| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| exacting | present participle & vb. noun | of Exact, Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. |
| exaction | noun | The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion., That which is exacted; a severe tribute; a fee, reward, or contribution, demanded or levied with severity or injustice. |
| exacuate | verb t. | To whet or sharpen. |
| exalting | present participle & vb. noun | of Exalt |
| exaltate | adjective | Exercising its highest influence; — said of a planet. |
| examined | imp. & past participle | of Examine |
| examinee | noun | A person examined. |
| examiner | noun | One who examines, tries, or inspects; one who interrogates; an officer or person charged with the duty of making an examination; as, an examiner of students for a degree; an examiner in chancery, in the patent office, etc. |
| exampled | imp. & past participle | of Example |
| exampler | noun | A pattern; an exemplar. |
| exanthem | noun | Same as Exanthema. |
| excambie | verb t. | To exchange; — used with reference to transfers of land. |
| excavate | verb t. | To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth., To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel., To dig out and remove, as earth. |
| excecate | verb t. | To blind. |
| excedent | verb t. | Excess. |
| exceeded | imp. & past participle | of Exceed |
| exceeder | noun | One who exceeds. |
| excelled | imp. & past participle | of Excel |
| excepted | imp. & past participle | of Except |
| exceptor | noun | One who takes exceptions. |
| exchange | noun | The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain., The act of substituting one thing in the place of another; as, an exchange of grief for joy, or of a scepter for a sword, and the like; also, the act of giving and receiving reciprocally; as, an exchange of civilities or views., The thing given or received in return; esp., a publication exchanged for another., The process of setting accounts or debts between parties residing at a distance from each other, without the intervention of money, by exchanging orders or drafts, called bills of exchange. These may be drawn in one country and payable in another, in which case they are called foreign bills; or they may be drawn and made payable in the same country, in which case they are called inland bills. The term bill of exchange is often abbreviated into exchange; as, to buy or sell exchange., A mutual grant of equal interests, the one in consideration of the other. Estates exchanged must be equal in quantity, as fee simple for fee simple., The place where the merchants, brokers, and bankers of a city meet at certain hours, to transact business. In this sense often contracted to ‘Change., To part with give, or transfer to another in consideration of something received as an equivalent; — usually followed by for before the thing received., To part with for a substitute; to lay aside, quit, or resign (something being received in place of the thing parted with); as, to exchange a palace for cell., To give and receive reciprocally, as things of the same kind; to barter; to swap; as, to exchange horses with a neighbor; to exchange houses or hats., To be changed or received in exchange for; to pass in exchange; as, dollar exchanges for ten dimes. |
| excising | present participle & vb. noun | of Excise |
| excision | noun | The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction., The act of cutting off from the church; excommunication., The removal, especially of small parts, with a cutting instrument. |
| excitant | adjective | Tending to excite; exciting., An agent or influence which arouses vital activity, or produces increased action, in a living organism or in any of its tissues or parts; a stimulant. |
| excitate | verb t. | To excite. |
| exciting | present participle & vb. noun | of Excite, Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story. |
| excitive | adjective | Serving or tending to excite; excitative., That which excites; an excitant. |
| excluded | imp. & past participle | of Exclude |
| excreate | verb t. | To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting. |
| excreted | imp. & past participle | of Excrete |
| excretin | noun | A nonnitrogenous, crystalline body, present in small quantity in human faeces. |
| excursus | noun | A dissertation or digression appended to a work, and containing a more extended exposition of some important point or topic. |
| excusing | present participle & vb. noun | of Excuse |
| execrate | verb t. | To denounce evil against, or to imprecate evil upon; to curse; to protest against as unholy or detestable; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate. |
| exection | noun | See Exsection. |
| executed | imp. & past participle | of Execute |
| executer | noun | One who performs or carries into effect. See Executor. |
| executor | noun | One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness., An executioner., The person appointed by a testator to execute his will, or to see its provisions carried into effect, after his decease. |
| exegeses | plural | of Exegesis |
| exegesis | noun | Exposition; explanation; especially, a critical explanation of a text or portion of Scripture., The process of finding the roots of an equation. |
| exegetic | adjective | Alt. of Exegetical |
| exemplar | noun | A model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist conceives., A copy of a book or writing., Exemplary. |
| exempted | imp. & past participle | of Exempt |
