(phonetics) The epenthesis (insertion) of a vowel.
antapexes
aphotaxis
apostaxis
appomatox
apteryxes
apteryxes
noun
plural of apteryx
auxotroph
auxotroph
noun
Any microorganism that has lost the ability to synthesize an organic compound required for its growth, usually as a result of mutation
axiopisty
axiopisty
noun
Worthiness of being believed.
capiteaux
cataplexy
cataplexy
noun
(medicine) An abrupt loss of muscle tone, sometimes associated with narcolepsy.
coltpixie
coltpixie
noun
(UK, Hampshire, archaic, folklore) A kind of hobgoblin.
duplexity
duplexity
noun
The state of being duplex
epistaxis
epistaxis
noun
(medicine) nosebleed
epitaxial
epitaxial
adj
Of, pertaining to, or employing epitaxy
epitaxies
epitaxies
noun
plural of epitaxy
epitoxoid
epitoxoid
noun
(obsolete) A toxoid that generates less of an immune response than an original one
exceptant
exceptant
adj
(archaic) Making exception.
noun
One who makes an exception.
excepting
excepting
prep
with the exception of
verb
present participle of except
exception
exception
noun
(computing) An interruption in normal processing, typically caused by an error condition, that can be raised ("thrown") by one part of the program and handled ("caught") by another part.
(law) An objection, on legal grounds; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts or reserves something before the right is transferred.
An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; — usually followed by to or against.
That which is excluded from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included.
The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
exceptive
exceptive
adj
exceptional, having an exception
excerpted
excerpted
adj
Consisting of excerpts.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of excerpt
excerpter
excerpter
noun
Alternative form of excerptor
excerptor
excerptor
noun
One who makes excerpts.
excipient
excipient
adj
Taking an exception.
noun
(pharmacy, pharmacology) An ingredient that is intentionally added to a drug for purposes other than the therapeutic or diagnostic effect at the intended dosage.
An exceptor.
exculpate
exculpate
verb
To clear of or to free from guilt; exonerate.
exemptile
exempting
exempting
verb
present participle of exempt
exemption
exemption
noun
A deduction from the normal amount of taxes.
An act of exempting.
Freedom from a defect or weakness.
The state of being exempt; immunity.
exemptive
exopathic
exopodite
exopodite
noun
(zoology) The external part of the uropod.
exotropia
exotropia
noun
(medicine) A form of strabismus in which the eyes deviate outwards.
exotropic
exotropic
adj
Suffering from or related to exotropia.
expalpate
expatiate
expatiate
verb
(obsolete) To expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden.
(rare) To range at large, or without restraint.
To write or speak at length; to be copious in argument or discussion.
expectant
expectant
adj
(medicine, dated) Awaiting the effects of nature, with little active treatment.
Marked by expectation.
Pregnant.
noun
A person who expects or awaits something.
expecters
expecters
noun
plural of expecter
expecting
expecting
adj
Of a woman, female animal, or couple, in expectation of giving birth; pregnant.
noun
The process by which somebody expects something.
verb
present participle of expect
expection
expection
noun
Archaic or rare form of expectation.
Misspelling of exception.
expective
expective
adj
(linguistics) A verb form in some native American languages that implies expectation of an action, as opposed to the report of an action or a general statement about the type of action.
expectative
expediate
expediate
adj
(obsolete) Expeditious.
verb
(rare, historical) To injure (a dog) by cutting away the pads of the forefeet, thereby preventing it from hunting.
Misconstruction of expedite
expedient
expedient
adj
(obsolete) Expeditious, quick, rapid.
Affording short-term benefit, often at the expense of the long-term.
Governed by self-interest, often short-term self-interest.
Suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended.
noun
A method or means for achieving a particular result, especially when direct or efficient; a resource.
expedited
expedited
adj
accelerated
arranged, executed or dispatched quickly or more efficiently
verb
simple past tense and past participle of expedite
expediter
expediter
noun
A person who expedites.
Employee charged with tasks related to the purchase of materials (place orders, receive shipments, examine deliveries, check correctness of invoices) and other clerical duties.
expedites
expedites
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of expedite
expeditor
expeditor
noun
Alternative spelling of expediter
expellant
expellant
adj
That expels
noun
(medicine) A substance that expels undesirable material (typically worms) from the body
expellent
expellent
adj
Alternative form of expellant
experient
experient
adj
Met with in the course of experience.
noun
A person who experiences something.
experting
expertise
expertise
noun
Advice, or opinion, of an expert.
