(geometry) A curve, polygon or other figure that crosses or intersects itself.
(mathematics, algebra) Whose coefficients are complex numbers; defined over the field of complex numbers.
(mathematics, mathematical analysis, of a function) Whose range is a subset of the complex numbers.
(mathematics, of a number) Having the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is (by definition) the imaginary square root of −1.
Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.
Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.
noun
(chemistry) A structure consisting of a central atom or molecule weakly connected to surrounding atoms or molecules, as for example coordination complexes in inorganic chemistry and protein complexes in biochemistry.
(informal, by extension) A vehement, often excessive psychological dislike or fear of a particular thing.
(linguistics) A multimorphemic word, one with several parts, one with affixes.
(mathematics) A complex number.
(psychoanalysis) An abnormal mental condition caused by repressed emotions.
(taxonomy) A group of closely related species, often distinguished only with difficulty by traditional morphological methods.
A cluster of wildfires burning in the same vicinity.
A collection of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base.
A network of interconnected systems.
A problem.
An assemblage of related things; a collection.
An organized cluster of thunderstorms.
verb
(chemistry, intransitive) To form a complex with another substance
(transitive) To complicate.
diaplex
dupleix
duplexs
epaxial
epaxial
adj
(anatomy) Located above and behind an axis (typically a midline)
noun
Such a muscle
epitaxy
epitaxy
noun
(crystallography) An overgrowth in which the overlying crystal is either induced into the same orientation, or otherwise grows under the influence of the underlying crystal into the same orientation.
epoxide
epoxide
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of a class of organic compound, cyclic ethers, having a three-membered ring; they are prepared by the selective oxidation of alkenes or by ring-closure of halohydrins; used to make plastics.
(organic chemistry) Any similar compound in which an ether linkage has been made across a larger ring.
epoxied
epoxied
verb
simple past tense and past participle of epoxy
epoxies
epoxies
noun
plural of epoxy
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of epoxy
epoxyed
example
example
noun
A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model.
A person punished as a warning to others.
An instance (as a problem to be solved) serving to illustrate the rule or precept or to act as an exercise in the application of the rule.
Something that is representative of all such things in a group.
Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example).
Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule.
verb
To be illustrated or exemplified (by).
exasper
excepts
excepts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of except
excerpt
excerpt
noun
A clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or a literary composition.
verb
(transitive) To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.
exciple
exciple
noun
(lichenology & mycology) The outer part of an apothecium of those ascomycete fungi which have that sort of fructification. Most lichens come into that category.
exempla
exempla
noun
plural of exemplum
exempli
exempts
exempts
noun
plural of exempt
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of exempt
exocarp
exocarp
noun
(biology) The outermost layer of the pericarp of fruits; the skin or epicarp
expands
expands
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of expand
expanse
expanse
noun
A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky, or land.
An amount of spread or stretch.
expects
expects
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of expect
expeded
expeded
verb
simple past tense and past participle of expede
expends
expends
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of expend
expense
expense
noun
(obsolete) Loss.
A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds.
The elimination or consumption of something, sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to the thing eliminated.
verb
(transitive) To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works.
experts
experts
noun
plural of expert
expiate
expiate
verb
(transitive) To make amends or pay the penalty for.
(transitive) To purify with sacred rites.
(transitive) To wind up, bring to an end.
(transitive, intransitive) To atone or make reparation for.
(transitive, obsolete) To relieve or cleanse of guilt.
expired
expired
adj
dead
that has been breathed out
that is no longer valid
verb
simple past tense and past participle of expire
expiree
expiree
noun
(Australia, historical) In penal colonies of early Australia, a convict whose sentence had been served.
expirer
expirer
noun
One who or that which expires.
expires
expires
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of expire
explain
explain
verb
(intransitive) To make something plain or intelligible.
(obsolete) To make flat, smooth out.
(obsolete) To unfold or make visible.
To give a valid excuse for past behavior.
To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.
explait
explant
explant
noun
(biology) Any portion taken from a plant or an animal that will be used to initiate a culture. It can be a portion of the shoot, or of the leaves, or even just some cells.
verb
(medicine) To remove something, such as a medical device, that has been implanted.
explees
explete
explida
explode
explode
verb
(computing, programming, PHP) To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators.
(figurative, intransitive) To increase suddenly.
(figuratively, intransitive) To make a violent or emotional outburst.
(intransitive) To fly apart with sudden violent force; to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
(intransitive, board gaming) Of a die, to produce the highest face result and consequently reroll.
(transitive) To create an exploded view of.
(transitive) To destroy violently or abruptly.
(transitive) To destroy with an explosion.
(transitive) To open all doors and hatches on an automobile.
(transitive, archaic) To disprove or debunk.
(transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously imploded.
exploit
exploit
noun
(by extension, Internet, video games) An action or technique that takes advantage of the conditions of a video game to gain an advantage, or to disadvantage others.
(computing) A program or technique that exploits a vulnerability in other software.
A heroic or extraordinary deed.
An achievement.
verb
(transitive) To forcibly deprive (someone) of something to which she or he has a natural right for one's own benefit.
(transitive) To use for one’s own advantage.
explore
explore
noun
(colloquial) An exploration; a tour of a place to see what it is like.
verb
(intransitive) To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.
(intransitive) To wander without any particular aim or purpose.
(intransitive, medicine) To examine diagnostically.
(intransitive, obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.
(transitive) To (seek) experience first hand.
(transitive) To examine or investigate something systematically.
