Of, relating to, or being an estimate or approximation.
noun
(grammar) A grammatical construct that expresses approximation.
approximatively
approximatively
adv
In an approximative manner.
approximativeness
approximativeness
noun
The state or quality of being approximative.
asphyxiative
aviatrix
aviatrix
noun
(dated) A female aviator.
aviatrixes
biconvexities
biconvexities
noun
plural of biconvexity
biconvexity
biconvexity
noun
The quality of being biconvex.
captivatrix
captivatrix
noun
A female captivator.
chenevixite
chenevixite
noun
(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing arsenic, copper, hydrogen, iron, and oxygen.
coextensive
coextensive
adj
(logic) Having the same extension—the object or set of objects to which a term refers.
Having the same spatial limits or boundaries; sharing the same area.
Occurring over the same period of time; contemporaneous.
coextensively
coextensively
adv
To the same extent.
coextensiveness
coextensiveness
noun
The property of being coextensive.
conservatrix
conservatrix
noun
A female conservator.
contextive
convexities
convexities
noun
plural of convexity
convexity
convexity
noun
(finance) A measure of the curvature in the relationship between the prices and yields of bonds.
A convex line or surface.
The state of being convex.
deoxidative
deoxidative
adj
Relating to deoxidation.
devexity
devexity
noun
A bending downward; declivity.
dextroversion
dextroversion
noun
(medicine) A turning to the right.
elixiviate
evocatrix
evocatrix
noun
(dated) A female evocator.
exacervation
exacervation
noun
(medicine, uncommon) A recurrence of a symptom; paroxysm.
(obsolete) The act of heaping up.
exactive
exactive
adj
exacting
exactiveness
exactiveness
noun
The quality of being exactive.
exaggerative
exaggerative
adj
Marked by exaggeration.
exaggeratively
exaggeratively
adv
In an exaggerative manner.
exaggerativeness
exaggerativeness
noun
The state of being exaggerative.
exaltative
examinative
exasperative
exasperative
adj
(archaic) exasperating; causing annoyance
excavate
excavate
noun
(zoology) Any member of a major grouping of unicellular eukaryotes, of the clade Excavata.
verb
(transitive) To make a hole in (something); to hollow.
(transitive) To remove part of (something) by scooping or digging it out.
(transitive) To uncover (something) by digging.
excavated
excavated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of excavate
excavates
excavates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of excavate
excavating
excavating
verb
present participle of excavate
excavation
excavation
noun
(countable) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.
(countable) A site where an archaeological exploration is being carried out.
(countable) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
(countable) Something uncovered by archaeological excavation.
(countable) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
(uncountable) Archaeological research that unearths buildings, tombs and objects of historical value.
(uncountable) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
excavational
excavational
adj
Relating to excavation.
excavationist
excavationist
noun
One who carries out excavations, especially in archaeology.
excavations
excavations
noun
plural of excavation
excavator
excavator
noun
A curette used to scrape out pathological material.
A person who excavates.
A vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc.
excavatorial
excavatorial
adj
Relating to excavation or to excavators
excavators
excavators
noun
plural of excavator
excavatory
excavatory
adj
Of or pertaining to excavation.
exceptive
exceptive
adj
exceptional, having an exception
exceptively
exceptiveness
excerptive
excerptive
adj
That excerpts or selects.
excitative
excitative
adj
That causes excitation
excitive
excitive
adj
(archaic) excited
Serving or tending to excite; excitative.
noun
(archaic) That which excites; an excitant.
excitovascular
exclamative
exclamative
adj
In the form of an exclamation; exclamatory.
exclamatively
exclamatively
adv
In an exclamative manner.
exclusivist
exclusivist
noun
An advocate of exclusivism.
exclusivistic
exclusivistic
adj
Exhibiting exclusivism.
exclusivists
exclusivists
noun
plural of exclusivist
exclusivity
exclusivity
noun
The quality of being exclusive.
excogitative
excogitative
adj
Relating to excogitation.
excommunicative
excommunicative
adj
Relating to excommunication.
excrementive
excrementive
adj
(archaic) Serving to excrete; connected with excretion or excrement.
excretive
excretive
adj
Having the power of excreting, or promoting excretion.
exculpative
exculpative
adj
Alternative form of exculpatory
excurvate
excurvated
excurvation
excurvature
excusative
execrative
execrative
adj
Cursing; imprecatory; vilifying.
noun
A word used for cursing; an oath.
execratively
execratively
adv
In an execrative manner.
executive
executive
adj
Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect.
Exclusive.
Of, pertaining to, or having responsibility for the day-to-day running of an organisation, business, country, etc.
noun
(computing) A process that coordinates and governs the action of other processes or threads; supervisor.
A chief officer or administrator, especially one who can make significant decisions on their own authority.
The branch of government that is responsible for enforcing laws and judicial decisions, and for the day-to-day administration of the state.
executively
executively
adv
In the way of executing or performing.
executiveness
executiveness
noun
The quality of being executive.
executives
executives
noun
plural of executive
executiveship
executiveship
noun
The state or business of an executive.
exemplificative
exemplificative
adj
Serving as an example; illustrative.
exemptive
exertive
exertive
adj
Having power or a tendency to exert; using exertion.
exfoliative
exfoliative
adj
That causes, or is accompanied by, exfoliation
exhaustive
exhaustive
adj
(now rare) Causing exhaustion; very tiring
Fully comprehensive
Including every possible element
exhaustively
exhaustively
adv
In an exhaustive manner.
exhaustiveness
exhaustiveness
noun
The state of being exhaustive.
exhaustivity
exhaustivity
noun
The condition of being exhaustive
exhibitive
exhibitive
adj
Serving for exhibition; representative.
exhibitively
exhibitively
adv
In an exhibitive manner.
exhilarative
exhilarative
adj
exhilarating
exhortative
exhortative
adj
(comparable) Appearing to exhort; in an urging manner.
