Loading earlier words…
Exonerator

One who exonerates or frees from obligation.

Exophthalmia

The protrusion of the eyeball so that the eyelids will not cover it, in consequence of disease.

Exophthalmic

Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, exophthalmia.

Exopodite

The external branch of the appendages of Crustacea.

Exoptile

A name given by Lestiboudois to dicotyledons; -- so called because the plumule is naked.

Exorable

Capable of being moved by entreaty; pitiful; tender.

Exorate

To persuade, or to gain, by entreaty.

Exorbitancy Exorbitance

A going out of or beyond the usual or due limit; hence, enormity; extravagance; gross deviation from rule, right, or propriety; as, the exorbitances of the tongue or of deportment; exorbitance of demands.

Exorbitant

Departing from an orbit or usual track; hence, deviating from the usual or due course; going beyond the appointed rules or established limits of right or propriety; excessive; extravagant; enormous; inordinate; as, exorbitant appetites and passions; exorbitant charges, demands, or claims.

Exorbitantly

In an exorbitant, excessive, or irregular manner; enormously.

Exorcise

To cast out, as a devil, evil spirits, etc., by conjuration or summoning by a holy name, or by certain ceremonies; to expel (a demon) or to conjure (a demon) to depart out of a person possessed by one.

Exorcism

The act of exorcising; the driving out of evil spirits from persons or places by conjuration; also, the form of conjuration used.

Exorcist

One who expels evil spirits by conjuration or exorcism.

Exordial

Pertaining to the exordium of a discourse: introductory.

Exordium

A beginning; an introduction; especially, the introductory part of a discourse or written composition, which prepares the audience for the main subject; the opening part of an oration.

Exorhiza

A plant Whose radicle is not inclosed or sheathed by the cotyledons or plumule.

Exorhizous Exorhizal

Having a radicle which is not inclosed by the cotyledons or plumule; of or relating to an exorhiza.

Exosculate

To kiss; especially, to kiss repeatedly or fondly.

Exoskeletal

Pertaining to the exoskeleton; as exoskeletal muscles.

Exoskeleton

The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton.

Exosmose

The passage of gases, vapors, or liquids through membranes or porous media from within outward, in the phenomena of osmose; -- opposed to endosmose. See Osmose.

Exospore

The extreme outer wall of a spore; the epispore.

Exossate

To deprive of bones; to take out the bones of; to bone.

Exostome

The small aperture or foremen in the outer coat of the ovule of a plant.

Exostosis

Any protuberance of a bone which is not natural; an excrescence or morbid enlargement of a bone.

Exoterical Exoteric

External; public; suitable to be imparted to the public; hence, capable of being readily or fully comprehended; -- opposed to esoteric, or secret.

Exoterics

The public lectures or published writings of Aristotle. See Esoterics.

Exotery

That which is obvious, public, or common.

Exotheca

The tissue which fills the interspaces between the cost/ of many madreporarian corals, usually consisting of small transverse or oblique septa.

Exothermic

Characterized by, or formed with, evolution of heat; as, an exothermic reaction; -- opposed to endothermic.

Exotic

Anything of foreign origin; something not of native growth, as a plant, a word, a custom.

Exoticism

The state of being exotic; also, anything foreign, as a word or idiom; an exotic.

Expand

To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy.

expanded

increased in extent or size or bulk or scope. Opposite of contracted.

Expander

Anything which causes expansion esp. (Mech.) a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.

Expanding

That expands, or may be expanded; extending; spreading; enlarging.

Expansibility

The capacity of being expanded; as, the expansibility of air.

Expansible

Capable of being expanded or spread out widely.

Expansion

The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement.

Expansive

Having a capacity or tendency to expand or dilate; diffusive; of much expanse; wide-extending; as, the expansive force of heat; the expansive quality of air.

expansiveness

a quality characterized by magnificence of scale; as, the expansiveness of their extravagant lifestyle was soon curtailed.

expansivity

the fractional change in length or area or volume per unit change in temperature at a given constant pressure.

Expatiate

To expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden.

Expatriate

To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.

Expatriation

The act of banishing, or the state of banishment; especially, the forsaking of one's own country with a renunciation of allegiance.

Expectant

One who waits in expectation; one held in dependence by hope of receiving some good.

Expectation

The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.

Expectative

Something in expectation; esp., an expectative grace.

Expectorant

Tending to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, etc., from the lungs or throat. An expectorant medicine.

Expectorate

To discharge matter from the lungs or throat by hawking and spitting; to spit.

Expectoration

The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting.

Expediency Expedience

The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to self-interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; -- sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude or principle.

Expedient

That which serves to promote or advance; suitable means to accomplish an end.

Expediential

Governed by expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential policy.

Expediently

In an expedient manner; fitly; suitably; conveniently.

Expeditate

To deprive of the claws or the balls of the fore feet; as, to expeditate a dog that he may not chase deer. See also declaw.

Expedite

To relieve of impediments; to facilitate; to accelerate the process or progress of; to hasten; to quicken; as, to expedite the growth of plants.

Expedition

The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.

Expeditionary

Of or pertaining to an expedition; as, an expeditionary force.

Expeditious

Possessed of, or characterized by, expedition, or efficiency and rapidity in action; performed with, or acting with, expedition; quick; having celerity; speedily; as, an expeditious march or messenger.

Expel

To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as, to expel air from a bellows.

Expellable

Capable of being expelled or driven out.

expelling

any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body.

Expend

To be laid out, used, or consumed.

expended

nonexistent or unavailable as a consequence of use or exchange.

Expenditor

A disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers.

Expenditure

The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement.

Expense

A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.

Expensive

Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family.

Experience

To make practical acquaintance with; to try personally; to prove by use or trial; to have trial of; to have the lot or fortune of; to have befall one; to be affected by; to feel; as, to experience pain or pleasure; to experience poverty; to experience a change of views.

experienced

Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye.

Experientialism

The doctrine that experience, either that of ourselves or of others, is the test or criterion of general knowledge; -- opposed to intuitionalism.

Experientialist

One who accepts the doctrine of experientialism. Also used adjectively.

Experiment

To try; to know, perceive, or prove, by trial or experience.

Experimental

Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher.

experimentalism

an empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles.

Experimentalist

One who makes experiments, especially one who likes to experiment; an experimenter.

Loading more words…