A group of particularly brutal mercenaries who were active in Africa and Asia during the 1960s.
annexer
annexer
noun
One who annexes.
anorexy
anorexy
noun
Archaic form of anorexia.
apteryx
apteryx
noun
(dated) kiwi bird
apyrexy
apyrexy
noun
apyrexia
artifex
aruspex
aurifex
axifera
axmaker
beatrix
beatrix
Proper noun
a main belt asteroid; named the beloved of
boraxes
boraxes
noun
plural of borax
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of borax
boxtree
boxtree
noun
Alternative form of box tree
braxies
braxies
noun
plural of braxy
breakax
bureaux
bureaux
noun
plural of bureau
buxerry
buxomer
buxomer
adj
comparative form of buxom: more buxom
carefox
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.
coaxers
coaxers
noun
plural of coaxer
coexert
coexert
verb
To exert a combined influence.
corebox
cresoxy
curtaxe
dextrad
dextrad
adv
(anatomy, archaic) Toward the right side; dextrally.
dextral
dextral
adj
Of or pertaining to the right side
dextran
dextran
noun
(biochemistry) A biopolymer of glucose produced by enzymes of certain bacteria; used as a substitute for blood plasma, and as a stationary phase in chromatography.
dextrer
dextrer
Noun
A warhorse; a destrer.
dextrin
dextrin
noun
(biochemistry) Any of a range of oligomers of glucose, intermediate in complexity between maltose and starch, produced by the enzymatic hydrolysis of starch; used commercially as adhesives.
direxit
drexler
elixirs
elixirs
noun
plural of elixir
esidrix
exacter
exacter
noun
Alternative spelling of exactor
exactor
exactor
noun
A person who collects taxes.
A person who makes illegal or unreasonable demands; an extortioner.
exalter
exalter
noun
Someone who exalts.
exarate
exarate
adj
(entomology, of a pupa) Having the appendages free and not attached to the body wall.
verb
(obsolete) To plough up.
(obsolete) To write or engrave.
exarchs
exarchs
noun
plural of exarch
exarchy
exarchy
noun
(botany) A vascular system in which development starts in the regions farthest from the axis and spreads inward.
The jurisdiction of an exarch (any definition); an exarchate.
exasper
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.
excimer
excimer
noun
(chemistry, physics) Any diatomic exciplex
excisor
excisor
noun
One who excises, especially one who performs female genital cutting.
exciter
exciter
noun
A person who excites.
The electronic oscillator that generates the carrier signal for a transmitter.
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.
excurse
excurse
verb
To digress.
To journey or pass through.
excuser
excuser
noun
One who excuses or forgives another.
One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another.
exedrae
exedral
exergue
exergue
noun
(numismatics) A space beneath the main design on a coin or medal for the insertion of the date or other minor inscription.
exerted
exerted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of exert
exhedra
exhedra
noun
Alternative form of exedra
exhorts
exhorts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of exhort
exhumer
exhumer
noun
One who exhumes.
exister
exister
noun
(philosophy) One who exists.
exiture
exocarp
exocarp
noun
(biology) The outermost layer of the pericarp of fruits; the skin or epicarp
exoderm
exoderm
noun
An outer layer of skin.
The outermost layer of cells in a developing embryo.
exogyra
exorate
exordia
exordia
noun
plural of exordium
exormia
exostra
exotery
exotery
noun
That which is obvious or commonplace.
experts
experts
noun
plural of expert
expired
expired
adj
dead
that has been breathed out
that is no longer valid
verb
simple past tense and past participle of expire
expiree
expiree
noun
(Australia, historical) In penal colonies of early Australia, a convict whose sentence had been served.
expirer
expirer
noun
One who or that which expires.
expires
expires
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of expire
explore
explore
noun
(colloquial) An exploration; a tour of a place to see what it is like.
verb
(intransitive) To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.
(intransitive) To wander without any particular aim or purpose.
(intransitive, medicine) To examine diagnostically.
(intransitive, obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.
(transitive) To (seek) experience first hand.
(transitive) To examine or investigate something systematically.
(transitive) To seek sexual variety, to sow one's wild oats.
(transitive) To travel somewhere in search of discovery.
exports
exports
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of export
exposer
exposer
noun
One who exposes.
expreme
express
express
adj
(comparable) Specific or precise; directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied.
(not comparable) Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
(postpositive, retail) Providing a more limited but presumably faster service than a full or complete dealer of the same kind or type.
Truly depicted; exactly resembling.
adv
Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
noun
(obsolete) A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration.
(obsolete) A specific statement or instruction.
(obsolete) The action of conveying some idea using words or actions; communication, expression.
A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier.
A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly.
A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another.
An express office.
An express rifle.
That which is sent by an express messenger or message.
verb
(biochemistry) To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA.
(biochemistry) To translate messenger RNA into protein.
(transitive) To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.
(transitive) To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk).
expurge
expurge
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To purge away.
exquire
exquire
verb
(obsolete) To search into or out.
exradio
exradio
noun
(obsolete) Obsolete form of radon (“radon-222”).; an isotope of radon (element 86)
exserts
exserts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of exsert
exsurge
externa
externe
externe
noun
A person affiliated with an institution who does not reside there, especially a doctor or medical student in attendance upon a hospital, but not residing in it.
externs
externs
noun
plural of extern
extorts
extorts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of extort
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).
extrait
extreat
extreat
noun
(obsolete) Estreat.
