The line bisecting the angle between the optic axes of a biaxial crystal.
calixtine
capiteaux
catalexes
catalexes
noun
plural of catalexis
catalexis
catalexis
noun
A shortened or incomplete last foot at the end of a verse.
Truncation at the close of a line of poetry by omission of one or two final syllables.
cataplexy
cataplexy
noun
(medicine) An abrupt loss of muscle tone, sometimes associated with narcolepsy.
cathexion
cathexion
noun
cathexis
chartreux
chemotaxy
coexerted
coexerted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of coexert
coexisted
coexisted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of coexist
coextends
coextends
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coextend
coltpixie
coltpixie
noun
(UK, Hampshire, archaic, folklore) A kind of hobgoblin.
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.
creditrix
creditrix
noun
A female creditor.
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.
ectotoxin
ectotoxin
noun
Alternative form of exotoxin
endotoxic
endotoxic
adj
Of, related to, or caused by an endotoxin.
eutaxitic
eutaxitic
adj
Relating to or containing eutaxite.
euxanthic
euxanthic
adj
(organic chemistry) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling euxanthin.
evocatrix
evocatrix
noun
(dated) A female evocator.
exacinate
exacinate
verb
To remove the kernel from.
exactable
exactable
adj
Having the capability of being exacted.
exactions
exactions
noun
plural of exaction
exactment
exactment
noun
The process of exacting something; exaction.
exactness
exactness
noun
The state of being exact.
exactress
exactress
noun
A female exactor.
exarchate
exarchate
noun
(historical) The province or area of an exarch.
exarchist
exarchist
noun
A supporter of the exarch.
excarnate
excarnate
adj
Deprived or stripped of flesh.
verb
(transitive) To deprive or strip of flesh.
excaudate
excaudate
adj
(zoology) Not caudate; without a cauda.
excavated
excavated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of excavate
excavates
excavates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of excavate
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.
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.
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.
excitable
excitable
adj
(physics) Able to be promoted to an excited state
Easily excited
excitably
excitably
adv
In an excitable manner.
excitancy
excitants
excitants
noun
plural of excitant
excitator
excitedly
excitedly
adv
In an excited manner.
excitonic
excitonic
adj
Of or pertaining to excitons or excitonics
excoction
excoction
noun
(obsolete) The act of excocting or boiling out.
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.
exculpate
exculpate
verb
To clear of or to free from guilt; exonerate.
excurrent
excurrent
adj
(botany) Of a vein or costa, extending beyond the tip or the margin of a leaf.
excurvate
excusator
excusator
noun
(obsolete) One who makes, or is authorized to make, an excuse; an apologist.
exdelicto
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.
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.
executers
executers
noun
plural of executer
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.
executive
executive
adj
Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect.
Exclusive.
Of, pertaining to, or having responsibility for the day-to-day running of an organisation, business, country, etc.
noun
(computing) A process that coordinates and governs the action of other processes or threads; supervisor.
A chief officer or administrator, especially one who can make significant decisions on their own authority.
The branch of government that is responsible for enforcing laws and judicial decisions, and for the day-to-day administration of the state.
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.
exegetics
exegetics
noun
The science of interpretation or exegesis.
exercitor
existence
existence
noun
Empirical reality; the substance of the physical universe. (Dictionary of Philosophy; 1968)
The state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.
exocoetus
exoculate
exoculate
verb
(transitive) To deprive of eyes; blind.
exodontic
exodontic
adj
Relating to tooth removal.
exopathic
exorcista
exorcists
exorcists
noun
plural of exorcist
exosmotic
exosmotic
adj
Relating to exosmosis.
exostotic
exostotic
adj
Relating to exostosis.
exoterica
exoterica
noun
Writing, facts, principles, etc. that are widely known.
exoterics
exoterics
noun
(philosophy) The public lectures or published writings of Aristotle.
exothecal
exothecal
adj
Relating to the exotheca.
exoticism
exoticism
noun
(uncountable) The state of being exotic.
Something exotic.
exoticist
exoticist
adj
Having a tendency towards the exotic.
noun
Somebody with a tendency towards the exotic.
exoticity
exoticity
noun
(rare) The characteristic of being exotic; foreignness.
exotropic
exotropic
adj
Suffering from or related to exotropia.
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
expiscate
expiscate
verb
(transitive, formal, archaic) To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out.
explicate
explicate
adj
(obsolete) Evolved; unfolded.
verb
(transitive) To explain meticulously or in great detail.
explicits
explicits
noun
plural of explicit
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.
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
exsuction
exsuction
noun
The act of sucking out.
extincted
extincted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of extinct
extinctor
extinctor
noun
(dated) An extinguisher.
A cause of extinction.
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.
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
exultance
exultance
Noun
exultation
exultancy
exultancy
noun
exultance, exultation
hematoxic
hematoxic
adj
Misspelling of hemotoxic.
hemotoxic
hemotoxic
adj
Exhibiting hemotoxicity.
hexacanth
hexacanth
adj
(zoology) Having six larval hooks.
hexactine
hexactine
adj
Having six rays.
noun
A six-rayed spicule, made of silica, that makes up the skeleton of some sponges.
hexastich
hexastich
noun
A poem consisting of six verses or lines.
hexateuch
hexateuch
Proper noun
The first six books of the Old Testament in the Bible.
hexatomic
hexatomic
adj
(chemistry) Having six atoms in each molecule
inexactly
inexactly
adv
In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately.
inextinct
inextinct
adj
(archaic) Not quenched; not extinct.
isauxetic
metataxic
metataxic
adj
(geology) Relating to metataxis
myxocytes
myxotheca
neocortex
neocortex
noun
(neuroanatomy) The top layer of the cerebral hemispheres in the brain of mammals; part of the cerebral cortex.
noexecute
nonexotic
nonexotic
adj
Not exotic.
oximetric
oximetric
adj
Measured using an oximeter
Relating to oximetry
preataxic
preataxic
adj
(medicine) Before the onset of ataxia.
preexcept
preexcite
preexcite
verb
(transitive, medicine) To excite earlier than usual.
preexpect
rectopexy
rectopexy
noun
(surgery) surgical fixation of the bowel
reexecute
reexecute
verb
To execute (a task) again
saxcornet
sextactic
subcortex
subcortex
noun
The part of the brain that lies directly below the cortex.
subexcite
taxaceous
taxaceous
adj
Of or relating to the yew trees of the Taxaceae family.