| ANOXAEMIC | • anoxaemic adj. Relating to, or exhibiting, anoxaemia. • ANOXAEMIC adj. relating to anoxaemia, a disorder of the blood, also ANOXEMIC. |
| CACHEXIAS | • cachexias n. Plural of cachexia. • CACHEXIA n. general ill health, also CACHEXY. |
| CARAPAXES | • carapaxes n. Plural of carapax. • CARAPAX n. a hard, protective outer covering, also CARAPACE. |
| CATALEXES | • catalexes n. Plural of catalexis. • CATALEXIS n. the condition of being catalectic, lacking one syllable in the last foot. |
| CATALEXIS | • catalexis n. A shortened or incomplete last foot at the end of a verse. • catalexis n. Truncation at the close of a line of poetry by omission of one or two final syllables. • CATALEXIS n. the condition of being catalectic, lacking one syllable in the last foot. |
| CATAPLEXY | • cataplexy n. (Medicine) An abrupt loss of muscle tone, sometimes associated with narcolepsy. • CATAPLEXY n. a condition feigning death, used by some animals to discourage predators. |
| CURTALAXE | • curtal-axe n. (Obsolete) A short, broad sword. • CURTALAXE n. (archaic) a short broad sword; a cutlass, also CURTALAX, CURTAXE. |
| EXACTABLE | • exactable adj. Having the capability of being exacted. • EXACTABLE adj. that can be exacted. |
| EXARCHATE | • exarchate n. (Historical) The province or area of an exarch. • EXARCHATE n. the office or the province of an exarch, the rank below patriarch in the Eastern church. |
| EXCARNATE | • excarnate adj. Deprived or stripped of flesh. • excarnate v. (Transitive) To deprive or strip of flesh. • EXCARNATE v. to deprive or strip of flesh. |
| EXCAUDATE | • excaudate adj. (Zoology) Not caudate; without a cauda. • EXCAUDATE adj. tailless. |
| EXCAVATED | • excavated v. Simple past tense and past participle of excavate. • EXCAVATE v. to dig out. |
| EXCAVATES | • excavates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of excavate. • EXCAVATE v. to dig out. |
| EXCAVATOR | • excavator n. A person who excavates. • excavator n. A vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc. • excavator n. A curette used to scrape out pathological material. |
| FAUXMANCE | • fauxmance n. A fake romance between celebrities, arranged for publicity. • FAUXMANCE n. (colloquial) a fake romance between two celebrities in order to gain press coverage. |
| PACKWAXES | • PACKWAX n. the strong tendon in an animal's neck, also PAXWAX. |
| PANCHAXES | • panchaxes n. Plural of panchax. • PANCHAX n. (Latin) any of several kinds of brightly coloured fish, often stocked in aquariums. |
| PARALEXIC | • paralexic adj. Relating to paralexia. • PARALEXIC adj. relating to paralexia, transposition of words or syllables in reading, due to brain damage. |
| SEXCAPADE | • sexcapade n. (Humorous) A sexual escapade; an incident or story involving sex. • SEXCAPADE n. a sexual escapade. |
| TAXACEOUS | • taxaceous adj. Of or relating to the yew trees of the Taxaceae family. • TAXACEOUS adj. pertaining to yew trees. |