(obsolete) Extraction.
extrema
extrema
noun
plural of extremum
extreme
extreme
adj
(archaic) Ultimate, final or last.
Drastic, or of great severity.
Excessive, or far beyond the norm.
In the greatest or highest degree; intense.
Of a place, the most remote, farthest or outermost.
Of sports, difficult or dangerous; performed in a hazardous environment.
adv
(archaic) Extremely.
noun
(mathematics) Either of the two numbers at the ends of a proportion, as 1 and 6 in 1:2=3:6.
(obsolete, plural only) Hardships, straits.
(obsolete, plural only) One of the last moments of life.
A drastic expedient.
Each of the things at opposite ends of a range or scale.
The greatest or utmost point, degree or condition.
extruct
extruct
verb
(obsolete) To construct.
extrude
extrude
verb
(transitive) To expel; to drive off.
(transitive) To form or shape (a metal, plastic etc.) by forcing it through a die or an opening.
To push or thrust out.
exurban
exurban
adj
Of, pertaining to, or residing in an exurb
exurbia
exurbia
noun
A residential area beyond the suburbs.
firebox
firebox
noun
(rail transport) The chamber of a steam engine, or a steam locomotive, in which the fuel is burned.
(vulgar) A redheaded woman or her red pubic hair.
The part of a fireplace where the fuel is burned.
fixture
fixture
noun
(computing, programming) A state that can be recreated, used as a baseline for running software tests.
(law) Something that is fixed in place, especially a permanent appliance or other item of personal property that is considered part of a house and is sold with it; compare fitting, furnishing.
(sports, chiefly Britain, Commonwealth, Ireland) A scheduled match.
A lighting unit; a luminaire.
A regular patron of a place or institution; a person constantly present at a certain place.
A work-holding or support device used in the manufacturing industry.
verb
(transitive) To furnish with, as, or in a fixture.
(transitive, sports, Australia, New Zealand) To schedule (a match).
fixures
fixures
noun
plural of fixure
flaxier
flexner
flexors
flexors
noun
plural of flexor
flexura
flexure
flexure
noun
(anatomy) A curve or bend in a tubular organ.
(astronomy) The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or subtracted from the observed readings of the instrument to correct them for this distortion.
(zoology) The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird.
(mycology, chiefly US) Bioluminescence created by some types of fungus, particularly those growing on rotting wood.
gearbox
gearbox
noun
An enclosed gear train.
That part of a car's transmission containing the train of gears, and to which the gear lever is connected.
hendrix
hexamer
hexamer
noun
A subunit of a viral capsid
An oligomer having six subunits
hexarch
hexarch
noun
The ruler of one of the parts of a hexarchy.
hexerei
hexerei
noun
(historical, nautical) A galley with six banks of oars.
hexeris
hoaxers
hoaxers
noun
plural of hoaxer
hyraxes
indexer
indexer
noun
(computing, programming, .NET) A special property of a class allowing objects of the class to be accessed by index as though they were arrays or hash tables.
A person or program which creates indexes.
levroux
martext
martext
noun
(obsolete, rare) A blundering preacher.
mirexes
mixture
mixture
noun
(India) A mix of different dry foods as a snack, especially chevda or Bombay mix.
(music) A compound organ stop.
A cloth of variegated colouring.
A medicinal compound, typically a suspension of a solid in a solution
Something produced by mixing.
Something that consists of diverse elements.
The act of mixing.
murexan
murexan
noun
(obsolete, chemistry) A poorly-characterized nitrogenous material formed from several ureids
murexes
murexid
narthex
narthex
noun
(architecture) A western vestibule leading to the nave in some Christian churches.
overfix
overfix
verb
(transitive) To fix exceedingly or excessively; fix beyond what is required
overlax
overlax
adj
Excessively lax.
overmix
overmix
verb
To mix too thoroughly
overtax
overtax
verb
To overburden.
To tax to an excessive degree.
oxberry
oxbiter
oxbrake
oxheart
oxheart
noun
A large heart-shaped cherry.
peixere
perdrix
peroxid
peroxid
noun
Archaic form of peroxide.
peroxyl
peroxyl
noun
(organic chemistry) Any univalent radical, R-O-O-, derived from a peroxide
perplex
perplex
adj
(obsolete) intricate; difficult
noun
(obsolete) A difficulty.
verb
(transitive) To cause to feel baffled; to puzzle.
(transitive) To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated.
(transitive, obsolete) To plague; to vex; to torment.
perspex
perspex
noun
(Britain, New Zealand) Any tough, transparent plastic that is used instead of glass for windows.
pinxter
plexors
plexors
noun
plural of plexor
plexure
plexure
noun
The act or process of weaving together, or interweaving; that which is woven together.
praecox
praecox
noun
dementia praecox
praxean
pretext
pretext
noun
A false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason; a pretense.
verb
To employ a pretext, which involves using a false or contrived purpose for soliciting the gain of something else.
prexies
prexies
noun
plural of prexie
plural of prexy
proplex
protext
proxeny
proxeny
noun
(historical) In Ancient Greece, an arrangement whereby a citizen (chosen by the city) hosted foreign ambassadors at his own expense, in return for honorary titles from the state.
proxied
proxied
verb
simple past tense and past participle of proxy
proxies
proxies
noun
plural of proxy
proxime
proxime
adj
(obsolete) next; immediately preceding or following