(organic chemistry) The unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon (8Z,11Z,14Z)-heptadeca-1,8,11,14-tetraene present in the roots of burdock
asphyxiate
asphyxiate
verb
(intransitive) To be smothered or suffocated.
(transitive) To smother or suffocate someone.
ciphertext
ciphertext
noun
Encoded text, text that is unreadable.
complexest
complexest
adj
superlative form of complex: most complex
complexity
complexity
noun
(countable) That which is and renders complex; intricacy; complication.
(uncountable) The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement.
contraplex
contraplex
adj
(telegraphy) Of message signals, passing in opposite directions at the same time.
coxopodite
coxopodite
noun
Synonym of coxa
dexiotrope
enteropexy
enteropexy
noun
(surgery) fixation of part of the intestine to the abdominal wall
epexegetic
epexegetic
adj
Serving as an epexegesis or as epexegeses.
exasperate
exasperate
adj
(obsolete) exasperated; embittered.
verb
To tax the patience of; irk, frustrate, vex, provoke, annoy; to make angry.
exceptions
exceptions
noun
plural of exception
exceptious
exceptious
adj
(obsolete) Apt to take exception, or to object; captious, complaining.
exceptless
exceptless
adj
(obsolete) Not exceptional; usual.
excerpting
excerpting
noun
The act of taking an excerpt.
verb
present participle of excerpt
excerption
excerption
noun
That which is selected or gleaned; an extract.
The act of excerpting or selecting.
excerptive
excerptive
adj
That excerpts or selects.
exculpated
exculpated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of exculpate
exculpates
exculpates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of exculpate
exemptible
exemptible
adj
That may be exempted.
exemptions
exemptions
noun
plural of exemption
exopoditic
exopoditic
adj
(zoology) Relating to the exopodite.
exotospore
exotospore
noun
The needle-shaped form of the spore of the malarial parasite transmitted by mosquitos.
exotropism
expatiated
expatiated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of expatiate
expatiater
expatiates
expatiates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of expatiate
expatiator
expatiator
noun
One who expatiates.
expatriate
expatriate
adj
Living outside of one's own country.
noun
One who has been banished from one's own country.
One who lives outside one's own country.
verb
(intransitive) To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country.
(intransitive) To withdraw from one’s native country.
(transitive) To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
expectable
expectable
adj
Able to be expected or anticipated; not unusual.
Able to be expected or considered due or required (of someone), reasonable to expect (someone to do, have, etc).
expectably
expectably
adv
In an expectable manner
expectance
expectance
noun
Alternative form of expectancy
expectancy
expectancy
noun
(law) Future interest as to possession or enjoyment
(obsolete) Something expected or awaited.
Expectation or anticipation; the state of expecting something.
The state of being expected.
expectedly
expectedly
adv
In an expected way; as expected; predictably.
expediente
expedients
expedients
noun
plural of expedient
expediment
expediment
noun
Obsolete form of expedient.
expeditate
expeditate
verb
(UK, obsolete, transitive, law, forest law) To deprive of the claws or the balls of the forefeet.
expeditely
expeditely
adv
In an expedite manner; expeditiously.
expediters
expediters
noun
plural of expediter
expediting
expediting
verb
present participle of expedite
expedition
expedition
noun
(collective) The group of people making such excursion.
(military) An important or long journey, for example a march or a voyage
(now rare) The quality of being expedite; speed, quickness.
(obsolete) The act of expediting something; prompt execution.
A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory.
A trip, especially a long one, made by a person or a group of people for a specific purpose
The process or activities of performing expediter tasks.
verb
(intransitive) To take part in a trip or expedition; to travel.
expeditive
expeditive
adj
(obsolete) Performing with speed.
expenditor
experiment
experiment
noun
(obsolete) Experience, practical familiarity with something.
A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried.
verb
(intransitive) To conduct an experiment.
(transitive, obsolete) To experience; to feel; to perceive; to detect.