Great skill or knowledge in a particular field or hobby.
verb
(transitive, rare) To supply with expert knowledge or advice.
expertism
expertism
noun
A policy of consulting experts.
expertize
expertize
verb
(intransitive) To act as an expert.
(transitive) To give an expert opinion on; to assess.
expetible
expetible
adj
(obsolete) Worthy of being wished for; desirable.
expiating
expiating
verb
present participle of expiate
expiation
expiation
noun
(obsolete) The act of expiating or stripping off.
An act of atonement for a sin or wrongdoing.
expiatist
expiative
expiative
adj
That serves to expiate.
expiators
expiators
noun
plural of expiator
expiatory
expiatory
adj
Of or pertaining to expiation.
expilator
expilator
noun
(obsolete) One who plunders or pillages.
expirator
expiscate
expiscate
verb
(transitive, formal, archaic) To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out.
explanate
explanate
adj
(botany) Flat; flattened.
explanted
explanted
adj
Removed from a natural site of growth, and placed in a culture medium (especially in relation to plants)
Removed from the body (especially in relation to organs)
verb
simple past tense and past participle of explant
explement
explement
noun
The remainder of subtracting an angle from a full circle.
expletive
expletive
adj
Marked by expletives (phrase-fillers).
Serving to fill up, merely for effect, otherwise redundant.
noun
(linguistics) A word that adds to the strength of a phrase without affecting its meaning.
(linguistics) A word without meaning added to fill a syntactic position.
A profane, vulgar term, notably a curse or obscene oath.
expletory
expletory
adj
Serving to fill up; expletive; superfluous.
explicate
explicate
adj
(obsolete) Evolved; unfolded.
verb
(transitive) To explain meticulously or in great detail.
explicits
explicits
noun
plural of explicit
explodent
explodent
adj
(archaic) plosive
exploited
exploited
verb
simple past tense and past participle of exploit
exploitee
exploitee
noun
One who is exploited.
exploiter
exploiter
noun
One who exploits.
verb
to make use of.
explorate
explorate
verb
(obsolete) To explore.
expoliate
exponents
exponents
noun
plural of exponent
exporters
exporters
noun
plural of exporter
exporting
exporting
verb
present participle and gerund of export
exposited
exposited
verb
simple past tense and past participle of exposit
expositor
expositor
noun
A person who expounds; a commentator.
exposture
exposture
noun
(obsolete) exposure
exprobate
exprobate
verb
Obsolete form of exprobrate.
expuition
expuition
noun
(obsolete) The act of spiting phlegm.
expurgate
expurgate
verb
(transitive) To edit out (incorrect, offensive, or otherwise undesirable information) from a book or other publication; to cleanse; to purge.
(transitive) To undertake editing out incorrect, offensive, or otherwise undesirable information from (a book or other publication); to cleanse; to purge.
exsputory
exstrophy
exstrophy
noun
(anatomy) The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface.
(especially) A congenital malformation of the bladder in which the normally internal mucosa of the organ lies exposed on the abdominal wall because of failure of union between the halves of the pubic symphysis and between the adjacent halves of the abdominal wall.
extempore
extempore
adj
Carried out with no preparation; impromptu.
adv
Without preparation; extemporaneously.
noun
Something improvised.
extempory
extirpate
extirpate
verb
(transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate, to cause to go extinct locally.
(transitive) To pull up by the roots; uproot.
(transitive) To surgically remove.
(transitive, obsolete) To clear an area of roots and stumps.
extispicy
extispicy
noun
(countable) A specific instance of such divination.
(uncountable) Haruspicy: the study and divination by use of animal entrails, usually the victims of sacrifice.
hepatauxe
heptoxide
heptoxide
noun
(chemistry) any oxide containing seven oxygen atoms in each molecule
hypotaxia
hypotaxic
hypotaxis
hypotaxis
noun
(grammar) Syntactic subordination of one clause or construction to another.
hypotoxic
hypotoxic
adj
Less than usually toxic
impermixt
impostrix
impostrix
noun
(archaic) A female impostor.
inexperts
inexperts
noun
plural of inexpert
inexpiate
inexpiate
adj
(obsolete) Not appeased or placated.
juxtapose
juxtapose
verb
(transitive) To place side by side, especially for contrast or comparison.
kataplexy
kataplexy
noun
Alternative form of cataplexy
lepothrix
lophortyx
mastopexy
mastopexy
noun
(surgery) Any operation designed to lift or reshape a woman's breast.
multiplex
multiplex
adj
(botany) Having petals lying in folds over each other.
