(organic chemistry) A compound of carbon and oxygen, such as carbonyl, with some element or radical.
carboxyls
carboxyls
noun
plural of carboxyl
cardiauxe
chartreux
chronaxia
chronaxie
chronaxie
noun
The minimum time over which an electric current must be applied in order to stimulate a muscle fiber or nerve cell.
corixidae
delacroix
dictatrix
dictatrix
noun
(archaic) A female dictator.
dixiecrat
dixiecrat
Noun
a member of the Democratic Party of the United States of America from the southern States, especially one of the former territories of the Confederate States of America, who hold socially conservative viewpoints, and supports racial segregation and white power.
a member of the States' Rights Democratic Party of the United States of America.
evocatrix
evocatrix
noun
(dated) A female evocator.
exactress
exactress
noun
A female exactor.
exarchate
exarchate
noun
(historical) The province or area of an exarch.
exarchies
exarchies
noun
plural of exarchy
exarchist
exarchist
noun
A supporter of the exarch.
excalibur
excarnate
excarnate
adj
Deprived or stripped of flesh.
verb
(transitive) To deprive or strip of flesh.
excavator
excavator
noun
A curette used to scrape out pathological material.
A person who excavates.
A vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc.
excentral
excentral
adj
(botany) Out of the centre.
(geometry) Relating to the excentre.
exchanger
exchanger
noun
(biochemistry) An antiporter.
A person or thing that exchanges one thing for another.
excipular
excitator
exclaimer
exclaimer
noun
One who exclaims.
excoriate
excoriate
verb
(transitive) To wear off the skin of; to chafe or flay.
(transitive, figuratively) To strongly denounce or censure.
excurvate
excusator
excusator
noun
(obsolete) One who makes, or is authorized to make, an excuse; an apologist.
execrable
execrable
adj
Hateful.
Of the poorest quality.
execrably
execrably
adv
In an execrable way.
execrated
execrated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of execrate
execrates
execrates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of execrate
execrator
execrator
noun
One who execrates.
exocardia
exochorda
exocoelar
exorcista
exorganic
exoterica
exoterica
noun
Writing, facts, principles, etc. that are widely known.
extracted
extracted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of extract
extractor
extractor
noun
(chemistry) An apparatus that uses a solvent to remove soluble substances from a mixture.
(graph theory) A particular kind of bipartite graph.
(in a gun) A part of the bolt that removes a cartridge from the chamber.
A centrifugal drying machine.
A device for rendering wax.
A function which, being applied to output from a weakly random entropy source, together with a short, uniformly random seed, generates a highly random output that appears independent from the source and uniformly distributed.
A machine for clearing combs of honey.
extradict
extricate
extricate
verb
(rare) To free from intricacies or perplexity
(transitive) To free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.
hexachord
hexachord
noun
(music) A series of six tones denoted with the syllables ut-re-mi-fa-sol-la separated by seconds, the only of which that is a minor second being mi-fa.
hexameric
hexameric
adj
Of or pertaining to a hexamer.
hexandric
oxytricha
paradoxic
paradoxic
adj
Alternative form of paradoxical
paralexic
paralexic
adj
Relating to paralexia
parataxic
parataxic
adj
Pertaining to parataxis.
paraxonic
paraxonic
adj
(zoology) In bearing weight evenly on two parallel axes within the foot, typically the third and fourth digits.
preataxic
preataxic
adj
(medicine) Before the onset of ataxia.
preclimax
preclimax
adj
(ecology) Before the point of climax.
proclimax
pyrexical
pyrexical
adj
Relating to fever; feverish; pyrexial.
roncevaux
saxcornet
scramasax
scramasax
noun
(historical) A type of dagger or sword used by the Anglo-Saxons.
taraxacin
taraxacin
noun
(obsolete, medicine) A bitter glycoside, extracted from dandelion, once used as a diuretic.
taraxacum
taraxacum
noun
(medicine) The dried root of the dandelion once used as a tonic.