The involuntary repetition or imitation of the observed movements of another.
epipharynx
epipharynx
noun
(anatomy, rare) The nasopharynx.
(zoology) A structure that overlaps the mouth in certain insects.
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.
exemplaric
exemplaric
adj
Relating to or characteristic of an exemplar
exomorphic
exomorphic
adj
Of or pertaining to exomorphism.
exospheric
exospheric
adj
Of or pertaining to an exosphere.
exosporium
exosporium
noun
(botany) The outer layer of a pollen grain or spore; the exine.
exotropism
expatiater
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.
expediters
expediters
noun
plural of expediter
expenditor
experience
experience
noun
(countable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.
(countable) An activity one has performed.
(obsolete, uncountable) Trial; a test or experiment.
(uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.
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.
verb
(transitive) To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions that may alter one or contribute to one's knowledge, opinions, or skills.
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
expertship
expertship
noun
The role or status of an expert.
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
expiringly
expiringly
adv
While expiring or dying.
expiscator
expiscator
noun
(formal, archaic, rare) One who expiscates.
explainers
explainers
noun
plural of explainer
explicator
explicator
noun
One who or that which explicates.
exploiters
exploiters
noun
plural of exploiter
exploiture
exploiture
noun
(obsolete) The act of exploiting or accomplishing; achievement.
(obsolete) exploitation
expositors
expositors
noun
plural of expositor
expository
expository
adj
Serving to explain, explicate, or elucidate; expositive; of or relating to exposition.
expressing
expressing
adj
(biochemistry) That translates or transcribes nucleic acid.
verb
present participle of express
expression
expression
noun
(biology) (manufacturing) The act of pressing or squeezing out.
(biology) The process of translating a gene into a protein.
(mathematics) An arrangement of symbols denoting values, operations performed on them, and grouping symbols.
(mostly preceded by with) emotional involvement or engagement in a text read aloud rendered by the voice of the reciter or the reader
(music) The tone of voice or sound in music.
(programming) A piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value.
A colloquialism or idiom.
A facial appearance usually associated with an emotion.
A particular way of phrasing an idea.
A specific blend of whisky.
The action of expressing thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc.
expressive
expressive
adj
Effectively conveying thought or feeling.
noun
(linguistics) Any word or phrase that expresses (that the speaker, writer, or signer has) a certain attitude toward or information about the referent.
(linguistics, more narrowly) A word or phrase, belonging to a distinct word class or having distinct morphosyntactic properties, with semantic symbolism (for example, an onomatopoeia), variously considered either a synonym, a hypernym or a hyponym of ideophone.
exprimable
externship
externship
noun
An experiential learning opportunity, usually offered by a school, similar to an internship, but generally shorter in duration.
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
extropical
hexaplaric
hexpartite
hexpartite
adj
hexapartite
hyperlexis
hyperoxide
hyperoxide
noun
(inorganic chemistry) Any oxide that has a higher than normal ratio of oxygen to metal
hypertoxic
hypertoxic
adj
(rare, toxicology) Excessively toxic.
hypopraxia
imperatrix
imperatrix
noun
(historical or archaic) female equivalent of imperator; empress
inexpertly
inexpertly
adv
In an inexpert manner.
inexposure
inexposure
noun
A state of not being exposed.
inspectrix
inspectrix
noun
A female inspector.
leptothrix
lexigraphy
lexigraphy
noun
(countable) A system of writing in which there is a one-to-one correspondence between symbols and words.
(uncountable) The representation of words in writing.
misexpress
misexpress
verb
(transitive) To express incorrectly.
orchiopexy
orchiopexy
noun
(surgery) A procedure for fixation of a testis, often to move an undescended testicle into the scrotum and keep it there.
overprolix
overprolix
adj
Excessively prolix.
oxycaproic
oxyproline
oxyproline
noun
(biochemistry) a lactam of glutamic acid
paradoxial
paradoxial
adj
Archaic form of paradoxical.
paradoxism
paradoxism
noun
An avant-garde movement in the arts etc, based on heavy use of contradictions and paradoxes, founded by F. Smarandache in the 1980s.
paradoxist
paradoxist
noun
(dated, derogatory) One who holds incorrect or eccentric beliefs; a bad scientist; a crank.
A participant in the art movement of paradoxism.
parapraxia
parapraxia
noun
parapraxis
parapraxis
parapraxis
noun
(psychology) A mistake, such as a slip of the tongue, that reveals a concealed thought or motive.
paraxially
paraxially
adv
In a paraxial manner.
paroxazine
paroxysmic
paroxysmic
adj
Relating to paroxysms.
periaxonal
periaxonal
adj
(anatomy) Surrounding an axon (of a nerve).
perionyxis
periphraxy
permixable
permixtion
permixtion
noun
Obsolete form of permission.
permixtive
permixture
peroxidase
peroxidase
noun
(biochemistry) Any of a class of enzymes that act on substrates such as hydrogen peroxide and organic hydroperoxides such as lipid peroxides.
peroxidate
peroxiding
peroxiding
verb
present participle of peroxide
peroxidize
peroxidize
verb
(intransitive) To be converted into a peroxide.