(transitive, obsolete) To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.
expertised
expertised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of expertise
expertises
expertises
noun
plural of expertise
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of expertise
expertized
expertized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of expertize
expertness
expertness
noun
The state of being expert.
skill or proficiency
expertship
expertship
noun
The role or status of an expert.
expiations
expiations
noun
plural of expiation
expilation
expiration
expiration
noun
(euphemistic) The last emission of breath; death.
A cessation, extinction, ending
Emission of volatile matter; exhalation.
That which is produced by breathing out, as a sound.
The act of expiring.
The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth
expiratory
expiratory
adj
Of or pertaining to expiration
expiscated
expiscated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of expiscate
expiscator
expiscator
noun
(formal, archaic, rare) One who expiscates.
explanator
explanator
noun
(statistics) A variable that predicts or explains the variation in another variable; an explanatory variable.
One who explains.
explanting
explanting
verb
present participle of explant
expletives
expletives
noun
plural of expletive
explicated
explicated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of explicate
explicates
explicates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of explicate
explicator
explicator
noun
One who or that which explicates.
explicitly
explicitly
adv
In an explicit manner.
exploitage
exploitage
noun
exploitation
exploiters
exploiters
noun
plural of exploiter
exploiting
exploiting
verb
present participle of exploit
exploitive
exploitive
adj
Exploitative: taking advantage of someone
exploiture
exploiture
noun
(obsolete) The act of exploiting or accomplishing; achievement.
(obsolete) exploitation
explorator
explorator
noun
(dated) One who explores; one who examines closely; a searcher.
exportable
exportable
adj
Able to be exported.
noun
Something that can be exported.
expositing
expositing
verb
present participle of exposit
exposition
exposition
noun
(authorship) An essay or speech in which any topic is discussed in detail.
(authorship) An opening section in fiction, in which background information about the characters, events or setting is conveyed.
(authorship) The act or process of declaring or describing something through either speech or writing; the portions and aspects of a piece of writing that exist mainly to describe the setting, characters and other non-plot elements.
(music) The opening section of a movement in sonata form; the opening section of a fugue.
(obsolete) The act of expulsion, or being expelled, from a place.
An exhibition, especially of goods, artwork or cultural displays to the public.
The abandonment of an unwanted child.
The action of exposing something to something, such as skin to the sunlight.
expositive
expositive
adj
That explains; expository
expositors
expositors
noun
plural of expositor
expository
expository
adj
Serving to explain, explicate, or elucidate; expositive; of or relating to exposition.
exprobrate
exprobrate
verb
(dated) To reproach or upbraid
expunction
expunction
noun
The act of expunging or erasing.
The condition of being expunged.
expurgated
expurgated
adj
Having had erroneous, obscene, or other objectionable material removed.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of expurgate
expurgates
expurgates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of expurgate
expurgator
expurgator
noun
One who expurgates.
exspuition
exspuition
noun
(obsolete) The act of spitting.
exsuperate
extemporal
extemporal
adj
(archaic) Extemporaneous.
externship
externship
noun
An experiential learning opportunity, usually offered by a school, similar to an internship, but generally shorter in duration.
extipulate
extirpated
extirpated
adj
(of a species) Locally extinct (though alive elsewhere).
verb
simple past tense and past participle of extirpate
extirpateo
extirpates
extirpates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of extirpate
extirpator
extirpator
noun
someone or something that extirpates
extispices
extispices
noun
plural of extispex
extrapolar
extrapolar
adj
From outside of a polar region
extropical
extrospect
extrospect
verb
Synonym of extraspect.
gastropexy
gastropexy
noun
(surgery) The surgical fixation of the stomach to the abdominal wall or diaphragm.
hepatopexy
hepatopexy
noun
(surgery) Surgical anchoring of a displaced liver to the abdominal wall.
hexpartite
hexpartite
adj
hexapartite
hypertoxic
hypertoxic
adj
(rare, toxicology) Excessively toxic.
imperatrix
imperatrix
noun
(historical or archaic) female equivalent of imperator; empress
inexpected
inexpected
adj
Obsolete form of unexpected.
inexpertly
inexpertly
adv
In an inexpert manner.
