| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| exacerbate | verb t. | To render more violent or bitter; to irriate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as passions or disease. |
| exacritude | noun | The quality of being exact; exactness. |
| exaggerate | verb t. | To heap up; to accumulate., To amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth ; to delineate extravagantly ; to overstate the truth concerning. |
| exaltation | noun | The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation., The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property., That place of a planet in the zodiac in which it was supposed to exert its strongest influence. |
| examinable | adjective | Capable of being examined or inquired into. |
| examinator | noun | An examiner. |
| exanguious | adjective | Bloodless. [Obs.] See Exsanguious. |
| exangulous | adjective | Having no corners; without angles. |
| exannulate | adjective | Having the sporangium destitute of a ring; — said of certain genera of ferns. |
| exanthesis | noun | An eruption of the skin; cutaneous efflorescence. |
| exarillate | adjective | Having no aril; — said of certain seeds, or of the plants producing them. |
| exasperate | adjective | Exasperated; imbittered., To irritate in a high degree; to provoke; to enrage; to exscite or to inflame the anger of; as, to exasperate a person or his feelings., To make grievous, or more grievous or malignant; to aggravate; to imbitter; as, to exasperate enmity. |
| exaspidean | adjective | Having the anterior scute/ extending around the tarsus on the outer side, leaving the inner side naked; — said of certain birds. |
| exaugurate | verb t. | To annul the consecration of; to secularize; to unhellow. |
| excalceate | verb t. | To deprive of shoes. |
| excavating | present participle & vb. noun | of Excavate |
| excavation | noun | The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass., A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping., An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel., The material dug out in making a channel or cavity. |
| excecation | noun | The act of making blind. |
| exceedable | adjective | Capable of exceeding or surpassing. |
| excellence | noun | The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue., An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue., A title of honor or respect; — more common in the form excellency. |
| excellency | noun | Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority., A title of honor given to certain high dignitaries, esp. to viceroys, ministers, and ambassadors, to English colonial governors, etc. It was formerly sometimes given to kings and princes. |
| exceptious | adjective | Disposed or apt to take exceptions, or to object; captious. |
| exceptless | adjective | Not exceptional; usual. |
| excerpting | present participle & vb. noun | of Excerpt |
| excerption | noun | The act of excerpting or selecting., That which is selected or gleaned; an extract. |
| excerptive | adjective | That excerpts, selects, or chooses. |
| exchanging | present participle & vb. noun | of Exchange |
| excitation | noun | The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening., The act of producing excitement (stimulation); also, the excitement produced. |
| excitative | adjective | Having power to excite; tending or serving to excite; excitatory. |
| excitatory | adjective | Tending to excite; containing excitement; excitative. |
| excitement | noun | The act of exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having increased action; impulsion; agitation; as, an excitement of the people., That which excites or rouses; that which moves, stirs, or induces action; a motive., A state of aroused or increased vital activity in an organism, or any of its organs or tissues. |
| exclaiming | present participle & vb. noun | of Exclaim |
| excogitate | verb t. | To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive., To cogitate. |
| excoriable | Capable of being excoriated. | |
| excoriated | imp. & past participle | of Eccoriate |
| excreation | noun | Act of spitting out. |
| excrescent | adjective | Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity. |
| excruciate | adjective | Excruciated; tortured., To inflict agonizing pain upon; to torture; to torment greatly; to rack; as, to excruciate the heart or the body. |
| excubation | noun | A keeping watch. |
| exculpable | Capable of being exculpated; deserving exculpation. | |
| exculpated | imp. & past participle | of Exculpate |
| excusation | noun | Excuse; apology. |
| excusatory | adjective | Making or containing excuse or apology; apologetical; as, an excusatory plea. |
| excuseless | adjective | Having no excuse; not admitting of excuse or apology. |
| excusement | noun | Excuse. |
| execrating | present participle & vb. noun | of Execrate |
| execration | noun | The act of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; imprecation; utter detestation expressed., That which is execrated; a detested thing. |
| execrative | adjective | Cursing; imprecatory; vilifying., A word used for cursing; an imprecatory word or expression. |
| execratory | adjective | Of the nature of execration; imprecatory; denunciatory., A formulary of execrations. |
| executable | adjective | Capable of being executed; feasible; as, an executable project. |
