| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| exacinate | verb t. | To remove the kernel form. |
| exactness | noun | The condition of being exact; accuracy; nicety; precision; regularity; as, exactness of jurgement or deportment., Careful observance of method and conformity to truth; as, exactness in accounts or business. |
| exactress | noun | A woman who is an exactor. |
| exaeresis | noun | In old writers, the operations concerned in the removal of parts of the body. |
| exagitate | verb t. | To stir up; to agitate., To satirize; to censure severely. |
| exaltment | noun | Exaltation. |
| exametron | noun | An hexameter. |
| examinant | noun | One who examines; an examiner., One who is to be examined. |
| examinate | noun | A person subjected to examination. |
| examining | present participle & vb. noun | of Examine, Having power to examine; appointed to examine; as, an examining committee. |
| examplary | adjective | Serving for example or pattern; exemplary. |
| exampling | present participle & vb. noun | of Example |
| exampless | adjective | Exampleless. [Wrongly formed.] |
| exanimate | adjective | Lifeless; dead., Destitute of animation; spiritless; disheartened., To deprive of animation or of life. |
| exanimous | adjective | Lifeless; dead. |
| exanthema | noun | An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; — sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever. |
| exantlate | verb t. | To exhaust or wear out. |
| exaration | noun | Act of plowing; also, act of writing. |
| exarchate | noun | The office or the province of an exarch. |
| excalibur | noun | The name of King Arthur’s mythical sword. |
| excambion | noun | Alt. of Excambium |
| excambium | noun | Exchange; barter; — used commonly of lands. |
| excarnate | verb t. | To deprive or clear of flesh. |
| excavated | imp. & past participle | of Excavate |
| excavator | noun | One who, or that which, excavates or hollows out; a machine, as a dredging machine, or a tool, for excavating. |
| exceeding | present participle & vb. noun | of Exceed, More than usual; extraordinary; more than sufficient; measureless., In a very great degree; extremely; exceedingly. |
| excelling | present participle & vb. noun | of Excel |
| excellent | adjective | Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims, action., Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality; — used with words of a bad significance., Excellently; eminently; exceedingly. |
| excelsior | verb t. | More lofty; still higher; ever upward., A kind of stuffing for upholstered furniture, mattresses, etc., in which curled shreds of wood are substituted for curled hair. |
| excentral | adjective | Out of the center. |
| excentric | adjective | Alt. of Excentrical |
| excepting | present participle & vb. noun | of Except, With rejection or exception of; excluding; except. |
| exceptant | adjective | Making exception. |
| exception | noun | The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule., That which is excepted or taken out from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included; as, almost every general rule has its exceptions., An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted., An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; — usually followed by to or against. |
| exceptive | adjective | That excepts; including an exception; as, an exceptive proposition. |
| excernent | adjective | Connected with, or pertaining to, excretion. |
| excerpted | imp. & past participle | of Excerpt |
| excerptor | noun | One who makes excerpts; a picker; a culler. |
| excessive | adjective | Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. |
| exchanged | imp. & past participle | of Exchange |
| exchanger | noun | One who exchanges; one who practices exchange. |
| excheator | noun | See Escheator. |
| exchequer | noun | One of the superior courts of law; — so called from a checkered cloth, which covers, or formerly covered, the table., The department of state having charge of the collection and management of the royal revenue. [Eng.] Hence, the treasury; and, colloquially, pecuniary possessions in general; as, the company’s exchequer is low., To institute a process against (any one) in the Court of Exchequer. |
| excipient | verb t. | Taking an exception., An exceptor., An inert or slightly active substance used in preparing remedies as a vehicle or medium of administration for the medicinal agents. |
| excipulum | noun | The outer part of the fructification of most lichens. |
| excisable | adjective | Liable or subject to excise; as, tobacco in an excisable commodity. |
| excisemen | plural | of Exciseman |
| exciseman | noun | An officer who inspects and rates articles liable to excise duty. |
| excitable | adjective | Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated. |
| excitator | noun | A kind of discarder. |
| exciteful | noun | Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. |
| exclaimed | imp. & past participle | of Exclaim |
| exclaimer | noun | One who exclaims. |
| excluding | present participle & vb. noun | of Exclude |
| exclusion | noun | The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of being excluded., The act of expelling or ejecting a fetus or an egg from the womb., Thing emitted. |
