| ANXIOUS | • anxious adj. Nervous and worried. • anxious adj. Having a feeling of anxiety or disquietude; extremely concerned, especially about something that will… • anxious adj. (Of things) Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying. |
| AUXESIS | • auxesis n. (Rhetoric) A rhetorical device whereby the subject matter is made greater, particularly. • auxesis n. (Biology) Biological growth, (now usually restricted to) expansion or growth of an organism apart from… • auxesis n. (Chemistry) The condition of being auxetic. |
| AUXETIC | • auxetic adj. (Chemistry) Having the property of counterintuitively expanding when being stretched. • auxetic adj. (Pathology) Relating to auxesis. • auxetic n. An auxetic material. |
| AUXINIC | • auxinic adj. Relating to, or composed of, auxins. • AUXINIC adj. relating to an auxin, a plant hormone. |
| BAUXITE | • bauxite n. The principal ore of aluminium; a clay-like mineral, being a mixture of hydrated oxides and hydroxides. • BAUXITE n. an ore of aluminium, also BEAUXITE. |
| EUTAXIA | • EUTAXIA n. the property of being easily melted, also EUTEXIA. |
| EUTEXIA | • eutexia n. The principle or process of forming from given components the eutectic alloy, or alloy of maximum fusibility. • EUTEXIA n. the property of being easily melted, also EUTAXIA. |
| EXURBIA | • exurbia n. A residential area beyond the suburbs. • EXURBIA n. exurbs collectively. |
| EXUVIAE | • exuviae n. Plural of exuvia. • exuviae n. The coverings of an animal that have been shed or cast off, particularly the molted exoskeletons of arthropods. • exuviae n. (History, military) Among the Ancient Romans, weaponry and equipment stripped from the person of a foe; booty. |
| EXUVIAL | • exuvial adj. Related to something sloughed off or stripped away. • EXUVIAL adj. of or pertaining to exuviae, cast skins, shells, or coverings of animals. |
| GUANXIS | • GUANXI n. (Chinese) a Chinese social concept based on the exchange of favours. |
| MAXIMUM | • maximum n. The highest limit. • maximum n. (Mathematics) The greatest value of a set or other mathematical structure, especially the global maximum… • maximum n. (Mathematical analysis) An upper bound of a set which is also an element of that set. |
| MAXIMUS | • Maximus prop.n. A male given name. • MAXIMUS n. a very long bell ringing sequence on twelve bells. |
| PAXIUBA | • paxiuba n. A palm tree of the genus Iriartea. • PAXIUBA n. (Portuguese) a Brazilian palm with stilt-roots. |
| UXORIAL | • uxorial adj. (Not comparable) Of or pertaining to a wife, or her genes or relatives. • uxorial adj. (Comparable) Devoted to one’s wife; uxorious. • UXORIAL adj. of or relating to a wife. |
| VITRAUX | • vitraux n. Plural of vitrail. • VITRAIL n. (French) stained glass. |