| executress | noun | An executrix. |
| exegetical | adjective | Pertaining to exegesis; tending to unfold or illustrate; explanatory; expository. |
| exemptible | adjective | That may be exempted. |
| exenterate | verb t. | To take out the bowels or entrails of; to disembowel; to eviscerate; as, exenterated fishes. |
| exercising | present participle & vb. noun | of Exercise |
| exfetation | n | Imperfect fetation in some organ exterior to the uterus; extra-uterine fetation. |
| exfoliated | imp. & past participle | of Exfoliate |
| exhalation | noun | The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation., That which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam; effluvium; emanation; as, exhalations from the earth or flowers, decaying matter, etc., A bright phenomenon; a meteor. |
| exhalement | noun | Exhalation. |
| exhausting | present participle & vb. noun | of Exhaust, Producing exhaustion; as, exhausting labors. |
| exhaustion | noun | The act of draining out or draining off; the act of emptying completely of the contents., The state of being exhausted or emptied; the state of being deprived of strength or spirits., An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. |
| exhaustive | adjective | Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method. |
| exhausture | noun | Exhaustion. |
| exheredate | verb t. | To disinherit. |
| exhibiting | present participle & vb. noun | of Exhibit |
| exhibition | noun | The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display., That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art, or of feats of skill, or of oratorical or dramatic ability; as, an exhibition of animals; an exhibition of pictures, statues, etc.; an industrial exhibition., Sustenance; maintenance; allowance, esp. for meat and drink; pension. Specifically: (Eng. Univ.) Private benefaction for the maintenance of scholars., The act of administering a remedy. |
| exhibitive | adjective | Serving for exhibition; representative; exhibitory. |
| exhibitory | adjective | Exhibiting; publicly showing. |
| exhilarant | adjective | Exciting joy, mirth, or pleasure., That which exhilarates. |
| exhilarate | verb t. | To make merry or jolly; to enliven; to animate; to gladden greatly; to cheer; as, good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates a man., To become joyous. |
| exhumation | noun | The act of exhuming that which has been buried; as, the exhumation of a body. |
| exiccation | noun | See Exsiccation. |
| exigencies | plural | of Exigency |
| exigendary | noun | See Exigenter. |
| exocardiac | adjective | Alt. of Exocardial |
| exocardial | adjective | Situated or arising outside of the heat; as, exocardial murmurs; — opposed to endocardiac. |
| ex officio | From office; by virtue, or as a consequence, of an office; officially. | |
| exogenetic | adjective | Arising or growing from without; exogenous. |
| exonerated | imp. & past participle | of Exonerate |
| exonerator | noun | One who exonerates or frees from obligation. |
| exorbitant | adjective | Departing from an orbit or usual track; hence, deviating from the usual or due course; going beyond the appointed rules or established limits of right or propriety; excessive; extravagant; enormous; inordinate; as, exorbitant appetites and passions; exorbitant charges, demands, or claims., Not comprehended in a settled rule or method; anomalous. |
| exorbitate | verb i. | To go out of the track; to deviate. |
| exorcising | present participle & vb. noun | of Exorcise |
| exorhizous | adjective | Having a radicle which is not inclosed by the cotyledons or plumule; of or relating to an exorhiza. |
| exornation | noun | Ornament; decoration; embellishment. |
| exosculate | verb t. | To kiss; especially, to kiss repeatedly or fondly. |
| exossation | noun | A depriving of bone or of fruit stones. |
| exosse-ous | adjective | Boneless. |
| exoterical | adjective | External; public; suitable to be imparted to the public; hence, capable of being readily or fully comprehended; — opposed to esoteric, or secret. |
| exothecium | noun | The outer coat of the anther. |
| expansible | adjective | Capable of being expanded or spread out widely. |
| expatiated | imp. & past participle | of Expatiate |
| expatriate | verb t. | To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of., Reflexively, as To expatriate one’s self: To withdraw from one’s native country; to renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born, and become a citizen of another country. |
| expectable | adjective | That may be expected or looked for. |
| expectance | noun | Alt. of Expectancy |
| expectancy | noun | The act of expecting ; expectation., That which is expected, or looked or waited for with interest; the object of expectation or hope. |
| expectedly | adverb | In conformity with expectation. |
| expedience | noun | Alt. of Expediency |
| expediency | noun | The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to self-interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; — sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude., Expedition; haste; dispatch., An expedition; enterprise; adventure. |
| expediment | noun | An expedient. |
| expeditate | verb t. | To deprive of the claws or the balls of the fore feet; as, to expeditate a dog that he may not chase deer. |
| expediting | present participle & vb. noun | of Expedite |
