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Era
  • (n.) A fixed point of time, usually an epoch, from which a series of years is reckoned.

    Eradicate
  • (v. t.) To pluck up by the roots

    Eraser
  • (n.) One who, or that which, erases

    Erasure
  • (n.) An instance of erasing

    Erato
  • (n.) The Muse who presided over lyric and amatory poetry.

    Erbium
  • (n.) A metallic element of the rare earth group, found in gadolinite and some other minerals. Symbol, Er

    Ere
  • (adv.) Before
  • (v. t.) To plow.

    Erect
  • (a.) Bold
  • (v. i.) To rise upright.
  • (v. t.) To animate

    Erelong
  • (adv.) Before the /apse of a long time

    Eremite
  • (n.) A hermit.

    Erethism
  • (n.) A morbid degree of excitement or irritation in an organ.

    Erg
  • (n.) The unit of work or energy in the C. G. S. system, being the amount of work done by a dyne working through a distance of one centimeter

    Ergo
  • (conj. / adv.) Therefore

    Erica
  • (n.) A genus of shrubby plants, including the heaths, many of them producing beautiful flowers.

    Eridanus
  • (n.) A long, winding constellation extending southward from Taurus and containing the bright star Achernar

    Erin
  • (n.) An early, and now a poetic, name of Ireland.

    Ermine
  • (n.) A valuable fur-bearing animal of the genus Mustela (M. erminea), allied to the weasel
  • (v. t.) To clothe with, or as with, ermine.

    Erne
  • (n.) A sea eagle, esp. the European white-tailed sea eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla).

    Erode
  • (v. t.) To eat into or away

    Eros
  • (n.) Love

    Erotic
  • (n.) An amorous composition or poem.

    Err
  • (v. i.) To deviate from the true course

    Errancy
  • (n.) A wandering

    Errand
  • (n.) A special business intrusted to a messenger

    Errant
  • (a.) Journeying
  • (n.) One who wanders about.

    Erratic
  • (a.) Deviating from a wise of the common course in opinion or conduct
  • (n.) Any stone or material that has been borne away from its original site by natural agencies

    Erratum
  • (n.) An error or mistake in writing or printing.

    Erroneous
  • (a.) Containing error

    Error
  • (n.) A departing or deviation from the truth

    Erse
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Celtic race in the Highlands of Scotland, or to their language.
  • (n.) A name sometimes given to that dialect of the Celtic which is spoken in the Highlands of Scotland

    Erst
  • (adv.) First.

    Erudite
  • (a.) Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge

    Erudition
  • (n.) The act of instructing

    Erupt
  • (v. i.) To burst forth
  • (v. t.) To cause to burst forth

    Erysipelas
  • (n.) St. Anthony's fire

    Erythema
  • (n.) A disease of the skin, in which a diffused inflammation forms rose-colored patches of variable size

    Erythrism
  • (n.) A condition of excessive redness.

    Erythrite
  • (n.) A colorless crystalline substance, C4H6.(OH)4, of a sweet, cooling taste, extracted from certain lichens, and obtained by the decomposition of erythrin

    Escalade
  • (v. t.) A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart

    Escalator
  • (n.) A stairway or incline arranged like an endless belt so that the steps or treads ascend or descend continuously, and one stepping upon it is carried up or down

    Escapade
  • (n.) Act by which one breaks loose from the rules of propriety or good sense

    Escape
  • (n.) An apophyge.
  • (v.) To avoid the notice of
  • (v. i.) To flee, and become secure from danger

    Escarp
  • (n.) The side of the ditch next the parapet
  • (v. t.) To make into, or furnish with, a steep slope, like that of a scrap.

    Eschar
  • (n.) A dry slough, crust, or scab, which separates from the healthy part of the body, as that produced by a burn, or the application of caustics

    Eschatology
  • (n.) The doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events therewith connected

    Escheat
  • (n.) A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession.
  • (v. i.) To revert, or become forfeited, to the lord, the crown, or the State, as lands by the failure of persons entitled to hold the same, or by forfeiture
  • (v. t.) To forfeit.