| exclusive | adjective | Having the power of preventing entrance; debarring from participation or enjoyment; possessed and enjoyed to the exclusion of others; as, exclusive bars; exclusive privilege; exclusive circles of society., Not taking into the account; excluding from consideration; — opposed to inclusive; as, five thousand troops, exclusive of artillery., One of a coterie who exclude others; one who from real of affected fastidiousness limits his acquaintance to a select few. |
| exclusory | adjective | Able to exclude; excluding; serving to exclude. |
| excoction | The act of excocting or boiling out. | |
| excommune | verb t. | To exclude from participation in; to excommunicate. |
| excreable | adjective | Capable of being discharged by spitting. |
| excrement | noun | Matter excreted and ejected; that which is excreted or cast out of the animal body by any of the natural emunctories; especially, alvine, discharges; dung; ordure., An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth. |
| excreting | present participle & vb. noun | of Excrete |
| excretion | noun | The act of excreting., That which is excreted; excrement. |
| excretive | adjective | Having the power of excreting, or promoting excretion. |
| excretory | adjective | Having the quality of excreting, or throwing off excrementitious matter. |
| exculpate | verb t. | To clear from alleged fault or guilt; to prove to be guiltless; to relieve of blame; to acquit. |
| excurrent | adjective | Running or flowing out, Running or extending out; as, an excurrent midrib, one which projects beyond the apex of a leaf; an excurrent steam or trunk, one which continues to the top., Characterized by a current which flows outward; as, an excurrent orifice or tube. |
| excursion | A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally., A journey chiefly for recreation; a pleasure trip; a brief tour; as, an excursion into the country., A wandering from a subject; digression., Length of stroke, as of a piston; stroke. [An awkward use of the word.] | |
| excursive | adjective | Prone to make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring; as, an excursive fancy. |
| excusable | adjective | That may be excused, forgiven, justified, or acquitted of blame; pardonable; as, the man is excusable; an excusable action. |
| excusator | noun | One who makes, or is authorized to make, an excuse; an apologist. |
| excussion | noun | The act of excusing; seizure by law. |
| execrable | adjective | Deserving to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable; abominable; as, an execrable wretch. |
| execrated | imp. & past participle | of Execrate |
| executant | noun | One who executes or performs; esp., a performer on a musical instrument. |
| executing | present participle & vb. noun | of Execute |
| execution | noun | The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc., A putting to death as a legal penalty; death lawfully inflicted; as, the execution of a murderer., The act of the mode of performing a work of art, of performing on an instrument, of engraving, etc.; as, the execution of a statue, painting, or piece of music., The carrying into effect the judgment given in a court of law., A judicial writ by which an officer is empowered to carry a judgment into effect; final process., The act of signing, and delivering a legal instrument, or giving it the forms required to render it valid; as, the execution of a deed, or a will., That which is executed or accomplished; effect; effective work; — usually with do., The act of sacking a town. |
| executive | adjective | Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect; as, executive talent; qualifying for, concerned with, or pertaining to, the execution of the laws or the conduct of affairs; as, executive power or authority; executive duties, officer, department, etc., An impersonal title of the chief magistrate or officer who administers the government, whether king, president, or governor; the governing person or body. |
| executory | adjective | Pertaining to administration, or putting the laws in force; executive., Designed to be executed or carried into effect in time to come, or to take effect on a future contingency; as, an executory devise, reminder, or estate; an executory contract. |
| executrix | noun | A woman exercising the functions of an executor. |
| exegetics | noun | The science of interpretation or exegesis. |
| exegetist | noun | One versed in the science of exegesis or interpretation; — also called exegete. |
| exemplary | adjective | Serving as a pattern; deserving to be proposed for imitation; commendable; as, an exemplary person; exemplary conduct., Serving as a warning; monitory; as, exemplary justice, punishment, or damages., Illustrating as the proof of a thing., An exemplar; also, a copy of a book or writing. |
| exemplify | verb t. | To show or illustrate by example., To copy; to transcribe; to make an attested copy or transcript of, under seal, as of a record., To prove or show by an attested copy. |
| exempting | present participle & vb. noun | of Exempt |
| exemption | noun | The act of exempting; the state of being exempt; freedom from any charge, burden, evil, etc., to which others are subject; immunity; privilege; as, exemption of certain articles from seizure; exemption from military service; exemption from anxiety, suffering, etc. |
