| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| exacerrated | imp. & past participle | of Exacerbate |
| exacination | noun | Removal of the kernel. |
| exaggerated | imp. & past participle | of Exaggerate, Enlarged beyond bounds or the truth. |
| exaggerator | noun | One who exaggerates; one addicted to exaggeration. |
| exagitation | noun | Agitation. |
| examination | noun | The act of examining, or state of being examined; a careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by study or experiment., A process prescribed or assigned for testing qualification; as, the examination of a student, or of a candidate for admission to the bar or the ministry. |
| exampleless | adjective | Without or above example. |
| exanimation | noun | Deprivation of life or of spirits. |
| exanthemata | plural | of Exanthema |
| exantlation | noun | Act of drawing out ; exhaustion. |
| exasperater | noun | One who exasperates or inflames anger, enmity, or violence. |
| exauctorate | verb t. | See Exauthorate. |
| exauthorate | verb t. | To deprive of authority or office; to depose; to discharge. |
| exauthorize | verb t. | To deprive of uthority., To deprive of authority. |
| excantation | noun | Disenchantment by a countercharm. |
| excarnation | noun | The act of depriving or divesting of flesh; excarnification; — opposed to incarnation. |
| exceedingly | adverb | To a very great degree; beyond what is usual; surpassingly. It signifies more than very. |
| excellently | adverb | In an excellent manner; well in a high degree., In a high or superior degree; — in this literal use, not implying worthiness. |
| excentrical | adjective | Same as Eccentric, Eccentrical., One-sided; having the normally central portion not in the true center. |
| exceptional | adjective | Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior. |
| exceptioner | noun | One who takes exceptions or makes objections. |
| excerebrose | adjective | Brainless. |
| exchequered | imp. & past participle | of Exchequer |
| exclamation | noun | A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling; sudden expression of sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc., A word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing passion, as wonder, fear, or grief., A mark or sign by which outcry or emphatic utterance is marked; thus [!]; — called also exclamation point. |
| exclamative | adjective | Exclamatory. |
| exclamatory | adjective | Containing, expressing, or using exclamation; as, an exclamatory phrase or speaker. |
| exclusivism | noun | The act or practice of excluding being exclusive; exclusiveness. |
| exclusivist | noun | One who favor or practices any from of exclusiveness or exclusivism. |
| excogitated | imp. & past participle | of Excogitate |
| excommunion | A shutting out from communion; excommunication. | |
| excoriating | present participle & vb. noun | of Eccoriate |
| excoriation | noun | The act of excoriating or flaying, or state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion., Stripping of possession; spoliation. |
| excorticate | verb t. | To strip of bark or skin; to decorticate. |
| excremental | adjective | Of or pertaining to excrement. |
| excrescence | noun | An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant. |
| excrescency | noun | Excrescence. |
| excruciable | adjective | Liable to torment. |
| excruciated | imp. & past participle | of Excruciate |
| exculpating | of Exculpate | |
| exculpation | noun | The act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime; that which exculpates; excuse. |
| exculpatory | Clearing, or tending to clear, from alleged fault or guilt; excusing. | |
| executioner | noun | One who executes; an executer., One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman. |
| executively | adverb | In the way of executing or performing. |
| executorial | adjective | Of or pertaining to an executive. |
| exemplarily | adverb | In a manner fitted or designed to be an example for imitation or for warning; by way of example. |
| exemplarity | noun | Exemplariness. |
| exemplifier | noun | One who exemplifies by following a pattern. |
| exemplified | imp. & past participle | of Exemplify |
| exercisable | adjective | That may be exercised, used, or exerted. |
| exercisible | adjective | Capable of being exercised, employed, or enforced; as, the authority of a magistrate is exercisible within his jurisdiction. |
| exestuation | noun | A boiling up; effervescence. |
| exfoliating | present participle & vb. noun | of Exfoliate |
| exfoliation | noun | The scaling off of a bone, a rock, or a mineral, etc.; the state of being exfoliated. |
| exfoliative | adjective | Having the power of causing exfoliation., An exfoliative agent. |
| exhaustible | adjective | Capable of being exhausted, drained off, or expended. |
| exhaustless | adjective | Not be exhausted; inexhaustible; as, an exhaustless fund or store. |
| exhaustment | noun | Exhaustion; drain. |
| exhilarated | imp. & past participle | of Exhilarate |
| exilarating | present participle & vb. noun | of Exhilarate |
| exhortation | noun | The act of practice of exhorting; the act of inciting to laudable deeds; incitement to that which is good or commendable., Language intended to incite and encourage; advice; counsel; admonition. |