    Eschew
  • (a.) To escape from

    Escort
  • (n.) A body of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey

    Escritoire
  • (n.) A piece of furniture used as a writing table, commonly with drawers, pigeonholes, and the like

    Escrow
  • (n.) A deed, bond, or other written engagement, delivered to a third person, to be held by him till some act is done or some condition is performed, and then to be by him delivered to the grantee

    Esculent
  • (a.) Suitable to be used by man for food
  • (n.) Anything that is fit for eating

    Escutcheon
  • (n.) A marking upon the back of a cow's udder and the space above it (the perineum), formed by the hair growing upward or outward instead of downward

    Ese
  • (n.) Ease

    Eserine
  • (n.) An alkaloid found in the Calabar bean, and the seed of Physostigma venenosum

    Eskimo
  • (n.) One of a peculiar race inhabiting Arctic America and Greenland. In many respects the Eskimos resemble the Mongolian race

    Esophagus
  • (n.) That part of the alimentary canal between the pharynx and the stomach

    Esoteric
  • (a.) Designed for, and understood by, the specially initiated alone
  • (n.) An esoteric doctrine or treatise

    Espalier
  • (n.) A railing or trellis upon which fruit trees or shrubs are trained, as upon a wall
  • (v. t.) To form an espalier of, or to protect by an espalier.

    Esparto
  • (n.) A species of Spanish grass (Macrochloa tenacissima), of which cordage, shoes, baskets, etc

    Especial
  • (a.) Distinguished among others of the same class or kind

    Esperanto
  • (n.) An artificial language, intended to be universal, devised by Dr. Zamenhof, a Russian, who adopted the pseudonym "Dr

    Espial
  • (n.) One who espies

    Espionage
  • (n.) The practice or employment of spies

    Esplanade
  • (n.) A clear space between a citadel and the nearest houses of the town.

    Espousal
  • (n.) The act of espousing or betrothing

    Espouse
  • (v. t.) To betroth

    Espressivo
  • (a.) With expression.

    Esprit
  • (n.) Spirit.

    Espy
  • (n.) A spy
  • (v. i.) To look or search narrowly
  • (v. t.) To catch sight of

    Esquire
  • (n.) Originally, a shield-bearer or armor-bearer, an attendant on a knight
  • (v. t.) To wait on as an esquire or attendant in public

    Essay
  • (n.) A composition treating of any particular subject

    Essence
  • (n.) A being
  • (v. t.) To perfume

    Essential
  • (a.) Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is

    Essonite
  • (n.) Cinnamon stone, a variety of garnet.

    Est
  • (n. & adv.) East.

    Establish
  • (a.) To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.

    Estaminet
  • (n.) A cafe, or room in a cafe, in which smoking is allowed.

    Estancia
  • (n.) A grazing

    Estate
  • (n.) A person of high rank.
  • (v. t.) To endow with an estate.

    Esteem
  • (v. i.) To form an estimate
  • (v. t.) Estimation

    Ester
  • (n.) An ethereal salt, or compound ether, consisting of an organic radical united with the residue of any oxygen acid, organic or inorganic

    Estimable
  • (a.) Capable of being estimated or valued
  • (n.) A thing worthy of regard.

    Estimate
  • (n.) A valuing or rating by the mind, without actually measuring, weighing, or the like
  • (v. t.) To from an opinion of, as to amount,, number, etc., from imperfect data, comparison, or experience

    Estimation
  • (v. t.) An opinion or judgment of the worth, extent, or quantity of anything, formed without using precise data

    Estop
  • (v. t.) To impede or bar by estoppel.

    Estrange
  • (v. t.) To alienate the affections or confidence of

    Estray
  • (n.) Any valuable animal, not wild, found wandering from its owner
  • (v. i.) To stray.

    Estuarine
  • (a.) Pertaining to an estuary

    Estuary
  • (a.) Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary
  • (n.) A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current

    Esurient
  • (a.) Inclined to eat
  • (n.) One who is hungry or greedy.

    Etamine
  • (n.) A light textile fabric, like a fine bunting.