(transitive) To convert into a peroxide.
(transitive) To treat (especially hair) with a peroxide.
peroxisome
peroxisome
noun
(cytology) An intracellular organelle found in all eukaryotes (except Archezoa) which is the source of the enzymes that catalyze the production and breakdown hydrogen peroxide, and are responsible for the oxidation of long-chain fatty acids.
peroxyacid
peroxyacid
noun
Synonym of peracid (“acid containing an acidic -OOH group”)
perplexing
perplexing
adj
Bewildering.
Confusing or puzzling.
verb
present participle of perplex
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
philodoxer
philodoxer
noun
One who is interested in opinions or beliefs, rather than facts.
picrotoxic
picrotoxin
picrotoxin
noun
(organic chemistry) A poisonous material, extracted from the seeds of plants of species Anamirta cocculus, used as a stimulant; it is a complex of two alkaloids: picrotoxinin and picrotin.
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.
pluriaxial
pluriaxial
adj
(biology) Having flowers that develop on secondary shoots
poxviruses
poxviruses
noun
plural of poxvirus
praxeanist
praxiology
praxiology
noun
Alternative form of praxeology
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.
preaxially
preaxially
adv
(anatomy) In front of an axis.
precentrix
precentrix
noun
A female precentor.
preexamine
preexamine
verb
(transitive) To examine beforehand.
preexcited
preexcited
verb
simple past tense and past participle of preexcite
preexhibit
preexilian
preexisted
preexisted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of preexist
preexplain
prefixable
prefixable
adj
Capable of being added as a prefix.
prefixally
prefixally
adv
In a prefixal manner.
prefixedly
prefixedly
adv
(rare) With a prefix applied.
prefixions
prefixions
noun
plural of prefixion
prefixture
preflexion
preflexion
adj
(zoology) Before the flexion stage of larval development
prelexical
prelexical
adj
(linguistics) Before the lexical stage.
premaxilla
premaxilla
noun
(anatomy) Either of a pair of bones in front of the maxillary bones in the upper vertebrate jaw
premixture
premixture
noun
Something premixed
pretexting
pretexting
verb
present participle of pretext
projectrix
prolixious
prolixious
adj
(obsolete) dilatory; tedious; superfluous
prolixness
prolixness
noun
prolixity
promaximum
protectrix
protectrix
noun
(archaic) A woman who protects; a protectress.
proxically
proximally
proximally
adv
(medicine) In the proximal direction: reverse of distally
(of causation) Immediately; most directly
pyridoxine
pyridoxine
noun
(biochemistry) A derivative of pyridine, 4,5-bis(hydroxymethyl)-2-methylpyridin-3-ol, found in fish, liver, cereals and yeast, and essential for the metabolism of amino acids and starch.
pyroxenite
pyroxenite
noun
(geology) A heavy, dark igneous rock consisting mostly of pyroxene minerals with smaller amounts of olivine and hornblende.
pyroxenoid
pyroxenoid
noun
(mineralogy) any of a large group of minerals physically resembling pyroxene
pyroxonium
pyroxyline
pyroxyline
noun
Archaic form of pyroxylin.
reexposing
reexposing
verb
present participle of reexpose
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.
spectatrix
spinturnix
superexist
superexist
verb
To appear beyond and outside of something or someplace.
To exist on a transcendent level or plane.
superfixes
superfixes
noun
plural of superfix
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of superfix
superhelix
superhelix
noun
(molecular biology) The shape formed by a helix which in turn is twisted into a larger helix
superoxide
superoxide
noun
(chemistry) A peroxide
(chemistry) The univalent anion, O₂⁻, obtained from molecular oxygen by adding an electron; any compound containing this anion
thixotropy
thixotropy
noun
(medicine) The property of certain gels whereby they become fluids when agitated and return to being solid or semi-solid when allowed to stand.
(physics) The reduction of viscosity with increased shear
toxiphoric
toxophoric
toxophoric
adj
Alternative form of toxicophoric
trichoplax
triplexity
triplexity
noun
The state of being triplex
tropotaxis
tropotaxis
noun
(biology) Movement by organisms with paired receptor cells, triggered when the stimuli at the receptors are equally balanced.
unexpiring
unexpiring
verb
present participle of unexpire
unpermixed
unprefixal
unprefixed
unprefixed
adj
Not prefixed; without a prefix.
uteropexia
xenotropic
xenotropic
adj
(biology) Describing a virus growing in tissue of an organism other than its normal host
xerophagia
xerophagia
noun
The eating of dry food
xerophytic
xerophytic
adj
(botany) Of, pertaining to, or being a xerophyte
(ecology) Having a very dry environment
noun
xerophyte
xiphiiform
xiphiiform
adj
(zoology) Sword-shaped.
xiphisuran
xiphosuran
xiphosuran
adj
(zoology) Of or pertaining to the order Xiphosura.
noun
(zoology) Any member of the order Xiphosura, including horseshoe crabs.
xiphosurus
xiphydriid
xiphydriid
noun
(zoology) Any of the family Xiphydriidae of woodwasps.