| ALEXANDERS | • alexanders n. Any of various umbellifers, often specifically Smyrnium olusatrum or Heracleum maximum, the cow parsnip. • alexanders n. (Chiefly North America) Various plants of genus Zizia or Angelica thought to resemble European alexanders. • alexanders n. Plural of alexander. |
| DEXTRANASE | • dextranase n. (Biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the endohydrolysis of (1->6)-alpha-D-glucosidic linkages in dextran. • DEXTRANASE n. a hydrolase that prevents tooth decay. |
| EARTHWAXES | • EARTHWAX n. a natural wax used for electrical insulation. |
| EXACERBATE | • exacerbate v. (Transitive) To make worse (A problem, bad situation, negative feeling, etc.); aggravate; exasperate. • EXACERBATE v. to make more violent, bitter, or severe. |
| EXAGGERATE | • exaggerate v. To overstate, to describe more than is fact. • EXAGGERATE v. to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth. |
| EXARCHATES | • exarchates n. Plural of exarchate. • EXARCHATE n. the office or the province of an exarch, the rank below patriarch in the Eastern church. |
| EXASPERATE | • exasperate v. To tax the patience of; irk, frustrate, vex, provoke, annoy; to make angry. • exasperate adj. (Obsolete) exasperated; embittered. • EXASPERATE v. to excite the anger of. |
| EXCARNATED | • excarnated v. Simple past tense and past participle of excarnate. • EXCARNATE v. to deprive or strip of flesh. |
| EXCARNATES | • excarnates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of excarnate. • EXCARNATE v. to deprive or strip of flesh. |
| EXHILARATE | • exhilarate v. (Transitive) To cheer, to cheer up, to gladden, to make happy. • exhilarate v. (Transitive) To excite, to thrill. • EXHILARATE v. to make cheerful and excited. |
| EXPATRIATE | • expatriate adj. Living outside of one’s own country. • expatriate n. One who lives outside one’s own country. • expatriate v. (Transitive) To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of. |
| EXTRALEGAL | • extralegal adj. Occurring outside the law; not governed by law; lawless. • EXTRALEGAL adj. outside the law. |
| GASPEREAUX | • gaspereaux n. Plural of gaspereau. • GASPEREAU n. (French) a fish of the herring family found on the Atlantic coast of North America, aka alewife. |
| HEXAHEDRAL | • hexahedral adj. Having six plane surfaces. • HEXAHEDRAL adj. in the form of a hexahedron. |
| HEXAMETRAL | • hexametral adj. Hexametric. • HEXAMETRAL adj. like a hexameter, also HEXAMETRIC, HEXAMETRICAL. |
| RELAXATIVE | • relaxative adj. Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. • relaxative n. A relaxant. • RELAXATIVE n. a medication or activity that promotes relaxation. |
| SEXAGENARY | • sexagenary adj. Of or related to the number sixty, particularly… • sexagenary n. (Mathematics, astronomy, now rare) Synonym of sexagesimal: base-60 numeration. • sexagenary n. (Now rare) Synonym of sexagenarian: a sixty-year-old. |
| TAXAMETERS | • taxameters n. Plural of taxameter. • TAXAMETER n. (obsolete) an instrument for measuring fee for hired vehicle, also TAXIMETER. |