| exequial | adjective | Of or pertaining to funerals; funereal. |
| exequies | plural | of Exequy |
| exercent | adjective | Practicing; professional. |
| exercise | noun | The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in general; practice., Exertion for the sake of training or improvement whether physical, intellectual, or moral; practice to acquire skill, knowledge, virtue, perfectness, grace, etc., Bodily exertion for the sake of keeping the organs and functions in a healthy state; hygienic activity; as, to take exercise on horseback., The performance of an office, a ceremony, or a religious duty., That which is done for the sake of exercising, practicing, training, or promoting skill, health, mental, improvement, moral discipline, etc.; that which is assigned or prescribed for such ends; hence, a disquisition; a lesson; a task; as, military or naval exercises; musical exercises; an exercise in composition., That which gives practice; a trial; a test., To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to; to put in action habitually or constantly; to school or train; to exert repeatedly; to busy., To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop; hence, also, to improve by practice; to discipline, and to use or to for the purpose of training; as, to exercise arms; to exercise one’s self in music; to exercise troops., To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious; to affect; to discipline; as, exercised with pain., To put in practice; to carry out in action; to perform the duties of; to use; to employ; to practice; as, to exercise authority; to exercise an office., To exercise one’s self, as under military training; to drill; to take exercise; to use action or exertion; to practice gymnastics; as, to exercise for health or amusement. |
| exerting | present participle & vb. noun | of Exert |
| exertion | noun | The act of exerting, or putting into motion or action; the active exercise of any power or faculty; an effort, esp. a laborious or perceptible effort; as, an exertion of strength or power; an exertion of the limbs or of the mind; it is an exertion for him to move, to-day. |
| exertive | adjective | Having power or a tendency to exert; using exertion. |
| exhalant | adjective | Having the quality of exhaling or evaporating. |
| exhorted | imp. & past participle | of Exhort |
| exhorter | noun | One who exhorts or incites. |
| exhuming | present participle & vb. noun | of Exhume |
| exiccate | verb t. | See Exsiccate. |
| exigence | noun | Exigency. |
| exigency | noun | The state of being exigent; urgent or exacting want; pressing necessity or distress; need; a case demanding immediate action, supply, or remedy; as, an unforeseen exigency. |
| exigible | adjective | That may be exacted; repairable. |
| exiguity | noun | Scantiness; smallness; thinness. |
| exiguous | adjective | Scanty; small; slender; diminutive. |
| eximious | adjective | Select; choice; hence, extraordinary, excellent. |
| existing | present participle & vb. noun | of Exist |
| existent | adjective | Having being or existence; existing; being; occurring now; taking place. |
| exitious | adjective | Destructive; fatal. |
| exocetus | noun | Alt. of Exocoetus |
| exoplasm | noun | See Ectosarc, and Ectoplasm. |
| exoptile | noun | A name given by Lestiboudois to dicotyledons; — so called because the plumule is naked. |
| exorcise | verb t. | To cast out, as a devil, evil spirits, etc., by conjuration or summoning by a holy name, or by certain ceremonies; to expel (a demon) or to conjure (a demon) to depart out of a person possessed by one., To deliver or purify from the influence of an evil spirit or demon. |
| exorcism | noun | The act of exorcising; the driving out of evil spirits from persons or places by conjuration; also, the form of conjuration used., Conjuration for raising spirits. |
| exorcist | noun | One who expels evil spirits by conjuration or exorcism., A conjurer who can raise spirits. |
| exordial | adjective | Pertaining to the exordium of a discourse: introductory. |
| exordium | noun | A beginning; an introduction; especially, the introductory part of a discourse or written composition, which prepares the audience for the main subject; the opening part of an oration. |
| exorhiza | noun | A plant Whose radicle is not inclosed or sheathed by the cotyledons or plumule. |
| exortive | adjective | Rising; relating to the east. |
| exosmose | noun | The passage of gases, vapors, or liquids thought membranes or porous media from within outward, in the phenomena of osmose; — opposed to endosmose. See Osmose. |
| exospore | noun | The extreme outer wall of a spore; the epispore. |
| exostome | noun | The small aperture or foremen in the outer coat of the ovule of a plant. |
| exoteric | adjective | Alt. of Exoterical |
| exotheca | noun | The tissue which fills the interspaces between the costae of many madreporarian corals, usually consisting of small transverse or oblique septa. |
| exotical | adjective | Foreign; not native; exotic. |
| expanded | imp. & past participle | of Expand |
| expander | noun | Anything which causes expansion esp. (Mech.) a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc. |
| ex parte | Upon or from one side only; one-sided; partial; as, an ex parte statement. | |
| expected | imp. & past participle | of Expect |
| expecter | noun | One who expects. |
| expedite | adjective | Free of impediment; unimpeded., Expeditious; quick; speedily; prompt., To relieve of impediments; to facilitate; to accelerate the process or progress of; to hasten; to quicken; as, to expedite the growth of plants., To despatch; to send forth; to issue officially. |