    Etch
  • (n.) A variant of Eddish.
  • (v. i.) To practice etching
  • (v. t.) To produce, as figures or designs, on mental, glass, or the like, by means of lines or strokes eaten in or corroded by means of some strong acid

    Eternal
  • (a.) Continued without intermission
  • (n.) One of the appellations of God.

    Eternity
  • (n.) Condition which begins at death

    Eternize
  • (v. t.) To make eternal or endless.

    Ethane
  • (n.) A gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H6, forming a constituent of ordinary illuminating gas. It is the second member of the paraffin series, and its most important derivatives are common alcohol, aldehyde, ether, and acetic acid

    Ethene
  • (n.) Ethylene

    Ether
  • (n.) A light, volatile, mobile, inflammable liquid, (C2H5)2O, of a characteristic aromatic odor, obtained by the distillation of alcohol with sulphuric acid, and hence called also sulphuric ether

    Ethical
  • (a.) Of, or belonging to, morals

    Ethicist
  • (n.) One who is versed in ethics, or has written on ethics.

    Ethics
  • (n.) The science of human duty

    Ethiopian
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Ethiopia

    Ethiopic
  • (a.) Of or relating to Ethiopia or the Ethiopians.
  • (n.) The language of ancient Ethiopia

    Ethnarch
  • (n.) The governor of a province or people.

    Ethnic
  • (n.) A heathen

    Ethnography
  • (n.) That branch of knowledge which has for its subject the characteristics of the human family, developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science deals

    Ethnology
  • (n.) The science which treats of the division of mankind into races, their origin, distribution, and relations, and the peculiarities which characterize them

    Ethology
  • (n.) A treatise on morality

    Ethos
  • (n.) The character, sentiment, or disposition of a community or people, considered as a natural endowment

    Ethyl
  • (n.) A monatomic, hydrocarbon radical, C2H5 of the paraffin series, forming the essential radical of ethane, and of common alcohol and ether

    Etiolated
  • (a.) Having a blanched or faded appearance, as birds inhabiting desert regions.

    Etiology
  • (n.) The science of causes. Same as /tiology.

    Etiquette
  • (n.) The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life

    Etruscan
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Etruria.

    Etymologize
  • (v. t.) To give the etymology of

    Etymology
  • (n.) That branch of philological science which treats of the history of words, tracing out their origin, primitive significance, and changes of form and meaning

    Etymon
  • (n.) An original form

    Eucalyptus
  • (n.) A myrtaceous genus of trees, mostly Australian. Many of them grow to an immense height, one or two species exceeding the height even of the California Sequoia

    Eucharist
  • (n.) The act of giving thanks

    Euchre
  • (n.) A game at cards, that may be played by two, three, or four persons, the highest card (except when an extra card called the Joker is used) being the knave of the same suit as the trump, and called right bower, the lowest card used being the seven, or frequently, in two-handed euchre, the nine spot
  • (v. t.) To defeat, in a game of euchre, the side that named the trump.

    Eudiometer
  • (n.) An instrument for the volumetric measurement of gases

    Eugenics
  • (n.) The science of improving stock, whether human or animal.

    Eugenol
  • (n.) A colorless, aromatic, liquid hydrocarbon, C10H12O2 resembling the phenols, and hence also called eugenic acid

    Euhemerism
  • (n.) The theory, held by Euhemerus, that the gods of mythology were but deified mortals, and their deeds only the amplification in imagination of human acts

    Euhemerize
  • (v. t.) To interpret (mythology) on the theory of euhemerism.

    Eulachon
  • (n.) The candlefish.

    Eulogium
  • (n.) A formal eulogy.

    Eulogize
  • (v. t.) To speak or write in commendation of (another)

    Eulogy
  • (n.) A speech or writing in commendation of the character or services of a person

    Eumenides
  • (n. pl.) A euphemistic name for the Furies of Erinyes.

    Eunuch
  • (n.) A male of the human species castrated

    Euonymus
  • (n.) A genus of small European and American trees

    Eupatrid
  • (n.) One well born, or of noble birth.

