The line bisecting the angle between the optic axes of a biaxial crystal.
calothrix
carapaxes
carapaxes
noun
plural of carapax
carboxide
carboxide
noun
(organic chemistry) A compound of carbon and oxygen, such as carbonyl, with some element or radical.
carboxyls
carboxyls
noun
plural of carboxyl
cardiauxe
ceroxylon
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.
coexerted
coexerted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of coexert
complexer
complexer
adj
comparative form of complex: more complex
noun
A chemical substance that is used for complexing.
connexure
corixidae
coxcombry
coxcombry
noun
(countable) A behaviour or manner that is characteristic of a coxcomb; a foppish behaviour.
(uncountable) Behaviour or airs characteristic of a coxcomb; foppishness.
creditrix
creditrix
noun
A female creditor.
cresoxide
delacroix
dictatrix
dictatrix
noun
(archaic) A female dictator.
directrix
directrix
noun
(geometry) A line used to define a curve or surface; especially a line, the distance from which a point on a conic has a constant ratio to that from the focus.
A female who directs; a directress.
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.
exceeders
exceeders
noun
plural of exceeder
excelsior
excelsior
adj
(archaic) Loftier, yet higher, more elevated; ever upward.
More surpassing, more excelling.
intj
A greeting, farewell or acclamation, especially associated with comic book fandom and famous comic book writer Stan Lee.
noun
(Canada, US) Stuffing material (as for furniture and mattresses) made of slender, curled woodshavings, as a substitute for hair.
(US printing, dated) The size of type between Norse and brilliant, standardized as 3-point.
excentral
excentral
adj
(botany) Out of the centre.
(geometry) Relating to the excentre.
excentric
excentric
adj
(botany) One-sided; having the normally central portion not in the true center.
Alternative form of eccentric
noun
Alternative form of eccentric (disk or wheel with off-centre axis)
excercise
excercise
noun
Misspelling of exercise.
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.
exchanger
exchanger
noun
(biochemistry) An antiporter.
A person or thing that exchanges one thing for another.
exchequer
exchequer
noun
A treasury.
An available fund of money, especially one for a specific purpose.
verb
(transitive) To proceed against (a person) in the Court of Exchequer.
excipular
excitator
exclaimer
exclaimer
noun
One who exclaims.
exclosure
exclosure
noun
A limited area from which unwanted animals, such as domestic cattle or wildlife, are excluded by fencing or other means.
excluders
excluders
noun
plural of excluder
exclusory
exclusory
adj
having the power or the function of excluding.
tending to exclude.
excoriate
excoriate
verb
(transitive) To wear off the skin of; to chafe or flay.
(transitive, figuratively) To strongly denounce or censure.
excrement
excrement
noun
(archaic) Any waste matter excreted from the human or animal body, or discharged by bodily organs.
(now specifically) Human and animal solid waste excreted from the bowels; feces.
(obsolete) Something which grows out of the body; hair, nails etc.
excreters
excreters
noun
plural of excreter
excreting
excreting
noun
An act of excretion.
verb
present participle of excrete
excretion
excretion
noun
Something excreted in that manner, especially urine or feces.
The process of removing or ejecting material that has no further utility, especially from the body; the act of excreting.
excretive
excretive
adj
Having the power of excreting, or promoting excretion.
excretory
excretory
adj
Of, or relating to excretion.
noun
A duct that helps to receive and excrete matter.
excurrent
excurrent
adj
(botany) Of a vein or costa, extending beyond the tip or the margin of a leaf.
excursing
excursing
verb
present participle of excurse
excursion
excursion
noun
(aviation) An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usally during takeoff, landing, or taxi.
(phonetics) A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech.
A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.
A wandering from the main subject: a digression.
verb
(intransitive) To go on a recreational trip or excursion.
excursive
excursive
adj
Tending to digress.