| expeditely | adverb | In expedite manner; expeditiously. |
| expedition | noun | The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition., A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress., An important enterprise, implying a change of place; especially, a warlike enterprise; a march or a voyage with martial intentions; an excursion by a body of persons for a valuable end; as, a military, naval, exploring, or scientific expedition; also, the body of persons making such excursion. |
| expeditive | adjective | Performing with speed. |
| expellable | adjective | Capable of being expelled or driven out. |
| experience | noun | Trial, as a test or experiment., The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering., An act of knowledge, one or more, by which single facts or general truths are ascertained; experimental or inductive knowledge; hence, implying skill, facility, or practical wisdom gained by personal knowledge, feeling or action; as, a king without experience of war. |
| exrerience | verb t. | To make practical acquaintance with; to try personally; to prove by use or trial; to have trial of; to have the lot or fortune of; to have befall one; to be affected by; to feel; as, to experience pain or pleasure; to experience poverty; to experience a change of views., To exercise; to train by practice. |
| experiment | noun | Atrial or special observation, made to confirm or disprove something doubtful; esp., one under conditions determined by the experimenter; an act or operation undertaken in order to discover some unknown principle or effect, or to test, establish, or illustrate some suggest or known truth; practical test; poof., Experience., To make experiment; to operate by test or trial; — often with on, upon, or in, referring to the subject of an experiment; with, referring to the instrument; and by, referring to the means; as, to experiment upon electricity; he experimented in plowing with ponies, or by steam power., To try; to know, perceive, or prove, by trial experience. |
| expertness | noun | Skill derived from practice; readiness; as, expertness in seamanship, or in reasoning. |
| expilation | noun | The act of expilating or stripping off; plunder; pillage. |
| expiration | noun | The act of expiring, The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; — opposed to inspiration., Emission of volatile matter; exhalation., The last emission of breath; death., A coming to a close; cessation; extinction; termination; end., That which is expired; matter breathed forth; that which is produced by breathing out, as a sound. |
| expiratory | adjective | Pertaining to, or employed in, the expiration or emission of air from the lungs; as, the expiratory muscles. |
| explaining | present participle & vb. noun | of Explain |
| explicable | adjective | Capable of being explicated; that may be explained or accounted for; admitting explanation. |
| explicated | imp. & past participle | of Explicate |
| explicator | noun | One who unfolds or explains; an expounder; an explainer. |
| explicitly | adverb | In an explicit manner; clearly; plainly; without disguise or reservation of meaning; not by inference or implication; as, he explicitly avows his intention. |
| exploiture | noun | The act of exploiting or accomplishing; achievement., Exploitation. |
| explorable | adjective | That may be explored; as, an explorable region. |
| explorator | noun | One who explores; one who examines closely; a searcher. |
| exportable | adjective | Suitable for exportation; as, exportable products. |
| exposition | noun | The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view., The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or the like, by an interpreter; hence, a work containing explanations or interpretations; a commentary., Situation or position with reference to direction of view or accessibility to influence of sun, wind, etc.; exposure; as, an easterly exposition; an exposition to the sun., A public exhibition or show, as of industrial and artistic productions; as, the Paris Exposition of 1878. |
| expositive | adjective | Serving to explain; expository. |
| expository | adjective | Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical. |
| expounding | present participle & vb. noun | of Expound |
| expressing | present participle & vb. noun | of Express |
| expressage | noun | The charge for carrying a parcel by express. |
| expression | noun | The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by pressure; as, the expression of juices or oils; also, of extorting or eliciting; as, a forcible expression of truth., The act of declaring or signifying; declaration; utterance; as, an expression of the public will., Lively or vivid representation of meaning, sentiment, or feeling, etc.; significant and impressive indication, whether by language, appearance, or gesture; that manner or style which gives life and suggestive force to ideas and sentiments; as, he reads with expression; her performance on the piano has expression., That which is expressed by a countenance, a posture, a work of art, etc.; look, as indicative of thought or feeling., A form of words in which an idea or sentiment is conveyed; a mode of speech; a phrase; as, a common expression; an odd expression., The representation of any quantity by its appropriate characters or signs. |