    Eupeptic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to good digestion

    Euphemism
  • (n.) A figure in which a harts or indelicate word or expression is softened

    Euphemize
  • (v. t. & i.) To express by a euphemism, or in delicate language

    Euphonious
  • (a.) Pleasing or sweet in sound

    Euphonium
  • (n.) A bass instrument of the saxhorn family.

    Euphonize
  • (v. t.) To make euphonic.

    Euphony
  • (n.) A pleasing or sweet sound

    Euphorbia
  • (n.) Spurge, or bastard spurge, a genus of plants of many species, mostly shrubby, herbaceous succulents, affording an acrid, milky juice

    Euphuism
  • (n.) An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language

    Euplastic
  • (a.) Having the capacity of becoming organizable in a high degree, as the matter forming the false membranes which sometimes result from acute inflammation in a healthy person
  • (n.) Organizable substance by which the tissues of an animal body are renewed.

    Eurasian
  • (a.) Of European and Asiatic descent
  • (n.) A child of a European parent on the one side and an Asiatic on the other.

    European
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Europe, or to its inhabitants.
  • (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Europe.

    Europium
  • (n.) A metallic element of the rare-earth group, discovered spectroscopically by Demarcay in 1896

    Eurythmy
  • (n.) Just or harmonious proportion or movement, as in the composition of a poem, an edifice, a painting, or a statue

    Eutectic
  • (a.) Of maximum fusibility

    Euthanasia
  • (n.) An easy death

    Evacuant
  • (a.) Emptying
  • (n.) A purgative or cathartic.

    Evacuate
  • (v. i.) To let blood

    Evacuation
  • (n.) Abolition

    Evade
  • (v. t.) To attempt to escape

    Evaginate
  • (a.) Protruded, or grown out, as an evagination
  • (v. i. & t.) To become evaginate

    Evaluate
  • (v. t.) To fix the value of

    Evaluation
  • (n.) Valuation

    Evanesce
  • (v. i.) To vanish away

    Evangel
  • (n.) Good news

    Evaporable
  • (a.) Capable of being converted into vapor, or dissipated by evaporation.

    Evaporate
  • (a.) Dispersed in vapors.
  • (v. t.) To convert from a liquid or solid state into vapor (usually) by the agency of heat

    Evaporator
  • (n.) An apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat.

    Evasion
  • (n.) The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation

    Evasive
  • (a.) Tending to evade, or marked by evasion

    Eve
  • (n.) Evening.

    Even
  • (a.) As might not be expected
  • (n.) Evening.
  • (v. i.) To be equal.
  • (v. t.) To act up to

    Ever
  • (adv.) At all times

    Evict
  • (v. t.) To dispossess by a judicial process

    Evidence
  • (n.) One who bears witness.
  • (v. t.) To render evident or clear

    Evident
  • (a.) Clear to the vision

    Evil
  • (a.) Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities
  • (adv.) In an evil manner
  • (n.) Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good

    Evince
  • (v. t.) To conquer

    Eviscerate
  • (v. t.) To take out the entrails of

    Evocation
  • (n.) The act of calling out or forth.

    Evocative
  • (a.) Calling forth

    Evoke
  • (v. t.) To call away

    Evolute
  • (n.) A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it

    Evolution
  • (n.) A general name for the history of the steps by which any living organism has acquired the morphological and physiological characters which distinguish it

    Evolve
  • (v. i.) To become open, disclosed, or developed
  • (v. t.) To throw out

    Ewe
  • (n.) The female of the sheep, and of sheeplike animals.

    Ewer
  • (n.) A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug

    Exacerbate
  • (v. t.) To render more violent or bitter

    Exact
  • (a.) Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise
  • (v. i.) To practice exaction.

    Exaggerate
  • (v. t.) To amplify

    Exaggeration
  • (n.) A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.

    Exalt
  • (v. t.) To elevate by prise or estimation

    Examen
  • (a.) Examination

    Examination
  • (n.) A process prescribed or assigned for testing qualification

    Examine
  • (v. t.) To interrogate as in a judicial proceeding

    Example
  • (n.) An instance serving for illustration of a rule or precept, especially a problem to be solved, or a case to be determined, as an exercise in the application of the rules of any study or branch of science
  • (v. t.) To set an example for

    Exanthema
  • (n.) An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin

    Exarch
  • (n.) A viceroy

    Exasperate
  • (a.) Exasperated
  • (v. t.) To irritate in a high degree

    Exasperation
  • (n.) Increase of violence or malignity

    Excalibur
  • (n.) The name of King Arthur's mythical sword.