inexplicit
inexplicit
adj
Not explicit.
inspectrix
inspectrix
noun
A female inspector.
juxtaposed
juxtaposed
adj
Placed side by side often for comparison or contrast.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of juxtapose
juxtaposes
juxtaposes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of juxtapose
leptothrix
omentopexy
omentopexy
noun
(surgery) The operation of suturing the omentum to the abdominal wall, securing anastomotic communication between the portal system and that of the vena cava.
optomeninx
overexpect
overexpect
verb
To expect too much.
overexpert
oxyterpene
palapteryx
paroxytone
paroxytone
adj
(linguistics, of a word) Having the stress or accent on the penultimate syllable.
noun
(linguistics) A paroxytone word.
peptotoxin
peptotoxin
noun
A poisonous ptomaine found in peptones and in putrefying albuminous substances, such as fibrin, casein, brain, liver, and muscle.
permixtion
permixtion
noun
Obsolete form of permission.
permixtive
permixture
peroxidate
perplexity
perplexity
noun
In information theory, a measurement of how well a probability distribution or model predicts a sample.
Something that perplexes.
The state or quality of being perplexed; puzzled or confused.
petrosilex
petrosilex
noun
(mineralogy) felsite
petroxolin
phantoplex
phantoplex
noun
(historical, chiefly attributive) A superposed circuit operated by alternating current over a simplex, duplex or quadruplex circuit operated from direct current sources.
phoenixity
plaintexts
plaintexts
noun
plural of plaintext
pleiotaxis
pleximeter
pleximeter
noun
(medicine) A small, hard, elastic plate, as of ivory, bone, or rubber, placed in contact with the body to receive the blow, in examination by mediate percussion.
pleximetry
pleximetry
noun
The use of the pleximeter.
plexometer
postexilic
postexilic
adj
After an exile, especially the Biblical exile of the Jews.
praetextae
praxeanist
praxiteles
praxiteles
Proper noun
The most renowned of the sculptors of the 4th century BC, and the first to sculpt the nude female form in a life-size statue.
A on the planet measuring 182 in
A main-belt discovered in 1973.
precentrix
precentrix
noun
A female precentor.
preexcited
preexcited
verb
simple past tense and past participle of preexcite
preexecute
preexhaust
preexhibit
preexisted
preexisted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of preexist
preextract
preextract
verb
To extract prior to some other operation
prefixture
premixture
premixture
noun
Something premixed
pretexting
pretexting
verb
present participle of pretext
projectrix
protectrix
protectrix
noun
(archaic) A woman who protects; a protectress.
proteopexy
protoxylem
protoxylem
noun
The first xylem to form in a plant.
pyroxenite
pyroxenite
noun
(geology) A heavy, dark igneous rock consisting mostly of pyroxene minerals with smaller amounts of olivine and hornblende.
reexported
reexported
verb
simple past tense and past participle of reexport
reexporter
separatrix
separatrix
noun
(mathematics) The boundary separating two modes of behavior in a differential equation.
(physics) The line between regions having different magnetic fields.
(typography) The proofreader's mark resembling a slash ⟨ / ⟩ or vertical bar ⟨ | ⟩ placed after a note in the margin to indicate that it should replace the item(s) struckthrough in the running text or to separate it from other margin notes.
(typography, historical) The ⟨L⟩ or pipe ⟨|⟩ mark formerly used to divide integers from decimals.
(typography, obsolete) Synonym of decimal point, which replaced such marks.
A terminator: a line on a partially-illuminated surface separating the lit and shaded regions.
sexpartite
sexpartite
adj
In six parts.
sextipolar
sextipolar
adj
Having six poles.
sextonship
sextonship
noun
The office or position of a sexton.
sextuplets
sextuplets
noun
plural of sextuplet
sextupling
sextupling
verb
present participle of sextuple
simplexity
simplexity
noun
(chemistry) disorder
(mathematics) The number of simplexes into which a structure can be divided
The act of establishing a simple interface for something that is complex.
The tendency of a simple system to generate complex forms