(archaic) A mingling of different things; an admixture.
adnexitis
adnexitis
noun
(medicine) inflammation of the adnexa of the uterus, i.e. the Fallopian tubes or ovaries.
affixment
affixment
noun
Property of being affixed; attachment; connection.
aflatoxin
aflatoxin
noun
(toxicology) Any of a family of mycotoxins, produced by molds of the Aspergillus genus, that can be toxic, carcinogenic, mutagenic or teratogenic; typically found as contaminants of animal food or peanuts.
anaptyxes
anaptyxes
noun
plural of anaptyxis
anaptyxis
anaptyxis
noun
(phonetics) The epenthesis (insertion) of a vowel.
anatoxins
anatoxins
noun
plural of anatoxin
anaxarete
annexitis
annexment
annexment
noun
The act of annexing.
The thing annexed.
antapexes
antecoxal
antefixal
antefixal
adj
Relating to an antefix.
antefixes
antefixes
noun
plural of antefix
anthotaxy
anthotaxy
noun
(botany) The arrangement of flowers in a cluster; the science of the relative position of flowers.
anthroxan
antiauxin
antiauxin
noun
(biochemistry) Any substance that inhibits auxin by competing for the same receptors.
antihelix
antihelix
noun
(anatomy) The curved prominence of cartilage of the external ear, within or in front of the helix.
antitoxic
antitoxic
adj
(immunology) that counteracts a toxin or poison
of, or relating to an antitoxin
antitoxin
antitoxin
noun
(medicine) A medicine able to neutralize a toxin.
(medicine) An antibody capable of neutralizing specific toxins.
anxieties
anxieties
noun
plural of anxiety
anxietude
anxietude
noun
The state or condition of being troubled, worried, or anxious; anxiety.
autoindex
autotoxin
autotoxin
noun
Any substance that is toxic to the organism in which it is generated
auxotonic
auxotonic
adj
(botany) Relating to plant movement classified by growth as opposed to mature reactions to exogenous stimuli in surrounding environment.
(physiology) Of or involving muscular contraction against resistance in which the length of the muscle changes and the tension differs due to an increasing load or difference in leverage.
axminster
axminster
Proper noun
A market town in Devon, England.
Noun
A carpet made in Axminster imitating the Turkey carpet, noted for its thick and soft pile.
baroxyton
baxterian
baxterian
Adjective
Of or relating to (1615–1691), English Puritan church leader, poet, and theologian.
Noun
A follower of Richard Baxter.
benzoxate
biotoxins
biotoxins
noun
plural of biotoxin
boxthorns
boxthorns
noun
plural of boxthorn
bufotoxin
bufotoxin
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of a family of toxic substances found in toads, other amphibians, and some plants and mushrooms.
calixtine
cathexion
cathexion
noun
cathexis
caxtonian
caxtonian
Adjective
Of or relating to (c. 1422 – c. 1491), who introduced the printing press into England.
cicutoxin
cicutoxin
noun
(organic chemistry) A poisonous polyyne and alcohol found in various plants, including the water hemlock.
coaxation
coaxation
noun
(rare) The act of croaking.
coextends
coextends
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coextend
connexity
connexity
noun
A state of connection; connectedness.
convexity
convexity
noun
(finance) A measure of the curvature in the relationship between the prices and yields of bonds.
A convex line or surface.
The state of being convex.
cytotoxin
cytotoxin
noun
(cytology) Any substance having a specific toxic effect on certain cells
deoxidant
deoxidant
noun
A deoxidizer.
dextrines
dextrines
noun
plural of dextrine
digitoxin
digitoxin
noun
(organic chemistry) A toxic cardiac glycoside, obtained from digitalis, related to cardenolide.
ectotoxin
ectotoxin
noun
Alternative form of exotoxin
ektexines
ektexines
noun
plural of ektexine
elixation
elixation
noun
(now rare) Boiling, stewing.
(now rare) Digestion (in the stomach).
(obsolete, chemistry) Boiling in order to produce an elixir
endothrix
endothrix
noun
A dermatophyte infection of the hair that invades the hairshaft and internalizes into the hair cell.
endotoxic
endotoxic
adj
Of, related to, or caused by an endotoxin.
endotoxin
endotoxin
noun
Any toxin secreted by a microorganism and released into the surrounding environment only when it dies.
enterauxe
entredeux
ergotoxin
euxanthic
euxanthic
adj
(organic chemistry) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling euxanthin.
euxanthin
euxanthin
noun
Indian yellow or magnesium euxanthate, a transparent yellow pigment used in oil paint.
euxenites
euxenites
noun
plural of euxenite
exacinate
exacinate
verb
To remove the kernel from.
exactions
exactions
noun
plural of exaction
exactment
exactment
noun
The process of exacting something; exaction.
exactness
exactness
noun
The state of being exact.
exaltment
exaltment
noun
(obsolete) exaltation
examinant
examinant
noun
(obsolete) One who examines; an examiner.
(obsolete) One who is to be examined.
examinate
examinate
noun
(obsolete) One who is subjected to examination.
exanimate
exanimate
adj
Lifeless, not or no longer living, dead.
Spiritless, dispirited, disheartened, not lively.
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To deprive of animation or of life.
exanthema
exanthema
noun
Alternative form of exanthem
exanthems
exanthems
noun
plural of exanthem
exanthine
exantlate
exantlate
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To exhaust or wear out.
exaration
exaration
noun
(rare) A piece of writing.
(rare) The act of writing.
excarnate
excarnate
adj
Deprived or stripped of flesh.
verb
(transitive) To deprive or strip of flesh.
excelente
excellent
excellent
adj
Exceptionally good of its kind.
Having excelled, having surpassed.
Of higher or the highest quality; splendid.
Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality.
adv
(obsolete) Excellently.
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)
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.
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.
excitancy
excitants
excitants
noun
plural of excitant
excitonic
excitonic
adj
Of or pertaining to excitons or excitonics
excoction
excoction
noun
(obsolete) The act of excocting or boiling out.
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.
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.
excurrent
excurrent
adj
(botany) Of a vein or costa, extending beyond the tip or the margin of a leaf.
executant
executant
noun
A person who executes a dance or piece of music; a performer.
A person who puts something into action, such as a plan or design.
executing
executing
verb
present participle of execute
execution
execution
noun
(computing) The carrying out of an instruction, program or program segment by a computer.
(law) The carrying into effect of a court judgment, or of a will.
(law) The formal process by which a contract is made valid and put into binding effect.
(now rare) Specifically, the seizure of a debtor's goods or property in default of payment.
The act of putting to death or being put to death as a penalty, or actions so associated.
The act, manner or style of executing (actions, maneuvers, performances).
The state of being accomplished.
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.
exertions
exertions
noun
plural of exertion
exhalants
exhalants
noun
plural of exhalant
exhalents
exhalents
noun
plural of exhalent
exhorting
exhorting
noun
exhortation
verb
present participle of exhort
exigeante
exigeante
adj
(dated) Of a woman: demanding.
noun
(dated) A demanding woman.
exigenter
exigenter
noun
(UK, law, obsolete) An officer in the Court of King's Bench and Common Pleas whose duty it was to make out exigents.
exigently
exigently
adv
In an exigent manner.
exilement
exilement
noun
(archaic) banishment; exile
exilition
exilition
noun
(obsolete) The act of suddenly jumping up or out.
exinanite
existence
existence
noun
Empirical reality; the substance of the physical universe. (Dictionary of Philosophy; 1968)
The state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.
existents
existents
noun
plural of existent
exodontia
exodontia
noun
The extraction of teeth.
exodontic
exodontic
adj
Relating to tooth removal.
exolution
exolution
noun
(obsolete) a setting free of the spirit.
Obsolete form of exsolution.
exonerate
exonerate
adj
(archaic) Freed from an obligation; freed from accusation or blame; acquitted, exonerated.
verb
(obsolete, reflexive) Of a body of water: to discharge or empty (itself).
(transitive) To free (someone) from accusation or blame.
(transitive) To free (someone) from an obligation, responsibility or task.
(transitive, archaic) To relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).
exotoxins
exotoxins
noun
plural of exotoxin
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
explodent
explodent
adj
(archaic) plosive
exponents
exponents
noun
plural of exponent
exporting
exporting
verb
present participle and gerund of export
expuition
expuition
noun
(obsolete) The act of spiting phlegm.
exsecants
exsecants
noun
plural of exsecant
exsecting
exsecting
verb
present participle of exsect
exsection
exsection
noun
(surgery) The removal by operation of a portion of a limb, especially the removal of a portion of a bone in the vicinity of a joint.
A cutting out or away.
exserting
exserting
verb
present participle of exsert
exsertion
exsertion
noun
protrusion; thrusting outward
exsiccant
exsiccant
adj
Having the quality of drying up; causing a drying up.
noun
A medicine that causes drying up.
exsuction
exsuction
noun
The act of sucking out.
exsurgent
extenders
extenders
noun
plural of extender
extending
extending
verb
present participle of extend
extensile
extensile
adj
extensible
extension
extension
noun
(banking, finance) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
(computing) A file extension.
(computing) An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.
(education) University programs that are targeted at the broader (usually adults) community whose participants are not full-time enrolled students.
(fencing) A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
(grammar) A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages.
(linguistics, semantics) semantic widening, broadening of meaning
(logic) The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.
(medicine) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
(semantics) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.
(telecommunications) A numerical code used to specify a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
(weightlifting) An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.
A part of a building that has been extended from the original
That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension")
The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase
The state of being extended
extensity
extensity
noun
(countable) The degree to which something is extensive
(uncountable) The state of being extensive or of having extension
extensive
extensive
adj
(figurative) Considerable in amount.
(physics) Having a combined system entropy that equals the sum of the entropies of the independent systems.
Having a great extent; covering a large area; vast.
Serving to extend or lengthen; characterized by extension.
extensors
extensors
noun
plural of extensor
extensory
extensure
extensure
noun
(archaic) extension
extenuate
extenuate
adj
Of a person: emaciated, wasted, weakened; of the body or part of it: atrophied, shrunken, withered.
Of a quality or thing: lessened, weakened.
Reduced to poverty; impoverished.
verb
(specifically) To diminish or seek to diminish the extent or severity of (a crime, guilt, a mistake, or something else negative) by making apologies or excuses; to palliate.
To beat or draw (a metal object, etc.) out so as to lessen the thickness.
To degrade (someone); to detract from (someone's qualities, reputation, etc.); to depreciate, to disparage.
To make (someone or something) slender or thin; to emaciate, to waste.
To make (something) less dense, or thinner; also, to lower the viscosity of (something).
To reduce the quality or quantity of (something); to lessen or weaken the force of (something).
To underestimate or understate the importance of (something); to underrate.
extermine
extermine
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To exterminate (someone or something); to destroy.
externals
externals
noun
plural of external
externate
externity
externity
noun
The condition of being external; outwardness
externize
extincted
extincted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of extinct
extinctor
extinctor
noun
(dated) An extinguisher.
A cause of extinction.
extolling
extolling
verb
present participle of extoll
extolment
extolment
noun
(obsolete) Praise.
extorsion
extorsion
noun
(medicine) An outward rotation of a limb, organ or part of the eye.
extorting
extorting
verb
present participle of extort
extortion
extortion
noun
The practice of extorting money or other property by the use of force or threats.