    Excavate
  • (v. t.) To dig out and remove, as earth.

    Excavation
  • (n.) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.

    Excavator
  • (n.) One who, or that which, excavates or hollows out

    Exceed
  • (v. i.) To be more or greater
  • (v. t.) To go beyond

    Excel
  • (v. i.) To surpass others in good qualities, laudable actions, or acquirements
  • (v. t.) To exceed or go beyond

    Except
  • (conj.) Unless
  • (prep.) With exclusion of
  • (v. i.) To take exception
  • (v. t.) To object to

    Excerpt
  • (n.) An extract
  • (v. t.) To select

    Excess
  • (n.) An undue indulgence of the appetite

    Exchange
  • (n.) A mutual grant of equal interests, the one in consideration of the other. Estates exchanged must be equal in quantity, as fee simple for fee simple
  • (v. i.) To be changed or received in exchange for

    Exchequer
  • (n.) One of the superior courts of law
  • (v. t.) To institute a process against (any one) in the Court of Exchequer.

    Excipient
  • (n.) An exceptor.
  • (v. t.) Taking an exception.

    Excise
  • (n.) In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc
  • (v. t.) To cut out or off

    Excitable
  • (a.) Capable of being excited, or roused into action

    Excitant
  • (a.) Tending to excite
  • (n.) An agent or influence which arouses vital activity, or produces increased action, in a living organism or in any of its tissues or parts

    Excitation
  • (n.) The act of exciting or putting in motion

    Excite
  • (v. t.) To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts.

    Exciting
  • (a.) Calling or rousing into action

    Exclaim
  • (n.) Outcry
  • (v. t. & i.) To cry out from earnestness or passion

    Exclamation
  • (n.) A loud calling or crying out

    Exclamatory
  • (a.) Containing, expressing, or using exclamation

    Exclave
  • (n.) A portion of a country which is separated from the main part and surrounded by politically alien territory

    Exclude
  • (v. t.) To shut out

    Exclusion
  • (n.) The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission

    Exclusive
  • (a.) Having the power of preventing entrance
  • (n.) One of a coterie who exclude others

    Exclusivism
  • (n.) The act or practice of excluding being exclusive

    Excogitate
  • (v. i.) To cogitate.
  • (v. t.) To think out

    Excommunicate
  • (a.) Excommunicated
  • (n.) One excommunicated.
  • (v. t.) To lay under the ban of the church

    Excommunication
  • (n.) The act of communicating or ejecting

    Excrement
  • (n.) An excrescence or appendage

    Excrescence
  • (n.) An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor

    Excrescent
  • (a.) Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity.

    Excreta
  • (n. pl.) Matters to be excreted.

    Excrete
  • (v. t.) To separate and throw off

    Excretion
  • (n.) That which is excreted

    Excruciate
  • (a.) Excruciated
  • (v. t.) To inflict agonizing pain upon

    Exculpate
  • (v. t.) To clear from alleged fault or guilt

    Excursionist
  • (n.) One who goes on an excursion, or pleasure trip.

    Excursive
  • (a.) Prone to make excursions

    Excursus
  • (n.) A dissertation or digression appended to a work, and containing a more extended exposition of some important point or topic

    Excusatory
  • (a.) Making or containing excuse or apology

    Excuse
  • (v. t.) That which excuses

    Execrable
  • (a.) Deserving to be execrated

    Execrate
  • (v. t.) To denounce evil against, or to imprecate evil upon

    Execration
  • (n.) That which is execrated

    Executable
  • (a.) Capable of being executed

    Executant
  • (n.) One who executes or performs

    Execute
  • (v. i.) To do one's work
  • (v. t.) To complete, as a legal instrument

    Execution
  • (n.) A judicial writ by which an officer is empowered to carry a judgment into effect

    Executive
  • (a.) Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect
  • (n.) An impersonal title of the chief magistrate or officer who administers the government, whether king, president, or governor

    Executor
  • (n.) An executioner.

