(pharmacology, obsolete, rare) Having the effect of reducing fever.
noun
(pharmacology, obsolete) A medicine which reduces fever.
archeopteryx
archeopteryx
noun
A specimen of the species Archaeopteryx lithographica, being the earliest and most primitive known bird, representing a transition in the evolution of dinosaurs to birds.
axisymmetric
axisymmetric
adj
Exhibiting symmetry around an axis; exhibiting cylindrical symmetry.
bradyauxetic
carbomethoxy
carbomethoxy
noun
(organic chemistry, in combination) A methyl ester of a carboxylic acid when used as a substituent -CO₂-CH₃
carboxylases
carboxylases
noun
plural of carboxylase
carboxylated
carboxylated
adj
(chemistry) Converted into a carboxylic acid, normally by the oxidation of an alcohol or aldehyde.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate
carboxylates
carboxylates
noun
plural of carboxylate
citharexylum
cyclodextrin
cyclodextrin
noun
(biochemistry) Any of a class of cyclic oligosaccharides consisting of glucopyranose residues linked as in amylose; cycloamylose.
excentricity
excentricity
noun
(mathematics) Archaic form of eccentricity.
exceptionary
excitomotory
excitomotory
adj
(physiology) Exciting motion; said of that portion of the nervous system concerned in reflex action, by which impressions are transmitted to a nerve centre and then reflected back so as to produce muscular contraction without sensation or volition.
exclusionary
exclusionary
adj
Acting to exclude something
excrementary
excrescently
excrescently
adv
In an excrescent manner.
excretionary
excursionary
execratively
execratively
adv
In an execrative manner.
exocrinology
exocrinology
noun
The study of external (exocrine) secretions, especially of pheromones
exoterically
exoterically
adv
In an exoteric manner.
extractively
extractively
adv
By a extractive process.
extravagancy
extravagancy
noun
(archaic, 17-19th centuries) A thing that is extravagant.
(archaic, 17-19th centuries) The characteristic of being extravagant.
exulceratory
hydroextract
hypercomplex
hypercomplex
adj
(mathematics) Describing any of several types of higher-dimensional numbers having some characteristics of complex numbers.
noun
(mathematics) A hypercomplex number.
hyperexcited
hyperexcited
adj
Very highly excited.
inextricably
inextricably
adv
In an inextricable manner.
To an inextricable degree.
lexicography
lexicography
noun
(countable) A dictionary, a lexicon, a wordbook.
(uncountable) The art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries.
(uncountable, linguistics) The scholarly discipline of analysing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language and developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries.
methoxychlor
methoxychlor
noun
(organic chemistry) A synthetic organochlorine used as an insecticide.
myxobacteria
myxobacteria
noun
plural of myxobacterium
oxycarbonate
oxycarbonate
noun
(chemistry) Any substance which is both an oxide and a carbonate
oxyluciferin
oxyluciferin
noun
(biochemistry) The luminescent product of the oxidation of luciferin by luciferase
oxynarcotine
psychoreflex
sexcentenary
sexcentenary
adj
Of or pertaining to the number six hundred, or to a six-hundred-year period