| expelled | imp. & past participle | of Expel |
| expeller | noun | One who, or that which, expels. |
| expended | imp. & past participle | of Expend |
| expertly | adverb | In a skillful or dexterous manner; adroitly; with readiness and accuracy. |
| expiable | adjective | Capable of being expiated or atoned for; as, an expiable offense; expiable guilt. |
| expiated | imp. & past participle | of Expiate |
| expiator | noun | One who makes expiation or atonement. |
| expirant | noun | One who expires or is expiring. |
| expiring | p. pr & vb. noun | of Expire, Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating., Pertaining to, or uttered at, the time of dying; as, expiring words; expiring groans. |
| explicit | adjective | A word formerly used (as finis is now) at the conclusion of a book to indicate the end., Not implied merely, or conveyed by implication; distinctly stated; plain in language; open to the understanding; clear; not obscure or ambiguous; express; unequivocal; as, an explicit declaration., Having no disguised meaning or reservation; unreserved; outspoken; — applied to persons; as, he was earnest and explicit in his statement. |
| exploded | imp. & past participle | of Explode |
| exploder | noun | One who or that which explodes., One who rejects an opinion or scheme with open contempt. |
| explored | imp. & past participle | of Explore |
| explorer | noun | One who explores; also, an apparatus with which one explores, as a diving bell. |
| expolish | verb t. | To polish thoroughly. |
| exponent | noun | A number, letter, or any quantity written on the right hand of and above another quantity, and denoting how many times the latter is repeated as a factor to produce the power indicated, One who, or that which, stands as an index or representative; as, the leader of a party is the exponent of its principles. |
| exported | imp. & past participle | of Export |
| exporter | noun | One who exports; the person who sends goods or commodities to a foreign country, in the way of commerce; — opposed to importer. |
| exposing | present participle & vb. noun | of Expose |
| exposure | noun | The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt., The state of being exposed or laid open or bare; openness to danger; accessibility to anything that may affect, especially detrimentally; as, exposure to observation, to cold, to inconvenience., Position as to points of compass, or to influences of climate, etc., The exposing of a sensitized plate to the action of light. |
| expugner | noun | One who expugns. |
| expulser | noun | An expeller. |
| expunged | imp. & past participle | of Expunge |
| exscribe | verb t. | To copy; to transcribe. |
| exscript | noun | A copy; a transcript. |
| exserted | adjective | Standing out; projecting beyond some other part; as, exsert stamens. |
| extended | imp. & past participle | of Extend |
| extender | noun | One who, or that which, extends or stretches anything. |
| extensor | noun | A muscle which serves to extend or straighten any part of the body, as an arm or a finger; — opposed to flexor. |
| exterior | adjective | External; outward; pertaining to that which is external; — opposed to interior; as, the exterior part of a sphere., External; on the outside; without the limits of; extrinsic; as, an object exterior to a man, opposed to what is within, or in his mind., Relating to foreign nations; foreign; as, the exterior relations of a state or kingdom., The outward surface or part of a thing; that which is external; outside., Outward or external deportment, form, or ceremony; visible act; as, the exteriors of religion. |
| external | adjective | Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; — opposed to internal; as, the external form or surface of a body., Outside of or separate from ourselves; (Metaph.) separate from the perceiving mind., Outwardly perceptible; visible; physical or corporeal, as distinguished from mental or moral., Not intrinsic nor essential; accidental; accompanying; superficial., Foreign; relating to or connected with foreign nations; as, external trade or commerce; the external relations of a state or kingdom., Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral., Something external or without; outward part; that which makes a show, rather than that which is intrinsic; visible form; — usually in the plural. |
| extilled | imp. & past participle | of Extill |
| extirper | noun | Extirpator. |
| extolled | imp. & past participle | of Extol |
| extoller | noun | One who extols; one who praises. |
| extorted | imp. & past participle | of Extort |
| extorter | noun | One who practices extortion. |
| extrados | noun | The exterior curve of an arch; esp., the upper curved face of the whole body of voussoirs. See Intrados. |
| extrorse | adjective | Facing outwards, or away from the axis of growth; — said esp. of anthers occupying the outer side of the filament. |
| extruded | imp. & past participle | of Extrude |
| exuccous | adjective | See Exsuccous. |
| exulting | present participle & vb. noun | of Exult, Rejoicing triumphantly or exceedingly; exultant. |
| exultant | adjective | Inclined to exult; characterized by, or expressing, exultation; rejoicing triumphantly. |
| exundate | verb i. | To overflow; to inundate. |
| exurgent | adjective | Arising; coming to light. |
| exustion | noun | The act or operation of burning up. |
| exuviate | verb i. | To shed an old covering or condition preliminary to taking on a new one; to molt. |
| ex-votos | plural | of Ex-voto |