(hydrology) The rise in water level (above normal) on the upstream side of a bridge or obstruction caused when the effective flow area at the obstruction is less than the natural width of the stream immediately upstream of the obstruction.
An upward rush of fluid.
auspex
auxier
auxins
auxins
noun
plural of auxin
axunge
axunge
noun
(medicine) Lard prepared for medical use.
Fat or grease, especially of a pig or goose.
bijoux
bijoux
noun
plural of bijou
boxful
boxful
noun
as much as a box will hold
boyaux
boyaux
noun
plural of boyau
brieux
butoxy
butoxy
noun
(organic chemistry, especially in combination) The ether radical derived from butanol
buxine
buxine
noun
(organic chemistry) An alkaloid obtained from the Buxus sempervirens, or common box tree, identical with bebeerine.
buxton
caudex
caudex
noun
(botany) An enlargement of the stem, branch or root of a woody plant, usually serving to store water.
couxia
couxio
cruxes
cunaxa
deflux
deflux
noun
(obsolete) downward flow
deluxe
deluxe
adj
Very fine in quality or luxurious.
druxey
druxey
adj
Alternative form of druxy
dupaix
duplex
duplex
adj
(architecture) Having two floors
(architecture) Having two units, divisions, suites, apartments
(soil science) Having horizons with contrasting textures.
(telecommunications) Bidirectional (in two directions).
noun
(US) A dwelling unit with two floors
(US, Canada) A house made up of two dwelling units.
(biochemistry) A double-stranded polynucleotide.
(geology) A system of multiple thrust faults bounded above and below by a roof thrust and floor thrust.
(juggling) A throwing motion where two balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
(philately) A cancellation combining a numerical cancellation with a second mark showing time, date, and place of posting.
verb
(juggling) To make a series of duplex throws.
To make duplex.
To make into a duplex.
efflux
efflux
noun
That which has flowed out.
verb
(intransitive) To run out; to flow forth.
(intransitive, obsolete) To pass away.
eutaxy
eutaxy
noun
Good or established order or arrangement.
euxine
euxine
Proper noun
Black Sea
evreux
exacum
exaudi
excuse
excuse
noun
(countable, uncountable) Explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault.
(law) A defense to a criminal or civil charge wherein the accused party admits to doing acts for which legal consequences would normally be appropriate, but asserts that special circumstances relieve that party of culpability for having done those acts.
(often with preceding negative adjective, especially sorry, poor, or lame) An example of something that is substandard or of inferior quality.
verb
(transitive) To allow to leave, or release from any obligation.
(transitive) To forgive; to pardon.
(transitive) To provide an excuse for; to explain, with the aim of alleviating guilt or negative judgement.
To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for.
excuss
excuss
verb
(law) To proceed against a principal debtor where there are either joint debtors or debtors and sureties.
(obsolete) To shake off.
(obsolete, transitive) To decipher.
(obsolete, transitive) To examine (a document).
(transitive, law) To seize and detain by law.
exequy
exequy
noun
(obsolete, now only in plural) Funeral rites.
exeunt
exeunt
noun
A stage direction for more than one actor to leave the stage.
An act of one or more actors leaving the stage.
Coordinate term: (singular form) exeat
verb
(archaic) They leave the stage (a stage direction to two or more actors, the plural counterpart of exit).
exhume
exhume
verb
(transitive) To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.
(transitive, figurative) To uncover; to bring to light.
The archeologist exhumed artifacts from the ground with a shovel.
exitus
exitus
adj
(medicine) dead
noun
(medicine) death
exodus
exodus
noun
A sudden departure of a large number of people.
verb
To depart from a place in a large group.
expugn
expugn
verb
(obsolete) To take by storm; capture.
extund
exturb
exuded
exuded
verb
simple past tense and past participle of exude
exudes
exudes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of exude
exults
exults
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of exult
exurbs
exurbs
noun
plural of exurb
exurge
exuvia
exuvia
noun
(biology) The remains of the exoskeleton after any of the Ecdysozoa, such as Arthropoda, has sloughed, discarding its old integument and developing the new one.
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flux
frutex
frutex
noun
(botany) A plant with a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree; a shrub.
hallux
hallux
noun
(anatomy) The big toe.
haxtun
hexsub
huxham
huxley
huxley
Proper noun
from a place in Cheshire.
Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist.
Aldous Leonard Huxley, English writer.
huxter
huxter
noun
Dated form of huckster.
influx
influx
noun
(obsolete) influence; power.
A flow inward or into something; a coming in.
That which flows or comes in.
kluxer
ledoux
lummox
lummox
noun
(informal) A clumsy, stupid person; an awkward bungler.
luxate
luxate
adj
Dislocated.
verb
To dislocate.
luxive
luxive
adj
(obsolete) Given to luxury; voluptuous.
luxora
luxury
luxury
adj
(automotive) Pertaining to the top-end market segment for mass production mass market vehicles, above the premium market segment.
not essential but desirable and enjoyable and indulgent.
very expensive
noun
Something desirable but expensive.
Something that is pleasant but not necessary in life.
Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings.
meraux
mixups
mixups
noun
plural of mixup
muruxi
muskox
muskox
noun
Alternative spelling of musk ox
myoxus
outbox
outbox
noun
(computing) An electronic folder serving the same purpose, for electronic mail.
A box holding papers to be transmitted to others, eg, by mail.
verb
(boxing, transitive) To box better than.
outfox
outfox
verb
(transitive) to beat in a competition of wits
oxylus
paluxy
plexus
plexus
noun
(anatomy) A network of anastomosing or interwoven nerves, blood vessels, or lymphatic vessels.
(mathematics) The system of equations required for the complete expression of the relations which exist between a set of quantities.
An interwoven combination of parts or elements in a structure or system.
pollux
pollux
noun
(mineralogy) A variety of petalite always found with castor.
proulx
puxico
reflux
reflux
noun
(chemistry) A technique, using a reflux condenser, allowing one to boil the contents of a vessel over an extended period.
(pathology) The leaking of stomach acid up into the oesophagus.
The backwards flow of any fluid.
verb
To boil a liquid in a vessel having a reflux condenser
To flow back or return.
saxaul
saxaul
noun
Any of two species of the amaranth genus Haloxylon: Haloxylon ammodendron (syn. Haloxylon aphyllum; black saxaul) and Haloxylon persicum (white saxaul), found in sandy habitats from Egypt to Mongolia and China.
sextur
sextus
sexual
sexual
adj
(LGBT, of a person, rare) Experiencing sexual attraction; not asexual.
(biology) Capable of sexual reproduction; sexed, sexuate.
(obsolete) Pertaining to the female sex.
Arising from the fact of being male or female; pertaining to sex or gender, or to the social relations between the sexes.
Characterised by sexual feelings or behaviour; possessing sexuality.
Pertaining to sexual intercourse or other intimate physical contact.
Pertaining to sexuality as a cultural phenomenon; relating to sexual behaviour or conduct.
noun
(LGBT) A person who experiences sexual attraction, a person who has interest in or desire for sex (especially as contrasted with an asexual).
(biology) A species which reproduces by sexual rather than asexual reproduction, or a member of such a species.
sixgun
sixgun
noun
Alternative form of six-gun
sixtus
stupex
subfix
subfix
noun
One or more letters or sounds added at the bottom of a word to modify its meaning, found in Maya script.
verb
To add one or more letters or sounds to the bottom of a word to change its meaning.
subnex
suffix
suffix
noun
(computing) A final segment of a string of characters.
(grammar, linguistic morphology) A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.
(mathematics) A subscript.
verb
(transitive) To append (something) to the end of something else.
suplex
suplex
noun
(professional wrestling) A wrestling move in which the wrestler picks up their opponent off the ground (or mat) and then, using a large portion of their own body weight, drives the opponent down on the mat by throwing them over their center of gravity, usually arching their back.
verb
(transitive, professional wrestling) To subject to this manoeuvre.
surtax
surtax
noun
(law) An additional or extra tax.
verb
(transitive) To impose a surtax upon.
sussex
sussex
Proper noun
A former county in the south-east of England (now divided into East- and West-), then bordered by Surrey, Kent, Hampshire and the English Channel.
A town in New Brunswick
A borough in New Jersey
A in Virginia
A village in Wisconsin
textus
toxeus
trusix
turnix
tutrix
tutrix
noun
(Quebec law) a female tutor (person other than a parent having charge of a child or other person requiring protection)
(obsolete) a female tutor
tuxedo
tuxedo
noun
A typically black formal jacket worn by men.
Ellipsis of tuxedo cat.
The entire suit complementing and including this jacket.
tuxtla
unaxed
unaxed
adj
Not axed or felled.
unfixt
unfixt
adj
(archaic, poetic) unfixed
unfoxy
unfoxy
adj
Not foxy.
unisex
unisex
adj
(dated) Of or pertaining to only one sex or gender; unisexual.
Not distinguished on the basis of sex or gender; suitable for any sex or gender.
noun
The state of not being distinguished on the basis of sex or gender; the state of being suitable for any sex or gender.
unmixt
unmixt
adj
Archaic spelling of unmixed.
unsexy
unsexy
adj
(of research etc) Perceived as not having wide contemporary interest; plodding.
Not sexy.
unvext
unvext
adj
Obsolete form of unvexed.
uroxin
uroxin
noun
alloxantin
urtext
urtext
noun
(music, linguistics, anthropology) The original version of a piece of music or text, as created by the composer or writer.
A primitive, seminal, or prototypical example of an artistic genre or the basis of an ideological movement.
uxoris
vexful
vexful
adj
vexatious
wibaux
xanadu
xarque
xarque
noun
Archaic form of jerky.
xenium
xenium
noun
(historical, Ancient Greece, Rome) A gift given to guests or foreign ambassadors, often of food.
A gift or offering.
xinhua
xuthus
xuthus
Proper noun
A son of Hellen and Orseis, and founder (through his sons) of the Achaean and Ionian nations.
xystum
xystus
xystus
noun
(historical, architecture, in Ancient Greece) A long and open portico within the gymnasium.