Initialism of European Central Bank. / (cricket) Initialism of England and Wales Cricket Board, the governing body for the sport in England and Wales.

(computing) Initialism of event control block (IBM)

(historical) The ancient capital of Media, in modern-day Iran, and subsequently a royal residence of Persian and Parthian kings.

plural of ecbolic

(medicine) Producing abortion of a fetus or accelerating childbirth, oxytocic.

(medicine) An agent that produces abortion of a fetus or hastens delivery of the same.

(organic chemistry) An alkaloid constituting the active principle of ergot.

plural of ecbole

(rhetoric, rare) A digression, (especially) one in which a person is introduced speaking his or her own words.

(rhetoric) A figure in which the orator treats things according to their events or consequences.