    Exedra
  • (n.) Any out-of-door seat in stone, large enough for several persons

    Exegesis
  • (n.) Exposition

    Exegete
  • (n.) An exegetist.

    Exegetics
  • (n.) The science of interpretation or exegesis.

    Exegetist
  • (n.) One versed in the science of exegesis or interpretation

    Exemplar
  • (a.) Exemplary.
  • (n.) A copy of a book or writing.

    Exemplification
  • (n.) A copy or transcript attested to be correct by the seal of an officer having custody of the original

    Exemplify
  • (v. t.) To copy

    Exempt
  • (a.) Cut off
  • (n.) One exempted or freed from duty

    Exenterate
  • (v. t.) To take out the bowels or entrails of

    Exercise
  • (n.) Bodily exertion for the sake of keeping the organs and functions in a healthy state
  • (v. i.) To exercise one's self, as under military training
  • (v. t.) To exert for the sake of training or improvement

    Exergue
  • (n.) The small space beneath the base line of a subject engraved on a coin or medal. It usually contains the date, place, engraver's name, etc

    Exert
  • (v. t.) To put force, ability, or anything of the nature of an active faculty

    Exfoliate
  • (v. i.) To separate and come off in scales or laminae, as pieces of carious bone or of bark.
  • (v. t.) To remove scales, laminae, or splinters from the surface of.

    Exhalation
  • (n.) A bright phenomenon

    Exhale
  • (v. i.) To rise or be given off, as vapor
  • (v. t.) To breathe out. Hence: To emit, as vapor

    Exhaust
  • (a.) Drained
  • (n.) The foul air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.
  • (v. t.) To bring out or develop completely

    Exhibit
  • (n.) A document produced and identified in court for future use as evidence.
  • (v. t.) To administer as a remedy

    Exhilarate
  • (v. i.) To become joyous.
  • (v. t.) To make merry or jolly

    Exhilaration
  • (n.) The act of enlivening the spirits

    Exhort
  • (n.) Exhortation.
  • (v. i.) To deliver exhortation
  • (v. t.) To incite by words or advice

    Exhume
  • (v. t.) To dig out of the ground

    Exigency
  • (n.) The state of being exigent

    Exigent
  • (a.) Exacting or requiring immediate aid or action
  • (n.) Exigency

    Exiguous
  • (a.) Scanty

    Exile
  • (a.) Small
  • (n.) Forced separation from one's native country
  • (v. t.) To banish or expel from one's own country or home

    Exist
  • (v. i.) To be as a fact and not as a mode

    Exit
  • (n.) Any departure

    Exocarp
  • (n.) The outer portion of a fruit, as the flesh of a peach or the rind of an orange.

    Exodus
  • (n.) A going out

    Exogamy
  • (n.) The custom, or tribal law, which prohibits marriage between members of the same tribe

    Exogenous
  • (a.) Growing by addition to the exterior.

    Exon
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Exeter, in England.

    Exorbitant
  • (a.) Departing from an orbit or usual track

    Exorcise
  • (v. t.) To cast out, as a devil, evil spirits, etc., by conjuration or summoning by a holy name, or by certain ceremonies

    Exorcism
  • (n.) Conjuration for raising spirits.

    Exordium
  • (n.) A beginning

    Exoskeleton
  • (n.) The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc

    Exospore
  • (n.) The extreme outer wall of a spore

    Exostosis
  • (n.) A knot formed upon or in the wood of trees by disease.

    Exothermic
  • (a.) Characterized by, or formed with, evolution of heat

    Exotic
  • (a.) Introduced from a foreign country
  • (n.) Anything of foreign origin

    Expand
  • (v. i.) To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged
  • (v. t.) To cause the particles or parts of to spread themselves or stand apart, thus increasing bulk without addition of substance

    Expanse
  • (n.) That which is expanded or spread out
  • (v. t.) To expand.

    Expansible
  • (a.) Capable of being expanded or spread out widely.

