastern dasyure
Dasyurus quoll | a variety of dasyure |
eastern pipistrel
Pipistrellus subflavus | one of the smallest bats of eastern North America |
eastern cottontail
Sylvilagus floridanus | widely distributed in United States except northwest and far west regions |
eastern woodrat
Neotoma floridana | large greyish-brown wood rat of the southeastern United States |
eastern grey squirrel
eastern gray squirrel
cat squirrel Sciurus carolinensis | common medium-large squirrel of eastern North America, now introduced into England |
fox squirrel
eastern fox squirrel
Sciurus niger | exceptionally large arboreal squirrel of eastern United States |
eastern chipmunk
hackee
striped squirrel
ground squirrel Tamias striatus | small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches |
eastern lowland gorilla
Gorilla gorilla grauri | a kind of gorilla |
eastern chimpanzee
Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii | long-haired chimpanzees of eastentral Africa, closely related to the central chimpanzees |
| Eastern Catholicism | the beliefs and practices of any of the eastern Catholic Churches based in Constantinople or Antioch or Alexandria or Moscow or Jerusalem |
| Peace of Westphalia | the peace treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War in |
Chagatai
Jagatai
Jaghatai
Eastern Turki | a Turkic literary language of medieval central Asia (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan) |
Oceanic
Eastern Malayo-Polynesian | an eastern subfamily of Malayo-Polynesian languages |
| East Midland | the dialect of Middle English that replaced West Saxon as the literary language and which developed into Modern English |
East Germanic
East Germanic language | an extinct branch of the Germanic languages |
Turfan
East Tocharian
Turfan dialect | a dialect of Tocharian |
| East Chadic | a group of Chadic languages spoken in Chad |
| East India Company | an English company formed in to develop trade with the new British colonies in India and southeastern Asia, in the th century it assumed administrative control of Bengal and held it until the British army took over in after the Indian Mutiny |
East Turkistan Islamic Movement
East Turkestan Islamic Movement | a group of Uighur Muslims fighting Chinese control of Xinjiang, declared by China in to be terrorists although there is a long history of cycles of insurgency and repression |
Islamic Great Eastern Raiders-Front
IBDA-C | a Turkish terrorist organization that claimed responsibility for bombing a British consulate and bank in Istanbul, a violent opponent of Turkey's secular government and its ties to the European Union and NATO |
Eastern Church
Byzantine Church | the Catholic Church as it existed in the Byzantine Empire |
Orthodox Church
Orthodox Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Church
Eastern Church Eastern Orthodox | derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites |
| Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development of countries in Asia and the Far East |
| east | a location in the eastern part of a country, region, or city |
eastern hemisphere
orient | the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia |
East
Orient | the countries of Asia |
| Far East | a popular expression for the countries of eastern Asia (usually including China and Mongolia and Taiwan and Japan and Korea and Indochina and eastern Siberia) |
| East eastern United States | the region of the United States lying to the north of the Ohio River and to the east of the Mississippi River |
| east side | the side that is on the east |
| east-west direction | in a direction parallel with lines of latitude |
| East Africa | a geographical area in eastern Africa |
East Germany
German Democratic Republic | a republic in north central Europe on the Baltic, established by the Soviet Union in , reunified with West Germany in |
| East Timor | a former Portuguese colony that was annexed by Indonesia in , voted for independence from Indonesia in and in May became an independent nation |
Middle East
Mideast
Near East | the area around the eastern Mediterranean, from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran, the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam, had continuous economic and political turmoil in the th century, the Middle East is the cradle of Western civilization |
Byzantine Empire
Byzantium Eastern Roman Empire | a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in |
Malay Archipelago
East Indies
East India | a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia |
Bangladesh
People's Republic of Bangladesh
Bangla Desh
East Pakistan | a Muslim republic in southern Asia bordered by India to the north and west and east and the Bay of Bengal to the south, formerly part of India and then part of Pakistan, it achieved independence in |
| British East Africa | the former British territories of eastern Africa, including Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, and Zanzibar |
| East Sussex | a county in southern England on the English Channel |
| East Anglia | a region of eastern England that was formerly a kingdom |
Indonesia
Republic of Indonesia
Dutch East Indies | a republic in southeastern Asia on an archipelago including more than , islands, achieved independence from the Netherlands in , the principal oil producer in the Far East and Pacific regions |