(grammar, not comparable) Inflected hortative verb form that a speaker uses to avidly encourage a listener.
noun
The exhortative mood.
exhortatively
exhortatively
adv
In an exhortative way.
exonerative
exonerative
adj
Freeing from a burden or obligation; tending to exonerate.
expansivity
expansivity
noun
(mathematics) The formal notion of points moving away from one another under the action of an iterated function.
expansiveness
expatiative
expatiative
adj
expatiatory; expansive; diffusive
expectative
expectative
adj
(canon law) Of or pertaining to the reversion of a benefice.
Of or pertaining to an expectation.
noun
(canon law) The anticipatory grant of an ecclesiastical benefice, not vacant at the moment but which will become so, regularly, on the death of its present incumbent.
expective
expective
adj
(linguistics) A verb form in some native American languages that implies expectation of an action, as opposed to the report of an action or a general statement about the type of action.
expectative
expectorative
expectorative
adj
Alternative form of expectorant
expeditive
expeditive
adj
(obsolete) Performing with speed.
experimentative
experimentative
adj
experimental; of the nature of experiment
expiative
expiative
adj
That serves to expiate.
explanative
explanative
adj
That serves to explain; explanatory
explanatively
explanatively
adv
In an explanative manner.
expletive
expletive
adj
Marked by expletives (phrase-fillers).
Serving to fill up, merely for effect, otherwise redundant.
noun
(linguistics) A word that adds to the strength of a phrase without affecting its meaning.
(linguistics) A word without meaning added to fill a syntactic position.
A profane, vulgar term, notably a curse or obscene oath.
expletively
expletively
adv
In an expletive way.
expletiveness
expletiveness
noun
The quality of being expletive.
expletives
expletives
noun
plural of expletive
explicative
explicative
Adjective
Explanatory; serving to explain logically or in detail.
explicatively
explicatively
adv
In an explicative way.
exploitative
exploitative
adj
(ecology, of competition) Wherein one organism reduces a resource to the point of affecting other organisms.
(more generally) Of or relating to exploitation.
In the nature of exploitation; acting to exploit someone or something
exploitatively
exploitatively
adv
In an exploitative manner.
exploitive
exploitive
adj
Exploitative: taking advantage of someone
explorative
explorative
adj
exploratory
exploratively
exploratively
adv
In an explorative way or fashion.
explorativeness
explorativeness
noun
The condition of being explorative
expositive
expositive
adj
That explains; expository
expositively
expostulative
expostulative
adj
Synonym of expostulatory
expostulatively
expostulatively
adv
In an expostulative manner.
expressivity
expressivity
noun
(genetics) The degree to which a gene affects or can affect an organism.
(uncountable) The quality of being expressive.
expurgative
exquisitive
exquisitive
adj
(obsolete) Eager to discover or learn; curious.
exquisitively
exquisitively
adv
In an exquisitive manner.
exquisitiveness
exquisitiveness
noun
The state or quality of being exquisitive.
exsiccative
exsiccative
adj
Tending to make dry; having the power of drying.
noun
A substance that causes drying.
extensive
extensive
adj
(figurative) Considerable in amount.
(physics) Having a combined system entropy that equals the sum of the entropies of the independent systems.
Having a great extent; covering a large area; vast.
Serving to extend or lengthen; characterized by extension.
extensively
extensively
adv
In an extensive manner, widely.
extensiveness
extensiveness
noun
The degree or property of being extensive.
extensivity
extensivity
noun
(countable) The extent to which something is extensive
(uncountable) The condition of being extensive
extenuative
extenuative
adj
Tending to extenuate.
exterminative
exterminative
adj
Serving to exterminate; exterminatory.
exteroceptive
exteroceptive
adj
(anatomy) That responds to external stimuli
extersive
extinctive
extinctive
adj
Tending or serving to extinguish, or make extinct.
extirpative
extirpative
adj
Of, relating to, or pertaining to an extirpation.
extorsive
extorsive
adj
Serving or tending to extort.
extorsively
extorsively
adv
In an extorsive manner; extortionately.
extortive
extortive
adj
Involving, constituting or accomplished by extortion.
extracivic
extracivic
adj
Outside of a city or citizenship.
extracivically
extractive
extractive
adj
Able to be extracted
That serves to extract something
That withdraws natural resources by extraction
noun
Something that may be extracted
The substance left behind after something has been extracted
extractively
extractively
adv
By a extractive process.
extractives
extractives
noun
plural of extractive
extragovernmental
extraovate
extraovular
extraovular
adj
Outside the egg
extrapelvic
extrapelvic
adj
(anatomy) External to the pelvis
extrapolative
extrapolative
adj
That serves to extrapolate
extraprovincial
extraprovincial
adj
Outside a province.
extrapunitive
extrapunitive
adj
(psychology) Tending to punish others.
extratensive
extratensive
adj
(psychology) Synonym of extroverted (“especially as shown by responses to the Rorschach test”)
extravagance
extravagance
noun
Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.
Prodigality, as of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands.
extravagances
extravagances
noun
plural of extravagance
extravagancies
extravagancies
noun
plural of extravagancy
extravagancy
extravagancy
noun
(archaic, 17-19th centuries) A thing that is extravagant.
(archaic, 17-19th centuries) The characteristic of being extravagant.
extravagant
extravagant
adj
Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.