Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.
Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.
Of special beauty or rare excellence.
Recherché; far-fetched; abstruse.
noun
(rare) Fop, dandy.
exsecants
exsecants
noun
plural of exsecant
exsectile
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.
exsertile
exsertile
adj
(biology) Capable of being thrust out or protruded.
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.
exsiccate
exsiccate
verb
(transitive) To dry, to desiccate, to dehydrate.
exsomatic
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.
exsuction
exsuction
noun
The act of sucking out.
exsurgent
extenders
extenders
noun
plural of extender
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
exteriors
exteriors
noun
plural of exterior
externals
externals
noun
plural of external
extersive
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.
extollers
extollers
noun
plural of extoller
extorsion
extorsion
noun
(medicine) An outward rotation of a limb, organ or part of the eye.
extorsive
extorsive
adj
Serving or tending to extort.
extorters
extorters
noun
plural of extorter
extremest
extremest
adj
superlative form of extreme: most extreme
extremism
extremism
noun
Extreme ideas or actions, primarily in politics or religion.
extremist
extremist
adj
Holding extreme views, especially on a political or religious subject.
Of or relating to extremism.
noun
A person who holds extreme views, especially one who advocates such views; a radical or fanatic.
extrinsic
extrinsic
adj
external; separable from the thing itself; inessential
not belonging to something; outside
noun
An external factor
extrorsal
extrorsal
adj
(botany) extrorse
extruders
extruders
noun
plural of extruder
extrusile
extrusion
extrusion
noun
A manufacturing process where a billet of material is pushed and/or drawn through a die to create a shaped rod, rail or pipe.
An item formed by the process of extrusion.
extrusive
extrusive
adj
(geology) Of rocks: forced, while in a plastic or molten state, on to the Earth's surface to lie atop existing rocks.
Jutting out; extruding.
noun
(geology) Rock which has been formed through volcanic extrusion.
extrusory
extrusory
adj
Undergoing, or relating to, extrusion.
exuviates
exuviates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of exuviate
fixations
fixations
noun
plural of fixation
fixatives
fixatives
noun
plural of fixative
heterosex
heterosex
noun
(sexuality) Heterosexual sex.
verb
(sociology, transitive) To make heterosexual.
hexastich
hexastich
noun
A poem consisting of six verses or lines.
hexastigm
hexastyle
hexastyle
adj
(architecture) having six columns at the front on the portico
noun
(architecture) A temple or portico with six columns in front.
hexestrol
hexestrol
noun
(pharmacology) A synthetic non-steroidal estrogen of the stilbestrol group, formerly used to treat estrogen deficiency.
homotaxis
homotaxis
noun
(biology) similarity in arrangement of parts
(geology) similarity in the lithostratigraphic or biostratigraphic vertical sequence of rock strata in different locations that are not necessarily similar in age.
hypotaxis
hypotaxis
noun
(grammar) Syntactic subordination of one clause or construction to another.
impostrix
impostrix
noun
(archaic) A female impostor.
inexhaust
inexperts
inexperts
noun
plural of inexpert
interaxes
interaxes
noun
plural of interaxis
interaxis
interaxis
noun
(architecture) The space between two axes.
isauxetic
juxtapose
juxtapose
verb
(transitive) To place side by side, especially for contrast or comparison.