| exequatur | noun | A written official recognition of a consul or commercial agent, issued by the government to which he is accredited, and authorizing him to exercise his powers in the place to which he is assigned., Official recognition or permission. |
| exequious | adjective | Funereal. |
| exercised | imp. & past participle | of Exercise |
| exerciser | noun | One who exercises. |
| exertment | noun | Exertion. |
| exestuate | verb i. | To be agitated; to boil up; to effervesce. |
| exfoliate | verb i. | To separate and come off in scales or laminae, as pieces of carious bone or of bark., To split into scales, especially to become converted into scales at the result of heat or decomposition., To remove scales, laminae, or splinters from the surface of. |
| exhalable | adjective | Capable of being exhaled or evaporated. |
| exhalence | noun | Exhalation. |
| exhausted | imp. & past participle | of Exhaust |
| exhauster | noun | One who, or that which, exhausts or draws out. |
| exhibited | imp. & past participle | of Exhibit |
| exhibiter | noun | One who exhibits; one who presents a petition, charge or bill. |
| exhibitor | noun | One who exhibits. |
| exhorting | present participle & vb. noun | of Exhort |
| exhumated | adjective | Disinterred. |
| exigenter | noun | An officer in the Court of King’s Bench and Common Pleas whose duty it was make out exigents. The office in now abolished. |
| exilement | noun | Banishment. |
| exilition | noun | A sudden springing or leaping out. |
| exinanite | verb t. | To make empty; to render of no effect; to humble. |
| existence | noun | The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul; immortal existence., Continued or repeated manifestation; occurrence, as of events of any kind; as, the existence of a calamity or of a state of war., That which exists; a being; a creature; an entity; as, living existences. |
| existency | noun | Existence. |
| existible | adjective | Capable of existence. |
| exocoetus | noun | A genus of fishes, including the common flying fishes. See Flying fish. |
| exoculate | verb t. | To deprive of eyes. |
| exogamous | adjective | Relating to exogamy; marrying outside of the limits of one’s own tribe; — opposed to endogenous. |
| exogenous | adjective | Pertaining to, or having the character of, an exogen; — the opposite of endogenous., Growing by addition to the exterior., Growing from previously ossified parts; — opposed to autogenous. |
| exolution | noun | See Exsolution. |
| exonerate | verb t. | To unload; to disburden; to discharge., To relieve, in a moral sense, as of a charge, obligation, or load of blame resting on one; to clear of something that lies upon oppresses one, as an accusation or imputation; as, to exonerate one’s self from blame, or from the charge of avarice., To discharge from duty or obligation, as a ball. |
| exopodite | noun | The external branch of the appendages of Crustacea. |
| exoptable | adjective | Very desirable. |
| exoration | noun | Entreaty. |
| exorcised | imp. & past participle | of Exorcise |
| exorciser | noun | An exorcist. |
| exordiums | plural | of Exordium |
| exorhizae | plural | of Exorhiza |
| exorhizal | adjective | Alt. of Exorhizous |
| exosmosis | noun | See Exosmose. |
| exosmotic | adjective | Pertaining to exosmose. |
| exosstate | verb t. | To deprive of bones; to take out the bones of; to bone. |
| exostosis | noun | Any protuberance of a bone which is not natural; an excrescence or morbid enlargement of a bone., A knot formed upon or in the wood of trees by disease. |
| exoterics | noun pl. | The public lectures or published writings of Aristotle. See Esoterics. |
| exoteries | plural | of Exotery |
| exoticism | noun | The state of being exotic; also, anything foreign, as a word or idiom; an exotic. |
| expanding | present participle & vb. noun | of Expand, That expands, or may be expanded; extending; spreading; enlarging. |
| expansile | adjective | Expansible. |
| expansion | noun | The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement., That which is expanded; expanse; extend surface; as, the expansion of a sheet or of a lake; the expansion was formed of metal., Space through which anything is expanded; also, pure space., Enlargement or extension of business transactions; esp., increase of the circulation of bank notes., The developed result of an indicated operation; as, the expansion of (a + b)2 is a2 + 2ab + b2., The operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston., The enlargement of the ship mathematically from a model or drawing to the full or building size, in the process of construction. |
| expansive | adjective | Having a capacity or tendency to expand or dilate; diffusive; of much expanse; wide-extending; as, the expansive force of heat; the expansive quality of air. |
| expansure | noun | Expanse. |
| expatiate | verb i. | To range at large, or without restraint., To enlarge in discourse or writing; to be copious in argument or discussion; to descant., To expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden. |
| expecting | present participle & vb. noun | of Expect |
