(chemistry) Having the property of counterintuitively expanding when being stretched.
(pathology) Relating to auxesis
noun
An auxetic material.
axfetch
cacaxte
celotex
celotex
Noun
A rough-textured fiberboard used on ceilings as acoustic paneling.
centrex
centrex
Noun
A service similar to a private branch exchange, but providing switching at the central office instead of at the customer's premises.
coexert
coexert
verb
To exert a combined influence.
coexist
coexist
verb
(intransitive, stative, of two or more things, people, concepts, etc.) To exist contemporaneously or in the same area.
context
context
adj
(obsolete) Knit or woven together; close; firm.
noun
(archaeology) The surroundings and environment in which an artifact is found and which may provide important clues about the artifact's function and/or cultural meaning.
(linguistics) The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning.
(logic) For a formula: a finite set of variables, which set contains all the free variables in the given formula.
(mycology) The trama or flesh of a mushroom.
The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.
verb
(obsolete) To knit or bind together; to unite closely.
coteaux
coteaux
noun
plural of coteau
coxiest
coxiest
adj
superlative form of coxy: most coxy
curtaxe
eutaxic
eutaxic
adj
(geology) That has stratified ore deposits
exactas
exactas
noun
plural of exacta
exacted
exacted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of exact
exacter
exacter
noun
Alternative spelling of exactor
exactly
exactly
adv
(focus) Precisely, used to provide emphasis.
(manner) Without approximation; precisely.
intj
Signifies agreement or recognition.
exactor
exactor
noun
A person who collects taxes.
A person who makes illegal or unreasonable demands; an extortioner.
exactus
excepts
excepts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of except
excerpt
excerpt
noun
A clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or a literary composition.
verb
(transitive) To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.
excheat
excheat
noun
Obsolete form of escheat.
excited
excited
adj
(physics) Being in a state of higher energy.
Having an erection; erect.
Having great enthusiasm.
Sexually aroused.
verb
past participle of excite
exciter
exciter
noun
A person who excites.
The electronic oscillator that generates the carrier signal for a transmitter.
excites
excites
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of excite
exciton
exciton
noun
(physics) A bound state of an electron and an electron hole in an insulator or semiconductor
excitor
excitor
noun
Alternative form of exciter
excreta
excreta
noun
Bodily waste which is excreted from the body.
excrete
excrete
verb
(biology, transitive, intransitive) To discharge material (including waste products) from a cell, body or system.
excudit
execute
execute
verb
(intransitive, computing) To run, usually successfully.
(transitive) To carry out; to put into effect.
(transitive) To kill, especially as punishment for a capital crime.
(transitive) To perform.
(transitive, computing) To start, launch or run
(transitive, law) To carry out, to perform an act; to put into effect or cause to become legally binding or valid (as a contract) by so doing.
Coordinate term: murder
exflect
exotica
exotica
noun
(music) A genre of American music from the 1950s, characterized by an evocative musical focus on the islands of the South Pacific.
curious, strange, unusual and exotic things.
plural of exotic
exotics
expects
expects
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of expect
exsects
exsects
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of exsect
extacie
extance
extance
noun
(obsolete, rare) Emergence.
extancy
extancy
noun
(obsolete) The state of being extant; existence.
(obsolete) The state of rising above others; a projection.
extatic
extatic
adj
Misspelling of ecstatic.
Obsolete spelling of ecstatic
extinct
extinct
adj
(dated) Extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc.)
(geology) No longer active.
(of a group of organisms, as a species) No longer in existence; having died out.
No longer used; obsolete, discontinued.
verb
(transitive) To make extinct; to extinguish or annihilate.
extract
extract
noun
(obsolete) A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.
A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.
A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.
A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
Ancestry; descent.
Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
Something that is extracted or drawn out.
verb
(transitive) To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
(transitive) To select parts of a whole
(transitive) To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
(transitive) To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
(transitive, arithmetic) To determine (a root of a number).
extruct
extruct
verb
(obsolete) To construct.
inexact
inexact
adj
(physics, of a differential) having a path-dependent integral
Imperfectly conforming; exceeding or falling short in some respect.
Imprecisely or indefinitely conceived or stated.
mixteco
mixtecs
rectrix
rectrix
noun
A flight feather on the tails of birds, used for directional control.
A governess; a rectoress.
taxemic
taxemic
adj
Relating to taxemes.
tectrix
tectrix
noun
The covert of a bird's wing
toxemic
toxemic
adj
affected by or otherwise relating to toxemia, organically poisoned