Tending to go out.
excursory
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.
executers
executers
noun
plural of executer
executors
executors
noun
plural of executor
executory
executory
adj
(law) Yet to be completed; not fully executed, performed or carried out; lacking in execution, unfulfilled; so, yet to take effect.
Of or pertaining to administration or execution.
executrix
executrix
noun
(chiefly law) A female executor.
exercised
exercised
adj
Practiced, trained, experienced.
The property of having been exercised, used, acted upon.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of exercise
exerciser
exerciser
noun
A person who exercises.
Any of many devices for use in exercising the body.
exercises
exercises
noun
A ceremony or assembly: opening exercises; graduation exercises.
plural of exercise
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of exercise
exercitor
exergonic
exergonic
adj
(chemistry, of a reaction) Releasing energy (especially as heat)
exocardia
exochorda
exocoelar
exocrines
exocrines
noun
plural of exocrine
exodromic
exophoric
exophoric
adj
(linguistics) Relating to, or exhibiting, exophora.
Relating to, or afflicted with, exophoria.
noun
A person who has exophoria.
exorcised
exorcised
adj
That has undergone exorcism.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of exorcise
exorciser
exorciser
noun
One who performs an exorcism.
exorcises
exorcises
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of exorcise
exorcisms
exorcisms
noun
plural of exorcism
exorcista
exorcists
exorcists
noun
plural of exorcist
exorcized
exorcized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of exorcize
exorcizer
exorcizer
noun
Alternative spelling of exorciser
exorcizes
exorcizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of exorcize
exorganic
exoterica
exoterica
noun
Writing, facts, principles, etc. that are widely known.
exoterics
exoterics
noun
(philosophy) The public lectures or published writings of Aristotle.
exotropic
exotropic
adj
Suffering from or related to exotropia.
expecters
expecters
noun
plural of expecter
exscissor
extinctor
extinctor
noun
(dated) An extinguisher.
A cause of extinction.
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.
extrinsic
extrinsic
adj
external; separable from the thing itself; inessential
not belonging to something; outside
noun
An external factor
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
neocortex
neocortex
noun
(neuroanatomy) The top layer of the cerebral hemispheres in the brain of mammals; part of the cerebral cortex.
oximetric
oximetric
adj
Measured using an oximeter
Relating to oximetry
oxpeckers
oxpeckers
noun
plural of oxpecker
oxyderces
oxyhydric
oxypicric
oxyrhynch
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.
peroxidic
peroxidic
adj
Of, relating to, or involving a peroxide
preataxic
preataxic
adj
(medicine) Before the onset of ataxia.
preclimax
preclimax
adj
(ecology) Before the point of climax.
preexcept
preexcite
preexcite
verb
(transitive, medicine) To excite earlier than usual.
preexcuse
preexilic
preexilic
adj
Alternative form of pre-exilic
preexpect
princoxes
princoxes
noun
plural of princox
proclimax
proscolex
proscolex
noun
(zoology) An early larval form of a trematode worm; a redia.
proxemics
proxemics
noun
The study of the effects of the physical distance between people in different cultures and societies.
pyrexical
pyrexical
adj
Relating to fever; feverish; pyrexial.
pyroxenic
pyroxenic
adj
of, relating to, or containing pyroxene
pyroxylic
pyroxylic
adj
(obsolete, chemistry) Created by the destructive distillation of wood.
rectopexy
rectopexy
noun
(surgery) surgical fixation of the bowel
reexecute
reexecute
verb
To execute (a task) again
roncevaux
saxcornet
scramasax
scramasax
noun
(historical) A type of dagger or sword used by the Anglo-Saxons.
subcortex
subcortex
noun
The part of the brain that lies directly below the cortex.
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.
A plant of the genus Taraxacum.
toxicarol
truxillic
uxoricide
uxoricide
noun
One who murders his or her wife.
The murdering of one's own wife.
xenocryst
xenocryst
noun
(geology) An isolated crystal having a different origin than the igneous rock in which it is found; the mineralogical equivalent of a xenolith.