| expectant | adjective | Waiting in expectation; looking for, waiting for the efforts of nature, with little active treatment., One who waits in expectation; one held in dependence by hope of receiving some good. |
| expective | adjective | Expectative. |
| expediate | verb t. | To hasten; to expedite. |
| expedient | adjective | Hastening or forward; hence, tending to further or promote a proposed object; fit or proper under the circumstances; conducive to self-interest; desirable; advisable; advantageous; — sometimes contradistinguished from right., Quick; expeditious., That which serves to promote or advance; suitable means to accomplish an end., Means devised in an exigency; shift. |
| expedited | imp. & past participle | of Expedite |
| expelling | present participle & vb. noun | of Expel |
| expending | present participle & vb. noun | of Expend |
| expenitor | noun | A disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers. |
| expensive | adjective | Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family., Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad scene; extravagant; lavish. |
| experient | adjective | Experienced. |
| expetible | adjective | Worthy of being wished for; desirable. |
| expiating | present participle & vb. noun | of Expiate |
| expiation | noun | The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty., The means by which reparation or atonement for crimes or sins is made; an expiatory sacrifice or offering; an atonement., An act by which the treats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen. |
| expiatist | noun | An expiator. |
| expiatory | adjective | Having power, or intended, to make expiation; atoning; as, an expiatory sacrifice. |
| expilator | noun | One who pillages; a plunderer; a pillager. |
| expirable | adjective | That may expire; capable of being brought to an end. |
| expiscate | verb t. | To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out. |
| explained | imp. & past participle | of Explain |
| explainer | noun | One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter. |
| explanate | adjective | Spreading or extending outwardly in a flat form. |
| expletion | noun | Accomplishment; fulfillment. |
| expletive | adjective | Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous., A word, letter, or syllable not necessary to the sense, but inserted to fill a vacancy; an oath. |
| expletory | adjective | Serving to fill up; expletive; superfluous; as, an expletory word. |
| explicate | adjective | Evolved; unfolded., To unfold; to expand; to lay open., To unfold the meaning or sense of; to explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity; to interpret. |
| exploding | present participle & vb. noun | of Explode |
| explodent | noun | An instrument or agent causing explosion; an exploder; also, an explosive., See Explosive, n., 2. |
| explorate | verb t. | To explore. |
| exploring | present participle & vb. noun | of Explore |
| explosion | noun | The act of exploding; detonation; a chemical action which causes the sudden formation of a great volume of expanded gas; as, the explosion of gunpowder, of fire damp,etc., A bursting with violence and loud noise, because of internal pressure; as, the explosion of a gun, a bomb, a steam boiler, etc., A violent outburst of feeling, manifested by excited language, action, etc.; as, an explosion of wrath. |
| explosive | adjective | Driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing explosion; as, the explosive force of gunpowder., An explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, or nitro-glycerine., A sound produced by an explosive impulse of the breath; (Phonetics) one of consonants p, b, t, d, k, g, which are sounded with a sort of explosive power of voice. [See Guide to Pronunciation, Ã 155-7, 184.] |
| exporting | present participle & vb. noun | of Export |
| expositor | noun | One who, or that which, expounds or explains; an expounder; a commentator. |
| exposture | noun | Exposure. |
| expounded | imp. & past participle | of Expound |
| expounder | noun | One who expounds or explains; an interpreter. |
| expressed | imp. & past participle | of Express |
| expressly | adverb | In an express manner; in direct terms; with distinct purpose; particularly; as, a book written expressly for the young. |
| expulsion | noun | The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc., The state of being expelled or driven out. |
| expulsive | adjective | Having the power of driving out or away; serving to expel. |
| expunging | present participle & vb. noun | of Expunge |
| expurgate | verb t. | To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book. |
| exquisite | adjective | Carefully selected or sought out; hence, of distinguishing and surpassing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction; as, exquisite workmanship., Exceeding; extreme; keen; — used in a bad or a good sense; as, exquisite pain or pleasure., Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; nice; fastidious; as, exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment., One who manifests an exquisite attention to external appearance; one who is overnice in dress or ornament; a fop; a dandy. |
| exscinded | imp. & past participle | of Exscind |
| exsertile | adjective | Capable of being thrust out or protruded. |