(transitive) To seek sexual variety, to sow one's wild oats.
(transitive) To travel somewhere in search of discovery.
exports
exports
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of export
exposal
exposal
noun
(archaic) exposure
exposed
exposed
adj
(usually followed by to) Vulnerable, susceptible.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of expose
exposer
exposer
noun
One who exposes.
exposes
exposes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of expose
exposit
exposit
verb
to expound
expound
expound
verb
(intransitive) To make a statement, especially at length.
(transitive) To set out the meaning of; to explain or discuss at length
expreme
express
express
adj
(comparable) Specific or precise; directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied.
(not comparable) Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
(postpositive, retail) Providing a more limited but presumably faster service than a full or complete dealer of the same kind or type.
Truly depicted; exactly resembling.
adv
Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
noun
(obsolete) A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration.
(obsolete) A specific statement or instruction.
(obsolete) The action of conveying some idea using words or actions; communication, expression.
A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier.
A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly.
A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another.
An express office.
An express rifle.
That which is sent by an express messenger or message.
verb
(biochemistry) To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA.
(biochemistry) To translate messenger RNA into protein.
(transitive) To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.
(transitive) To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk).
expulse
expunge
expunge
verb
(transitive) To eliminate completely; to annihilate.
(transitive) To erase or strike out.
(transitive, computing) To delete permanently (e-mail etc.) that was previously marked for deletion but still stored.
expurge
expurge
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To purge away.
exsculp
extypal
hapaxes
hapaxes
noun
plural of hapax
hexaped
hexaped
noun
A hexapod.
hexapla
hexapla
noun
A text presented in six parallel versions, especially (historical) the version of the Old Testament presented in such a fashion by Origen.
hexapod
hexapod
adj
Having six feet, six-footed; belonging to the subphylum Hexapoda; hexapodous.
noun
(dated) An insect.
An arthropod with six feet; a member of subphylum Hexapoda.
Any organism, being or robot with six legs.
kinepox
kinepox
noun
Alternative form of kine-pox
pegoxyl
peixere
pemphix
perdrix
peroxid
peroxid
noun
Archaic form of peroxide.
peroxyl
peroxyl
noun
(organic chemistry) Any univalent radical, R-O-O-, derived from a peroxide
perplex
perplex
adj
(obsolete) intricate; difficult
noun
(obsolete) A difficulty.
verb
(transitive) To cause to feel baffled; to puzzle.
(transitive) To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated.
(transitive, obsolete) To plague; to vex; to torment.
perspex
perspex
noun
(Britain, New Zealand) Any tough, transparent plastic that is used instead of glass for windows.
phenoxy
phenoxy
noun
(organic chemistry, especially in combination) The univalent radical C₆H₅O- derived from phenol by loss of a hydrogen atom
phloxes
phloxes
noun
plural of phlox
phoenix
phoenix
noun
(Chinese mythology) A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies; a fenghuang.
(figuratively) Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed.
(historical) A Greek silver coin used briefly from 1828 to 1832, divided into 100 lepta.
(mythology) A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.
(obsolete) A marvelous person or thing.
verb
(Australia) To transfer assets from one company to another to dodge liability
pickaxe
pickaxe
noun
A heavy iron tool with a wooden handle; one end of the head is pointed, the other has a chisel edge.
verb
To use a pickaxe.
pinxter
plexors
plexors
noun
plural of plexor
plexure
plexure
noun
The act or process of weaving together, or interweaving; that which is woven together.
poleaxe
poleaxe
noun
(historical) A long-handled battle axe, being a combination of ax, hammer and pike.
An ax having both a blade and a hammer face; used to slaughter cattle.
verb
(transitive) To fell someone with, or as if with, a poleaxe.
(transitive, figurative) To astonish; to shock or surprise utterly.
(transitive, figurative) To stymie, thwart, cripple, paralyze.
praecox
praecox
noun
dementia praecox
praxean
pretext
pretext
noun
A false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason; a pretense.
verb
To employ a pretext, which involves using a false or contrived purpose for soliciting the gain of something else.
prexies
prexies
noun
plural of prexie
plural of prexy
proplex
protext
proxeny
proxeny
noun
(historical) In Ancient Greece, an arrangement whereby a citizen (chosen by the city) hosted foreign ambassadors at his own expense, in return for honorary titles from the state.
proxied
proxied
verb
simple past tense and past participle of proxy
proxies
proxies
noun
plural of proxy
proxime
proxime
adj
(obsolete) next; immediately preceding or following
puiseux
pyrexia
pyrexia
noun
(medicine) Fever.
(medicine) Trench fever.
pyrexic
pyrexic
adj
(rare) feverish, pyretic
pyxides
pyxides
noun
plural of pyxis
reexpel
reexpel
verb
(transitive) To expel again.
sexiped
sexpots
sexpots
noun
plural of sexpot
simplex
simplex
adj
(telecommunications) Unidirectional.
Single, simple; not complex.
noun
(geometry, algebraic topology) An analogue in a space of arbitrary dimensionality of the triangle or tetrahedron; the convex hull of n+1 linearly independent points in n-dimensional space; in other words, the triangle, tetrahedron etc., generalized to an arbitrary number of dimensions.
(linguistics) A monomorphemic word, one without affixes.
spandex
spandex
noun
A synthetic fibre known for its exceptional elasticity.
Clothing made from such material.
triplex
triplex
adj
(architecture) Having three floors
(architecture) Having three units, divisions, suites, apartments
noun
(juggling) A throwing motion where three balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.