Initialism of editor in chief.

plural of EIC

(biochemistry) Any of a family of naturally-occurring substances derived from 20-carbon polyunsaturated fatty acids; they include the prostaglandins, thromboxanes, leukotrienes and epoxyeicosatrienoic acids; they function as hormones.

A surname from German.

(organic chemistry) any of the 366,319 isomers of the aliphatic hydrocarbon having the chemical formula C₂₀H₄₂, but especially n-eicosane CH₃(CH₂)₁₈CH₃

plural of eicosanoid

plural of eicosane

(slang, derogatory) Someone who is like the Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann; someone who seems ordinary but does evil as a member of an immoral or evil entity or system.

An oligomer having twenty subunits

Of or pertaining to a eicosamer