| expressive | adjective | Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; — followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude., Full of expression; vividly representing the meaning or feeling meant to be conveyed; significant; emphatic; as, expressive looks or words. |
| expressmen | plural | of Expressman |
| expressman | noun | A person employed in the express business; also, the driver of a job wagon. |
| expressure | noun | The act of expressing; expression; utterance; representation. |
| exprobrate | verb t. | To charge upon with reproach; to upbraid. |
| expugnable | adjective | Capable of being expugned. |
| expunction | noun | The act of expunging or erasing; the condition of being expunged. |
| expurgated | imp. & past participle | of Expurgate |
| expurgator | noun | One who expurgates or purifies. |
| exsanguine | adjective | Bloodless. |
| exscinding | present participle & vb. noun | of Exscind |
| exsiccated | imp. & past participle | of Exsiccate |
| exsiccator | noun | An apparatus for drying substances or preserving them from moisture; a desiccator; also, less frequently, an agent employed to absorb moisture, as calcium chloride, or concentrated sulphuric acid. |
| exsiliency | noun | A leaping out. |
| exsolution | noun | Relaxation. |
| exspuition | noun | A discharge of saliva by spitting. |
| exsudation | noun | Exudation. |
| exsufflate | verb t. | To exorcise or renounce by blowing. |
| extemporal | adjective | Extemporaneous; unpremeditated. |
| extendedly | adverb | In an extended manner. |
| extendible | adjective | Capable of being extended, susceptible of being stretched, extended, enlarged, widened, or expanded., Liable to be taken by a writ of extent. |
| extensible | adjective | Capable of being extended, whether in length or breadth; susceptible of enlargement; extensible; extendible; — the opposite of contractible or compressible. |
| extenuated | imp. & past participle | of Extenuate |
| extenuator | noun | One who extenuates. |
| exteriorly | adverb | Outwardly; externally; on the exterior. |
| externally | adverb | In an external manner; outwardly; on the outside; in appearance; visibly. |
| extimulate | verb t. | To stimulate. |
| extinction | noun | The act of extinguishing or making extinct; a putting an end to; the act of putting out or destroying light, fire, life, activity, influence, etc., State of being extinguished or of ceasing to be; destruction; suppression; as, the extinction of life, of a family, of a quarrel, of claim. |
| extinguish | verb t. | To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense or a right., To obscure; to eclipse, as by superior splendor. |
| extirpable | adjective | Capable of being extirpated or eradicated; as, an extirpable plant. |
| extirpated | imp. & past participle | of Extirpate |
| extirpator | noun | One who extirpates or roots out; a destroyer. |
| extogenous | adjective | Exogenous. |
| extortious | adjective | Extortionate. |
| extracting | present participle & vb. noun | of Extract |
| extraction | noun | The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture., Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended., That which is extracted; extract; essence. |
| extractive | adjective | Capable of being extracted., Tending or serving to extract or draw out., Anything extracted; an extract., A chemical principle once supposed to exist in all extracts., Any one of a large class of substances obtained by extraction, and consisting largely of nitrogenous hydrocarbons, such as xanthin, hypoxanthin, and creatin extractives from muscle tissue. |
| extradited | imp. & past participle | of Extradite |
| extradotal | adjective | Forming no part of the dowry; as, extradotal property. |
| extramural | adjective | Outside of the walls, as of a fortified or walled city. |
| extraneity | noun | State of being without or beyond a thing; foreignness. |
| extraneous | adjective | Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; not essential or intrinsic; foreign; as, to separate gold from extraneous matter. |
| extricable | adjective | Capable of being extricated. |
| extricated | imp. & past participle | of Extricate |
| extroitive | adjective | Seeking or going out after external objects. |
| extruction | noun | A building up; construction. |
| extructive | adjective | Constructive. |
| extuberant | adjective | Swollen out; protuberant. |
| extuberate | verb i. | To swell out. |
| exuberance | noun | The state of being exuberant; an overflowing quantity; a copious or excessive production or supply; superabundance; richness; as, an exuberance of joy, of fancy, or of foliage. |
| exuberancy | noun | Exuberance. |
| exulcerate | verb t. & i. | To ulcerate., To corrode; to fret; to chafe; to inflame., Very sore; ulcerated. |
| exultation | noun | The act of exulting; lively joy at success or victory, or at any advantage gained; rapturous delight; triumph. |
| exundation | noun | An overflow, or overflowing abundance. |
| exungulate | verb t. | To pare off, as nails, the hoof, etc. |
| exuperable | adjective | Surmountable; superable. |
| exuperance | noun | Superiority; superfluity. |
| exuscitate | verb t. | See Exsuscitate |
| exuviating | present participle & vb. noun | of Exuviate |
| exuviation | noun | The rejecting or casting off of some part, more particularly, the outer cuticular layer, as the shells of crustaceans, skins of snakes, etc.; molting; ecdysis. |