    Expansile
  • (a.) Expansible.

    Expansion
  • (n.) Enlargement or extension of business transactions

    Expansive
  • (a.) Having a capacity or tendency to expand or dilate

    Expatiate
  • (v. i.) To enlarge in discourse or writing
  • (v. t.) To expand

    Expatriate
  • (v. t.) Reflexively, as To expatriate one's self: To withdraw from one's native country

    Expect
  • (n.) Expectation.
  • (v. t.) To look for (mentally)

    Expediency
  • (n.) An expedition

    Expedient
  • (a.) Hastening or forward
  • (n.) Means devised in an exigency

    Expedite
  • (a.) Expeditious
  • (v. t.) To despatch

    Expedition
  • (n.) An important enterprise, implying a change of place

    Expeditious
  • (a.) Possessed of, or characterized by, expedition, or efficiency and rapidity in action

    Expel
  • (v. t.) To cut off from further connection with an institution of learning, a society, and the like

    Expend
  • (v. i.) To be laid out, used, or consumed.
  • (v. t.) To lay out, apply, or employ in any way

    Expense
  • (n.) A spending or consuming

    Expensive
  • (a.) Free in expending

    Experience
  • (n.) An act of knowledge, one or more, by which single facts or general truths are ascertained

    Experiential
  • (a.) Derived from, or pertaining to, experience.

    Experiment
  • (n.) Atrial or special observation, made to confirm or disprove something doubtful
  • (v. t.) To make experiment

    Expert
  • (a.) Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced
  • (n.) An expert or experienced person
  • (v. t.) To experience.

    Expiate
  • (a.) Terminated.
  • (v. t.) To extinguish the guilt of by sufferance of penalty or some equivalent

    Expiation
  • (n.) An act by which the treats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen.

    Expiration
  • (n.) A coming to a close

    Expiratory
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or employed in, the expiration or emission of air from the lungs

    Expire
  • (v. i.) To burst forth
  • (v. t.) To breathe out

    Expiry
  • (n.) Expiration.

    Explain
  • (a.) To flatten
  • (v. i.) To give an explanation.

    Explanation
  • (n.) A mutual exposition of terms, meaning, or motives, with a view to adjust a misunderstanding, and reconcile differences

    Explanatory
  • (a.) Serving to explain

    Expletive
  • (a.) Filling up
  • (n.) A word, letter, or syllable not necessary to the sense, but inserted to fill a vacancy

    Expletory
  • (a.) Serving to fill up

    Explicable
  • (a.) Capable of being explicated

    Explicate
  • (a.) Evolved
  • (v. t.) To unfold

    Explicit
  • (a.) A word formerly used (as finis is now) at the conclusion of a book to indicate the end.

    Explode
  • (v. i.) To become suddenly expanded into a great volume of gas or vapor
  • (v. t.) To bring into disrepute, and reject

    Exploit
  • (n.) A deed or act

    Exploration
  • (n.) physical examination.

    Exploratory
  • (a.) Serving or intended to explore

    Explore
  • (v. t.) To search through or into

    Explosion
  • (n.) A bursting with violence and loud noise, because of internal pressure

    Explosive
  • (a.) Driving or bursting out with violence and noise
  • (n.) An explosive agent

    Exponent
  • (n.) A number, letter, or any quantity written on the right hand of and above another quantity, and denoting how many times the latter is repeated as a factor to produce the power indicated

    Export
  • (n.) That which is exported
  • (v. t.) To carry away

    Expose
  • (v. t.) A formal recital or exposition of facts

    Exposition
  • (n.) A public exhibition or show, as of industrial and artistic productions

    Expostulate
  • (v. i.) To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist
  • (v. t.) To discuss

    Exposure
  • (n.) Position as to points of compass, or to influences of climate, etc.

    Expound
  • (v. t.) To lay open

    Express
  • (a.) Directly and distinctly stated
  • (n.) A clear image or representation

    Expropriate
  • (v. t.) To put out of one's possession

    Expulsion
  • (n.) The act of expelling

    Expunge
  • (v. t.) To blot out, as with pen

    Expurgate
  • (v. t.) To purify


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