| exsiccant | adjective | Having the quality of drying up; causing a drying up., An exsiccant medicine. |
| exsiccate | verb t. | To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up. |
| exsputory | adjective | Spit out, or as if spit out. |
| exstrophy | noun | The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface; as, exstrophy of the eyelid or of the bladder. |
| exsuccous | adjective | Destitute of juice; dry; sapless. Latham. |
| exsuction | noun | The act of sucking out. |
| extempore | adverb | Without previous study or meditation; without preparation; on the spur of the moment; suddenly; extemporaneously; as, to write or speak extempore., Done or performed extempore., Speaking or writing done extempore. |
| extending | present participle & vb. noun | of Extend |
| extendant | adjective | Displaced. |
| extensile | adjective | Suited for, or capable of, extension; extensible. |
| extension | verb t. | The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion., That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space., Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension., The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line., The straightening of a limb, in distinction from flexion., A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt. |
| extensive | adjective | Having wide extent; of much superficial extent; expanded; large; broad; wide; comprehensive; as, an extensive farm; an extensive lake; an extensive sphere of operations; extensive benevolence; extensive greatness., Capable of being extended. |
| extensure | noun | Extension. |
| extenuate | verb t. | To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness., To lessen; to palliate; to lessen or weaken the force of; to diminish the conception of, as crime, guilt, faults, ills, accusations, etc.; — opposed to aggravate., To lower or degrade; to detract from., To become thinner; to make excuses; to advance palliating considerations., Thin; slender. |
| extermine | verb t. | To exterminate; to destroy. |
| extersion | noun | The act of wiping or rubbing out. |
| extilling | present participle & vb. noun | of Extill |
| extirpate | verb t. | To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy. |
| extolling | present participle & vb. noun | of Extol |
| extolment | noun | Praise. |
| extorsive | adjective | Serving or tending to extort. |
| extorting | present participle & vb. noun | of Extort |
| extortion | noun | The act of extorting; the act or practice of wresting anything from a person by force, by threats, or by any undue exercise of power; undue exaction; overcharge., The offense committed by an officer who corruptly claims and takes, as his fee, money, or other thing of value, that is not due, or more than is due, or before it is due., That which is extorted or exacted by force. |
| extracted | imp. & past participle | of Extract |
| extractor | noun | One who, or that which, extracts, A forceps or instrument for extracting substances., A device for withdrawing a cartridge or spent cartridge shell from the chamber of the barrel. |
| extradite | verb t. | To deliver up by one government to another, as a fugitive from justice. See Extradition. |
| extraught | past participle | Extracted; descended. |
| extremely | adverb | In an extreme manner or state; in the utmost degree; to the utmost point; exceedingly; as, extremely hot or cold. |
| extremist | noun | A supporter of extreme doctrines or practice; one who holds extreme opinions. |
| extremity | noun | The extreme part; the utmost limit; the farthest or remotest point or part; as, the extremities of a country., One of locomotive appendages of an animal; a limb; a leg or an arm of man., The utmost point; highest degree; most aggravated or intense form., The highest degree of inconvenience, pain, or suffering; greatest need or peril; extreme need; necessity. |
| extricate | verb t. | To free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass; as, to extricate a person from debt, peril, etc., To cause to be emitted or evolved; as, to extricate heat or moisture. |
| extrinsic | adjective | Not contained in or belonging to a body; external; outward; unessential; — opposed to intrinsic., Attached partly to an organ or limb and partly to some other part/ — said of certain groups of muscles. Opposed to intrinsic. |
| extrorsal | adjective | Extrorse. |
| extructor | noun | A builder. |
| extruding | present participle & vb. noun | of Extrude |
| extrusion | noun | The act of thrusting or pushing out; a driving out; expulsion. |
| exuberant | adjective | Characterized by abundance or superabundance; plenteous; rich; overflowing; copious or excessive in production; as, exuberant goodness; an exuberant intellect; exuberant foliage. |
| exuberate | noun | To abound; to be in great abundance. |
| exudation | noun | The act of exuding; sweating; a discharge of humors, moisture, juice, or gum, as through pores or incisions; also, the substance exuded. |
| exultance | noun | Alt. of Exultancy |
| exultancy | noun | Exultation. |
| exuperant | adjective | Surpassing; exceeding; surmounting. |
| exuperate | verb t. | To excel; to surmount. |
| exuviable | adjective | Capable of being cast off in the form of exuviae. |
| exuviated | imp. & past participle | of Exuviate |