(medicine) Having multiple members with a particular condition.
Comprising several interleaved parts.
noun
(by extension) Ellipsis of cinema multiplex.; A large cinema complex comprising many (typically more than five, and often over ten) movie theatres or houses, showing rooms.
(juggling) throwing motion where more than one ball is thrown with one hand at the same time.
(television) a grouping of program services as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium
A building or a place where several activities occur in multiple units concurrently or different times.
verb
(computing) To combine several signals into one.
(juggling) To make a multiplex throw.
(transitive) To convert (a cinema business) into a large complex, or multiplex.
To interleave several activities.
myxophyta
nonexempt
nonexempt
adj
(law) Subject to taxation; not within any category of income to which taxes are not applied.
Not exempt.
noun
One who is not exempt.
nonexpert
nonexpert
adj
Not expert.
noun
A person who is not an expert (in the field that is relevant to the context).
noxapater
operatrix
oxytropis
parataxic
parataxic
adj
Pertaining to parataxis.
parataxis
parataxis
noun
(grammar) Speech or writing in which clauses or phrases are placed together without being separated by conjunctions, for example "I came; I saw; I conquered".
(historical, politics) A coalition or "partisan camp" in the Ancient Greek political system.
(literature) The juxtaposition of two images or fragments, usually starkly dissimilar, without a clear connection.
paxillate
paxillate
adj
Having, or in the form of paxillae
pentoxide
pentoxide
noun
(inorganic chemistry) any oxide containing five oxygen atoms in each molecule
phototaxy
phototaxy
noun
phototaxis
pixilated
pixilated
adj
behaving in an eccentric manner, as though led by pixies.
drunk
whimsical
plaintext
plaintext
noun
(cryptography, computing) Alternative spelling of plain text
pleiotaxy
plexodont
postaxiad
postaxial
postaxial
adj
(anatomy) Situated behind any transverse axis in the body of an animal; caudal; posterior.
postboxes
postboxes
noun
plural of postbox, an alternative spelling of post box
postcoxal
postexist
postexist
verb
(rare) To exist after; to live subsequently.
postfixal
postfixal
adj
(linguistics) Relating to, or taking the form of, a postfix.
postfixed
postfixed
adj
Subjected to postfixation
verb
simple past tense and past participle of postfix
postfixes
postfixes
noun
plural of postfix
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of postfix
posttoxic
praetexta
praetexta
noun
(historical, Roman antiquity) A white robe with a purple border, worn by a Roman boy before he was entitled to wear the toga virilis, or until about the completion of his fourteenth year, and by girls until their marriage. It was also worn by magistrates and priests.
praxithea
preataxic
preataxic
adj
(medicine) Before the onset of ataxia.
preexcept
preexcite
preexcite
verb
(transitive, medicine) To excite earlier than usual.
preexempt
preexists
preexists
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of preexist
preexpect
preextend
preextent
pretextae
pretexted
pretexted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of pretext
proexpert
prolixity
prolixity
noun
Long-windedness, an excess of words.
promotrix
protaxial
prothorax
prothorax
noun
(entomology) The anterior segment of the insect thorax; it carries the first pair of legs
protoxide
protoxide
noun
(inorganic chemistry) Any of a series of oxides of a particular metal that has the fewest atoms of oxygen per molecule
protoxids
protoxids
noun
plural of protoxid
proxenete
proximate
proximate
adj
(law) Immediately preceding or following in a chain of causation.
About to take place; impending.
Close or closest; adjacent.
noun
(linguistics) A grammatical marker that distinguishes a relatively salient referent in a given context from a relatively non-salient (obviative) one.
proximity
proximity
noun
Closeness; the state of being near as in space, time, or relationship.
pyothorax
pyothorax
noun
pleural empyema; an accumulation of pus in the pleural cavity
pyrotoxin
pyrotoxin
noun
(toxicology) Any of several pyrogenic bacterial toxins.