| exhortative | adjective | Serving to exhort; exhortatory; hortative. |
| exhortatory | adjective | Of or pertaining to exhortation; hortatory. |
| exinanition | noun | An emptying; an enfeebling; exhaustion; humiliation. |
| existential | adjective | Having existence. |
| exoccipital | adjective | Pertaining to a bone or region on each side of the great foremen of the skull., The exoccipital bone, which often forms a part of the occipital in the adult, but is usually distinct in the young. |
| ex-official | adjective | Proceeding from office or authority. |
| ex officiis | plural | of Ex officio |
| exonerating | present participle & vb. noun | of Exonerate |
| exoneration | noun | The act of disburdening, discharging, or freeing morally from a charge or imputation; also, the state of being disburdened or freed from a charge. |
| exonerative | adjective | Freeing from a burden or obligation; tending to exonerate. |
| exophthalmy | noun | Exophthalmia. |
| exophyllous | adjective | Not sheathed in another leaf. |
| exorbitance | noun | Alt. of Exorbitancy |
| exorbitancy | noun | A going out of or beyond the usual or due limit; hence, enormity; extravagance; gross deviation from rule, right, or propriety; as, the exorbitances of the tongue or of deportment; exorbitance of demands. |
| exoskeletal | adjective | Pertaining to the exoskeleton; as exoskeletal muscles. |
| exoskeleton | noun | The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton. |
| expariating | present participle & vb. noun | of Expatiate |
| expatiation | noun | Act of expatiating. |
| expatiatory | adjective | Expansive; diffusive. |
| expatriated | imp. & past participle | of Expatriate |
| expectation | noun | The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen., That which is expected or looked for., The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to happen; prospect of anything good to come, esp. of property or rank., The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event. Expectations are computed for or against the occurrence of the event., The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure. |
| expectative | adjective | Constituting an object of expectation; contingent., Something in expectation; esp., an expectative grace. |
| expectingly | adverb | In a state of expectation. |
| expectorant | adjective | Tending to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, etc., from the lungs or throat., An expectorant medicine. |
| expectorate | verb t. | To eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth., To discharge matter from the lungs or throat by hawking and spitting; to spit. |
| expediently | adverb | In an expedient manner; fitly; suitably; conveniently., With expedition; quickly. |
| expeditious | adjective | Possessed of, or characterized by, expedition, or efficiency and rapidity in action; performed with, or acting with, expedition; quick; having celerity; speedily; as, an expeditious march or messenger. |
| expenditure | noun | The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement., That which is expended or paid out; expense. |
| expensefull | adjective | Full of expense; costly; chargeable. |
| expenseless | adjective | Without cost or expense. |
| experienced | imp. & past participle | of Exrerience, Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye. |
| experiencer | noun | One who experiences., An experimenter. |
| expiscation | noun | The act of expiscating; a fishing. |
| expiscatory | adjective | Tending to fish out; searching out |
| explainable | adjective | Capable of being explained or made plain to the understanding; capable of being interpreted. |
| explanation | noun | The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty., That which explains or makes clear; as, a satisfactory explanation., The meaning attributed to anything by one who explains it; definition; interpretation; sense., A mutual exposition of terms, meaning, or motives, with a view to adjust a misunderstanding, and reconcile differences; reconciliation; agreement; as, to come to an explanation. |
| explanative | adjective | Explanatory. |
| explanatory | adjective | Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes. |
| expletively | adverb | In the manner of an expletive. |
| explicating | present participle & vb. noun | of Explicate |
| explication | noun | The act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation., The sense given by an expositor. |
| explicative | adjective | Serving to unfold or explain; tending to lay open to the understanding; explanatory. |
| explicatory | adjective | Explicative. |
| exploration | noun | The act of exploring, penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of discovery, especially of geographical discovery; examination; as, the exploration of unknown countries, physical examination. |
| explorative | adjective | Exploratory. |
| exploratory | adjective | Serving or intended to explore; searching; examining; explorative. |
| explorement | noun | The act of exploring; exploration. |
| explosively | adverb | In an explosive manner. |
| expoliation | noun | See Exspoliation. |
| exponential | adjective | Pertaining to exponents; involving variable exponents; as, an exponential expression; exponential calculus; an exponential function. |
