(countable) Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
(countable, uncountable) Activity intended to improve physical, or sometimes mental, strength and fitness.
(obsolete) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.
A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.
verb
(intransitive) To perform physical activity for health or training.
(now often in passive) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious.
(obsolete) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to.
(transitive) To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.
exeresis
exeresis
noun
The surgical removal of any part or organ.
exorcise
exorcise
verb
(transitive) To drive out (an evil spirit) from a person, place or thing, especially by an incantation or prayer.
(transitive) To rid (a person, place or thing) of an evil spirit.
exorcism
exorcism
noun
The ritual act of driving out evil spirits from persons, places or things that are possessed by them.
exorcist
exorcist
noun
A person, especially a priest, who practices exorcism.
expirers
expirers
noun
plural of expirer
expiries
expiries
noun
plural of expiry
exradius
exradius
noun
(geometry) The radius of an excircle.
exscribe
exscribe
verb
(obsolete) To copy; to transcribe.
exscript
exscript
noun
(obsolete) A copy; a transcript.
extremis
exurbias
exurbias
noun
plural of exurbia
fixtures
fixtures
noun
plural of fixture
foxfires
fraxinus
hexereis
hexereis
noun
plural of hexerei
indexers
indexers
noun
plural of indexer
intersex
intersex
adj
(fantasy) A person who can get pregnant and also impregnate someone else.
(of an individual) Having any of a variety of inherent conditions (in a species with distinct sexes) in which one's sex characteristics differ from those of a typical male and female; for example, having sex characteristics relating to both male and female sexes.
noun
(biology, zoology) An individual with any of these conditions.
The condition of being intersex; intersexuality.
verb
(nonstandard) To make intersex.
luxuries
luxuries
noun
plural of luxury
luxurist
luxurist
noun
(obsolete) One given to luxury.
marxists
matrixes
mixeress
mixtures
mixtures
noun
plural of mixture
neuraxis
neuraxis
noun
(anatomy, embryology, medicine, sometimes) A subset of the central nervous system: i.e., the spinal cord, rhombencephalon, mesencephalon and diencephalon.
(anatomy, medicine, usually) Synonym of central nervous system.
oxidiser
oxidiser
noun
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of oxidizer.
patrixes
peroxids
peroxids
noun
plural of peroxid
poxvirus
poxvirus
noun
Any of a group of DNA viruses, of the family Poxviridae, that cause pox diseases in vertebrates
praxises
preexist
preexist
verb
To exist before something else.
prefixes
prefixes
noun
plural of prefix
plural of prefixe
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of prefix
premixes
premixes
noun
plural of premix
protaxis
pyrexias
pyrexias
noun
plural of pyrexia
relaxins
relaxins
noun
plural of relaxin
sarcoxie
saxifrax
senatrix
senatrix
noun
(rare) A female senator (a female member of a senate)
(rare) Traditionally used as a term of address for a female senator in parliamentary proceedings in some Senates like those of the United States, Canada and France .
(rare, dated) The wife of a senator.
sextarii
sextarii
noun
plural of sextarius
sixscore
sixscore
num
(archaic) One hundred and twenty.
sparaxis
sparaxis
noun
Any of several deciduous perennial flowering herbs, of the genus Sparaxis, from South Africa
suffixer
superfix
superfix
noun
One or more letters or sounds added at the top of a word to modify the word's meaning. These are found in Maya script.
verb
To add one or more letters or sounds to the top of a word to change the word's meaning.
syrinxes
thrsieux
transfix
transfix
noun
(linguistics) A discontinuous affix, which occurs at more than one position in a word, typical of Semitic languages.
verb
(transitive) To fix or impale.
(transitive) To pierce with a sharp pointed weapon.
(transitive) To render motionless, by arousing terror, amazement or awe.
trioxids
trioxids
noun
plural of trioxid
uxorious
uxorious
adj
Very devoted and possibly submissive to one's wife.