| exportation | noun | The act of exporting; the act of conveying or sending commodities abroad or to another country, in the course of commerce., Commodity exported; an export., The act of carrying out. |
| exposedness | noun | The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation. |
| expostulate | verb i. | To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; — followed by with., To discuss; to examine. |
| expressible | adjective | Capable of being expressed, squeezed out, shown, represented, or uttered. |
| expressness | noun | The state or quality of being express; definiteness. |
| expropriate | verb t. | To put out of one’s possession; to surrender the ownership of; also, to deprive of possession or proprietary rights. |
| expugnation | noun | The act of taking by assault; conquest. |
| expurgating | present participle & vb. noun | of Expurgate |
| expurgation | noun | The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous. |
| expurgatory | adjective | Serving to purify from anything noxious or erroneous; cleansing; purifying. |
| exquisitely | adverb | In an exquisite manner or degree; as, lace exquisitely wrought. |
| exquisitive | adjective | Eager to discover or learn; curious. |
| exsanguious | adjective | Destitute of blood., Destitute of true, or red, blood, as insects. |
| exsiccating | present participle & vb. noun | of Exsiccate |
| exsiccation | noun | The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture; state of being dried up; dryness. |
| exsiccative | adjective | Tending to make dry; having the power of drying. |
| exstipulate | adjective | Having no stipules. |
| exsuscitate | verb t. | To rouse; to excite. |
| extemporary | adjective | Extemporaneous., Made for the occasion; for the time being. |
| extemporize | verb i. | To speak extempore; especially, to discourse without special preparation; to make an offhand address., To do, make, or utter extempore or off-hand; to prepare in great haste, under urgent necessity, or with scanty or unsuitable materials; as, to extemporize a dinner, a costume, etc. |
| extensional | adjective | Having great extent. |
| extensively | adverb | To a great extent; widely; largely; as, a story is extensively circulated. |
| extenuating | present participle & vb. noun | of Extenuate |
| extenuation | noun | The act of axtenuating or the state of being extenuated; the act of making thin, slender, or lean, or of palliating; diminishing, or lessening; palliation, as of a crime; mitigation, as of punishment. |
| extenuatory | adjective | Tending to extenuate or palliate. |
| exteriority | noun | Surface; superficies; externality. |
| exterminate | verb t. | To drive out or away; to expel., To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice., To eliminate, as unknown quantities. |
| externalism | noun | The quality of being manifest to the senses; external acts or appearances; regard for externals., That philosophy or doctrine which recognizes or deals only with externals, or objects of sense perception; positivism; phenomenalism. |
| externality | noun | State of being external; exteriority, separation from the perceiving mind. |
| externalize | verb t. | To make external; to manifest by outward form. |
| extillation | noun | Distillation. |
| extirpating | present participle & vb. noun | of Extirpate |
| extirpation | noun | The act of extirpating or rooting out, or the state of being extirpated; eradication; excision; total destruction; as, the extirpation of weeds from land, of evil from the heart, of a race of men, of heresy. |
| extirpative | adjective | Capable of rooting out, or tending to root out. |
| extirpatory | adjective | Extirpative. |
| extortioner | noun | One who practices extortion. |
| extractable | adjective | Alt. of Extractible |
| extractible | adjective | Capable of being extracted. |
| extraditing | present participle & vb. noun | of Extradite |
| extradition | noun | The surrender or delivery of an alleged criminal by one State or sovereignty to another having jurisdiction to try charge. |
| extravagant | adjective | Wandering beyond one’s bounds; roving; hence, foreign., Exceeding due bounds; wild; excessive; unrestrained; as, extravagant acts, wishes, praise, abuse., Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful; as, an extravagant man., One who is confined to no general rule., Certain constitutions or decretal epistles, not at first included with others, but subsequently made a part of the canon law. |
| extravagate | verb i. | To rove. |
| extravasate | verb t. | To force or let out of the proper vessels or arteries, as blood. |
| extravenate | adjective | Let out of the veins. |
| extremeless | adjective | Having no extremes; infinite. |
| extremities | plural | of Extremity |
| extricating | present participle & vb. noun | of Extricate |
| extrication | noun | The act or process of extricating or disentangling; a freeing from perplexities; disentanglement., The act of sending out or evolving. |
| extrinsical | adjective | Extrinsic. |
| extuberance | noun | A swelling or rising; protuberance. |
| extuberancy | noun | Extuberance. |
| exungulated | imp. & past participle | of Exungulate |
| exuperation | noun | The act of rising or coming into view. |